The Wizard of Oz

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4.6 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2: Jen Sainato reported a rape to Louisville police in January 2018. In this episode, we hear about her attempts over the next two years to follow up on her case. And we ask LMPD why cases like Jen’s seem to be taken to the prosecutor’s office so early - sometimes before suspects have even been interviewed. (Note: This episode includes brief descriptions of multiple rape reports.)
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0:00.0	From L.P. App.
0:02.0	Louisville Public Media.
0:04.0	A listener note, this story is about rape investigations and includes descriptions of sexual
0:09.2	violence. My heart felt like it was sitting outside of me.
0:24.0	Listen to me, I'm saying your hysterical.
0:27.0	He's already like, yeah, we don't believe you.
0:30.0	There was a detective that wanted to talk to me.
0:33.0	That's not the time necessarily to do a detailed interview.
0:37.0	Like no way, nohow, I am not talking to another guy.
0:40.0	I'm not talking to those guys again. I do not believe that is a fault of the Louisville Police Department for honoring
0:49.6	her wishes and not going in and collecting that.
0:52.2	This is Dig, a podcast from the Kentucky
0:54.0	Center for Investigative Reporting and Louisville Public Media. I'm Eleanor Klippinoff.
1:00.0	Back home in Valparaiso, Indiana, Jen Sonado is familiar with the criminal justice system.
1:06.0	Her good friend is married to the police chief. She knows a bunch of lawyers around town and is friendly with a judge.
1:12.0	So when she reported a rape to the
1:13.9	Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2018, she thought she
1:17.6	understood how the system would work. Her first interaction with the patrol
1:21.6	officers shook her.
1:23.0	But then, the process started to go the way she expected.
1:27.0	Her case was assigned to a detective, Lindsay Lynch.
1:30.0	Two weeks later, Jen made the four-hour drive back to Louisville for an interview with Lynch
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