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Hey, listeners, it's Tracy Patton. I know

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that you appreciate the stories we tell, digging

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deep into the details and backstory of

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a case or experience. I want to introduce

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you to Something Was Wrong. The podcast

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shares intimate stories of people who have been

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abused mentally, emotionally

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and physically, sometimes without

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even knowing it. The latest season of

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Something Was Wrong host Tiffany Reese

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reports on her most difficult story of

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abuse to date, her own. The

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first 15 seasons of her podcast have been

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dedicated to validating and amplifying

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the voices of those who have survived abuse.

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In season 16, she's breaking her silence

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and opening up for the first time about

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her own experience as an abuse survivor.

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With the help of trusted friends, she unpacks

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her journey to becoming a victim advocate

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by examining her past. From the emotional

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and physical abuse she endured at the hands of

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her parents and the bullying she received

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from classmates to the untimely

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passing of her brother and the securities

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fraud her father was convicted of, she's

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covering it

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all and learning more about herself in

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the process. I'm about to play a clip

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All right. So today is May

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4th, 2021. And

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yesterday I got a

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copy of my

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father's appeal. And

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it covers a bunch

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of information of his crimes that

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I don't know about. Because

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I've never really

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looked into any of this. So

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I finally feel like maybe

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I'm ready. You

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explaining to me what happened to you, them

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tossing your room, tossing your whole house, looking

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for... whatever evidence and you not really

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understanding what the whole deal was about

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just knowing that your dad had done something again.

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He

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was like I had lunch with his

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dad he literally was sitting there with

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me got a phone call from the attorneys

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and then just left and that was the last time he saw

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him and talked to him and never heard from him again.

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She got mad she grabbed me by the back of the

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head

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and she slammed my head into

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the sidewalk in front of the house. She

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would be banging on the door open

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this door open this door

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right now and I would be screaming no

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please do not make please please please please please

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please please don't make me open door.

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They arrested him for elder

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abuse among other charges

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it was fraud and financial

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abuse of the elderly.

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There was many

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times in my life where she made sure I

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knew you're not the daughter that I wanted.

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I wanted a better daughter

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a skinnier daughter and you

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f***ed it all up basically by

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being who you are instead

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of what I wanted. I

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also remember feeling like I

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worked for him. Am I gonna be

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arrested? Am I gonna be

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charged with these same things that he

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did even though I literally had no idea

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what was going on. I just remember being very

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scared of that. I am realizing

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there's so much I don't know there's so much I've never

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looked at about the cases about

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my dad and like

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dude. Once I

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read what your dad was charged with I

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realized pretty much everything he told me

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revolving around the business was all lies.

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After fleeing my dad's business

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partner going to prison who my

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mother would later claim was a member of

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the mafia and then

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told me that she suspected that

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uncle steve was quote taken out.

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Drove so wasted with us in

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the car, I thought I was going to die

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so many times. It

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is Friday, May

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14th, 2021. And

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I am,

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for the first time, walking

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to the

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scene where my

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brother was murdered.

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He was like, wait, who are you

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affiliated with? And I was like, well, Bobby's sister.

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He was like, I didn't even know he had a sister. Oh

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my God. Yeah.

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I explained, I was like, Tiffany and I work together.

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She has worked so hard to help other victims

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tell their stories. I think she's finally in

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this space. She's healing further in

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this process.

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I think it would be very cathartic to talk

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to him.

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So next thing I know, here comes squad

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cars from every direction. Came

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out with the guns drawn, came

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up to him, picked him up and

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shot him point blank. His partner

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came and he said, hey, partner, you

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did a good job. Good job, partner. Can

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you imagine that? Can you imagine somebody

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saying that after they murdered somebody?