Rachel Brown
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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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Amid this lingering hostility and misunderstanding, Ruth needed to face her biggest fear and tell her story, not knowing how it would be received.
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Members of the media had been trying to get her on the record for years, but she was never ready.
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But finally, she decided she needed to take her story back.
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Ruth accepts an offer from Cake TV to do a sit-down interview on camera with Larry Hadeberg.
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This was a big moment for her.
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She'd hated the attention the case got and was really anxious about going public with her darkest, most traumatic memories.
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But Dr. Pickens said she knew her story could potentially help people.
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In the Cake TV interview, Ruth explains the story of her abuse.
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And, of course, I started to cry.
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This was a remarkable thing for her to do, especially given how discussions of sexual violence remain taboo today and were even more so back then in the 1980s.
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I don't know when or how I did all this.
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The segment ends with Ruth reading one of her final poems.
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After the program ended, they waited for the reaction.
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The Cake TV segment was also shown in local public schools.
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Ruth then took that mission to destigmatize abuse to the biggest audience imaginable, the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1994.
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Larry Hadeberg says that while more people know about BTK than the poet case today, what happened with the poet and how Ruth dealt with it has a different kind of impact.
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Ruth's story only really has one victim.
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She never hurt anyone but herself.
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And she never implicated anyone else either, even when she had the chance to point fingers.
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The only thing she was guilty of was pulling other people into her delusions, her family and the police in the city of Wichita.
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