The Full Picture | EP 4 | Saskia's Story
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The extent of Mike’s crimes comes to light. But a legal loophole threatens to turn an open-and-shut case into an uphill battle for justice.
Content Warning for tech-enabled sexual abuse, rape, substance dependence, mental health struggles, nonconsensual intimate image distribution, and chronic illness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:07.8 | Saskia had just learned the unimaginable, |
| 0:11.1 | that her husband had been secretly streaming videos of her, |
| 0:15.2 | videos where she was naked and unconscious. |
| 0:19.6 | Now she was sitting across from a social worker, hearing one of the worst things any victim can hear. |
| 0:26.7 | There's probably nothing that we can do. |
| 0:29.9 | Saskia only had one thumbnail photo from Mike's webpage. |
| 0:33.8 | It wasn't enough to prove he had done something wrong. |
| 0:37.5 | To get a long-term protective order, the social worker said Saskia needed video evidence. |
| 0:44.3 | But she didn't have that. |
| 0:46.3 | Saskia was so shocked she couldn't speak. |
| 0:49.3 | She did the only thing she could do. |
| 0:51.5 | Scream. |
| 0:52.5 | I just flipped out because of how wrong I knew it was and how traumatized I felt. |
| 0:59.1 | Her friend Colleen was there. |
| 1:01.7 | She let out this blood-curdling scream and ran down the hall. |
| 1:06.5 | And the sheriffs came sprinting. |
| 1:08.5 | They didn't know what had happened. |
| 1:09.8 | They just heard this scream and came sprinting down after her. |
| 1:15.0 | Colleen ran after her, too. |
| 1:17.0 | She found Saskia in the hall crying, shaking. |
| 1:21.7 | She was just in shock. |
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