Ch. 10 - The Ultimate Form of Gaslighting

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

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Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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As we approach the end of our reporting, Tessa revisits Gina Demas, the whistleblower, to see where the events of our story have left her, and to give her an update on our investigation. Will she get any vindication? More information on Dana Gold and the Government Accountability Project: https://whistleblower.org/ https://whistleblower.org/our-team/dana-gold/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Story Mechanics and VPM
0:02.0	I want to go back to a moment early in my reporting.
0:08.0	It's late 2018.
0:10.0	Reporter Sophie Behrman and I are on the road for some of our first interviews.
0:14.8	At this point, we think we're telling the story of a hero who helped prove the innocence
0:19.8	of 13 men, Mary Jane Burton.
0:23.7	Over dinner one night, Sophie and I start talking about whether we should put any stock in the allegations
0:28.6	raised by Gina Demas, the whistleblower.
0:31.4	I mean, it seems no one else has and then Sophie says
0:35.8	something that we really haven't considered an idea that feels so out of left
0:41.6	field I'm worried we might forget it. I pull out my phone and
0:45.3	ask Sophie to say it again, catching her with a mouth full of wasabi peas.
0:49.7	Maybe Gina is our hero as the long unsung person who's actually been looking out for these people
0:58.0	from the beginning.
0:59.0	So true.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	Great.
1:02.0	If she's not that, she's crazy, it's also what you said.
1:04.0	Exactly. She is, we're back to.
1:06.0	Which, yeah, but if she's not bad shit crazy.
1:09.0	This is good, yeah.
1:10.0	It's the story about like this whistleblower who got shunted to the side and this and all the
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