Jul 1, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
Anthony’s case file leads him to Rachel. She reveals her harrowing past. Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry…
Paul SolotaroffHost
Rachel LaraGuest
Joe SantoraGuest
Anthony DiPippoGuest
They won't even notice I'm gone." I was like, "We can't, we can't take you." You know, it crushed me.
I told her, "Stay away." You know, like, he kinda threatened me with her, you know? Like, so I, I worried about her.
Gombert.My first thought was, son of a bitch, did he get her? You know, like...
Honestly, that, that, that hit me hard
Alas, she didn't trust the cops or anyone else in the system, not after that system had so callously failed her when she reported Gombert five years prior.
Her police statement made no mention of Gombert's spot off Fields Lane or the vile things he'd done to her in the woods.
But as I reread her statement to Putnam Detective Bill Quick, I'm struck by what she did tell them, that she was freaked by the idea of Josette babysitting for Gombert, that Gombert often drove his girlfriend's car, a car just like the one Josette was last seen getting into.
All of that tallied with what other girls told them, that Gombert was a creep who liked young girls.
They won't even notice I'm gone." I was like, "We can't, we can't take you." You know, it crushed me.
I told her, "Stay away." You know, like, he kinda threatened me with her, you know? Like, so I, I worried about her.
Gombert.My first thought was, son of a bitch, did he get her? You know, like...
Honestly, that, that, that hit me hard
Alas, she didn't trust the cops or anyone else in the system, not after that system had so callously failed her when she reported Gombert five years prior.
Her police statement made no mention of Gombert's spot off Fields Lane or the vile things he'd done to her in the woods.
But as I reread her statement to Putnam Detective Bill Quick, I'm struck by what she did tell them, that she was freaked by the idea of Josette babysitting for Gombert, that Gombert often drove his girlfriend's car, a car just like the one Josette was last seen getting into.
All of that tallied with what other girls told them, that Gombert was a creep who liked young girls.
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