Listen Now — Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 45 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.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:08.8	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:14.0	For a brief moment in the year 2000, the city of Phoenix was on fire.
0:19.3	You could see a glow in the sky.
0:21.3	An arsonist was on the loose.
0:22.9	How many more ways can we fuck this thing up?
0:24.8	The culprit will shock you.
0:26.6	I had several dreams about that house behind me.
0:29.3	Your dreams about setting that on fire.
0:32.0	One night I did.
0:33.3	From novel and Sony Music Entertainment,
0:36.0	listen to The Ar Arsenist Next Door.
0:38.3	Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to binge all episodes now or listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.4	Hey, this is Jake Halburn.
0:48.2	I'm dropping into your feed today to bring you a preview of a podcast that I think you might like.
0:55.4	It's called Deep Cover,
1:02.4	The Truth About Sarah. It's all about a woman named Sarah Kavanaugh. Sarah was many things,
1:09.9	a decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a young woman fighting cancer. She was stoic,
1:13.6	humble, tough. In short, she was a hero.
1:21.7	Sarah was everything people wanted her to be until she wasn't. Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah,
1:29.8	not her comrades, not her wife, no one. To this day, much of the story is shrouded in mystery. There was never a trial, and most of the people involved, including victims and investigators, have never
1:34.9	spoken publicly in any depth. Along with my co-host, Jess McHugh, we interviewed over 20 people,
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