287: What if you couldn’t explain his heinous act?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Growing up with undiagnosed autism and confronting her mother’s death at a young age, a woman struggles to understand herself and her family, but when her father commits an incomprehensible act, she is left tragically bewildered.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, death, murder, suicide, animal cruelty, animal death, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Three years ago, a man called Rob Moore walked into our newsroom. |
| 0:05.0 | I am in desperate need of being able to tell my story. |
| 0:08.0 | You wanted to set the record straight on a story that's ruined him. |
| 0:11.0 | What unraveled is a story about truth, spies and the stories we tell ourselves. |
| 0:16.0 | About hidden power in a corrupt and dangerous world. |
| 0:20.0 | Listen today, search for Into the Dirt, wherever you get your podcasts |
| 0:24.0 | and follow the feed to find out more. |
| 0:31.0 | Well done. |
| 0:33.0 | You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape |
| 0:40.0 | and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, |
| 0:51.0 | Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter. |
| 0:54.0 | And that's just a few. |
| 0:56.0 | We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. |
| 0:59.0 | It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes. |
| 1:05.0 | So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts. |
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| 1:14.0 | or by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. |
| 1:19.0 | From Wondery and Campside Media comes season three of the Hit Podcast Suspect. |
| 1:30.0 | This is a story of two victims. |
| 1:32.0 | One murdered in cold blood, one in prison for a crime he did not commit. |
| 1:37.0 | Listen to Suspect, five shots in the dark, wherever you get your podcasts, |
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