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From the Center for Investigative Reporting in

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PRX, this is Reveal.

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I'm Alexson. It's

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twenty seventeen. Ali Archer

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is in her early twenties, and she's working

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at Noten's restaurant.

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Everybody seemed very relaxed, and everybody

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was pretty easy to get along with. It

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seems like fun at first. No

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dines is in a town called Canton, Connecticut,

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just outside of Hartford. Is definitely

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a well known name around the town.

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It seems like everybody knows no dine's

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meat.

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Sizzling late sixties, the no dine family

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has been curing and smoking meats

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in the foothills of the Berkshires. Ronald

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no dine started the business The restaurant

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is a new venture which opened in twenty

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sixteen, a couple years before Ronald

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passed away. His son, Calvin,

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runs this small spot off the side of the road,

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with wood panel walls and plaid curtains.

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While the decor may be kitschy

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country in, the vibe is

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more frat house. Ali says

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Calvin Sache's beer in the back

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freezer and drinks on the

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job. She remembers one day in particular.

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He was walking around barefoot without

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issues on. And he was drinking

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alcohol in front of all the

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customers. And it

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showed up on one of our Yelp reviews.

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We found that review. It says

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very inconsistent. Owner

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can be seen randomly wandering

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in his socks with a beer in hand.

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Several employees at no dines are related

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to Calvin. His wife helps him run the

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place, his stepson is the head chef.

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Ali is even a distant relative. She

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says Calvin tells dirty jokes about

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women, about blondes, and soon,

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no dines goes from being fun and relaxed

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to toxic and

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chaotic.

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I didn't feel safe, being around

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Calvin. And then one day,

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Ali says Calvin's been drinking all

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day. And crosses the line from being

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crude and offensive to getting physical

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with her friend and coworker in the cold

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chase.

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This time he actually came up behind her

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and put his arm around her.

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Nicole, like Ali, is in her twenties,

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but she's not a part of the Nodine family.

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And he had this joke and it was like three

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part joke. In every part

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of the joke, he would move his hand down.

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And by the end of

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the joke, he had his hand on her butt.

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And I just remember seeing that and standing

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right next to her.

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And

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for me, I wish I had actually said

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something to him. I wish I slapped him

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honestly.

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But it doesn't stop there. What happens

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later that night at no dimes and

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how police responded will

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spark years of lawsuits. A

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police investigation and the actions

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of two officers will be scrutinized and

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the dispute will wind its way

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all the way to the United States Supreme

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Court. The court battle that ensues

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lasts longer than the restaurant it self

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would stay in business. But

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before we continue, we want to let you

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know that this episode will describe

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a sexual assault and may

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be difficult for some listeners to hear.

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REVEALS Rachael de Leon went to

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Connecticut to meet Allie's coworker in

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the coal and to investigate the aftermath

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of that night at no dimes.

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The first thing you need to know about Nicole

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is that The job at Noten's restaurant

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really mattered to

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her. When she was working there,

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she was a young mom with a six year old daughter

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to support.

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I had no no savings. I didn't even

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have a bank account. I had credit cards. I had

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nothing. My fiance took care of

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us as much as he could. And besides

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that, I had not a pessimism.

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Nicole doesn't drive and no

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dines is close to home and easy to

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get to. She does a little bit

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of everything there. Waitressing, cooking,

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cleaning, ringing up orders. Along

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the way, she gets used to putting

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up with Calvin's alleged inappropriate

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jokes. Within the first day, I was there. He's

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like, oh, you wanna hear a joke, blah, blah, and I

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was like, you're kind of laughing, but

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like, a fake laugh, like, okay,

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goodbye. Hey, like, let me go all of my stuff.

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But his behavior keeps getting worse.

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Some of the forms of sexual harassment Nicole

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and Ali describe are so overt

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and over the top they sound like scenes

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from a bad nineteen seventy sitcom.

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Like Calvin dropping his eyeglasses and

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then telling his female employees to pick them

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up. So they'll have to bend over in

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front of him. After a few times I'd

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caught on to what he was doing, and

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I would stop picking him

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up, but then he'd be like

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pick up my glasses. Calvin

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is thirty years older than Nicole.

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When he allegedly puts his hand on her

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butt in front of

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Ali, Nicole's confused and

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not really sure what to do. In

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my

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head, I kind of brushed it off as like, oh, he's

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drunk. He's feeling good, but I didn't,

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like, really go further than

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that. I don't think. A

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lot was going on that day. Nicole

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says Calvin had just promoted her

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to manager and she needed her

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job. So again, she

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lets the incident go. But

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as the night wears on, Nicole says

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Calvin starts pushing his wife

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to leave to go home and

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feed the

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dogs. This didn't raise, like, huge red

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flags in my head, but it was like, wow. Really trying

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to push her out of here compared to usually they'd leave

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together.

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Everyone eventually leaves except

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a dishwasher who yells out for

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Calvin. That's when

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Nicole says Calvin grabs her

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arm. I remember. Calvin

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pulling me into the bathroom. Then

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she says he locks the door and puts

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his finger to his lips for her to be quiet.

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The dishwasher calls for Calvin again

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and for Nicole as he's leaving, Calvin

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shouts good night back. Then

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according to Nicole, he exposes

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himself to her and tells her to perform

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oral

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sex. Her account of what happened

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at Notions is all in police and court

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records.

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I just remember, yeah, him pushing

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my head down, and I remember he was

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wearing blue boxers because

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anytime I pull out blue boxers of my

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fiance's safe? Remember?

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Nicole says she freezes. Fighting

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back or even resisting doesn't

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cross her

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mind. It was just like I

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had left me even

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though I could be a tough person. There

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was no, like, I'm gonna beat this man

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up. It wasn't like something that went through my head. It

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was just like this is actually happening.

