130: [Haley Gray] Lifting of the Veil

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, True Crime, Documentary

4.4 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Content warning: animal cruelty, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, cold cases, gun violence, and murder.

Haley Gray is a credentialed victim advocate and podcast researcher, writer, and producer whose extensive career in podcasting has seen many phases. Over the last nine years, she has lent her skills to numerous well-known true crime podcasts with an ever-growing intent to make the true crime podcasting space a more ethical and equitable one. In this very candid conversation, Haley shared about her own journey, her growing awareness, as well as innumerable tips and takeaways for victims and those seeking to make a difference for victims. The Broken Cycle Media is incredibly appreciative of Haley’s work, mission, and all that she does to support the victim community.

About Victims’ Rights: https://www.victimlaw.org/victimlaw/pages/victimsRight.jsp

Advocacy Tips for Families: https://haleygrayresearch.com/tips-for-families/

Advocacy Tips for Advocates & Creators: https://haleygrayresearch.com/tips-for-advocates-and-creators/

Bridegan Foundation: https://www.brideganfoundation.org/

Haley Gray Research: https://haleygrayresearch.com/

Haley Gray Research on IG: https://www.instagram.com/haleygrayresearch

Light The Way Missing Persons Advocacy Project: https://www.lightthewaymissing.com/

Moms and Mysteries: https://www.momsandmysteries.com/

National Organization for Victim Advocacy: https://trynova.org/

National Advocate Credentialing Program: https://www.thenacp.org/

Petition - Grant Families of Missing Persons access to Police files after a period of 20 years: https://www.change.org/p/grant-families-of-missing-persons-access-to-police-files-after-a-period-of-20-years

Project Cold Case: https://projectcoldcase.org/

Solve the Case: https://www.solvethecase.org/about

Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/

True Crime Research Training: https://truecrimeresearchtraining.com/

For a list of additional resources and related non-profit organizations, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources

Transcript

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0:00.0	What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.
0:04.6	Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,
0:07.3	such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.
0:13.9	I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.
0:17.2	If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help.
0:26.4	Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media.
0:35.1	Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Haley Gray is a credentialed victim advocate and podcast researcher, writer, and producer, whose extensive career in podcasting
1:14.6	has seen many phases. Over the last nine years, she has lent her skills to numerous well-known
1:21.4	true crime podcasts with an ever-growing intent to make the true crime podcasting space a more ethical and equitable one.
1:30.9	In this very candid conversation, Haley shares about her own journey, her growing awareness,
1:36.2	as well as innumerable tips and takeaways for victims and those seeking to make a difference
1:42.4	for victims.
1:48.8	The Broken Cycle Media team is incredibly appreciative of Haley's work,
1:53.0	mission, and all that she does to support the victim community.
2:00.7	I'm Haley Gray. I am a credentialed victim advocate, as well as a podcast, researcher,
2:03.9	writer, and producer. Today, I work for multiple podcasts. I also work directly with families
2:11.5	who have missing or murdered loved ones. I help them get coverage, whether through podcasts or regular media, and then I help
2:21.0	them come up with advocacy plans to help with their case. I have a training program where I teach
2:29.2	people how to research. I also have a program for families so that they can learn how to advocate for their
2:37.7	loved ones case as well. I've been working in this field for nine years now. I started with my own
2:44.5	podcast way back in the day before podcasting was even really popular. If my family had to describe me, they would describe me as helpful, caring,
2:59.2	maybe a little sensitive and also funny.
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