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Case 301: Michella Welch & Jennifer Bastian

🕑 Added 2024-10-19 09:04:18 +0000 UTC

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Suicide Sauce

Despite the number of true crime podcasts out there, the chances of a kid being abducted by a stranger in the US is staggeringly low (and even lower now than when I was a kid in the early 90s). I was a tiny, chatty girl-shaped kid with red hair, and my mom was so afraid that someone was going to grab me and reenact Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son" that I wasn't allowed to visit friends, never mind exploring the neighborhood on my own. As a result, I never really learned how to relate to other kids my age, and I spent a lot of time alone in the apartment. Give your daughter the tools to protect herself: talk to her about what to do if she gets lost, or if an adult starts making her uncomfortable (even one that she knows!!). Talk to her about what is and isn't okay for adults to say and do to her. Make a list of people she can call to come pick her up, with several backups in case someone doesn't answer their phone. Show her where she can run to-- into a public, well-lit place like a grocery store-- and how to ask for help. And tell her, as often as you can, that you'll love her no matter how much trouble she thinks she's in, and that she can ALWAYS come home. Trust, education, and autonomy will do a hundred times more good than a can of pepper spray ever could.

David Rogosaroff

That is a poor podcast, so judgmental and generally moronic

Callum Brady

This comes a day after my 10 year old daughter was asking to start riding to school alone. Probs not

Aly

Didn’t realize til after I listened to this that I watched the Jennifer story on Paula Zahn season 19 ep 2. Glad both families finally got justice 💜

realplantsrealpoems

I enjoy when Casefile episodes detail specific cases that lead to changes in legislation/police procedure/etcetera, & found this episode to be well-written.

Suicide Sauce

I think whoever invented the word "noughties" to refer to the 2000s ought to be thrown in prison

Amanda

I JUST listened to this dateline episode three days ago - the Deja vu!

Keaner

These cases were covered by DNA:ID in August (Eps 113 and 114)

Amber

As a Seattleite, I read Lindsey's book right when it came out! It reads almost like a *ahem* casefile, of all the inner workings solving these cold cases. If anyone is interested in Lindsey telling this story personally, she did a 2-parter on Small Town Dicks, which is co-hosted by the beloved Paul Holes!

Caiti

In Australia the "noughties" is a very common term 😊

Zac

Can’t believe I’ve never heard that before (I’m from New Zealand but live in Australia). So cool haha

AR

I believe the Aughts is the preferred term? at least here in the U.S. media! Though obviously Naughties is far more fun haha

Brenda Wells

I love hearing about these types of resolutions. Just knowing there’s probably a bunch of aging creeps out there losing sleep, waiting for that knock on their door.