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Nicole says she does what he tells

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her to do. And all she can think

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is, please let it be over. Just

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get me home. Get me home.

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The coal didn't physically resist

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or try to run away. This

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is not uncommon. Survival

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have told me it felt safer to

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avoid a fight. They

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have no idea if the attacker

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will resort to more physical violence

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if they

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resist. And they wanna

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survive with as few injuries

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as possible. I

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asked Calvin to tell us his

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version of what happened. I

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reached him by phone, but he said he

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wouldn't talk to me. In

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court records, Calvin has denied

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sexually assaulting or harassing Nicole.

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The morning after all this happened,

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Nicole goes to the can police department

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with her

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mom. Officer Adam Gomber

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comes out to meet them. Hello?

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So what's going on?

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Last I got this video

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through public records request. Instead

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of taking Nicole to a private room, officer

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Gomber talks to her in the lobby of

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the police station which is visible

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from the street. Nicole notices

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the large windows and they make her

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feel on display. She tells

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officer Gomper some background about the

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restaurant and then shares that

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Calvin exposed himself to

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her. When

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we when we got when we got it, I I drove.

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It all happened so quickly. And I looked out and

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he was like, I know you must not

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get it at home, so suck

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it or something. But she leaves

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it at that. She doesn't mention

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the alleged earlier but grabbing or

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that she felt coerced to perform oral

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sex. And at this point,

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Nicole hasn't told a soul the full

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story, including her mom

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who's sitting right next to

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her.

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Well, if you want make a complaint,

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it's gonna be investigated, which means I would say

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your friend's statement from you. Nicole's not

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sure she's ready for that. Also,

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she's acutely aware that it would be

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her word against Calvin's and

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she thinks this status gives him the upper

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hand. I

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know you never reached my hand. I can't hear

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you now. I have no proof. Also,

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she's really worried about losing her job.

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She says she's supposed to go and to work later

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that

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day. I want him, but I

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want him to go to work and pretend that he doesn't

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No. Or I'm hoping he doesn't

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remember. So I'm gonna work, and I need to go

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happily normal. Nicole was hoping

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that Calvin had been so drunk the night before.

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He wouldn't remember what had happened.

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And she could go back to work and

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somehow forget about it too.

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This

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might sound a little strange. A victim

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tells only part of the story and then

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hopes her alleged perpetrator will

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forget the whole thing. But

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this fits with all the research about

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sexual assault victims. They

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often want to minimize and avoid

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what happened because it's like

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reliving a trauma. And the

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closer the relationship is within a salent,

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the more likely they are to hold back details.

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It often takes time to get the

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full story. It's

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clear that Nicole isn't ready to launch

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a full police investigation yet.

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She and officer Gomper talk some more

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He gives Nicole a card from the Office of Victims

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Services, where she can seek support if

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she needs

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it. And he tells her she can

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come back if she decides she wants to make

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an official complaint. Thank

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you very much. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

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Hold on. You know? But

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it sounds like he's never gonna change.

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As soon as Nicole gets back to work,

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she realizes returning was a big

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mistake. In police

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records, she says Calvin tries to

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lure her into a small closet with

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him and prepositions her

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for sex. By the end

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of her shift, she decides she's

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never coming back and takes home the

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photo of her daughter she keeps at work.

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A few days later, Nicole goes

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back to the Canton Police Department with Ali,

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her friend from work, and makes her

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official complaint with officer Gomber.

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She talks about Calvin grabbing her

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butt, exposing himself to

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her, and telling her to perform oral

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sex, but she still doesn't

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tell the full story. Officer

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Gomber notifies Calvin Nodyne. There's

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a complaint against him. When he

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arrives at the CAN Police Department, he's

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with his lawyer, David Morgan. Calvin

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is questioned by a detective John

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Calangelo, who's an experienced investigator.

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He's been on the force in Canton for twenty

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years. The interview starts off

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with the attorney and the detective talking

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about people they know in

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common. It turns out the attorney

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used to play golf with detective Calangelo's

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dad. He was

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my golf partner. He told me how to fuck.

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No. He did. He did. He

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did. He did. He did. He was the best

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player in the country. This

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may sound like a pretty chummy way

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to start an interrogation, but A

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friendly approach is a technique used

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to build rapport before a detective

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starts asking tough questions. When

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the conversation turns to Nicole's allegations,

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Calangelo strikes a casual tone.

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What's

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this girl's name? Yeah. Yeah. Nicole

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Nicole. What's Nicole's deal? don't

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know. Detective Calangelo asked

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Calvin about the sex talk at work.

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Nicole said that there was inappropriate talk

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and speech and sexual stuff. And

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I'm a meat guy. I grew up in wheat plants

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since I was nine years old. Mhmm. So

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does, what I say, get a

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little harsh sometimes? Yeah.

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Then the detective brings up Nicole's

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and Ali's allegation about him grabbing

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Nicole's butt. That could be

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considered a sexual assault in the fourth

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degree.

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Apparently, according to her, and

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someone else, your hand made it down to her rear

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end. No. I wouldn't

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even come back to the cell. Yeah. They're saying

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why they're saying

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this, but I don't Yeah. III

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don't know.

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Eventually, Calangelo brings up Nicole's

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more serious allegation. If you

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look down, you exposed yourself

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to her? Yes. Well, shit.

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Calvin says that he didn't even know

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where Nicole was then. She's good about

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front half of the cigarette? I,

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you know, I don't know where she was.

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Okay. Why

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would she say this? I

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don't know. Maybe

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she thinks the business is going down. She's looking

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for money

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possible. That's one of the angles I'm looking

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at. And then Calangelo tries

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to minimize what happened. Police

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often do this to get somebody to tell them

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more. If

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you were fool around with Nikki, consensual.

