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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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*Content warning: fraud, harassment, catfishing, stalking, sexual abuse, troubled teen industry, childhood abuse, and industrialized child abuse.
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Season 20 of Something Was Wrong:
https://wondery.com/shows/something-was-wrong/season/20/
Season 22 of Something Was Wrong:
https://wondery.com/shows/something-was-wrong/season/22/
Season 23 of Something Was Wrong:
https://wondery.com/shows/something-was-wrong/season/23/
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Moms Advocating For Moms
S23 survivors Markeda, Kristen and Amanda have created a nonprofit, Moms Advocating for Moms, in hopes to create a future where maternal well-being is prioritized, disparities are addressed, and every mother has the resources and support she needs to thrive: https://www.momsadvocatingformoms.org/take-action
https://linktr.ee/momsadvocatingformoms
Malik's Law
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB4553
M.A.M.A. has helped file a Texas bill called Malik's Law, which is intended to implement requirements for midwives in Texas to report birth outcomes in hopes of improving transparency and data collection in the midwifery field in partnership with Senator Claudia Ordaz.
*SWW S23 Theme Song & Artwork:
Thank you so much to Emily Wolfe for covering Glad Rag’s original song, U Think U for us this season!
Hear more from Emily Wolfe:
https://www.emilywolfemusic.com/
Glad Rags: https://www.gladragsmusic.com/
The S23 cover art is by the Amazing Sara Stewart
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0:36.8 | I'm Tiffany Reese, and this is something was wrong. |
0:44.3 | You know me, you don't know me well at all. |
0:59.0 | You don't know anybody Until you talk to someone So, I'm. Jessica has this close friend who we called on the podcast Bobby Sue. |
1:23.2 | Bobby Sue claimed to be a victim of Jessica's, but it's unclear and they're still friends and very much involved. |
1:30.6 | Unlike the other survivors who have supported the other survivors of Jessica Polly, |
1:36.1 | this particular survivor has instead taken up for Jessica Polly, so to speak, |
1:43.7 | and been quite nasty, to be honest, to the survivors. |
1:48.5 | Perhaps she lied and was never actually catfished by Jessica Polly, but made up that lie to try and gain the victim's perspectives and what they knew. |
2:00.8 | Or she actually was a victim and for some reason has decided that her way of grieving and dealing |
2:07.8 | with that is staying best friends with Jessica and fighting her survivors. |
2:13.2 | Based on the conversations that we had with people who knew her and Jess, they wouldn't be surprised, let's say, if she was involved. I think not enough people are looking into Bobby Sue still being friends with her. I think that's a huge issue of its own. Well, and one thing that's really interesting to note is that when I reached out to Bobby Sue, |
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