Julie K. Brown

And to me, it didn't look like that at all.

It looked like they had a lot of young girls that were ready to cooperate.

So I still had my day job, so to speak, because

You know, we had the Parkland shooting in the midst of this.

I remember taking a break to help with that coverage.

And as you know, Miami is, you know, always full of crazy news.

So I'd be doing other stuff in the middle of it.

But I just kept coming back to this case.

Well, that took a long time.

That was a really long process because all their names were redacted from all the files.

So I didn't know who they were.

So I sort of came at it about three different ways.

One, I tried to contact the lawyers who represented some of them who by now were filing civil lawsuits against Epstein.

Number two, I

Just did an old-fashioned spreadsheet and started finding their names just organically in the files.

Whenever they were talking about redactions with the Epstein files, as you know, a lot of the victims' names weren't redacted from this batch that we just got.

over the past week and a half or so.

So it was the same thing back then.

There were mistakes that were made with the redaction.

So I did get some names from the records themselves.