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Nobody Should Believe Me

Introducing: Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah

Nobody Should Believe Me

True Story Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Deep Cover is a true crime podcast about people who lead double lives, from our friends at Pushkin Industries. The new season, The Truth About Sarah, reveals a story of stolen valor and misplaced heroism. Sarah Cavanaugh was many things to the people who knew her: a decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a young woman fighting cancer. Sarah was everything people wanted her to be—until she wasn’t. Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah. In Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Halpern and acclaimed investigative journalist Jess McHugh unravel an epic six-year deception that upended the lives of countless people. In this episode, a mysterious handwritten letter from Sarah asks: What do you think of my crime? *** Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-cover/id1520478402 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6FJkQKT7bl2RvjMZUyDceF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

True Story Media.

0:09.5

Hello, it's Andrea. We are two days away from our season six launch, but while you are

0:16.8

waiting, there is a podcast that I wanted to share with you from our friends over at Pushkin

0:21.5

Industries that I know you will love. Deep Cover has so many of the same themes that we talk about

0:27.5

here on Nobody Should Believe Me. Deception, complex relationships, weaponized empathy. Sound familiar?

0:34.1

Season 6 of Deep Cover is the story of Sarah Kavanaugh. Sarah was many things to the people who knew her,

0:40.4

a decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a young woman fighting cancer. She was everything

0:46.3

people wanted her to be, until she wasn't. Because it turns out, no one actually knew

0:51.7

the real Sarah. On Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Halprin, and acclaimed

0:58.2

investigative journalist Jess McHugh unravel an epic six-year deception that upended the lives

1:04.2

of countless people. Speaking with all of the story's major characters, including Sarah herself,

1:09.6

Jake and Jess tell a sprawling tale that has,

1:12.1

until now, been shrouded in mystery. Now, it's probably obvious from that description why

1:16.9

this show is up my alley, but I have to tell you the reporting and storytelling is so well done

1:21.3

on this show, and I just could not stop listening. So today, we are sharing the first episode

1:26.0

of the series, which begins with a mysterious handwritten letter in which Sarah asks,

1:31.3

What do you think of my crying?

1:33.3

So if you like what you're here today, go and find deep cover The Truth About Sarah wherever you get your podcast, and of course you can find it at a link in our show notes.

1:41.3

I made you think you a dream. My name is Caden Sinclair.

1:48.5

Some people call us American royalty.

1:50.9

We were liars.

1:51.8

A new series on Prime Video.

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