The Mother’s Day Attack
The Knife: A True Crime Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tennyson and Kyle felt safe in their quiet, rural community—until their lives were shaken by not one, but two violent home invasions. It wasn’t random. The attacks were targeted, and Tennyson was the focus. Even more chilling: it all happened on her very first Mother’s Day as a new mom. We speak with Tennyson about the events of that day and the long road of healing that followed.
The Mother of All Days: https://www.amazon.com/Mother-All-Days-Break-Unexpected/dp/0997692375?ref_=ast_author_mpb
Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/north-bend-intruder-may-have-planned-sexual-assault-deputies-say/
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| 0:50.2 | Oh, yeah. Welcome to the Knife. Welcome to The Knife. I'm Hannah Smith. I'm Pasha Eaton. This week, we're speaking with Tennyson Jacobson. |
| 1:11.8 | In 2013, Tennyson was a new mother. |
| 1:14.0 | She and her husband owned a small but successful CrossFit Gym in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:18.4 | They were building a house. |
| 1:19.6 | Life was good. |
| 1:20.5 | But Tennyson's first Mother's Day turned their lives upside down. |
| 1:24.4 | When she and her family learned, in the most terrifying way, that a man she'd never met was targeting her. Tenn she and her family learned in the most terrifying way that a man she'd never met |
| 1:29.1 | was targeting her, Tennyson and her husband weren't in a fight for their lives. Let's get into the |
| 1:34.7 | interview. So I'm from Washington State. We live just outside of Seattle in the suburbs. And in 2013, |
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