Confidential Informant - Rachel Hoffman

True Crimecast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Hoffman was not a seasoned criminal. She was a young woman who was put in a dangerous situation by a police department too eager to make a drug arrest. Rachel was asked to be a confidential informant in order to get a minor drug charge reduced. This request would prove to be a deadly one, as she did not make it out alive.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.4	Welcome to TrueCround to go. What can I get for you?
0:16.1	Yeah, do you have anything about like a college student who gets a job as an informant and it goes
0:21.7	terribly wrong?
0:24.4	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.1	Welcome to true crime to go.
0:33.5	I am John without Jamie again.
0:36.2	I tell you what, guys, Kentucky weather, very unpredictable and with the unpredictability of the weather,
0:42.3	comes just a slew of colds, flus, all that fun stuff.
0:47.3	I'm not feeling excellent, but Jamie is still feeling the crud.
0:50.9	So I'm here without him today, but don't be alarmed. I still have a crazy
0:56.2	case. And so today we're going to be diving into the heartbreaking case that sparked national
1:02.2	outrage and also led to sweeping legal reforms. So today we are going to be telling the story,
1:08.6	or I'm going to be telling the story of Rachel Hoffman,
1:11.8	who was a 23-year-old Florida State University graduate whose life was cut tragically short
1:17.6	during a botched undercover drug sting that turned deadly. So Rachel was full of potential and
1:25.0	dreams when she became entangled in law enforcement in a way that no one saw
1:29.7	saw coming. So let's get into who she was. Rachel Morningstar Hoffman was a bright young woman
1:36.2	who had recently graduated from Florida State University. She was known for her infectious
1:42.2	personality, her love for music, and her strong friendships.
1:46.4	But like a lot of college students, she would dabble here and there with recreational drug use.
1:52.3	In 2008, she was arrested on charges of drug possession.
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