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That's

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a whole different story. That

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might all When it comes to sex crimes, arguing

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that an act was consensual is a common

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defense for suspects.

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Thanks.

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Have me with him. Sure. Calvin's

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lawyer asks to meet with his client privately

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and the two men leave the room for a few

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minutes. When they come back,

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Calvin has a new story. She

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grabbed me and said, look

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at I've got something for you to see.

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And I figured there was a problem in the

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metro. She

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was the one that dropped my

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pants -- Mhmm.

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-- and

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getting a look at

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it. And

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it was pretty much so fast. It's

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like, okay. That His

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story throws everything he's

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been saying into question. Calvin's

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now claiming Nick Cole pulled him into the

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bath room and initiated everything. And

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detective Colangelo has now succeeded

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in getting Calvin to admit that he's

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been

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lying. When

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you come in here and ask you something, you're telling

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me she left already, but then the story changes.

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Look, I'm trying to protect myself.

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I am experiencing it was

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it was a moment

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after a twelve hour day and a

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bad decision. Mhmm.

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Mhmm. I should have stopped it.

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Nicole called it. It's his statement

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against hers, and

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it's the time when the detective should

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be pressing for more details, like

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how long were you in the bathroom? Were you intoxicated?

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Draw me a map of where you were standing.

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But that's not what happens.

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Instead, Calangelo offers Calvin

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a way to turn the tables on this

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whole situation. So you

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you think she's a liar? As

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as far as

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if not being consensual? Absolutely.

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Then detective Calangelo tries

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to convince Calvin to take a polygraph.

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If you pass a polygraph, she

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can be brought in and it gives us leverage to

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see if the story changes.

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He tells Calvin he's used this strategy

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before in a past case. Later,

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he'll claim he was bluffing.

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Now she's a suspect in a false

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statement in a false police report. Now

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she can be asked if she can take we'll take a

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polygraph. Completely different

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animal, so you switch the case. That's all.

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Switch the case just

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like that, the victim can

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become the suspect. Weeks

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go by. Nicole wonders what is going

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on with the case. Then

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she's called back into the Canton Police Department.

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This time, it's just Nicole and detective

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Colangelo. Perfect.

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And they're in a private room with the

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door shut This

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case is now on my guess. Nicole

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has no idea in this conversation that

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she may now be considered a suspect.

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She tells the detective she's concerned about

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how slowly the case is moving. I've

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done a lot of work on this. That's his officer

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Conifer.

16:39

Well, I'm glad because, yeah, for a

16:41

while, I think, I just stop infrading

16:43

this

16:43

series. Well, any university?

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And I was like, I don't know what more

16:47

I can do.

16:48

Well, this is the time. Look. So Actually,

16:51

we looked at the police case file and

16:54

after they interviewed Calvin, the police

16:56

didn't do much. They documented

16:58

a phone call from him saying

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he failed a private polygraph because

17:03

he hadn't taken his medication. And

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they received a fax from Calvin's

17:07

lawyer saying that he won't be taking

17:09

a police administered polygraph.

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I know it takes time, but this man has caused

17:14

me to lose so much money that I had

17:16

to move out of my place. I went to a

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doctor had to get put on more

17:20

meds than from my PTSD

17:22

and my anxiety attacks and all that. Right.

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So my whole life has been flipped upside

17:27

down Detective Calendillo

17:29

assures Nicole that he's working hard

17:31

on the case. Then he starts

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to ask her about her relationship with

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Calvin.

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Was there any relations between

17:38

Union Calvin that were consensual prior

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to that

17:42

Saturday? No.

17:45

Colangelo keeps pressing

17:47

Nicole. I have to be able to understand

17:49

where these relationships are just because

17:52

he's gonna tell me something

17:53

different, and he did. And it's

17:55

here almost an hour in that

17:57

this interview takes a drastic turn.

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Because Calangelist starts to deploy

18:02

an interrogation technique meant for

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suspects,

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not alleged victims. I

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have to come a polygraph so

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that he'll take

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it. Thank

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you, Richard.

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Okay. Did you

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pass it? No. What

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if I told you he took one? Do

18:23

you know it? You

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tell

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me? I

18:27

didn't think so.

18:29

You don't think you are dead?

18:32

What I told you to do.

18:37

Really? Actually, Calvin took

18:39

one polygraph and he failed it.

18:41

Taking two polygraphs. Okay.

18:43

And I know that there are issues in some of these

18:46

stories. Calangelo is

18:48

using what police call a roost.

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A bluff or a ploy.

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It's legal and it's used to corner

18:55

a suspect into a confession. So

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I need you to think hard. Is there anything that

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you think will come up

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or has come up in this investigation that

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I should know about? Nicole

19:07

breaks down crying and she discloses

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what she hasn't told anyone before.

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Not her friends, her fiance, or

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her mom. She's finally

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confronting what she says happened

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to her that night.

19:27

You had any baby? It was just

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ten people moving in there and

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and he dropped him. And as soon as he told

19:34

me to do it, I just didn't. I

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just didn't hope to

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do.

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So you didn't give him more sense. Yeah.

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Okay.

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Calangelo hears this as

19:45

a consensual encounter, but

19:47

Nicole is clear she didn't want to

19:49

engage in oral sex. She

19:52

says she wanted to tell the whole story,

19:54

but she was afraid of what other people would

19:56

think. You don't want my boyfriend

19:58

to know it. You don't want people to ask why I did

20:00

it when I didn't wanna do it, but

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I'm just so scared.

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Detective Calangelo asks Nicole if

20:07

she wants to change her previous statement.

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She says she

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does. But

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don't want it to make a note. It was I

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have you changed your story, but I just feel so scared.

