#427: Stolen Youth - Interview with Director Zach Heinzerling | Part 3
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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We are thrilled that Zach Heinzerling, director of the amazing Hulu docuseries “Stolen Youth” joined us to talk about his experience capturing the incredible story of Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, Dan Levin, Santos, Yalitza, and Felicia Rosario, all victims of Larry Ray who coercively controlled them, abused and tortured them for years.
Zach tells us why he wanted to make the docs-series, and what he learned from the survivors about how it could happen — how these bright, young, vibrant people could come under the control of this master manipulator. Zach also shares some things he was unable to include in the docuseries. Don’t miss it.
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| 0:07.3 | So Larry, just to remind our viewers is the leader of this, I don't know if sex cult is the right term or how do you characterize what it was? |
| 0:14.9 | I wouldn't call it a sex cult. |
| 0:18.4 | It was more |
| 0:20.4 | a web of abuse |
| 0:22.7 | where he |
| 0:24.5 | he took one person at a time and just like slowly grew his influence and |
| 0:30.8 | slowly added more and more people |
| 0:33.5 | because there wasn't one thing that he |
| 0:36.6 | Propeached that attracted us to |
| 0:40.1 | To him it was personal relationships that we all had I met him as the father of my of my brother's girlfriend |
| 0:49.0 | so |
| 0:50.2 | It was it was individual relationships and that that became extremely abusive |
| 0:58.4 | Hey everybody and welcome to Real Crime Profile. I'm Laura Richards criminal behavior analyst former New Scotland Yard founder of Paladin National Stalking |
| 1:06.2 | Advocacy Service and host of the podcast crime analyst and with me today is |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, I'm Jim Clemente retired FBI profile a former New York City prosecutor and right producer of criminal minds |
| 1:17.3 | And I'm Lisa Zambetti. I'm an artios nominated casting director cast director for CBS's criminal minds |
| 1:22.0 | And I've cast fictional cult leaders and survivors of mind control and coercive control |
| 1:26.6 | But nothing prepared me for the real stories of the real victims in the stunning Hulu three-part docu series stolen youth |
| 1:34.3 | Which we've been breaking down for you, but today we are thrilled to have a very special guest with us |
| 1:41.4 | Hi, I'm Zach kind of a director of stolen youth |
| 1:45.6 | Thanks for having me today welcome aboard. Yes, welcome and congratulations on my goodness |
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