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The Cessna in the Dark: Who Was Mark Gietzen?
The Cessna in the Dark: Who Was Mark Gietzen?
Fear and meticulous obsession collide: a lone Cessna 172 went down over Nebraska on May 14, 2023, sat undiscovered for two days, and carried a 69-year-old pilot whose life was defined by forty-five years of anti-abortion activism - and a nearly $120,000 recount that changed fewer than 70 votes. What ties a lifetime of roadside crosses and political campaigns to an airplane found in the dark?
In this episode, we lay out the facts of Mark Gietzen Gietzen’s life and death, tracing his work from Boeing auditor to decades of protest and political…
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