Claire Obscure

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It starts with a murder and ends with new questions. In between there’s Claire’s story. That’s not her real name. It’s neither her old name, nor her new name. It’s the name she took to tell this story.

Warning: this episode contains graphic and disturbing content.

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0:00.0	Welcome to strangers.
0:05.0	From KCW and Radiotopia.
0:08.0	I'm Leah Tau.
0:10.0	And the very first time I met Claire, she immediately pulled out a binder.
0:16.0	I'm a really visual person, so if I'm going to talk to you about my mom and my dad, I wanted to show you pictures.
0:22.8	So that's my mom, and that's her wedding day. You can tell she was a total hippie. I think her
0:29.3	dress is actually a see-through. It's kind of uncomfortable to look at, actually. And that's my dad.
0:36.8	The two of them together.
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:39.5	Look how angry he looks.
0:40.9	My mom looks so sweet.
0:42.8	How old were you when she died?
0:44.9	I was almost three.
0:47.3	My mom was killed, but I didn't ever know that as a child.
0:51.4	My whole childhood, I was told that she died in a car accident.
0:54.5	Do you have any memories of her?
0:57.0	No. I wish.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	And how did you get these photos?
1:04.0	Well, some of them are from my mother's family after I found them.
1:09.0	And some of them I took with me when I ran away from home.
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