Elizabeth Phillips

I just went off this lead from Gretchen.

She goes, you need to write a book.

Uh, and then once you have your book, you can option it into a film, get the story out, like what, uh, like Bombshell in their case.

Helped people understand the Roger Ailes story and the Fox News stuff.

Or like Spotlight, right?

The Catholic church crisis, that movie helped expose the scale and the scope of the situation.

So I get on a call with Nancy for 45 minutes.

She's a disclosed survivor of clergy abuse when she was 12.

Vacation Bible school teacher abused her when she was 12 in the Church of Christ in Kentucky.

And I told her what I was uncovering and working on, and she was like, I don't know how I can help.

Like, yes, I'm a ghostwriter, but this needs to get out to the public ASAP.

So anyways, we like stayed in touch.

She's an amazing writer.

And so I was like, if nothing else, look at this Facts About Kanakuk website and help me out with how do we get the word out?

And then I met this woman who on a blog post about the Pete Newman arrest.

And a local blogger in Taney County had written about Pete Newman's arrest.

And someone left her full name and address and said, I reported Pete Newman.

well before he was arrested, because my daughter saw him abusing a boy in the woods.

I contact her.

She'd investigated Kanakuk on her own as a freelance journalist for, like, four years.