Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons · Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski
"Till the Day I Die"
March 8, 2017·27 min·1 clip
Richard Simmons met Joni at a mall in 1995, pulled her onstage while she was crying about her late husband — then, weeks later, ran a front-page newspaper ad asking 'Where's Joni?' because he'd forgotten to get her name.
As heard by us
A stubborn search that becomes most compelling when it reaches Richard Simmons' hometown.
This episode keeps widening the search after each dead end, and that stubbornness gives it shape. Dan Taberski begins with a publicist call that leads nowhere, then heads to Richard Simmons' hometown, where place starts to matter as much as access.
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When the publicist shuts the door, the search heads to New Orleans and Richard Simmons' family trail.
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