Rachel Brown
speaker
1,264 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But their new mystery had only just begun.
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Because here's the thing about dissociative disorders.
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They don't just come out of nowhere.
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In many cases, they're the result of prolonged, extreme psychological trauma.
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they needed to learn why Ruth had started dissociating in order to heal.
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Dr. Pickens recommends that Ruth receive psychotherapy with him twice a week.
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The red bandana had been the poet's signature, and now it was about to unlock a much larger mystery about what happened to Ruth and where the poet came from.
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Dr. Pickens' office at the Wichita Psychiatric Center is a windowless room with no personal effects or photographs, something he's done on purpose so that his patients don't learn too much about him.
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That's Gene Stone, the journalist and author who spent time with Ruth and Dr. Pickens while writing his book on the case.
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This was all part of Dr. Pickens' approach.
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During those early sessions, Ruth begins to open up.
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They were strict and discouraged outward displays of emotion, but were decent parents.
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Even though she grew up poor during the Depression, Ruth continually insists her childhood was idyllic.
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But strange flashes of memory keep coming.
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She remembers a neighbor, a family friend who lived on a property down the road.
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He wore a red bandana around his neck.
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She remembers this neighbor being asked to look after her when she was around three years old, being left alone with the man when her parents were busy.
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The man would pretend he was playing a game with her and use looking for the key as a way to undress her.
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The man would gag her with it while sexually abusing her in a barn on his property.
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Here's Dr. Pickens again.
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