The After Show: The Barefoot Witness
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ABC News
4.0 • 8.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You'll be forgotten. |
| 0:01.0 | What? |
| 0:02.0 | We'll turn off. Right now, the internet is coaching our kids, and some of the voices on there, they're angry. When boys hear that noise on repeat, it shapes how they see themselves. Together, with EE, we need to make sure those voices don't win, to coach and guide them, on and off the pitch, making space for real conversations, building our boys up every chance we get. Yes, Boys. |
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| 0:26.8 | on and off the pitch. Search E.E. Yes, boys. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, everybody. I'm Deborah Roberts and it's so good to have you with us for our new episode of 2020 The After Show, where we take you behind the scenes and show you a little bit of a close-up look of our recording. |
| 0:46.2 | Today we're going to take a different take on a story that I think still lingers for so many of us here. It certainly does for me. |
| 0:53.3 | It begins with an image that we had in our |
| 0:56.4 | piece for 2020 that is so hard to shake. A toddler wandering around a Louisiana parking lot |
| 1:03.7 | clutching a pillow. And she's pointing to her mom's car when she is finally discovered. And inside |
| 1:09.7 | that car is a purse, keys, and a lot of blood. |
| 1:14.1 | In fact, the little three-year-old had blood on her feet and the child became what we called |
| 1:18.8 | for our episode, the barefoot witness because sadly she was a witness to something that was |
| 1:24.5 | pretty horrific. We would later discover, as we were putting our piece |
| 1:28.2 | together, that the little girl's mom was a popular school teacher. Her name was Lintel Washington, |
| 1:33.9 | and at that moment, she was missing. Police began a search to find her, and days later, sadly, |
| 1:40.9 | she was found dead, dumped in a drainage ditch. It a hard-breaking story one that i am still i think |
| 1:47.9 | struggling to sort of piece together in my head how it could have happened i spent time down in |
| 1:52.9 | louisiana in a sugarcane field where all of this played out tragically and i met actually |
| 1:58.8 | that little girl later on this This episode isn't just about |
| 2:02.0 | how authorities solve the murder though. It's about how the truth can come from even the smallest |
| 2:07.0 | of voices. And in this case, it did from a toddler. Well, here to talk about this story, which I think |
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