Episode 6: The Defendant

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As the walls close in, Sarah finds herself alone—abandoned by friends, facing federal charges, and scrambling for a defense. She hires a lawyer, a fellow veteran, to make her case; but the evidence is overwhelming. In our series finale, Jake and Jess return to Sarah for a long, final conversation—seeking answers to the question that still haunts everyone: Why did she do it?

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:08.7	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:13.6	Hey, this is Jake. You're about to listen to episode six, our final episode.
0:19.7	And just a reminder, this is a six-part series. So if you haven't
0:24.1	heard the earlier episodes, I encourage you go back and listen before you hear this one. You'll get a
0:30.8	lot more out of it. Also, just so you know, you can hear more ad-free episodes from this season
0:36.6	of Deep Cover before they're released to the public by signing up for Pushkin Plus.
0:42.1	You'll also get bonus episodes, full audiobooks, and binges from your favorite Pushkin hosts and authors.
0:49.3	Find Pushkin Plus on the Deep Cover show page on Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm.fm.
0:57.7	Okay, let's get into it.
1:02.2	Previously, on DeepCover.
1:05.2	I remember sitting on her couch and, like, me, like, telling her, asking her,
1:13.4	is this real, is this real, is this real, is this real, is this real?
1:16.9	You know, and she was like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:22.8	What immediately occurred in me was that as soon as I told her,
1:27.4	got cancer, even though she was telling me it was okay, in her back of her mind, she was thinking,
1:29.1	I can take advantage of this. Lain in bed in the dark, kind of like pillow talk. I asked her
1:34.9	one more time, do you have cancer? When you live two separate lives for so long, it feels normal, right?
1:45.8	I had to be someone else in front of other people when I was a child, and that was normal.
1:56.9	As the feds built their case against Sarah, they collected all kinds of evidence, texts, emails, forged paperwork, witness interviews, and even a country ballad. I kid you not.
2:12.8	The sun was warm and didn't burn.
2:21.2	Boots on the ground covered in Afghander.
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