Jeff Benedict

He was a relatively young CEO, and he had two children.

He had two daughters.

And he felt guilty.

He actually wanted to testify.

He wanted to talk against the better judgment of his attorneys.

And he said things that were essentially incriminating because he was, I don't know that he thought about it this way, but he was basically acknowledging that Jack in the Box had screwed up.

But his intention was, he was trying to take responsibility.

And he was also trying to protect his own company, but he just, when I say as a journalist, he was too honest.

What I mean by that is,

He was pretty raw.

I think by that point, he knew that his company had made an enormous mistake.

And the only thing he was really focused on at that point was trying to figure out how to make sure that it never happened again.

And from everything that they were seeing with the way that the E. coli had attacked her,

unfortunately, was that her chances of survival were very low.

And the doctors felt like she was one of the ones that they weren't going to be able to save.

And at the time, it was portrayed as a miracle because, you know, from the doctor's perspective, they didn't really have any precedent for this.

And granted, there hadn't been a lot of cases to look back on, but this was a big abnormality in the outbreak, for sure.

But the damage to her was pretty catastrophic.

Like, they knew...

at that point that, you know, a couple of her vital organs she'd already lost, and that there would be things like she'd never be able to have children.