119: [Hannah Vanderhorst] Change Will Occur // Part 2
What Came Next
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As shared in part one of her story, Hannah Vanderhorst is a special education teacher and administrator living in Denver, Colorado. Having moved to the city in 2016, just before going through a breakup, Hannah turned to dating apps to expand her social circle and look for potential love. However, an October 2019 date changed her trajectory forever. It was on this date that she became a victim of a serial sexual predator, although she wouldn’t find that out until over three years after her assault. Hannah would then join a taxing legal battle to receive justice, witness legal change elicited by her and others’ experiences, and work to heal from the trauma. The Broken Cycle Media team is grateful that Hannah was willing to so selflessly share her story to bring awareness to our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:04.3 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
| 0:07.0 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:13.6 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:16.9 | If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com |
| 0:20.6 | forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:26.1 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:34.8 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. As shared in part one of her story, Hannah Vanderhorst is a special education teacher and administrator living in Denver, |
| 1:12.8 | Colorado. Having moved to the city in 2016, just before going through a breakup, Hannah turned |
| 1:19.8 | to dating apps to expand her social circle and look for potential love. However, an October 2019 date changed her trajectory forever. It was on this date that |
| 1:31.9 | she became a victim of a serial sexual predator, although she wouldn't find that out until |
| 1:37.3 | three and a half years after her assault. Hannah would then join a taxing legal battle to receive justice, witness legal change |
| 1:46.6 | elicited by her and others' experiences, and work to heal from the trauma. The broken |
| 1:52.6 | cycle media team is very grateful that Hannah was willing to so selflessly share all that |
| 1:58.1 | came next for her to bring awareness to our listeners. |
| 2:06.5 | I first realized what had happened when I saw his mugshot on the news three and a half years later. |
| 2:13.7 | It was a gut punch because the story that was briefly described in the caption was identical to mine. |
| 2:22.2 | Eventually, I had a meeting set up middle to end of April with one of the detectives at the Denver Police Department. |
| 2:30.1 | So I went downtown in person and shared my story with the police for the very first time. |
| 2:36.4 | Additional charges were pressed against him in May of 2023, |
| 2:40.9 | and those were encompassing all of the charges of all of the other women who had come forward, |
| 2:47.3 | similarly to me in March and April and May of 2023. |
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