America Declassified — Season 1, Episode 7: Less Lethal/Lost Vegas/Trash Talk

Episode synopsis

"Less Lethal" takes a look at law enforcement weapons that are designed to stop people without killing them like tasers, pepperballs, and sound based weapons. "Lost Vegas" goes to Las Vegas to investigate the storm tunnel underground that is now inhabited by the homeless poor. "Trash Talk" investigates whether recycling is a scam.

About America Declassified

Conspiracy theories, mysteries, secrets and the forbidden are probed with a fresh set of eyes as "America Declassified" delves into the hidden side of the United States. Investigators including former CIA officer Mike Baker, geoscientist and radiological engineering consultant Ben McGee, and investigative reporter Michele McPhee go on location to examine stories and events using new evidence, unprecedented access and never-before-heard-from witnesses. The hourlong episodes incorporate scientific methods, forensics and state-of-the-art surveillance technology to gain new insight into John F. Kennedy's assassination, the D.B. Cooper hijacking case, most-wanted mobster Whitey Bulger's life on the lam, and a rumored doomsday bunker under a major U.S. airport, among other stories. Locals and eyewitnesses also share their accounts of strange sightings, weird goings-on and unexplained phenomena.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Fatal View/Strict Radio Silence/Buried Alive
• E2Missing in Action/Swallowed Up Hole/Nowhere to Run
• E3Doomsday in Denver/White Sands, Dark Secrets/They're Listening
• E4The Atomic Conqueror/Armageddon House/Cannibal Colonists
• E5Hiding in Plain Sight/City on Fire/Rock Star
• E6Last Resort/Rocky Escape
• E8Murder in Memphis/Night Lights
• E9Identified Flying Objects/Drone Nation/Green Curtain