20:15

didn't know what to do. Which is why these are

20:17

very important because it's

20:19

an oath basically, and you're saying that I

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understand that that by signing this

20:23

until the

20:24

truth. And if you're not, then you you're

20:26

actually committing a crime also. Nicole

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didn't tell her full story, and

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to Colangelo, that's a lie.

20:34

He doesn't dig deeper. He doesn't

20:36

ask for more details about her state

20:38

of mind during the alleged assault,

20:41

which would help explain why she

20:43

complied. This

20:45

black and white thinking, either she's

20:48

lying and she wasn't assaulted or she's

20:50

telling the whole truth and is a real victim,

20:53

can shortcut an investigation. And

20:56

it's a common theme I found in my

20:58

research. I began looking into

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cases just like Nicole several years

21:02

ago where an alleged victim of sexual

21:04

assault becomes the suspect and is

21:06

charged with crimes like false reporting.

21:09

I looked closely at fifty two cases

21:11

and I saw patterns emerge, like

21:14

fifteen cases were decided in

21:16

a day. Once police

21:18

find inaccuracies or contradictions, they

21:21

turn their investigation around. And

21:24

other times, they never even interview

21:26

the alleged

21:27

suspect. Police records

21:29

sometimes show very little evidence

21:31

to back up the false reporting charges.

21:36

After Nicole tells her whole experience

21:39

to Calangelo, she has to decide

21:41

whether she wants to officially change her

21:43

statement or not. Do you

21:45

wanna consult with your attorney?

21:48

Can I

21:49

do that? Sure. I just

21:51

wanna make sure that I, like,

21:53

you didn't still have a chance at least

21:56

getting some plate of chestties.

22:01

Three weeks after her interview with Colangelo,

22:03

Nicole goes back to the station. She's

22:06

there to officially revise her statement

22:09

and turn in printouts of texts which

22:11

Colangelo asked her for. A

22:13

dispatcher tells her Colangelo is busy

22:15

and he'll reach out if he needs her. She

22:18

never hears back from him and emails

22:20

the detective twice to follow-up.

22:23

By this time, Calangelo has

22:25

already submitted a warrant for

22:27

her arrest. And when he finally

22:29

emails her back, he doesn't tell her that.

22:34

It's been two and a half months since

22:36

Nicole has told detective Calangelo the

22:39

full story. She gets

22:41

a call from him and she can't

22:43

believe what she's

22:44

hearing. You have a word out

22:46

for a rest, you need to come into the

22:49

station. And I just held

22:51

that

22:51

phone. And in my head, I'm

22:54

I have no idea what a

22:55

warrant for my arrest is for because I

22:57

I haven't done anything wrong. The

23:00

charge, making a false statement

23:02

to a police officer. She

23:04

turns herself in later that day.

23:12

Nicole started out as a victim reporting

23:15

an alleged crime to the police. Then

23:18

a detective lied to her, and

23:20

now she's being charged for lying to him.

23:22

When we come back, Nicole fights

23:25

back. That's next on reveal.

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24:06

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24:09

this is Reveal. I'm Alexin.

24:13

We've been talking about the police investigation into

24:16

a report of sexual assault, but

24:18

this isn't your typical case. What

24:20

makes it stand out is who the police arrested,

24:23

not the alleged perpetrator. They

24:25

arrested the alleged victim. And

24:28

we should note again. This episode may

24:30

not be appropriate for all listeners. We

24:34

can't know from our investigation whether sexual

24:37

thought actually occurred, but we can

24:39

review how the police decided to charge

24:41

Nicole Chase with a crime and how

24:43

she and her attorney fight

24:45

back. Revere reporter, Rachel

24:47

De Leon, takes it from here.

24:51

Today, Nicole lives in a small

24:53

town, not far from where she used

24:55

to work. It's a cute neighborhood.

24:57

The houses are spaced out. She's

25:00

got half an acre around her. When

25:02

we pull

25:02

up, Lou Chimes, her attorney,

25:04

is standing in the driveway.

25:06

Welcome to the Northeast. Nice

25:08

to snow. The ground is covered

25:11

in five inches of snow, and Nicole's

25:13

house is cozy. She keeps apologizing

25:16

for the mess, only the place is tidy.

25:19

It is a full house though. She lives

25:21

here with her

25:21

Fiance, two kids, and

25:23

a brand new addition. Blue.

25:25

What? Blue. Okay.

25:27

Hi, sweetie. What's

25:28

his name? What's

25:29

his name? Blue. I just got

25:31

a puppy. His name

25:33

is blue. Yes. Right now is

25:35

the potty training and the nipping

25:38

and the chewing of everything.

25:40

Nicole surprised her fiance with

25:42

blue a few weeks back. It

25:45

was his dream to have blood hound

25:47

someday. This house goes

25:49

back generations. It's where

25:51

she and her mom both grew

25:53

up. And now she owns it. Her

25:55

kids walk the same road she used to to

25:58

go to school. I feel like I'm doing good,

26:00

but I'm hoping that I just keep working on

26:02

myself more and more and

26:05

I hope that I somehow just become

26:07

just better

26:09

than I already have.

26:13

Before Nicole even worked at Noten's

26:15

restaurant, she'd been through some really

26:17

tough experiences, including teenage

26:19

drug addiction and domestic violence.

26:23

Then came that night at no dines in

26:25

twenty seventeen, which led to

26:27

her arrest. She sought

26:29

out the help of different lawyers and one of

26:31

them posted about her case

26:32

online. Lou sees the lawyer's

26:34

message and wants to know more. I

26:37

looked at the arrest warrant for

26:39

Nicole, and I hadn't met Nicole yet.

