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New episodes of The Sneak: The Disappearance of Mario Rossi are out now

In Season 3 of our true crime podcast, The Sneak, we tell the story of NASCAR crew chief Mario Rossi, his disappearance and how it could be connected to a massive drug-smuggling ring.

The newest episode of The Sneak, a serialized true crime podcast with a sports twist from For The Win and USA TODAY, dropped Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

The third season premiered last week with the first two of eight total episodes. Episode 3 is available now, and one episode each week is being released for the next six weeks.

This season, we dive into the life and disappearance of Mario Rossi, a brilliant NASCAR crew chief and engineer who mysteriously vanished just after New Year’s in 1983. He was just 50 years old when he disappeared.

The Rossi family was told Mario died in a plane crash in the Bahamas with details fed to family members through a series of strange phone calls. But not everyone believed he died in the unconfirmed accident, and for nearly 40 years, the family has been searching for answers, often leading to more questions.

With their help, we investigate his disappearance.

But in our attempt to uncover what happened to Rossi almost four decades ago, we have to look deep into a $300 million drug-smuggling ring that infiltrated NASCAR. And it could explain everything.

The first three episodes of Season 3 of The Sneak are now available anywhere you get your podcasts — including Apple Podcasts and Spotify — with a new episode coming out each week for the next six weeks. Or you can binge the entire season right now, ad free, on the Wondery Plus app.

Listen to the latest episode below, via Spotify:

Or start from the beginning with the Season 3 opener:

Listen to the new season of our true crime podcast, The Sneak: The Disappearance of Mario Rossi

In Season 3, we tell the story of NASCAR crew chief Mario Rossi, his disappearance and how it could be related to a drug-smuggling ring.

Season 3 of The Sneak, a serialized true crime podcast from For The Win and USA TODAY, premiered today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

This season, we will dive into the life and disappearance of Mario Rossi, a brilliant NASCAR crew chief and engineer who mysteriously vanished just after New Year’s in 1983.

The Rossi family was told Mario died in a plane crash in the Bahamas with details fed to family members through a series of strange phone calls. But not everyone believed he died in the unconfirmed accident, and for nearly 40 years, the family has been searching for answers, often leading to more questions.

With their help, we will investigate his sudden disappearance.

But in our attempt to uncover what happened to Rossi almost four decades ago, we have to look deep into a $300 million drug-smuggling ring that infiltrated NASCAR. And it could explain, well, everything.

The first two episodes of Season 3 of The Sneak are now available anywhere you get your podcasts — including Apple Podcasts and Spotify — with a new episode coming out each week for the next six weeks. Or you can binge the entire season right now, ad free, on the Wondery Plus app.

Listen to the first episode of the new season via Spotify below:

Get a sneak peek of our true crime podcast, The Sneak: The Disappearance of Mario Rossi

The Sneak, a serialized podcast which tells true crime stories from inside and around the world of sports, is back for its third season.

The Sneak — a serialized podcast from For The Win and USA TODAY, which tells true crime stories from inside and around the world of sports — is back for its third season, called The Disappearance of Mario Rossi.

Rossi was, by all accounts, a brilliant NASCAR crew chief and engineer from the 1960s and ’70s who worked with racing legends like Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip. But just after New Year’s Day in 1983 — four years after his last NASCAR race — Rossi disappeared.

Through a series of mysterious phone calls, the Rossi family was told Mario died in a plane crash in the Bahamas, but some family members and loved ones didn’t believe it. They said the information they were fed didn’t add up.

But if he didn’t die in a plane crash in 1983, what happened to him?

On this season of The Sneak, we will investigate Rossi’s sudden and quiet disappearance with the help of his family. But in our attempt to uncover what happened to Rossi nearly 40 years ago, we have to look deep into a $300 million drug-smuggling ring that infiltrated NASCAR, and it could explain, well, everything.

You can binge the entire third season of The Sneak right now on Wondery Plus, either on wonderyplus.com/sneak or via the Wondery Plus app.

The full season will be available April 6 anywhere you get your podcasts. But for now, here’s a sneak peek of the season, which you can listen to on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Get a sneak peek of our true crime podcast, The Sneak: Murders at Whiskey Creek

The Sneak, a serialized podcast which tells true crime stories from inside and around the world of sports, is back for its second season.

The Sneak, a serialized podcast from FTW and USA TODAY which tells true crime stories from inside and around the world of sports, is back for its second season.

This season we will tell the story of Jack Roland Murphy, AKA Murf the Surf, a national surfing champion who would become internationally famous when he robbed New York Museum of Natural History of a priceless jewel collection.

But that was just the beginning of his story. To tell it fully, you must also travel to the waters of Whiskey Creek, a small river in Florida where, over 50 years ago, the bodies of two young women were found shot, bludgeoned, and stabbed, weighed down by concrete blocks, which was connected to wire that was lashed around their necks.

And the last time they were seen alive, they were getting in a boat with Jack Roland Murphy.

Listen to the sneak peek below via Spotify, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts. You can also listen to the entire second season right now, ad free, via Wondery Plus.

Binge the entire first season of our true crime podcast, ‘The Sneak’

The Sneak is FTW’s serialized, true crime podcast that tells the story of a once-great football star who robbed an armored truck.

This winter, For The Win tried something new. We, along with partners USA TODAY and Wondery Media, released our first narrative podcast.

It’s a podcast at the intersection of sports and true crime, and tells the story of Anthony Curcio, a once-great football star who fell on hard times and then pulled off an audacious robbery — stealing $400,000 from an armored truck and then escaping in an inner tube down a river.

As we found with new reporting, however, the story that had been told about the crime? It wasn’t the full story. Not even close. What started out as a true crime story soon became a story about a small town, and that town’s secrets. Secrets about the crime, and the people who got away with it.

The entire first season is now out, ready for binging. Each episode is between 15 and 20 minutes long, so you can move pretty quickly through it, and we think you’ll like it. We’d love if you gave it a shot.

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Our interactive map lets you explore each moment of the crime, and allows you to see exactly how it all went down.

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Introducing The Sneak, a new true crime podcast from For The Win and USA TODAY Sports

Everything you need to know to subscribe to FTW’s first serialized true crime podcast.

The Sneak is a new, serialized true crime podcast, out today on Wondery+, from For The Win and USA TODAY Sports.

Season one is about the story of an armored car robbery which took place in a suburb of Seattle in 2008, the once great athlete who committed that crime, and how the crime forever changed the small town where it occurred.

The podcast is available today. Right now. Here are the details:

Listen to The Sneak

You can listen to the first episode of The Sneak, totally free, on Apple Podcasts right now.

If you subscribe to Wondery+ at Wondery.com/PLUS, you will get access to each new episode of The Sneak, ad free, every week. It’s $4.99 a month and you can cancel at any time.

By subscribing, you’ll also get access to Wondery’s other great podcasts ad-free, including Dr. Death, Confronting O.J. Simpson, Over My Dead Body, and more.

The Story (some spoilers)

There are a few spoilers below, so if you want to come in fresh, skip down to the next section. 

ONE MORE WARNING. OK.

The first season of The Sneak tells the story of Anthony Curcio, aka D.B. Tuber, a college football star who committed an outlandish armored car heist in 2008. Curcio used a disguise, Craigslist-hired decoys, and made a wild escape in an inner tube down a river.

It’s a perfect crime story, but as we discovered in our reporting: It was too perfect. The story that went viral worldwide, well, it was missing things. Like how it actually all went down. And who else was involved.

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Get access to special features and learn more about the team that made The Sneak over at thesneakpodcast.com.