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Something Was Wrong

S10 E8: [Olivia] Was It All a Lie?

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media | Wondery

True Crime, Education, Society & Culture

4.124.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week survivor Olivia shares her story.

When Olivia met Janet, she felt she had met a second mother type figure. Janet made Olivia feel instantly understood, seen, and accepted but after over three years of this unique friendship, Olivia’s entire world fell apart when she discovered that Janet was entangled in a twisted and complicated dark web of lies.

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violence, suicide, and murder.

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0:23.7

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0:27.6

the views of myself or audio chuck.

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0:33.4

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1:03.4

My name is Olivia.

1:11.5

I am 27 years old and I am from the Midwest.

1:16.9

I work as a victim's advocate for an abuse and rape crisis center.

1:22.8

So when I began my job at the grocery store, I was 19 and I was kind of freshly out of

1:31.2

high school and I wasn't really sure what direction I wanted to go in yet.

1:36.3

So I was just working a lot of different jobs at the time.

1:39.7

The grocery store was one of them.

1:42.0

It was in my hometown and most of the people I worked with were much older than me.

1:48.2

Specifically in the department I worked in, it was a group of older women and most of

1:53.1

them were kind of producing a negative environment and I think I kind of fed off of that because

1:59.7

I was a really impressionable 19 year old and the workplace environment I think was just

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