"A secret that she couldn't tell"

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The second chapter of “Canary: The Washington Post Investigates,” a new seven-part podcast that follows the intertwining stories of two women who came together after one of them publicly shared her story of sexual assault.

Lauren Clark is a hair stylist in D.C. When a stranger sexually assaulted her in 2013, it sparked a years-long courtroom saga and a campaign for justice. Her story started The Post’s Amy Brittain on a reporting journey that has lasted for nearly three years — one that played out in the middle of a larger cultural reckoning.

When Carole Griffin, a baker in Birmingham, Ala., read The Post’s story about Clark in 2019, it prompted her to reveal an unlikely connection.

In an email to The Post, Griffin said that she had information pertinent to that story. And later, she alleged that a prominent figure in the D.C. criminal justice system had committed a sexual assault decades earlier.

The Post is out now with all the episodes of its first long-form investigative podcast series, called “Canary: The Washington Post Investigates.”

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of The Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:04.3	I'm Martine Powers.
0:06.3	It's Saturday, October 3rd.
0:08.8	Today, we're bringing you part two of Canary, a new investigative podcast series from The
0:15.8	Washington Post.
0:17.4	Part one of the series aired on Thursday's episode of Post Reports.
0:20.9	If you missed that, you're going to want to go back and listen to that one first.
0:24.6	A warning to listeners.
0:27.7	This episode contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.
0:36.0	I'm Amy Britton and this is Canary, an investigative podcast from The Washington Post.
0:57.2	Chapter two.
0:58.2	A secret that she couldn't tell.
1:03.6	It's not unusual to get tips or emails after publishing a story.
1:07.7	I've gotten a lot of these tips after writing about sexual misconduct and I usually follow
1:12.6	up.
1:14.0	When Carol Griffin first reached out to me, she said she had information implicating someone
1:20.8	named in the story about Lauren Clark.
1:23.3	The young woman who was assaulted and then handed out flyers that identified her attacker.
1:30.7	I kept rereading Carol's email and wondering who is this woman?
1:37.4	I did some quick googling and I saw that a woman named Carol Griffin owned a bakery in
1:41.6	Alabama.
1:42.6	But if that was the same Carol Griffin who emailed me, how could she possibly be connected
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