4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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 to Deep Cover every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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0:00.0 | Hey listeners, today we've got a preview of the new season of Deep Cover, a true crime |
0:06.2 | podcast about people who lead double lives from our friends at Pushkin Industries. |
0:12.5 | Lies are fragile things, with small ones tending to flourish and bigger ones wilting under their |
0:18.6 | own weight, except in the case of Sarah Kavanaugh. |
0:22.6 | The bigger her lives grew, the more real they became. |
0:26.8 | Sarah was many things to the people who knew her. |
0:29.6 | A decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a young woman fighting cancer. |
0:36.2 | She was everything people wanted her to be until she wasn't. |
0:40.7 | Turns out, no one knew the real Sarah. |
0:43.9 | On deep cover, the truth about Sarah. |
0:47.1 | Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jake Halpern and acclaimed investigative journalist Jess McHugh |
0:53.8 | unravel an epic six-year deception that |
0:57.3 | upended the lives of countless people, speaking with all of the story's major characters, |
1:03.3 | including Sarah herself. Jake and Jess tell a sprawling tale that has to this day been shrouded in mystery. |
1:12.0 | Here's a preview. |
1:13.5 | In a mysterious handwritten letter, Sarah asks, what do you think of my crime? |
1:19.6 | If you like what you hear, find deep cover, the truth about Sarah wherever you get your podcasts. |
1:35.3 | Thank you. truth about Sarah wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm just recording here because I'm in the car outside the English department, |
1:43.9 | and I just got this letter, |
1:46.1 | which was sent to me by Sarah Kavanaugh. |
1:51.3 | Okay, October 12, 2024, 24. |
1:56.4 | Dear Jake, thank you for sending me the articles and book that you've written. |
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