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Secret Passage Podcast

A psychotherapist and a conflicted pornographer, who has recently been called to Christianity, join forces, providing unique perspectives on subjects ranging from true crime, social issues, horror, and Hollywood.

Podcast · By Dana Vespoli and Shannon Rogers · English · Official site

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 14, 2026

    Brock Turner & Chanel Miller: When His Potential Mattered More Than Her Pain (opens the original)

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    She woke up in a hospital with pine needles in her hair, her underwear missing, and no memory of how she got there. In 2015, Chanel Miller attended a fraternity party at Stanford with her younger sister. The next thing she remembered was waking up in a hospital and learning that she had been found unconscious behind a dumpster while Brock Turner sexually assaulted her. Two bystanders intervened, chased Turner down, and held him until police arrived. Turner was later convicted of three felony sex

  2. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    Everyone Knew. Nobody Stopped it. The Steubenville Rape Case (opens the original)

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    A teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a party. People knew it was happening. They took photos. They made videos. They joked about it. They posted about it online. And almost no one stepped in. In 2012, a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, was sexually assaulted by high-school football players Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond while she was severely intoxicated and unable to consent. But what made the case especially disturbing was how many other teenagers knew what was happening—and how ope

  3. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    Mom's Behaving Badly: Cybersex, Lies, Murder (Part 2) (opens the original)

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    Everybody in this love triangle was lying. One of them ended up dead. In this installment of Moms Behaving Badly , Dana and Jacky dive into the bizarre TallHotBlond case. Middle-aged husband Thomas Montgomery reinvented himself online as a young Marine named "Tommy" and fell for 17-year-old "Jessi." But Jessi wasn't Jessi. She was Mary Shieler—the teenager's own mother—using her daughter's identity and photographs online. Then 22-year-old Brian Barrett entered the picture, and an online fantasy

  4. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    Moms Behaving Badly: Mom, Bully, Stalker (Part 1) (opens the original)

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    What happens when the person your child turns to for protection is secretly the person hurting her? In this episode of Secret Passage: Moms Behaving Badly: Mom, Bully, Stalker , Dana and Jacky examine the bizarre and deeply disturbing case of Kendra Licari , the Michigan mother who secretly sent anonymous, harassing messages to her teenage daughter Lauryn and Lauryn's then-boyfriend, Owen. For months, the teenagers and their families tried to figure out who was behind the messages. Friends and c

  5. Episode · Aug 17, 2026

    The Lindsay Clancy Trial: When Mental Illness, Motherhood & Murder Collide (opens the original)

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    Lindsay Clancy killed her three young children. But was she a calculating murderer—or a mother experiencing a catastrophic psychiatric break? Dana and GenXJacky examine the medication timeline, warning signs, mental-health treatment, Patrick Clancy's role, social-media misinformation, and the hardest question of all: what does justice look like in a case like this? Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are not interchangeable. Postpartum psychosis can involve a significant loss of conta

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