EP 8 | DEBRIEF: There's a Finger In My Chili

It was the "crunch" heard ‘round the world. In 2005, a bowl of chili in San Jose, California, became the center of a media firestorm that nearly toppled a fast-food empire. This week on The Slippery Debrief, Scott and Nancy are joined by the man who was in the trenches of the investigation: Detective Jose Martinez of the San Jose Police Department.

Detective Martinez walks us through the surreal journey of the "Chili Finger" case—an investigation that shifted rapidly from a public health nightmare to a high-stakes criminal hunt. We go behind the yellow tape to see how old-fashioned police work and modern science collided to expose a fraud that was as gruesome as it was calculated.

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