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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.
Appearances
Emma and her husband bought into a new housing development at the same time that Ruth and Ed did.
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They all became neighbors and fast friends.
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Emma and Ruth started hanging out, going for meals downtown.
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But whenever they were out in public, Emma couldn't help but notice strangers staring at them.
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Emma hadn't followed the Poet case closely and had no idea Ruth was involved in it.
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But Ruth never said anything.
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Emma and Ruth started traveling together too, one time driving through Scotland.
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That's where Emma introduced Ruth to her sister.
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Their friendship went on for years before Ruth was ready to tell her best friend about the poet.
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Poetry came to have a third chapter in Ruth's life.
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First, it was a tool for comfort as a child.
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Then it became a tool for self-harm as the poet.
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And finally, it served as a tool for healing.
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Ruth started writing about her abuse in therapy, oftentimes in between sessions with Dr. Pickens.
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Sometimes she wrote poems describing the abuse she endured in the voice of her three-year-old self.
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And as her therapy progressed, her poems did too.
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By the time she was ready to end her therapy, Ruth was writing in her present voice.
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Seven years after their first session together, Ruth walked out of Dr. Pickens' office for the last time.
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Ruth's final hurdle was to fully reintegrate into society, a society that felt she was a liar, an attention seeker, or thought that she'd wasted valuable police time and money during the most terrifying time in Wichita history, when BTK was running rampant.
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Detective Mike McKenna was one of the many people who hadn't forgiven her.
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