"Hooked" episode 1: The Fatal Funnel

Apple News Today: In Conversation is bringing you a special episode — the first installment of Hooked, a new podcast series from Apple TV+.

When Tony Hathaway was arrested outside of a KeyBank in Seattle, police and the FBI had been looking for him for months. Hathaway had robbed 30 banks in a single year. Before he became a notorious bank robber, Hathaway was a top design engineer at Boeing; he fit the profile of a loving family man, he made six figures, and flew around the world in business class. That all unraveled when he was prescribed OxyContin for a back injury and developed an addiction to opioids.

Journalist Josh Dean wrote an article for Bloomberg Businessweek about Hathaway in 2019. His reporting is the basis of Hooked. Host Shumita Basu spoke with Dean about Hathaway’s story on Apple News Today: In Conversation.