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Death of an Artist

Listen Now — Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah

Death of an Artist

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Arts, True Crime

4.6877 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The new season of Deep Cover, a podcast about people who lead double lives, 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. Not her comrades. Not her wife. No one. 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. Here’s a preview of episode 1. A mysterious letter arrives from Sarah. In it, she asks: What do you think of my crime? Listen to new episodes of Deep Cover on Mondays, available wherever you get your podcasts.

Pushkin+ subscribers can hear more ad-free episodes from this season of Deep Cover, before they’re released to the public, right now. Learn more on the Deep Cover show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:08.9

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:15.4

Hey, this is Jake Halpern.

0:18.2

I'm dropping into your feed today to bring you a preview of a podcast that I think you might like.

0:24.3

It's called Deep Cover, The Truth About Sarah. It's all about a woman named Sarah Kavanaugh.

0:31.0

Sarah was many things, a decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a young woman fighting cancer. She was stoic, humble, tough.

0:41.9

In short, she was a hero. Sarah was everything people wanted her to be until she wasn't.

0:49.2

Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah, not her comrades, not her wife, no one. To this day, much of

0:56.7

this story is shrouded in mystery. There was never a trial and most of the people involved,

1:01.9

including victims and investigators, have never spoken publicly in any depth.

1:07.8

Along with my co-host, Jess McHugh, we interviewed over 20 people, including Sarah herself,

1:14.3

to tell this sprawling tale. I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, find Deep Cover the truth about

1:22.0

Sarah wherever you listen to your podcasts. Pushkin Plus subscribers can hear more ad-free episodes from this season

1:29.3

of Deep Cover before the release to the public by signing up for Pushkin Plus.

1:35.2

Sign up on the Deep Cover show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm.fm slash plus.

1:48.2

Hey, I am just recording here because I'm in the car outside the English department

1:51.6

and I just got this letter

1:53.0

which was sent to me by Sarah Kavanaugh.

1:59.3

Okay, October 12th,

2:02.6

204.

2:03.6

Dear Jake, thank you for sending me the articles and book that you've written.

2:08.6

You have a distinct style when posing questions that really makes one think about the messages between the lines.

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