S2|E1: Intake

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On Halloween of 1982, a Florida teenager named Valerie is kidnapped from her home, by her own mom. She ends up at an experimental drug rehab called Straight Incorporated. Valeries quickly realizes that at Straight, therapy is more like torture, and rehabiliation happens through indoctrination. When Valerie doesn’t know yet is that Straight is connected to something much bigger and more sinister than she could have possibly imagined. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	This episode contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse.
0:33.0	Please take care while listening. It was Halloween
0:57.2	Halloween of 1982 and I was 17 years old and my mom told me that we were going to go visit my brother and I was so happy to see him. I hadn't seen him in a while.
1:00.0	I knew he was away because of the trouble he had gotten into but I had no idea where he was at.
1:06.3	I just knew that he was away somewhere and that we were going to go visit him.
1:13.0	This is Valerie. That Halloween morning in 1982, she got in the car with her mom at home in Daytona Beach, Florida,
1:21.0	and they drove southwest across the state.
1:25.1	We left early in the morning,
1:27.1	and we were going to Sarasota, which is about three or four hours
1:30.2	from Daytona. I remember that day going to like Waffle House or something. It was
1:39.8	some kind of diner I remember getting served by a clown.
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