Lightbulbs | Dangerous Memories Ep 6

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

After years of failed attempts, an expert flies over from America to help guide the parents on how to get their children back. But getting them home is not the end of the journey, for anyone caught up in Anne’s web.

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Reporter: Grace Hughes-Hallett

Producer: Gary Marshall

Additional reporting and production: Imogen Harper

Sound design and original composition: Tom Kinsella

Theme music: Far Gone (Don’t Leave) by Pictish Trail

Podcast artwork: Lola Williams

Commissioning editor: Basia Cummings

Executive producer: Ceri Thomas

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0:00.0	On Britain streets, you unknowingly see, extraordinary heroes who look just like me.
0:07.0	We live without capes or superpowers.
0:10.0	We're the everyday heroes who save the hour a nurse a teacher a cabby a mate pride of
0:17.3	Britain's here it's time to celebrate do you know an everyday hero who deserves
0:22.4	recognition visit pride of Britain dot com Do you know an everyday hero who deserves recognition?
0:23.0	Visit pride of Britain.com and nominate them today.
0:26.0	T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards. Tortus.
0:37.0	And then somebody told me about this man called Steve Hassan. In almost every direction I've turned in this investigation, there's one term I keep brushing up against.
1:03.0	Cult.
1:04.0	When I'm at my laptop, looking back over interview transcripts with experts,
1:09.0	with experts, investigators and other former clients of Anne's,
1:12.0	it's everywhere.
1:15.0	And by the time Huey's mom Sarah picked up the phone to Dr Stephen Hassan,
1:20.0	it was on her mind too.
1:22.0	Friends and family have been scouring the internet for answers.
1:26.4	They were looking for someone who understood the situation they found themselves in and who knew how to get them out of it.
1:37.0	I'm Dr Stephen Hassan. I am a licensed mental health counselor. I got interested in the area of mind-control
1:46.5	cults due to my own involvement in the Moonies in the mid-70s.
1:51.3	Everything else had failed.
1:55.0	The legal letters.
1:56.0	The attempts to contact Huey and Tory directly,
1:59.0	the police investigation.
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