<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;What does the United States owe to Grenada about the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters? In the final installment of the series for now, Martine Powers takes on that question as she assesses the conclusions of the team’s current reporting. She speaks with a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who has made another formal request of the U.S. military to turn over records related to the case. The Post’s reporting indicates that there are several records that exist and have not been released despite multiple Freedom of Information Act requests. The episode opens with a trip to an old cemetery in Grenada’s capital, where it is possible that the remains could be located. Martine learns why, despite excavations by experts over the years, confirming this has been so difficult.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

There is a cemetery in Grenada where the remains of Maurice Bishop could be buried. But confirming this has proven incredibly challenging. Meanwhile, a member of the U.S. Congress says it’s time for the U.S. government to say more. 

Episode 7: "A stain on our country"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;When Martine Powers began looking into the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters, one of the most noted explorations of the case turned out to be done by a group of high school boys in Grenada more than two decades ago. She was able to locate some of the now-adult investigators and the old principal of the school to learn what compelled them to do this as a class project, and how they found their sources. One of the people they interviewed, a former Jamaican soldier, witnessed the exhumation at Calivigny. What he told them more than 20 years ago is central to why many Grenadians think the U.S. government has not told the entire story of what happened to the remains after they were discovered. But he eventually stopped responding to students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Martine and her colleagues searched for the witness for more than a year. They also amassed hours of other tape from interviews with other people who were at the exhumation. What they were left with were incomplete memories of exactly what transpired the day the remains at Calivigny were recovered.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Then, there was a breakthrough – with new questions about where all of this leads.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In 2000, a group of teens interviewed a former Jamaican soldier for a class project. They revealed an account that’s shaped the mystery about Maurice Bishop’s missing remains. But the soldier went quiet. Martine Powers asks: Can we trust his testimony?

Episode 6:  "I know what I saw"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;Why would the U.S. government have an interest in hiding the remains of an assassinated revolutionary leader? In this episode of “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop,” Martine Powers puts this question to Americans who served in Grenada after the invasion 40 years ago, including alumni of the U.S. State Department and a former CIA analyst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;“I don't follow the logic of Maurice Bishop as a symbol for communism or anti-Americanism,” said Lino Gutierrez, a former ambassador who worked as a foreign service officer in Grenada. According to Guy Farmer, a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Grenada, “It would have been good for us if we had found Maurice Bishop's body, showing how violent and terrible the Bernard Coard-Hudson Austin faction was. That would have been good for us.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;But when The Post’s reporting turns to the role of the U.S. military – and in particular, a battalion of Army rangers who conducted an attack on a Grenadian military training camp – the picture gets more complicated, raising new theories about when and how the United States might have discovered a critical piece of evidence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

When Army rangers launched a raid on a Grenadian military training camp, they expected to find hundreds of enemy combatants. Instead they made a chilling discovery. The Post uncovers a new theory in the mystery of Maurice Bishop’s remains. 

Episode 5: "An ugly, dirty job"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Professor Robert Jordan was among the few people still on the campus of St. George’s University in November of 1983, in the days after the U.S. invasion of Grenada. One day a strange request came in: The U.S. military wanted to use his anatomy lab at the university for a forensic exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Martine Powers visits what is left of the old lab and hears the professor’s story about what he saw that day. What transpired in that examination 40 years ago has raised serious questions about the identity and condition of the remains recovered from the pit at Calivigny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Later in the episode, Martine puts some of those questions to the “Grenada 17,” the individuals held responsible for the murder of Maurice Bishop and the others killed with him. She asks: What did they do with the bodies? And could they be omitting information that could explain the mystery?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A former anatomy professor in Grenada shares his memory of a grim examination. And some of the men convicted for the murder of Maurice Bishop and his supporters answer questions about the whereabouts of the remains. 

Episode 4: "The Army wants to look at some bodies"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Annie Bain saw something 40 years ago that she’s been contemplating since: her husband’s ring, which was brought to her in the weeks after he died — and which she believes is proof that there are people who know what happened to his remains and those of the seven others killed with him on Oct. 19, 1983.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This clue and Annie’s other recollections bring The Washington Post’s Martine Powers to the doorsteps of two men: a soldier who witnessed where the bodies were first taken, and a detective who tried to get answers about the remains in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Martine gets one step closer to the empty grave and to new questions about the actions of the U.S. military.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A soldier tells his story of what he witnessed after the executions. And a missing ring becomes a clue that leads to the empty grave.

Episode 3: “We brought them to Calivigny”

Grenada’s revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983. Seven other people, members of his cabinet and friends, were killed alongside him. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. Now, in a series two years in the making, The Washington Post’s Martine Powers discovers new information about the 40-year-old mystery, including the role the U.S. played in shaping the fate of this Caribbean nation.

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

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