I'm Sarah Koenig, and you're listing to "Lost Weekend", a new investigative podcast in which we explore the strange case of Bernard Lomax, a wealthy businessman found dead in his Long Island vacation home in 1989 -- but not reported dead until days later.

It's a story full of unanswered questions: how did he die, and why? Who were the two men who discovered his body, and why did they cover it up and even puppeteer his corpse? What *really* happened 34 years ago during that weekend at Bernies?