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Hey, listeners, it's Tracy Patton. I know
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that you appreciate the stories we tell, digging
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deep into the details and backstory of
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a case or experience. I want to introduce
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you to Something Was Wrong. The podcast
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shares intimate stories of people who have been
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abused mentally, emotionally
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and physically, sometimes without
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even knowing it. The latest season of
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Something Was Wrong host Tiffany Reese
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reports on her most difficult story of
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abuse to date, her own. The
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first 15 seasons of her podcast have been
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dedicated to validating and amplifying
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the voices of those who have survived abuse.
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In season 16, she's breaking her silence
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and opening up for the first time about
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her own experience as an abuse survivor.
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With the help of trusted friends, she unpacks
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her journey to becoming a victim advocate
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by examining her past. From the emotional
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and physical abuse she endured at the hands of
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her parents and the bullying she received
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from classmates to the untimely
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passing of her brother and the securities
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fraud her father was convicted of, she's
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covering it
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all and learning more about herself in
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the process. I'm about to play a clip
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All right. So today is May
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4th, 2021. And
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yesterday I got a
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copy of my
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father's appeal. And
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it covers a bunch
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of information of his crimes that
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I don't know about. Because
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I've never really
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looked into any of this. So
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I finally feel like maybe
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I'm ready. You
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explaining to me what happened to you, them
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tossing your room, tossing your whole house, looking
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for... whatever evidence and you not really
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understanding what the whole deal was about
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just knowing that your dad had done something again.
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He
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was like I had lunch with his
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dad he literally was sitting there with
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me got a phone call from the attorneys
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and then just left and that was the last time he saw
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him and talked to him and never heard from him again.
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She got mad she grabbed me by the back of the
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head
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and she slammed my head into
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the sidewalk in front of the house. She
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would be banging on the door open
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this door open this door
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right now and I would be screaming no
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please do not make please please please please please
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please please don't make me open door.
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They arrested him for elder
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abuse among other charges
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it was fraud and financial
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abuse of the elderly.
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There was many
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times in my life where she made sure I
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knew you're not the daughter that I wanted.
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I wanted a better daughter
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a skinnier daughter and you
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f***ed it all up basically by
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being who you are instead
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of what I wanted. I
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also remember feeling like I
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worked for him. Am I gonna be
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arrested? Am I gonna be
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charged with these same things that he
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did even though I literally had no idea
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what was going on. I just remember being very
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scared of that. I am realizing
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there's so much I don't know there's so much I've never
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looked at about the cases about
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my dad and like
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dude. Once I
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read what your dad was charged with I
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realized pretty much everything he told me
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revolving around the business was all lies.
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After fleeing my dad's business
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partner going to prison who my
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mother would later claim was a member of
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the mafia and then
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told me that she suspected that
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uncle steve was quote taken out.
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Drove so wasted with us in
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the car, I thought I was going to die
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so many times. It
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is Friday, May
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14th, 2021. And
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I am,
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for the first time, walking
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to the
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scene where my
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brother was murdered.
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He was like, wait, who are you
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affiliated with? And I was like, well, Bobby's sister.
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He was like, I didn't even know he had a sister. Oh
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my God. Yeah.
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I explained, I was like, Tiffany and I work together.
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She has worked so hard to help other victims
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tell their stories. I think she's finally in
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this space. She's healing further in
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this process.
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I think it would be very cathartic to talk
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to him.
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So next thing I know, here comes squad
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cars from every direction. Came
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out with the guns drawn, came
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up to him, picked him up and
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shot him point blank. His partner
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came and he said, hey, partner, you
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did a good job. Good job, partner. Can
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you imagine that? Can you imagine somebody
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saying that after they murdered somebody?
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