Eleanor Gordon Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She'd left foster care and was making her own life as an adult.
She was learning to fly military helicopters.
And she decided to become a psychologist.
She says because she wanted to be like Corwin.
She felt safe when she was talking to him as a kid.
Like she was being listened to.
She wanted to make other people feel that way.
She started acing her psychology classes at night while she trained as a pilot during the day.
A couple years into her military service, stationed in Hawaii, she got an odd phone call from a close family friend.
It was the only thing she'd ever been part of that might be interesting to an investigator.
She called Corwin, who learned Loftus was behind it.
Loftus interviewed Nicole's foster mum, former step mum, family friends who knew her growing up.
She'd even interviewed Nicole's biological mum and said she might have been wrongly accused.
Nicole, hearing about Loftus, was like, absolutely not.
Why did you want her to stop?
And what did she say?
Did she ask you any direct questions while she was looking into the case?
Did that strike you as kind of odd?