Searching for Desirrê | 2

Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment

Wondery

Documentary, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, True Crime

3.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As Paty’s search gathers pace, she makes a disturbing discovery, while Kat’s behavior becomes even more unpredictable.

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0:00.0	Wonderly Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Don't Crosscat early and ad-free.
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0:10.7	Hey, Chico here.
0:12.3	Just wanted to let you know that this episode has a short mention of self-harm.
0:16.9	Please take care while listening.
0:31.7	It was the middle of the night.
0:34.4	Patty's face glowed in the light of her phone.
0:38.1	She was still awake and still scrolling through Instagram.
0:45.4	So I was not sleeping because I was like searching for her and then I had to work.
0:51.6	It was now more than three months since her best friend Desire had ghosted all her family and friends and moved in with her supermodel life coach, Kat Torres.
0:57.0	And every day Patty spent hours searching through social media for any clues to their
1:02.0	whereabouts. Her friends had begun to notice the effect it was having on her.
1:07.0	The people around me, they're a little bit like, maybe she just don't want to talk to you.
1:11.7	And Patty was beginning to wonder if maybe they were right.
1:14.6	Maybe you should live your life, you not spend too much time, search for someone that I don't want to talk to you.
1:22.7	But then, she got a message on WhatsApp.
1:27.1	It was an invite to a group chat called Friends of Desiree.
1:30.3	There was a lot of people in the group and they are trying to find her to help her.
1:36.3	One of the people in the group chat was Lao.
1:39.3	She had met Desiree a few years before at an English language school.
1:43.3	There was so much going from my mind.
1:46.0	All I could do was worry, you know.
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