When Anthony Christopher hired a community outreach coordinator for his Children's Therapy Center, he had no idea that her 90 days of employment would lead to years of harassment, his arrest, and a 3.57 million dollar defamation lawsuit.

And then he learned he wasn't the only one making accusations against the same woman, Laddana Humphrey.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome to crime lines. If this is your first episode, do not expect this every week.

This is a huge departure from my usual format where I just sit down and tell everyone a true crime story that I have

absolutely no connection to. But this case even though it's not the type of case I usually cover and it's not the format I usually use is

important and something I've wanted to cover because it impacts not just the true crime

content creator space which I am in but also the advocacy and

victims families side of things that I want to support. The way this episode will go is that I'm going to tell you about my

connection to the situation which is superficial by any measure and then we're going to

hear an interview I did with Anthony Christopher who is so deeply connected to this

that he has been harassed arrested, cleared, and won a defamation lawsuit over it.

What I'm talking about is the subject of the most recent season of the

pretend podcast, Who's Afraid of Lydana Humphrey? And you are going to hear an

extended clip from that first episode so that you can sort of try it

before you buy it even though the podcast is free and you can just go listen to

all 16 episodes right now follow pretend in your podcast app, because I know once you hear part of the story, you're going to want to hear the rest.

So, to start with my connection to this and why I care enough to dedicate an entire crime lines episode to it,

I have been such a long time listener of Pretend that I still call it Pretend radio.

Does anyone else do that? I didn't even notice that he dropped the radio

part until very recently. At the first True Crime Podcast Festival in 2019 I invited the host

Javier to a panel that I was moderating and the panel is just

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