26:42

And then I read it and reread

26:44

it two or three

26:45

times, and then I call the letter back and it says,

26:47

am I missing something? Nicole's

26:50

criminal defense attorney is also

26:52

astounded by the charge. And tells prosecutors

26:55

it's outrageous. The

26:57

prosecutor agrees to drop the case

26:59

as long as Nicole doesn't get into any

27:01

other legal trouble before the next court

27:04

date. The arrest is

27:06

erased from her record, but

27:08

Liu doesn't think that should be the end of

27:10

it. He also believes Nicole

27:12

could have a strong civil case against

27:15

the can police department, so he sets

27:17

up a meeting with her. I was just

27:19

astonished at what I was hearing. Liu

27:22

specializes in employment and personal

27:24

injury law. But he knows police

27:26

culture. He sued

27:28

police. He's represented police

27:30

and was once a prosecutor for

27:32

the Manhattan DA. I spent

27:36

fifteen minutes deciding whether I wanted to

27:38

represent Nicole. And

27:40

the hour and forty five minutes the rest of the

27:42

two hour meeting, kind of seeing myself

27:45

cross examining

27:46

the police officers in the case. Nicole

27:49

says it was news to her that she

27:51

could go after the officers and the town

27:54

for turning her into a suspect. Well,

27:56

once they said it was something I could do, it was like,

27:59

yeah, absolutely. They just arrested

28:01

me for nothing. So

28:03

Lou lets the town know he intends

28:05

to file a civil suit. And the town

28:08

council decides to launch an internal

28:10

affairs investigation at the police

28:12

department. It's an important

28:14

moment because the police officers will

28:16

have to explain their actions.

28:21

Okay. Today is three thirty first. It's

28:24

approximately 808

28:26

in the morning. We're here for the interviews

28:28

of detective John Klangelo. You're

28:31

hearing the voice of Cairn's chief of police.

28:33

Christopher, our zero. It

28:36

took a long time to get these recordings.

28:38

We had to fight for them for well over

28:41

a year. The men are

28:43

sitting in a drought conference room inside

28:45

the police

28:46

station. I

28:46

want to show you some of your train

28:48

records.

28:49

The chief pulls out printed PowerPoint

28:52

slides. And I'll just read a couple

28:54

of them talk about the victims. Might share

28:56

information that is not consistent, not

28:57

true, or not complete. That doesn't mean

29:00

it's a false report. Does that ring a bell

29:02

to your recollection? Or you're

29:05

It's hard to hear, but Calangelo is

29:07

defensive and says, doesn't mean it's

29:10

a true report, either does

29:11

it. The chief keeps going.

29:13

And it's also true sometimes victims

29:16

of sexual assault. You know, manifest

29:18

certain behaviors that are in

29:19

shock, they're they're somewhat traumatized, a psychiatrist.

29:22

What's that?

29:22

I'm not a psychiatrist. K. You're asking the

29:24

psychological questions. Soon

29:26

the questioning turns to Calendula's

29:29

interview with Calvin Nodyne, who

29:31

Nicole has accused of a sex crime.

29:33

He's a suspect in a police investigation.

29:36

AND THE CHIEF WANTS TO KNOW WHY CULLANGELO

29:39

IS GIVING HIM SO MUCH LI

29:41

WAY. AT DEBUE

29:42

AT THE INTERVIEW TOLD HIM HE WAS FREE TO LEAVE.

29:44

WHY DID YOU TELL HIM HE WAS FREE TO

29:45

LEAVE? Because it was a criminal interview,

29:47

and he was a suspect at the time. So

29:50

you you give that warning to someone who's a

29:52

suspect, they're free to leave if you

29:53

have me in front of you.

29:54

Yes. I try to always do that.

29:56

Then the chief asks Calangelo if

29:59

he gave Nicole that same warning.

30:01

She wasn't a suspect.

30:02

She didn't she'd been never suspect any point in

30:04

time during your interview?

30:05

I needed to bring her in to go over

30:07

the things that he set to see what match he didn't

30:09

match.

30:10

Okay. Any point in time during an interview, if she

30:12

became a suspect, did you tell her she was free to leave?

30:14

I don't recall. Okay.

30:17

Calendula giving Calvin seemingly

30:20

preferential treatment is brought

30:22

up several times in this three hour

30:24

long interview. Another example

30:27

is when Calangelo tells Calvin

30:29

that he usually gives a suspect a

30:31

base on balls for the first false statement.

30:34

I'm not a baseball person, so

30:36

I asked around what he means

30:38

is giving a pass for the first

30:40

lie.

30:41

So did you ever tell her that I typically

30:43

would give a base on false false

30:46

statement? No. Because the problem with that

30:48

is twofold.

30:49

First, Colangelo argues that he

30:51

didn't know Nicole's statement was false.

30:54

I didn't know if she gave false statement until

30:56

she broke down Brian's and I gotta tell you,

30:58

you know, I gave moral

30:59

sex.

31:00

And then he argued something different that

31:02

no two people are like Versus, they're

31:04

like fingerprints or snowflakes. No person

31:06

gets interviewed the same. mean, from

31:08

now on every interview I do in there say,

31:11

if you give false statement, you get evasive on the

31:13

walls. No. You you it's Statements

31:15

that I make are done to elicit the truth.

31:19

Calangelo relies on this a

31:21

lot. The idea that he's only

31:23

being chummy with Calvin because

31:25

he's trying to get him to confess to

31:27

what really

31:27

happened. Within the first five or ten minutes

31:30

of the interview, you say to Cavanaugh,

31:33

you're not sure you believe everything that she's telling

31:35

me. Mhmm. Why would you

31:37

give him that statement?

31:39

Doesn't that leave him the

31:40

account statements? I mean, even explain

31:42

it. I'm gonna explain

31:43

it. Again, Calangelo leans on the

31:45

idea that he's bluffing to draw

31:47

out the truth. He is

31:48

that. And I'm gonna tell you, and I hate to do what I'm saying,

31:50

but here's my mask. Where are you gonna tell

31:53

your darkness people? Someone you like or

31:55

someone you

31:55

hate? You're gonna tell someone you

31:57

like, so you do your best to find

32:00

a bond with them. It's kind of

32:02

an old law enforcement trope, the

32:04

good cop that makes you feel safe.

