Isolde Raftery
speaker
914 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Isolde Raftery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His LinkedIn profile corroborated all that.
I also saw that this man had been interviewed on several industry podcasts about his area of expertise, and he came across as thoughtful and deeply ethical.
Early the next morning, the man arrived at KUOW neatly dressed, wearing khakis, a polo shirt, and loafers with his hair slicked back.
He greeted me warmly.
But I could tell he was nervous.
His face was red and a little sweaty.
The man stammered a lot.
This wasn't the poised, confident person I'd researched online.
I took him to a small conference room with dim lighting.
It was a Saturday, so the building was almost empty.
After we sat down, the first thing he said was that he'd been listening to our podcast, and he needed to tell me something in person.
we had let Tom Hudson off the hook.
The man looked at me closely to see if I understood what he meant.
mister Hudson, he said, was a child rapist.
Then, for nearly three intense hours, he recounted in detail how the teacher molested him, starting in the late nineteen eighties and extending into the nineteen nineties.
it was a harrowing and deeply emotional conversation.
But that wasn't all.
If you've listened to this series, you know that my best friend Ella Hushagen and I were students at Garfield in the late nineteen nineties and heard rumors that Mr.
Hudson was abusing boys there.
I told my mom, who reported what we'd learned to authorities.
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