911: Emergency. 

Melissa, 12: Please help me ... We were all shot. 

A child, suffering from multiple bullet wounds, still manages to provide critical information to emergency dispatch in hopes of helping her mom and others gunned down at a New Mexico bowling alley in 1990. 

Join the co-hosts in The Escape Pod this week to hear the girl’s harrowing account and theories surrounding who was responsible for the massacre that, to this day, is considered an “open” case. 

BE ADVISED: This episode contains violent content, including discussion of a mass shooting. 

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The curse. Aunt Flow. Code Red! Whatever you call it, women have been experiencing periods since women came to be; yet, historically, this “monthly visitor” has made people – mainly men, if we’re being honest – downright hysterical. (Case in point, the philosopher Plato compared the uterus to a “living creature” that wandered through a woman’s body wreaking havoc. Yikes!) The myths about menstruation are – indeed – wild, and even in modern times, products commonly used to help women cope with their periods have a long way to go. The co-hosts explore the topic in-depth (even throwing in a menstruation-related case of true crime) in this HERsterical edition of The Escape Pod! 

BE ADVISED: If you have a severe aversion to blood and other bodily fluids, you might want to skip this one, and if you're suffering from PMS, you’ll likely find this episode especially annoying. 

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An email arrives in a nonprofit CEO’s inbox. The gist: An “investor” is interested in the work you do. He has connections to some of the country’s wealthiest people, and he’d like to leverage those connections to help you raise funds. The email looks legit, sounds promising, and a quick internet search raises no immediate red flags associated with the individual or his company. At least, not at first. BUT ... if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right? So the savvy CEO keeps digging and not only uncovers the con, but also the real name of the con artist who very charmingly introduces himself with the line, “Call me Fernando.” 

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credit: ABA Foundation; https://www.aba.com/advocacy/community-programs/consumer-resources/protect-your-money/charity-scams 

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The co-hosts return to The Escape Pod this week to wrap up a two-part series on “phrogging,” when a person occupies a home without the homeowner’s or renter’s knowledge or permission. (It’s a criminal act that lands pretty high on the creep-o-meter, if you ask us!) Part 2 takes us back to the mid-1980s, when a teen phrogger terrorized families in Massachusetts.  

SIDE NOTE: Why does phrogger start with a “ph”? A quick internet search offers a few explanations, a prevalent one being that the “p” is taken from the word “person”, as in a person who engages in phrogging, jumping from place to place so as not to get caught. 

BE ADVISED: This episode contains violence and other content listeners might find extremely disturbing. 

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“Phrogging” (sounds like “frogging”) refers to the act of living in someone’s home without their knowledge or permission. It is not the same as squatting, and – in many ways – phrogging is much, much creepier. In the first of a two-part series on the subject, the Escape Pod co-hosts discuss a handful of phreaky phrogging incidents that might have you checking your closets. Twice. 

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains content some listeners might find disturbing. 

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Involuntarily celibate. It could be fodder for a standup comedian, but these days, self-proclaimed “InCels” and the InCel Movement are no joke – even landing on Secret Service threat lists. Join co-hosts Julie and Charity back in The Escape Pod to wrap up a two-part series on extreme misogyny and an online community that poses a clear and present danger to the women they hate. 

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains violence and other content listeners might find extremely disturbing. 

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Ten years before the word “Columbine” became synonymous with school shootings in America, a young man in Canada carried out a massacre at a college in Montreal. His motive? An extreme hatred for women, whom he thought were “stealing men’s jobs.” This tale of true crime happened in 1989, but the perpetrator’s attitude toward the female sex – unfortunately – is alive and well in some male circles today. This trip into The Escape Pod is the first in a two-part series on extreme misogyny and a little-known but highly dangerous online community of women-hating men, known as “InCels.” 

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains violence and other content listeners might find extremely disturbing. 

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We are feasting on family dysfunction in The Escape Pod this week, as true crime takes on a holiday twist. (Special thanks to Reddit for giving generously content-wise, coming through BIG for the co-hosts when one asked the other, “Do you think you could find some good stories about holiday dinners gone wrong?” Indeed, she did!) 

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A female runner stops for a bathroom break and gets attacked from behind. Little did the predator know that he did not choose easy prey. Kelly Herron said, “Not today, mother f@#!er!” and she meant it, fighting back successfully in that moment and then starting a whole movement around her now-famous line. Join the co-hosts in The Escape Pod this week for an episode featuring true crime, a truly incredible escape artist, and tips from self-defense experts who want to give you a fighting chance, too. 

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• Topic #1      :49 Co-host escapes a stinky situation. 

• Topic #2    8:57 Intro to Kelly’s story of escape. 

• Topic #3  23:31 Tips Kelly learned in self-defense class that saved her. 

• Topic #4  40:26 Advocate for following one’s intuition offers tactics to stay safe. 

• Topic #5  51:41 Escapism, co-host-style! 

Resources & Links 

• https://www.girlswhofight.co/post/the-survival-signals-that-indicate-danger-the-gift-of-fear-by-gavin-de-becker 

• Jan 6, 2020. Caitlyn Pilkington. https://www.womensrunning.com/culture/assault-survivor-kelly-herron-story/ 

• April 14, 2019. Maggie Ryan. https://hellogiggles.com/self-defense-moves-escape-attacker/  

• https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/kelly-herron-sexual-assault-story-45966885 

• https://www.crime-safety-security.com/Self-Defense.html 

• https://www.girlswhofight.co/post/ten-self-defense-strategies-women-need-to-know To sign up for Girls Who Fight Back Newsletter 

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A woman is brutally attacked and murdered in her Ohio home in 1998. The only witness? Her 6-year-old granddaughter, whose eye-witness account helps to convict her “Uncle Clarence.” But Clarence’s wife is certain he didn’t commit the crime, and she makes it her mission to prove it. 

Join co-hosts Julie and Charity in the Escape Pod this week, where a wife’s amateur sleuth skills help an innocent man escape a life sentence. 

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• Topic #1      :35 Escaping bad backs, bladders, and bedtime habits. 

• Topic #2    9:19 Escaping prison – but not in the way you think!  

• Topic #3  24:47 The mind playing tricks with memories. 

• Topic #4  30:19 Our OneHeart “Woohoo of the Week!” 

Resources & Links 

• https://video.hipstr.tv/feature/conviction-true-story-clarence-elkins  

• https://innocenceproject.org/cases/clarence-elkins/#:~:text=On%20December%2015%2C%202005%2C%20a,crime%20he%20did%20not%20commit  

• https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/02/wrongfully-convicted-man-challenges-ohio/23718232007/  

• https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202#:~:text=Early%20on%20the%20morning%20of,raped%20and%20left%20for%20dead  

• https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202  

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