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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Jennings is Back with the second season of Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings.

In this episode Kelly dives deep into the horrible subject of child abuse by covering the case of Dave Pelzer.

This unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."
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0:00.0	Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,
0:11.7	whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?
0:30.9	I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.
0:34.4	Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.
0:50.4	Music unspeakable. Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.
0:54.0	If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl.
0:56.6	Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all. Kelly Jennings here.
1:01.4	Guess what? Guess what? Season two. You're here. You've made it. I've made it. I'm super excited about this season because now I got a little, I got a little bit of balance underneath me I got some
1:12.6	air under my wings I kind of getting into a groove of things and I'm figuring out what I want and what
1:16.3	I don't want and what I want is to give you some awesome podcasting that's the goal so I've been working
1:23.4	my tail off I don't even know about anything back. Y'all might be just flat at this point.
1:27.6	I've been working so hard. But this episode, right chan, is going to make you pissy. You're going to
1:35.3	get angry with me, I bet. I ain't going to lie to you. I'm going to preface by telling you,
1:39.4	this will probably be a series because I got a lot to say and I got a little bit of attitude on me.
1:45.4	Okay?
1:46.1	So this is one of those episodes where, you know, someone says, what would you ever do if someone
1:53.2	hurt your kid?
1:54.8	And if you're anything like me, your answer is, well, fuck around and find out because that's
2:00.2	about how this mama feels.
2:01.7	So when I learned this story, I took it personal.
2:06.3	It made me so damn angry.
2:08.1	I took it personal, okay?
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