S13 Ep10: [Whitney] CODE PINK

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

True Crime, Documentary, Education, Society & Culture

4.1 • 24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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*Content Warning: Today’s episode discusses kidnapping, pseudocyesis, miscarriage and psychological violence. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC offers services for families, victims, professionals, schools, law enforcement, private industry, and communities to help prevent abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children and to mitigate and combat exploitation. www.missingkids.org

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KOCO 5 News, 2019, video archives (1990): https://cs-cz.facebook.com/koco5/videos/294426101245444/

KOCO 5 News, Jan. 2019, video archives (1990):

Baby snatched from Oklahoma City hospital, now adult, speaks out for first time

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, by Tony Orlando and Dawn, sample via youtube: https://youtu.be/PxG9XFqHSFw (Album: Tuneweaving, 1973)

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0:00.0	Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences. Episodes discuss topics that can be upsetting,
0:06.2	such as emotional physical and sexual violence, suicide, and murder. If you're in need of support,
0:12.4	please visit somethingwaswrong.com slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can
0:18.4	help. I'm not a therapist or a doctor.
0:24.1	Most names have been changed for anonymity purposes.
0:29.9	Opinions expressed by guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent my views.
0:34.1	Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes.
0:35.8	Thank you so much for listening.
0:56.0	You think you know me, you don't know me well. episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. You don't know anybody You don't know anybody
1:00.0	Until you talk to someone Someone.
1:19.7	My name is Whitney D. Herrera.
1:22.7	I'm 32 years old and I live in Kansas.
1:29.3	My parents met in the late 1980s at a car show in Nebraska. My mom, her name is Teresa, was living in Kansas City, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City called Olathe, and she'd gone to a car show with her dad.
1:40.3	Her dad, my maternal grandpa, liked to fix up hot rods and show them off at car shows.
1:46.0	My biological father, his name is Willie, was living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1:51.6	And he'd also gone to the same car show with his dad in Nebraska because he and his dad,
1:57.2	my paternal grandpa, like to fix up hot rods together and show them at car shops. So that's how
2:02.6	they met. And then my parents had a long distance relationship for a while because Kansas City and
2:09.2	Oklahoma City are about 300 miles apart or about a five-hour drive. In early 1989, they were actually
2:16.3	married in a very classy Las Vegas ceremony.
2:21.1	And then after they were married, my mom moved to Oklahoma City, where my dad owned a home and
2:25.7	moved in with him.
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