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Emelia's Thing

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NHPR

True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.4803 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A young police officer unexpectedly finds herself back in New Hampshire, and she’s not the same person she was when she left. Something happened to her – to all of us. But for Officer Emelia Campbell, this thing still lives in her brain and her body. This is her story of survival.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Jason Moon with the document team. As you know, we usually publish multi-part

0:05.3

documentary podcast series, like our most recent one, the Youth Development Center.

0:10.6

And today we have something a little different for you. It's a story told in a single episode.

0:15.6

It's by my partner on the document team, Lauren Chulgin. You know her from our series,

0:20.2

The 13th Step, which was a Pulitzer

0:22.1

Prize finalist. Well, a few months ago, Lauren stumbled on to a really special, really timely story.

0:30.6

And really, I don't want to give anything else away, so I'm just going to leave it at that.

0:35.4

So here it is. From the document team at New Hampshire Public Radio,

0:39.8

Amelia's Thing.

0:43.6

These are my moo cow friends.

0:45.6

I say hi to him every day.

0:47.6

I know.

0:48.6

I look cute.

0:49.5

And there's like two horses over here.

0:52.0

I'm sitting in the front seat of Officer Amelia Campbell's police cruiser.

0:56.2

We're on a tour of her typical patrol route in Northumberland, New Hampshire.

1:00.2

She showed me her preferred speed trap spots, the scene of a hit and run from last week.

1:05.5

But this, a farm, this is the hotspot.

1:09.5

Suddenly, two horses jump up on their hind legs and start kind of swatting at each other.

1:14.0

Oh, hey, yo.

1:15.6

Break it up, guys.

1:17.0

Don't make me come over there.

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