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REAL

Going Under: The Deaths of Marcus, Wesley & Brittany

REAL

Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8725 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2011, three student's from the North Port High School in Florida, died in separate incidents over the space of 9 weeks. Marcus Freeman, Wesley McKinley and Brittany Palumbo were all bright, young and loved students, who loss impacted the whole community. As well as being students at the same school, they also had another thing in common: they'd all been hypnotised by their school principle, George Kenney. Investigators had a complex case in front of them - did the hypnosis they receive have anything to do with their deaths? This is REAL. If you'd like to support the show, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/c/REALtruecrimepodcast If you need support, please see the links below to organisations that can help: https://www.mind.org.uk/ - Mental health & Identity support https://www.spuk.org.uk/ - Suicide Prevention UK https://www.samaritans.org/ - The Samaritans https://988lifeline.org/ - Suicide Prevention USA https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/ - Suicide Prevention Australia https://www.pieta.ie/ - Suicide Prevention Ireland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences.

0:05.5

Please use discretion.

0:07.5

This episode contains descriptions of suicide.

0:11.1

Please take extra care whilst listening.

0:15.3

A lot of the cases I cover on this podcast seem truly incomprehensible. In fact, most of them do.

0:24.9

The actions of people, the ways in which lives are taken, how people are manipulated and abused.

0:33.0

Well, after three and a half years of producing this show, I still find myself shocked and saddened on a daily basis.

0:40.9

But when I came across this case in a small, obscure corner of the internet, I was certain this had to be fiction.

0:51.6

But as you'll know by now, if it's on this show, then it's very, very real.

0:58.3

I'm Naomi Channel and this is real.

1:01.1

I'm you know,

1:11.6

I'm

1:12.6

going to

1:14.6

you

1:15.6

I'm

1:16.6

I'm

1:18.6

I'm In 2001, George Kenny became the principal of a high school in Florida called Northport High School.

1:48.0

Before working in education, George had been a musician and in the 1980s, he'd been a band director at another high school called Lemon Bay.

1:58.9

He'd worked his way up to principal position and he was well liked and

2:03.1

respected by his students, their parents and his staff. But George had an unusual pastime. He liked to

2:12.2

practice hypnotherapy. He had trained at the Omni Hypnosis Training Centre in Florida and he was

2:20.1

enrolled in a programme that says it includes over 100 hours of training. Part of the teacher's

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