Jad Abumrad

And they storm the compound while it's burning, and some pretty awful things happen because a lot of Fela's wives were inside the compound at that point.

There was...

some very upsetting sexual violence that occurs.

And that really was kind of the end of a certain era of Fela's career.

Yeah, thank you so much, Terry, for having me on.

Uh, hi, this is Jad.

Hi.

Hey, it's me, Jad.

And I'm Robert.

And today's story started when we bumped into an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Were you a little bit weirded out as to why we are calling you?

I don't, you know, I mean, I just don't understand the whole thing.

The story really gets going with a phone call to this woman, Elizabeth Mason.

I'm a receptionist slash switchboard operator.

She works at a research lab in Boston, and one day she's sitting at her desk, and she gets a call from a woman who says that she has donated some eyes to them, and she wants to know what happened to them.

And was it what happened without getting into too many?

Five days after he arrived, they were married.

A few years after that, they were pregnant with twins.

And when did you first know that something was up?

They went in for the screening.