Episode 59: Nancy Rommelmann

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4.2 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Nancy Rommelmann is a journalist and the author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Magazine, and the LA Weekly, among other publications. For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/59

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.0	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.0	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a
0:40.9	journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an ordinary
0:46.9	person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested
0:53.4	in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
0:56.2	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought
0:59.5	and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:04.1	I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:09.3	At about 120 a.m. on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith did what is possibly the most
1:19.3	radical thing a woman in America could do. She drove her two young children, her daughter, Trinity,
1:27.1	who was seven, and her son Eldon, who was four, to the Selwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and threw them over the side.
1:36.3	The two children fell 90 feet from the bridge into the Willamette River.
1:42.3	Trinity was rescued by people who lived along the river
1:45.8	and heard her splash, but Eldon drowned and his body was found later. My guest for this episode
1:52.4	did another radical thing. She spent several years of her life finding out why. This is my
2:00.8	interview with Nancy Rommelman.
2:09.3	So I'm sitting with Nancy Rommelman, a writer in Portland, Oregon,
2:13.7	who I had found out about from a mutual friend a while ago,
2:17.5	and then I found out that she had written or was writing this book about an amazing,
2:23.2	terribly troubling murder case in Portland not too long ago.
2:28.4	And so I am here with her to talk about it.
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