32:06

Calangelo's right, police experts

32:08

say it's one way to get people to talk.

32:11

But then once they do start talking,

32:13

you want them to keep talking. One

32:16

experienced investigator told me you

32:18

should listen closely for inconsistencies,

32:21

and for things that sound absurd or

32:23

implausible. And during

32:25

that pivotal moment, when Calvin changes

32:28

his story and says there was consensual

32:30

oral

32:30

sex. Calangelo does little

32:33

to follow-up.

32:34

What details to give you about how the oral sex

32:36

occurred?

32:38

He said they were in the bathroom and she gave him

32:40

oral sex. Do you know how how

32:42

how he got into the bathroom? I told him closing

32:44

or something. I don't recall exactly. Do you

32:47

know how his pants came

32:49

down? I

32:49

don't recall exactly. Do you

32:52

recall, you know, where where

32:54

he was positioned in the bathroom?

32:57

No. I don't recall. You you don't recall it.

32:59

You didn't ask those questions. No. No.

33:00

don't. don't recall. So I don't recall

33:02

if I asked him or nothing.

33:04

Calangelo didn't ask those questions

33:06

during his hour long interview with Calvin.

33:09

And when Calvin later calls to say

33:11

that he failed a private

33:12

polygraph, there's also no follow-up.

33:15

Did you

33:15

ever ask to get the results of that first call you

33:17

asked? No. I didn't. Why not? Because they're not admissible in

33:19

court because know

33:22

he's gonna say no, and it's you're not gonna get it on

33:24

a search warrant because it's not evidence of

33:25

crime.

33:26

Seeing that's not amissible warrant. Well, again,

33:28

does does it necessarily have to be amissible court

33:30

for you to use it for impeachment purposes or evidentiary

33:32

purposes or other leads to follow-up.

33:40

I wanted to talk to Calangelo myself.

33:42

I called, texted, emailed. Finally,

33:45

his attorney responded. She'd

33:47

advised that he not talked to me. But

33:49

said he acted appropriately at all

33:51

times. I also tried to

33:53

reach officer Gomper, the first

33:55

officer Nicole spoke with, but he never

33:57

responded. In

34:00

the internal affairs interview, Calangelo

34:02

gets increasingly

34:04

defiant with the chief.

34:05

You see, you're this investigation you're doing you're

34:07

trying to you're trying to fit me into

34:10

a theory that you have. I don't. I sit

34:12

back and I let people tell me what happened,

34:14

and and that's the truth. Is Calvin

34:16

no being a crafts individual he is?

34:18

There's no question about it. He's not

34:20

very likable in my opinion, but I'm sure

34:22

other some people do like Certainly,

34:25

if there was a probable

34:28

cause for an arrest for Kevin or

34:30

I developed

34:30

it, he would have been arrested.

34:32

His, you know,

34:33

palpatine is not my friend that

34:35

I'm not doing you many favors. I'm following what the

34:37

truth is.

34:41

The irony is that Calangelo's quest

34:44

for the truth is a win for Calvin. But

34:47

it's Nicole who thanks Calangelo

34:49

during her interview with him at the police

34:51

station. Thank you for

34:55

Like being here for people, also thank you for

34:57

making a deal to come out and say

34:59

to somebody what really has happened. This

35:02

was a breakthrough moment for Nicole.

35:05

She felt like she had finally admitted

35:07

the full extent of her sexual

35:09

assault. Months

35:11

would pass after that interview, and

35:13

there would be no further action by the police

35:16

except to write up her arrest warrant.

35:19

If I had only knew what

35:22

he had been doing, and I

35:24

would have never thanked him

35:26

for that. Would have never told him.

35:32

In a court deposition, Nicole

35:34

shared that she will never report

35:36

a crime to the Canton Police Department

35:38

again. And many others

35:41

share her distrust of police. According

35:43

to research, seventy percent of

35:45

sexual assault crimes go unreported, and

35:49

the fear of not being believed is

35:51

one of the many reasons why.

36:02

In the end, The Internal Affairs

36:04

investigation found that detective

36:06

Calangelo should have told prosecutors

36:09

Nicole tried to revise her statement

36:12

It also dinged him for letting Nicole believe

36:14

she was a victim when a warrant

36:16

was already out for her arrest.

36:19

Calangelo was suspended for three days

36:21

without pay. Then he turned

36:23

around and sued the town, claiming

36:25

he'd been scapegoated in a quote,

36:28

sham internal affairs investigation to

36:30

appease the me too movement for political

36:33

gain. The judge dismissed

36:35

the case. Still,

36:40

the Internal Affairs investigation did

36:42

uphold Calangelo's decision to arrest

36:44

Nicole, and it claims that

36:46

the Connecticut state police reviewed the case

36:49

too, and found Calangelo was

36:51

also justified in not arresting Calvin.

36:54

That's absolutely false.

36:55

Wow. Okay. We

36:57

find out what one state investigator really

37:00

thought about the case. Next,

37:02

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37:39

I'm now Latin. We've been talking

37:41

about Nicole Chase who reported an

37:44

alleged sex crime to the Canton Police Department.

37:47

Then she was arrested. The

37:49

charges against Nicole were eventually dropped,

37:51

and the police department conducted an internal

37:54

investigation. It found Nicole's

37:56

arrest was justified. But officers

37:58

did make some mistakes, so the

38:01

department made changes, like

38:03

a supervisor must now be alerted before

38:05

victim becomes a suspect. But

38:07

what about Nicole's accusations against

38:10

Calvin No dime? Should he have

38:12

been arrested? That question

38:14

got kicked to the state police to answer.

