303: What if your brother became a monster?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in a broken home with a loving mother, a woman faces disturbing and routine abuse from her brother, but after it escalates, and the unthinkable happens, the terror never ends.
Today's episode featured Amy Chesler. To find out more about her and her story, you can find her book on Working for Justice on Amazon. Amy also has her own podcast, What Came Next, which chronicles in greater depth her experiences with the criminal justice system and the media, as well as other firsthand accounts from survivors and advocates throughout history. You can also find her on Instagram @amybchesler, and on her website amybchesler.com.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual assault of a minor, domestic abuse and violence, graphic bodily injury, alcohol and drug abuse, murder, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. A couple announcements before today's episode. |
| 0:17.0 | First, this will be the last new episode of 2023. |
| 0:22.0 | As next week we begin our annual three-week |
| 0:24.5 | winter holiday rebroadcast series with some of our best stories from a few years |
| 0:28.6 | ago. But this week today's new episode features Amy Chesler whose story has been shared in the true crime community |
| 0:34.6 | on other platforms, but who hasn't spoken to many of the details that continue to haunt her today. |
| 0:40.0 | So we invited Amy on the show to hear her full life story, including her continued paths through trauma and healing. |
| 0:46.6 | In other show announcements, I want to give a shout out to one of our incredible team members, Maya Samuel Smith. |
| 0:52.4 | Maya has been creating amazing new designs and illustrations for the show |
| 0:56.4 | and you can see her work on the This is Actually Happening store |
| 0:59.4 | on posters, postcards, and t-shirts. |
| 1:01.7 | So go check out her work on the store at this is |
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| 1:08.6 | show's ongoing costs. If you want to help out in other ways you can also become an ongoing patron at patreon.com |
| 1:16.0 | happening. |
| 1:17.0 | Thank you all again for your deep listening and continued support. |
| 1:20.7 | Wishing you all a wonderful holiday and New Year's and we'll be back with fresh new stories on January 16th |
| 1:26.8 | But now we bring you our last new episode of 2023. What if your brother became a monster? |
| 1:35.5 | I called Jesse back, and I'm like, hey, I'm on my way home, |
| 1:39.4 | and he's like, just don't go home. |
| 1:42.4 | And I was like, what? And he's like, don't go home and I was like what and he's like don't go home what what why he |
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