Lightbulbs | Dangerous Memories Ep 6
The Walkers: The real Salt Path | Tortoise Investigates
The Observer
4.6 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
After years of failed attempts, an expert flies over from America to help guide the parents on how to get their children back. But getting them home is not the end of the journey, for anyone caught up in Anne’s web.
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Reporter: Grace Hughes-Hallett
Producer: Gary Marshall
Additional reporting and production: Imogen Harper
Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella
Theme music: Far Gone (Don’t Leave) by Pictish Trail
Podcast artwork: Lola Williams
Commissioning editor: Basia Cummings
Executive producer: Ceri Thomas
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| 1:41.3 | Thank you. print and you can find out more. And then somebody told me about this man called me about this man called Steve Hassan. |
| 1:47.0 | In almost every direction I've turned in this investigation, there's one term I keep brushing up against. |
| 2:00.0 | Cult. |
| 2:02.0 | When I'm at my laptop, looking back over interview transcripts with experts, |
| 2:06.9 | investigators and other former clients of Anne's, it's everywhere. |
| 2:12.7 | And by the time Huey's mum Sarah picked up the phone to Dr. Stephen Hassan. It was on her mind too. |
| 2:19.9 | Friends and family had been scouring the internet for answers. They were looking for someone |
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