Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing
14195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

She says to the paramedics, apparently, she said to the paramedics that she, you know, this happened really early in the morning at like 5.30 in the morning, she said that she heard screaming and crying and went into the room and found the baby on the floor.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

In the version she tells in Serial, she said she was woken up by a thud when the baby fell to the floor.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

I mean, those are two quite different stories.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

You know, it's not a matter of like one sort of element.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Yeah, so she claims that she...

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Was, I think, asleep on the couch.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And it's not totally clear from description where the bassinet was.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

But, you know, it was a very young baby.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

It was seven weeks old.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

So the baby was in the bassinet.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And then says that she awoke to this noise and that the baby was on the floor next to the bassinet.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And then her two-year-old was in the bassinet.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And so she was saying, you know, she, I guess, is painting this picture.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And it made me very uncomfortable how much she...

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

took pains to blame this situation on the child throughout this episode and that's sort of a whole separate thing but like um you know that the two-year-old had i guess thrown the baby i mean it wasn't like that the bassinet tipped over with both of them in it like that the the two-year-old had sort of i guess chucked the seven-week-old out of the bassinet which again you know having having little kids in this time of my life being really relatively recent um

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

I don't know if that's impossible, but it's a strange story.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

Just after my interview with Randy, we obtained a copy of Amanda Cernofsky's lawsuit.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

And in reading Amanda's account of this incident, I caught yet another discrepancy, giving us a total of three versions of the story.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

According to news reports from the time, Cernofsky told paramedics that she was out of the room when the fall happened and came in when she heard crying.

Nobody Should Believe Me
What “The Preventionist” Left Out with Dr. Randy Alexander

The story Amanda tells in the media is that she awoke to a thud and found the baby on the floor with its onesie undone, and that her toddler was sitting in the bassinet, which would indicate that the baby was pushed or tossed out.