S24 Ep19: Wanted

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

True Crime, Documentary, Education, Society & Culture

4.1 • 24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

*Content Warning: Institutional child abuse, body-image abuse, disordered eating, attack therapy, cultic abuse, grooming, medical trauma, death, alcohol use disorder, psychological and physical trauma, child labor, distressing themes.

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*Sources

“DeSisto School.” Unsilenced, www.unsilenced.org/program-archive/us-programs/massachusetts/desisto-school/

“Exhibits in Desisto Investigation.” Scribd, Scribd, www.scribd.com/document/324581177/Exhibits-in-DeSisto-Investigation

“Off-Broadway’s Inappropriate Extends Again to Jan. 30.” Playbill, Playbill, 2 Dec. 2021, playbill.com/article/off-broadways-inappropriate-extends-again-to-jan-30-com-86238

Radio, WAMC Northeast Public. “Controversial School for Troubled Teens to Close.” WAMC, 16 Feb. 2012, www.wamc.org/new-york-news/2004-04-13/controversial-school-for-troubled-teens-to-close

Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff, Appellee, V. A. Michael Desisto, Defendant, Appellee,the Desisto Schools, Inc., Defendant, Appellant.Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff, Appellant, V. A. Michael Desisto, et al., Defendants, Appellees, 929 f.2d 789 (1st Cir. 1991) :: Justia, law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/929/789/124165/

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0:00.0	Looking for a true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines.
0:03.6	When I interviewed her 20 years on, she said that Fred told her there were hundreds of bodies buried in Gloucester.
0:11.4	It's a deeply disturbed love story.
0:14.7	Join Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt and journalist Helen Fospero on true criminals,
0:22.7	a weekly deep dive into the cases that shook the world, with insights so shocking they still haunt our imagination today.
0:28.4	This is True Criminals.
0:30.4	Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences and discusses upsetting topics.
0:35.9	Season 24 survivors discuss violence that they endured as children, which may be triggering
0:41.5	for some listeners.
0:43.3	As always, please consume with care.
0:46.0	For a full content warning, sources, and resources for each episode, please visit the
0:51.5	episode notes.
0:53.2	Opinions shared by the guests of the show are their own and do not necessarily represent
0:57.8	the views of broken cycle media.
1:00.2	All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
1:04.9	Responses to allegations from individual institutions are included within the season.
1:10.5	Something was wrong and any linked
1:12.2	materials should not be misconstrued as a substitution for legal or medical advice.
1:19.3	Thank you to Survivor Nicole for sharing with us today. Nicole attended the DeSisto School
1:24.9	in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1994 to 1996. The DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1994 to 1996.
1:30.3	The DeSisto School was founded in 1978 by Michael DeCisto.
1:35.3	Prior, DeCisto had been a teacher and director at Lake Grove School on Long Island,
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