51. Failure to protect: The children left behind by the Witness Protection program
All The Wiser
Kimi Culp
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jackee Taylor was put into the Federal Witness Protection program as a 7-year-old girl after her father, Clarence Crouch, a convicted killer and infamous member of the Hells Angels, turned and became a government informant. Jackee and her family have now been in Witness protection for nearly 40 years, but after a life full of hardship and struggle, she had enough and went public with her story - exposing the major flaws of the program and pushing for fundamental change.
In this episode you'll hear:
- What it's like being coached into living a lie.
- How Jackee learns of her father’s secret.
- The struggles that come with a missing identity.
- Why the Witness Protection Program is fundamentally flawed.
- Jackee’s life mission to be the voice for others struggling.
Episode benefitting Project Healing Waters.
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| 1:05.3 | That was Jackie Taylor talking about the very real adult consequences of being put into the federal witness protection program |
| 1:13.8 | is a seven-year-old girl. Jackie's father was Clarence Crouch, a convicted killer, an infamous member of the Hells Angels, |
| 1:23.8 | who turned and became a government informant. Jackie and her family have now been in witness protection for nearly 40 years. |
| 1:33.0 | But in 2009, she had had enough. |
| 1:35.8 | She created a hit podcast about her life called Relative Unknown |
| 1:40.7 | and hopes of inspiring fundamental change to the witness protection program. |
| 1:46.6 | I don't want to get famous. I just want to live in Billings, Montana, anonymously and lead my |
| 1:50.6 | own life here. I just want to make some changes so that we can take care of these people that |
| 1:55.9 | have nobody else to look out for them. |
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