This week I was interviewed on the Touchy Subjects podcast about what draws women to true crime and how true crime content creators can be more ethical in their content creation.

Reasa Selph brought her son to the ER with the flu. They gave him fluids and sent him home. Two weeks later, his skin turned yellow, his body was failing, and the infection traced straight back to the IV they placed that day. The same hospital dismissed him... twice. By Christmas morning, he was being rushed to another facility, fighting for his life with sepsis. What came next wasn’t just a medical crisis - it was a cover-up, a lawsuit, and a mother’s refusal to stay quiet about the system that almost killed her child.

Reasa's story covers failures in patient safety and the lack of accountability in modern healthcare.

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In 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, leaving 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne trapped in a submerged car. He passed several houses, swam across the channel, and waited ten hours before telling anyone. By the time help showed up, she was gone, and the spin was already in motion. What followed wasn’t justice. It was damage control.

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Thank you to this week's sources:

Chancellor, J. (1969, July 26). NBC news broadcast. NBC News.

Commonwealth v. Edward M. Kennedy, No. 2342 (Edgartown Dist. Ct. 1969). Inquest testimony transcript.

Damore, L. (1988). Senatorial privilege: The Chappaquiddick cover-up. Regnery Gateway.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. (n.d.). Chappaquiddick incident. In Encyclopaedia Britannica online. https://www.britannica.com/event/Chappaquiddick-incident

Halberstam, D. (1969, July 27). The Senator’s speech. Harper's Magazine.

History.com Editors. (2019, July 18). Chappaquiddick incident. History.com. https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/chappaquiddick-incident

Kennedy, E. M. (2009). True compass: A memoir. Twelve.

Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. (1970). Hearing on the suspension of the driver’s license of Edward Kennedy.

Nelson, D. R. (2016). Chappaquiddick tragedy: Kennedy’s second passenger revealed. CreateSpace Independent Publishing.

People Magazine. (2021, July 14). Mary Jo Kopechne’s family still wants answers about Chappaquiddick. https://people.com/politics/chappaquiddick-family-still-seeking-answers/

Putzel, Michael; Pyle, Richard (February 22, 1976). "Chappaquiddick (part 1)". Lakeland Ledger. (Florida). Associated Press. p. 1B.

Putzel, Michael; Pyle, Richard (February 29, 1976). "Chappaquiddick (part 2)". Lakeland Ledger. (Florida). Associated Press. p. 1B.

Reston, J. (1969, July 28). The measure of the man. The New York Times, p. A1.

The Martha’s Vineyard Times. (2019, July 17). 50 years later, Chappaquiddick still haunts. https://www.mvtimes.com/2019/07/17/chappaquiddick-50-years-later/

Time Magazine. (1969, August 1). A senator’s tragedy. Time.