A warning to listeners.

This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.

One day back in June of 2017, a young woman walked up and down a bus lane street in Washington,

DC.

She was carrying with her a stack of paper flyers that she passed out in bars and restaurants

and cafes.

But these flyers, they were unusual.

They weren't advertisements or lost-in-found posters.

Instead they had screenshots of something called a case-doc-it.

It's like a timeline of the major events of a criminal court case, and it has the

names of judges and lawyers and defendants.

This docket showed that a man pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse.

There were several photos of him, and at the top of the flyers and bright red capital

letters.

She said, this man has assaulted six women in DC.

These flyers were a warning.

The woman who handed them out, at the time, she didn't want her identity to be known.

She was a victim.

But she was a lot more than that.

And her story started me on a reporting journey that has lasted for nearly three years.

A story that has played out in the middle of a larger cultural reckoning.

This is Canary, an investigative podcast from the Washington Post.

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