From Victim to Suspect
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a local restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more like a frat house than a quaint roadside sandwich spot. And the crude behavior kept escalating – until one day she says her boss went too far and she turned to the local police for help. What happened next would put a detective on the hot seat and lead to a legal battle that would drag on for years. The United States Supreme Court would even get involved.
Reveal reporter Rachel de Leon spent years taking a close look at cases across the country in which people reported sexual assaults to police, only to find themselves investigated. In this hour, we explore one case and hear how police interrogated an alleged perpetrator, an alleged victim and each other.
De Leon’s investigation is also the subject of a forthcoming documentary, “Victim/Suspect,” which debuts May 23 on Netflix.
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| 1:13.3 | I'm Al Letson. |
| 1:15.8 | It's 2017. |
| 1:18.0 | Ali Archer is in her early 20s, and she's working at No Dines Restaurant. |
| 1:22.7 | Everybody seemed very relaxed, and everybody was pretty easy to get along with. |
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| 1:29.3 | No Dines is in a town called Canton, Connecticut, just outside of Hartford. |
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