38:16

So reveals Rachel De Leon followed up

38:18

with him.

38:20

Inside a report from Camping police

38:23

chief Christopher R sero's internal

38:25

affairs investigation is a line.

38:28

It says, Connecticut State Police

38:30

reviewed Nicole's case and found

38:33

no probable cause to arrest

38:35

Calvin. I wanted to read this

38:37

review to understand their logic, So

38:40

I asked the state police for it, and

38:42

their legal department said they never conducted

38:44

an investigation into the matter and

38:47

didn't make any official determinations.

38:50

But I knew a state police sergeant was

38:52

least assigned to look at the

38:54

case, I saw his name sergeant

38:56

Alan Besson in an email, so

38:58

I called him. I

39:00

never said there was no finding of probable

39:02

cause. To pursue charges. I never

39:04

said that. That is that's absolutely

39:06

false.

39:07

Wow. Okay. Ellen

39:09

Besson worked for the state police for

39:12

about twenty five years. He retired

39:14

in good standing in twenty twenty two,

39:17

and he remembers being given Nicole's

39:19

case to

39:19

review. It stuck with

39:21

him all these years. I

39:23

felt that she had a case against

39:25

that guy and why he didn't get arrested

39:27

is beyond me. I think this girl got victimized

39:30

twice.

39:31

This was Ellen's own personal view and he

39:33

didn't speak up at the time. Today,

39:35

he regrets not bringing his concerns to

39:37

the attention of state prosecutors. Instead

39:40

he says he recommended his department not

39:42

get involved any

39:43

further. It just didn't smell right

39:46

for me. And So

39:49

that's the way I would have handled

39:50

it. But chief our sero maintains

39:52

that the state police found there was no

39:55

cause to arrest Calvin. That's

39:57

based on a voicemail from Alan's boss

39:59

who tells the chief he's supportive of the

40:01

Canon officer's investigation. And

40:04

some emails. In

40:06

one email from April twenty eighteen, chief

40:08

ARCIO summarizes a phone call

40:10

between himself and Allan. It

40:13

says, and I'm paraphrasing, your

40:15

office found no probable cause to arrest

40:17

Calvin and had no issues with my detectives

40:20

investigation or interviews. Then

40:22

the chief writes, if I missed or misconstrued

40:25

anything, let me know. But

40:27

Alan never writes back. He

40:30

says he doesn't remember getting this

40:32

email. Nearly

40:35

two months later, our CRO reaches

40:37

out again to ask whether there will be written

40:40

summary of state police findings. This

40:43

time, Alan responds and says,

40:45

there shall be no written summary for

40:47

findings on this

40:49

case. He'd been talking to

40:51

his legal department about his concerns.

40:54

I told him that there was definitely some malfeasance

40:56

on this investigation. And

40:58

that if we pursue this or

41:00

write anything like this, we'll be involved in lawsuit

41:03

because the procedure that they utilized

41:06

was definitely

41:07

wrong. I didn't see it as the correct way

41:09

to do an investigation. Alan was

41:11

afraid Nicole was going to sue.

41:13

And he was right. Nicole

41:17

starts with her boss, Calvin Notine.

41:20

Her lawsuit against Calvin and Notine

41:22

Smokehouse, alleged as that Calvin sexually

41:24

assaulted Nicole and caused her emotional

41:27

distress. Calvin

41:29

denies any wrongdoing. He in the business

41:31

eventually settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed

41:34

amount. Next,

41:36

Nicole sued the town of Canton and

41:38

the police. Officer Gomper and

41:40

detective Calangelo are named in the

41:42

suit.

41:43

I think the police misconduct here

41:46

was egregious. That's

41:49

Lou Chimes, Nicole's lawyer. The

41:51

lawsuit alleges there was no basis

41:53

for her arrest and that the officers acted

41:56

with malice and deliberate disregard

41:58

for her rights.

41:59

But there was a second claim that

42:01

the treatment of Nicole was

42:04

motivated by bias on the count

42:06

of her gender.

42:08

The town and the officers fight

42:10

back in a legal battle that will

42:12

drag on for years. They

42:14

claim Nicole knew the story she told

42:17

police wasn't true. But she signed

42:19

a sworn written statement anyway. So

42:22

the officers could legally arrest her.

42:25

Lawyers for the town also argued that

42:27

police didn't culminate against Nicole

42:29

and in fact showed compassion. They

42:32

say calangelo assured her that just

42:34

because her story had changed didn't mean he

42:36

wasn't listening. They ask

42:39

the court to stop the case from going

42:41

to trial. The

42:46

town's request lands on the desk

42:48

of judge Vanessa l Bryant. She

42:51

was appointed by president George w Bush

42:53

and had been active in Republican politics.

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Here she is at her confirmation hearing.

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I listen actively

43:01

and intensively. I

43:04

decide fairly and

43:06

decisively and efficiently.

43:10

Judge Bryant issues a meticulous fifty

43:13

one page decision. It points

43:15

out the sloppy police work that led

43:17

to Nicole's arrest, including failing

43:20

to update the arrest warrant with Nicole's

43:22

latest statement. Had

43:24

a judge or prosecutor known she

43:26

tried to reach Calangelo several times

43:28

and amend her statement, she

43:30

might never have been arrested. Then

43:33

the judge addresses the gender bias

43:36

claim. She says a reasonable

43:38

jury might think that Calangelo believing

43:40

Calvin's story and then suggesting

43:43

Nicole fabricated hers for financial

43:45

gain is a sign that he was siding

43:48

with the man in this case. But

43:51

to Lou, the most important thing the judge

43:53

writes is this. The alleged

43:55

false statement was an omission of

43:57

a completed acts act that plaintiff

43:59

was not under any duty to disclose.

