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I just kind of moved in with him instantly because it was the solution to my life. And it felt like this is the jackpot right now. I have a place I can crash and it's close to the casino. I have cocaine and I have some guy that is into me.
I was in a halfway house and my world just felt so small. There was no vision of having a normal life. I didn't really make goals for myself or anything because I really felt like he was going to find me and kill me. In my purity document, I was like, I promise that I'm not going to hang out with a boy alone.
I promised that I'm going to find an accountability partner and I'm going to check in with them every single week about my purity and my thoughts. I promised to not masturbate. When she asked me what the cult was that I was a part of, I told her Bethel and her face fell. I was in court for child abuse on my 11th birthday. I remember going in the chambers, speaking to the judge, and he said, well, you look fine to me. I don't see any marks.
And it was so, so dismissive. So if a judge doesn't believe me, I don't stand a chance. I want her to listen to it. And I want her to hear every single thing she did. Do you know what she used to always say to me? Whenever I was leaving the house, she would say, keep your mouth shut. What happens in this house stays in this house. Loose lips sink ships. So I'm going to write her a letter that says loose lips sink ships. And that's it.
He's on no sex registry, yet he has this prevalent history of doing this over and over again. He's just free. The only thing I've seen is him get arrested for like drug or domestic violence, but not murder. He's already done it once, at least.
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I'm Dan Taberski. In 2011, something strange began to happen at the high school in Leroy, New York. I was like at my locker and she came up to me and she was like stuttering super bad. I'm like, stop f***ing around. She's like, I can't. A mystery illness, bizarre symptoms, and spreading fast. It's like doubling and tripling and it's all these girls. With a diagnosis, the state tried to keep on the down low. Everybody thought I was holding something back. Well, you were holding something back intentionally. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah.
You know, it's hysteria. It's all in your head. It's not physical. Oh my gosh, you're exaggerating. Is this the largest mass hysteria since The Witches of Salem? Or is it something else entirely? Something's wrong here. Something's not right. Leroy was the new dateline and everyone was trying to solve the murder. A new limited series from Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios. Hysterical.
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