My high school football team, I mean we all like our high school alma mater's, but I had

never experienced anything like this.

So it was really bizarre to me and then, you know, I worked at a bar part time too and

to hear all of these old guys talking about, you know, their touchdown that they made in

1842, you know, still hanging on to the glory days.

You know, I started just seeing the importance that this community held for not the sport,

but for the notoriety, I guess, that you got from being on the team.

So I mean, it just was always really weird to me.

I never understood it.

Hi, Jillian here, and this has let the women do the work, the podcast where we look at

true crime from the perspectives of the women involved.

Now, as we've mentioned thus far in the series, women are often cordoned off as a class

of victims in the true crime world.

A, because it happens, women are still disproportionately victims of violent crime.

And B, because we're still working with a flawed, sexist world out here.

Gender tropes are tempting storytelling vehicles, and we see them all the time.

So for this episode, I spoke with someone who cracked a case wide open, along with the

misogyny at the heart of the conversation around it.

Her name is Alexandria Goddard.

She's a legal consultant and crime blogger who caught wind of a horribly disturbing story

back in 2012.

She was living in California at the time when she came across a story about something that

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