44:03

A victim has no

44:05

duty to make an affirmative statement.

44:08

In other words, a victim is not

44:10

obligated to tell the police their full

44:12

story, and an omission is

44:14

not a lie, contrary to what

44:17

police claimed. That was a recognition

44:20

that sexual assault survivors are often

44:22

reluctant to come forward if at all

44:24

and may come forward in peace mail and

44:26

we don't wanna penalizing for

44:28

that.

44:30

All these issues the judge is pointing out

44:33

wear down the town's main argument

44:35

that calangelo and gomper should be

44:37

given qualified immunity. It's

44:40

a common defense in cases of police

44:42

misconduct, The idea

44:44

behind it is that police officers need

44:46

some level of protection from lawsuits,

44:49

so that they can make difficult decisions in

44:51

the line of duty without hesitating. It's

44:55

a thick protective shield, and

44:57

the only way to pierce it is to prove

45:00

that a police officer is plainly incompetent

45:02

or knowingly violated a law.

45:05

And in Nicole's case, judge Bryant

45:07

writes that a jury could reasonably

45:10

find both to be true. Judge

45:15

Bryant is especially critical of

45:17

the officer's decision to switch

45:20

the case on a sexual assault victim

45:22

who is visibly upset She

45:25

says a jury could find the officer's

45:27

conduct beyond all possible

45:30

bounds of decency. The

45:33

judge decides the case should go

45:36

to trial, but the town and officers

45:38

keep trying to prevent that. So

45:41

they appeal to the next highest court.

45:44

Their arguments before the judges stream

45:46

online. The

45:48

next case is chase the child of cancer.

45:51

Nicole tunes in. I was listening

45:53

to it the whole day, and I was really sad, and I was

45:55

really scared. An attorney for the

45:57

officers tells the judges that Nicole

46:00

intentionally lied and misled

46:02

them, but the judges pushed

46:04

back And one of them says, even

46:06

if it was true, should she be

46:08

arrested? Why would a reasonable police

46:10

officer arrest her in

46:12

these circumstances? Does

46:15

the make any sense to arrest her? The

46:18

lawyer responds and says, yes,

46:20

because it's a crime. Then

46:22

the issue with the sloppy warrant comes

46:24

up again. It's hard to

46:25

hear, but Liu tells the judges that the

46:28

warrant contains a major lie.

46:31

And then lied about the paragraph in

46:34

the words. And

46:35

so if they lied about the paragraph in the words?

46:37

Yes. Nicole's arrest

46:40

warrant refers to the fact

46:42

that no dine took two polygraph

46:44

tests, but that's not

46:46

true. Now that I think could

46:49

quite reasonably be read

46:52

to be misleading a judge.

46:54

I tell you if I were submitted an affidavit

46:57

like this, I'd be pretty angry, and I

46:59

think, wait a minute, you led me to believe there

47:01

were two polygraphs. Calangelo's

47:03

bluff has made it into Nicole's arrest

47:06

warrant, and there's more. That

47:08

one polygraph Calvin

47:09

took, he failed it. And

47:12

the warrant leaves that out.

47:14

Well, if they thought that Nadine

47:16

had failed a polygraph, they

47:18

might think that there was a sexual

47:20

assault. And therefore, she

47:22

was telling the truth. The judges

47:24

affirmed the lower court's decision to go

47:26

to

47:27

trial. Nicole feels vindicated

47:30

It would just meant a lot because that's a

47:32

big court to just, like, dismiss

47:34

something in it meant the world to me that

47:36

they were on my side and not their side.

47:39

But the town and officers won't

47:41

let it go and appeal all

47:43

the way to the US supreme court. But

47:46

before it's time for the court to review

47:48

the case, the town settles and

47:50

the appeal is withdrawn from the Supreme

47:52

Court. I asked for the amount

47:55

of the settlement, but Lou said it's confidential.

47:58

By this time, both Calangelo and

48:00

Gomper have left the Can Police Department.

48:03

Calangelo is a security director for

48:05

a local organization and gompers

48:07

a police dispatcher at a town nearby.

48:14

To memorialize Nicole's victory, Lou

48:16

frames the letter he got from the supreme

48:18

court dismissing the case. And

48:21

gives it to Nicole.

48:25

Whoa. I love

48:27

you.

48:29

Yeah. That means a lot. It's

48:32

framed in black and gold and the document

48:34

is stamped with the US supreme court

48:36

seal and

48:37

eagle. Nicole reads

48:39

it aloud. The

48:42

foregoing joint stipulation of dismissal

48:44

of the petition for wanna

48:47

say right. Rit of so Rit of

48:49

what? So shearies. Yep.

48:51

That haven't been received. This all sounds

48:54

kind of administrative, but for an

48:56

told, this document represents the

48:58

end of a painful chapter in her life.

49:01

Even after this happy ending, settling

49:04

with Calvin and the town, Nicole's

49:06

still divided about whether there

49:08

was justice in her

49:09

case. I feel like at the end of the

49:11

day, that a

49:15

person if they do it, somebody should end up behind

49:17

bars. Something that makes them

49:19

not want to do it again or

49:22

hurt somebody ever

49:23

again. I don't know. Calvin

49:26

was never charged in this case. Nodine's

49:31

restaurant is long gone. But

49:33

their meat processing plant is

49:35

up and running. Calvin

49:37

still works in the family business. That

49:52

was reveals Rachel Delion. Our

49:54

story was produced by Catherine Ruszkowski Ray's

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been investigating cases like this one across

50:00

the country. Don't miss her documentary on

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May twenty third. Our

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lead producer for this week show is Catherine Ruszkowski.

50:12

She had help from Catherine Steyr Martinez. Cynthia

50:15

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editing by reveals Kate Howard and special

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50:21

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50:23

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50:25

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