Jonathan Goldstein
speaker
264 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Jonathan Goldstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It just seems very crazy, and it's kind of hard for me to talk about it.
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At this point, he's only shared the story with a couple of people, and he only agreed to share it with me after I promised not to use his real name, so we'll call him X. My communication with X began with an email he sent me over three years ago.
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It contained a lot of nervous preamble and throat clearing, but eventually he came to the point.
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In 1992, he said, I committed an armed bank robbery.
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I was just one month past my 14th birthday.
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X begins this story by telling me about his family.
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He was raised on a dairy farm, the son of immigrant parents.
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He was one of seven children, all brothers.
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X was right in the middle.
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X's home life wasn't an easy one.
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To illustrate, X tells me about the night he snuck out to the local junior high.
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He noticed an open window and broke in.
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The police caught him and brought him home, where his parents were waiting.
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Eck says there were other nights like that.
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School offered no respite.
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X was small for his age and had a high voice.
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The bullies took notice.
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Between school and his home life, it felt like there was no safe place to be.
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So X retreated into a fantasy world.
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He'd come home from a day of being bullied and lie in bed playing out scenes in which he was the powerful one, the one to be feared.
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