Welcome. This show is sponsored by Honey Road, the best restaurant in Burlington, featuring

Eastern Mediterranean small plates at the corner of Church and Maine.

Here's Head Chef Caratoban.

We want to make it so that as soon as the dish is put down in front of someone,

they look at it and they say, oh my gosh, that's beautiful.

And then they pick up the obvious cutlery, which sounds like a weird thing, but if someone's like

should I fork or should I do with a spoon or do I need to cut, you know, like, I don't want them to have to think about it that much.

Honey Road you never have to wonder which fork to use. Now on to the show.

This is Rumble Strip by America Heilman.

When you meet someone for the first time or you're at a barbecue, you're at a and someone says hey what do you do and I say oh I work

with victims of crime and oh wow you know people don't want to go there and I don't blame them

because what we see is not things that people want to talk about.

They don't want to talk about rape and murder and trauma.

So it's kind of hidden. We hold lawyers and law enforcement as these protectors of society and the law and keeping us safe and then you're kind of part of that but you're kind of not and so you're a little bit

invisible in all of that.

You're talking to the victims and you're learning about the most horrible thing that's happened

to them.

So you know, it's not the lightest topic for the barbecue.

That's Amy Farr. She's the victim advocate for the Attorney General's office here in Vermont.

I'm embarrassed to say that before I did these interviews, I never really knew what a victim

advocate did.

To be honest, it sounded like a kind of hand-holdy position, not a prosecutor or a defense attorney, not someone who's going to win or lose anything.

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