It's been half a century since a woman was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter, hoping to expose wrongdoing at the nuclear plant where she was employed. That woman was Karen ...

In November 2014 we remembered Karen Silkwood, a woman who blew the whistle on Kerr McGee and its alleged unsafe practices at its plutonium plant in Crescent. She ended up dead before she could take ...

CRESCENT, Okla. — The 28-year-old lab worker investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal ...

The 28-year-old whistleblower investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was reportedly on her way to meet a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal car crash ...

Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation. The official ...