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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Catching Munchausen By Proxy

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kirk Honda interviews Det. Mike Weber about his crime novel “The Mother Next Door”, in which he writes about catching parent perpetrators with munchausen by proxy.

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July 11, 2025

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0:00.0

Hey, Deserving listeners, we have a very special guest with us today, Mike Weber, who is a very

0:06.2

interesting individual. I received a book that was written by Mike Weber and Andrea Dunlop called

0:14.2

The Mother Next Door. It's about Munchaus by proxy. And I get requests of these sorts with a lot of books that are being released. But I have

0:24.4

to say that this book, I genuinely want to read every single word because I started reading it

0:30.0

and I was very much hooked. And I can't wait to finish it and give it to my wife. So you got

0:36.1

to read this book. Again, the book's called The Mother Next Door, Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber. So welcome to the podcast, Mike Weber.

0:43.7

Thank you for having me.

0:44.8

So I've only read some of the book. So I don't know the whole thing. But I do know enough to know a bit about your story, which is interesting, in that you are not an author by trade.

0:57.3

You're a law enforcement officer.

0:58.9

Is that correct?

0:59.7

That's correct.

1:00.4

Recently retired.

1:01.7

And the way you got into writing this book with Andrea Dunlop, who is an author, I find you

1:08.8

be interesting.

1:09.1

So let's start from the beginning. What

1:11.4

attracted you to working in law enforcement? Oh, gosh. Interesting story. I was 19 and immature,

1:18.8

and I was, you know, working at Larry's shoes and boots being a stocker and an older guy

1:26.9

who worked there, who was 23 and really cool, he owned

1:29.8

a Corvette, you see.

1:31.5

He came in and he's like, yeah, I'm going the police academy.

1:36.0

I knew nothing about it at the time except they gave me tickets whenever I did what I did

1:41.5

when I was younger, driving.

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