Let's Talk About It

Guests: Agnes Brackett

Agnes discusses trying to keep her daughter safe from her gun-toting, fire-starting husband.   

Topics discussed: Child Abuse, Guns, Failure of Justice System

Guests: Darcia and Dezarae – Darcia and Dezarae discuss how the “sweetest man in the world” in prison turned evil upon release.

Topics Discussed: Failed judicial system, strangulation, impact on children

Guest: Lilly DesRoberts – Lilly, a 20-year-old UNE Biddeford pre-dental student,  talks about how cyber-stalking and suicide threats by her  boyfriend from high school plagued her first year of college. 

Topics: Life360 cyber-stalking, suicide threats, alcohol, failure of judicial court system 

Guest: Kerry Smith – Kerry talks about the preventable DV murders of mother and daughter Jennie and Lisa Bailey in Bath. 

Topics include: Police response to DV, Veteran’s Administration response to DV, systemic changes needed

Guests: Michelle, Kerry, Amber – Michelle, a communications executive talks about an early marriage that almost killed her. Kerry and Amber talk about their best friends who were murdered by DV this year. 

Topics include: Financial abuse, guns, family impact of abuse  

Guests: Anonymous and Jennifer. 

Two-parter about how religion helped to trap both women in domestic abuse and made it harder to get out.

“Anonymous" talks about the Cantor who refused to give her a Get for a divorce, and Jennifer talks about the pious-acting husband who was anything but.

Guest: Shelly Edwards Jorgensen. 

Shelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesmemoir.com/books/

Topics: Child abuse, Siblings, Arson

Guest: Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices. 

Her home was destroyed and dog killed in a fire set by her ex, and her family sided with him.

Topics: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from children and grandchildren. 

Guests: Ashley and Dezarae.

Ashley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend. 

Topics: The military, same sex abuse, impact on children

Guest: Caroline McKuen

The director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse 

Topics: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse.

https://www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org

Guests: Courtney Davis and Jess 

Jess introduced her best friend to him, then grew alarmed as he steadily turned Courtney into a shell of herself

Topics: Sexual abuse, financial abuse, what to do when you are worried for a loved one

Short film on Courtney here.

Guest: Anonymous

What it was like having a childhood that on the outside seemed golden and glamourous, and on the inside was a “living hell”.

Topics: Narcissistic fathers, living a lie, child abuse 

Guest: Anonymous

He strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial! 

Topics: Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights, bail reform 

Guest: Jolene

No accountability from the courts and police make him scarier and scarier, to her, her children, the police and the public. 

Topics: Criminal court reform, good ol’ boy network, the folly of Batterer’s Intervention 

Guests: Jolene, Jennifer, Tiffany, Gina, Sarah, and Mary

Six survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year.

Topics:  The role alcohol plays in abuse, being let down by the court system, child abuse

Guest: Randall Liberty,  Maine's Commissioner of Corrections

Randy talks with Patrisha about the impact his father’s violence toward his mother had on him and his brothers. 

Topics: Sons and fathers, sons and mothers, the importance of prison for violent abusers

Guest: Amy 

Maine officials worked overtime to give full custody of her baby granddaughter to a two-time domestic violence felon. 

Topics: Family court dysfunction, child abuse, grandparental rights