#552: Home Sweet Horror Part 2

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jim, Francey, and Kathy continue their discussion with guest Meg Appelgate, co-founder and CEO of "Unsilenced", an organization that exposes and stops institutional child abuse within the troubled teen industry.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Best Case, Worst Case and Real Crime Profile.
0:13.4	And I'm Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor, writer-producer of
0:18.2	Criminal Minds, and Bluebeard on Audible.
0:20.5	And with me today is...
0:22.3	Hi, everybody. It's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor here on the best case,
0:27.6	worst case side of things. And we also have, for the real crime profile side of things.
0:33.5	Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI profiler, and today we have a very special guest continuing
0:38.4	with her fascinating story, and she is. Meg Applegate. I am the co-founder and CEO of Unsilenced,
0:46.8	which is a nonprofit aiming to stop institutional child abuse in the triple teen industry.
0:52.4	So Meg, welcome back, and thank you for telling us last
0:55.7	week your story. And I mean, being abducted in the middle of the night, your parents are there,
1:00.7	this massive, this massive off-duty cop and his petite partner. And they take you, they take you, I mean,
1:11.5	forcefully. I mean, forcefully.
1:14.4	I mean, they definitely didn't.
1:14.9	Handcuffed.
1:17.2	Yeah, they wanted to handcuff you.
1:19.9	And then they took you to the airport and they flew you to Idaho.
1:23.6	And then we were locked into a hospital for six months.
1:26.7	And then shipped off to Montana.
1:27.6	Montana. Montana.
1:29.6	Where in Montana was it?
1:35.3	It was as far north as you can get in a place called Eureka, which is like right on the Canadian border.
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