Introducing Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah

Sarah was everything people wanted her to be—until she wasn’t. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. She was a decorated veteran, a marine who saved
her comrades a hero.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
She had been in a convoy and her vehicle was
hit by an ID. The door from the humphe like
crushed her hip.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I was just like, goodness, gracious, the amount of tragedy
in trauma. I just resolved like I am gonna do
everything that I can do to help you.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
She was stoic, modest, tough, someone who inspired people.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I liked her. I liked her a lot. She worked
really hard and she was really humble. She was injured
and everybody knew it, but she was still running.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I distinctly remember her saying, if I'm going to have
to have my leg amputated, then I'm gonna make this
bitch give me every last ounce of what it's got
to give.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
There were also moments when she said things that seemed
a little off or just didn't add up, but no
one called her on it, at least not at first.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's kind of like if you had a friend that
told you that she'd had a miscarriage, the very last
thing that you're going to do to that friend while
she's crying about losing a baby is ask her if
that actually happened. Everyone thought they knew her until they didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Picked up the phone just to check my messages before
I went back to work, and that she said, you
need to come home. The FBI is here.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I remember sitting on her couch and asking her, is
this real?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Is this real? Is this real? Is this real?

Speaker 6 (02:04):
I just couldn't wrap my head around what kind of
person would do that to another person that was getting treatment,
that was, you know, dying.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
This is a story all about trust and about a
woman named Sarah Cavanaugh.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
When you live two separate lives for so long, it
feels normal.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Who's decided to share her side.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Of the story.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
I've always been told I'm a really good listener, right,
and I maximize that people. When you create space, people
fill that space.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm Jay Calburn and I'm Jess McHugh. Deep Cover the
Truth about Sarah, coming May twelfth from Pushkin Industries