Natalie Robomed

Hi, Binge Crew.

When you're finished listening to this true crime story, go see Hunting Matthew Nichols in theaters.

This film has all the elements of the true crime stories we love.

A sprawling mystery, intrepid investigators, powerful people who know more than they let on.

Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing persons case.

But when a disturbing piece of evidence is revealed, she comes to believe her brother might still be alive.

The film is in select theaters now, but you can immerse yourself in the story by going to huntingmatthewnichols.com right now.

That's huntingmatthewnichols.com.

And welcome to The Hunt.

And I'm Natalie Robomed.

It's October 2017 at a public school in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As the kids throw their books in their bags and slam their lockers, in one classroom, a special ed teacher is getting ready to go home.

Bridget talks in the sweet, measured way of someone's grandmother, though looking at her, you'd never know she was old enough to be one.

With dark hair and neatly painted lips, she looks much younger than 64.

I don't know if you had a special ed teacher at your school or if you remember them, but Bridget seems like exactly the sort of woman who would excel at it.

She's calm, patient, pretty unflappable.

The type of person who could help a kid with developmental needs, kneeling down to get on their level and meeting them where they're at, even if it means going through the same material over and over.

But even someone like Bridget can get unsettled by life sometimes.

After her husband died and she was in this fog of grief, Bridget began to feel burned out by her job.

The long hours, the in-person work with kids that really needed everything she could give.