Survivor: Wheaton’s President Let a Predator Strike Again
The Roys Report
Julie Roys
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 2012, |
| 0:02.0 | In 2024, Wheaton College emailed its constituents, stating for the first time why the college had fired former administrator Dennis Massaro more than two decades |
| 0:22.7 | earlier. According to the email, Massaro was fired when allegations involving improper sexual |
| 0:29.0 | touching of students were reported to the college. But the allegations involved not just improper |
| 0:34.7 | sexual touching, but criminal sexual assault. |
| 0:38.4 | The email also stated that Wheeton had hired a firm to review what led to Masaro's dismissal |
| 0:43.2 | because the college had recently received further information. |
| 0:47.6 | But according to Masaro's ex-wife, Kathy Gallagher, |
| 0:50.8 | Wheaton College President Phil Reichen knew everything a decade earlier because she told him. |
| 0:56.3 | I just said, Phil, you've got to be the hero of the story. You can be the hero. It wasn't your |
| 1:03.5 | presidency. You could bring this into light. You can tell the truth, publish the truth. You can tell my daughters the truth. You can see if |
| 1:14.5 | there are other victims be the hero. But instead of being the hero, Reichen became the villain. |
| 1:20.5 | He called me back and he had talked to the lawyer and he said these things had never happened in Wheaton. |
| 1:28.2 | And in this part two of my interview with Kathy, you'll hear the tragic consequences of |
| 1:33.4 | Whedon's betrayal and cowardice as Masaro reportedly continued to abuse. |
| 1:39.0 | You'll also hear about the harrowing decades leading up to Kathy's conversation with Reichen |
| 1:43.2 | and how Wheaton's refusal to come clean, |
| 1:46.5 | deeply traumatized, and scarred Kathy's children. And you'll hear what Kathy believes needs to happen today. |
| 1:53.5 | Heads need to roll. Heads need to roll. Welcome to the Roy's report, a podcast dedicated to |
| 2:00.5 | reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. |
| 2:03.5 | I'm Julie Roy's. |
| 2:16.8 | Well, again, joining me is Kathy Gallagher, the ex-wife of Dennis Massaro, who was fired by Wheaton College in 1998 after three students accused Massaro of molesting them. But because Wheaton wanted to hide Massaro's misconduct, it wouldn't release documentation and testimony Kathy needed during her divorce proceedings |
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