Tornado | EP 5 | Saskia's Story
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The trial of Mike Levengood looms. But at the eleventh hour, the prosecutor gets a call.
Content Warning for tech-enabled sexual abuse, nonconsensual intimate image distribution, mental health struggles, chronic illness, and rape.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:07.2 | On December 18, 2018, Mike Levin Good was charged with rape. |
| 0:13.5 | The prosecutors spent the next year building the case against him. |
| 0:17.9 | They were going to a jury trial, and the state wanted a conviction. |
| 0:22.4 | So they ran toxicology, consulted with experts, combed through online chats, and analyzed |
| 0:29.1 | every moment of the dozens of videos they were able to track down. |
| 0:35.8 | In the end, they gathered over 30 videos Mike had filmed, without Saskia's consent. |
| 0:43.1 | In many of them, she was completely unconscious, and her husband was violating her. |
| 0:51.3 | Mike was charged with 31 counts of illegal surveillance, and even though prosecutors had video evidence of what Mike did, in the end, they were only able to bring four counts of rape. |
| 1:05.5 | Under Maryland law, it was legal to rape your unconscious spouse, just so long as it was done without force. |
| 1:16.1 | If he was found guilty of every charge, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. |
| 1:21.5 | That was Saskia's hope. |
| 1:23.4 | I wanted him to be in jail, and I felt like testifying against him and holding him accountable |
| 1:29.8 | would give me back some of my power. |
| 1:35.0 | But if the jury questioned Saskia's story, Mike could walk free. |
| 1:40.7 | For Ashley Indifurth, the lead prosecutor on the case, it was nerve-wracking. |
| 1:46.1 | This isn't a scenario where it's a 50-50, and we got to get it to 51%. |
| 1:53.2 | The jury has to believe it beyond a reasonable doubt. |
| 1:57.5 | In the final lead-up to the trial, Ashley had to pass the case off to another colleague. |
| 2:03.4 | I had to go out on maternity leave. |
| 2:06.4 | She was pregnant with twins, and they came early. |
| 2:09.8 | In the months after they were born, she practically lived in the NICU. |
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