Baltimore: Unmasking Darkness with Jane Doe

Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the first part of this compelling two-episode feature, "Sister Cathy: Unmasking Darkness with Jane Doe and The Keepers' Director," we welcome two key figures who have played a important role in bringing the chilling story of Sister Cathy Cesnik's murder to the public eye.

Ryan White, the director of the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary series "The Keepers," joins us to peel back the layers on the creation and impact of the series. With a director's precision and a storyteller's grace, White takes us behind the scenes, sharing the challenges and triumphs of documenting one of the most harrowing and enigmatic true crime stories of our time.

Beside him is Jean Wehner, a woman of extraordinary courage whose testimony as Jane Doe became the cornerstone of the case against Father Joseph Maskell and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Jean's narrative is more than a survivor's tale; it's a beacon for truth and justice in the face of staggering adversity.

Together, Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins engage in a deeply revealing conversation with their guests, revealing the hidden abuses within Baltimore's religious institutions and the powerful ripple effects of "The Keepers." Listeners will hear firsthand the emotional and societal aftermath of the series, as well as Jean's personal journey from anonymity as Jane Doe to a fearless advocate and voice for survivors everywhere.

This episode is not just a recount of past events but a continued call to action, reminding us all that the pursuit for answers doesn't stop with a documentary, it starts there. Tune in for an unflinching look at the past, insights into the ongoing fight for justice, and a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the darkest of times.

Jean Wehner's book "Conversations with My Self: A Collection of Poems," referenced can be found on Amazon. Correction: The judge Jean speaks of is named Hilary Caplan.
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0:00.0	I'm Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I want everyone to meet our two special guests whose name you will already recognize,
0:36.7	Jean and Ryan.
0:38.5	First question I wanted to ask, Ryan, is what was a highlight and a lowlight of this past year since the keepers came out?
0:47.0	It's a tough question to answer but I think the two ladies on the phone line with us and all the other wonderful people that I got to meet while making it.
0:55.6	I think made the keepers for three years, I believe, maybe even a little bit more,
1:02.0	and to establish, to come in completely unknowing of people like
1:07.1	Gene and Gemma and to have left the process feeling so close with them and that we all accomplish something together that I don't
1:17.8	think any of us ever expected to have the impact and the success as far as the amount of people that watched it.
1:26.1	I don't think any of us, including myself, ever conceived that that was a possibility
1:31.6	at the beginning. So the highlight to me is definitely the relationship
1:36.0	that we all formed in making the series over so many years
1:40.2	and the impact that the series had, which we can talk about a little bit later.
1:45.0	The low light is hard for me not to forget the day that the keepers came out and being totally surprised and appalled by the way the
1:58.0	archdiocese of Baltimore came out against the keepers. I just remember that day
2:02.4	knowing that it was going up on Netflix
2:04.4	and starting to feel the impact of people out there in the world and all over the
2:09.8	world watching it and the way they were reacting to it compassionately and emotionally and then to
2:16.7	contrast that with the way the Archdiocese of Baltimore came out with this aggressive antagonistic Twitter campaign that you can go back and find if you want where they created means about Joseph Maskell's DNA test and they
2:34.0	retweeted things about how our documentary was
2:38.0	a fictional film and it's still just appalling to me that Sean Kane still has a job he was leading their PR
2:46.5	effort and the one thing is that were a corporation a true corporation that was trying to battle some sort of theories that might be
2:55.2	telling some truth of them. It's just a joke to me that a supposed church came out
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