S1 | E3 Sleuths

Verified

Scripps

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Maria and her best friend Miriam find more survivors from all over the world. The women take comfort in one another. They decide they can't go it alone, though, and reach out to some scrappy Italian reporters for help. Need help? You're not alone. Confidential help is available for free. National Sexual Assault Hotline Call 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE) - 24 hours everyday. Support the show: https://www.verifiedpod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Witness stocks from Stitcher.
0:05.0	from Stitcher.
0:07.0	A node to our listeners before we get started. This story contains descriptions of
0:15.3	assault and sexual violence and the show serialized, so if you haven't heard
0:20.4	the previous episodes, go back and listen.
0:23.2	It's like there was a little me locked inside, feeling so bad about everything.
0:33.0	A little me was desperate,
0:36.0	but the big me couldn't just forget and keep going with my life because if that person really did something he had to be punished for what he did. I'm Natasha del Toro and this is verified.
1:18.0	To catch you up after their devastating trip to Italy, Maria and Miriam returned home to Portugal and got to work.
1:29.0	They spent weeks investigating Leonardo, googling him and checking out his whole online presence.
1:37.0	They were trying to figure out what happened to them in his apartment in Padua.
1:41.9	And then, finally, buried in all of his positive couch-surfing reviews, Miriam
1:47.6	found this.
1:49.6	I remember going to his profile and just seeing that somebody left a very bad review and I immediately
1:58.3	called or messaged Maria.
2:00.3	I was like, oh my God, you have to go to his profile, look at what is happening.
2:04.0	I go there and I read and a girl was telling a story that happened to her and her friends
2:12.0	and it was identical to ours.
2:15.0	The young woman who wrote the bad review was warning people to stay away from
2:20.0	Leonardo that he had drugged her and her friends.
2:23.6	This review proved what Maria and Miriam already knew deep down.
2:28.5	Leonardo did this to them.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scripps, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scripps and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.