Coming Soon … What Happened to Her
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Who is Melissa Jeltsen and what is the focus of her new show “What Happened to Her”?
I'm investigative reporter Melissa Jeltsin. For four seasons, I've been telling the stories of women whose lives and deaths were caught up in a series of systemic and cultural failures.
If that was my friend, I would be flipping over rocks trying to find her. I'd call the National Guard. I would be out there. You can put any damn thing you want down.
Why does Melissa investigate cases where women’s deaths were quickly ruled suicides?
That doesn't mean that happened that way. What happened to her is unknown, and it's something that I need to know.
Now I'm going wider. In my new show, What Happened to Her, I bring you new stories every week. Stories about women whose deaths were too quickly ruled a suicide.
You're not going to kill yourself in the middle of doing laundry.
How does Melissa handle the guilt and doubt that come with reopening “closed” cases?
Stories about women no one believed.
We were feeling some guilt. We were feeling like, did we overstep? Then we would have these discussions about like, wait a minute, we did the right thing. Cases
that everyone else called closed. I was like, how? How can it be? They can't convict her, right?
What systemic failures do the stories highlight that left women unheard and unprotected?
Like, she has so much evidence. And the people who gave everything to get an
answer. It's taken my whole life. It's all I ever think about, but we only have one shot at it.
Every one of these stories starts in the same place, with a woman failed by a system that didn't believe her, that didn't protect her, that didn't see her. No child should ever experience that. And we were babies.
We were babies.
When and where can listeners tune in to new episodes of “What Happened to Her”?
She did all of these brave things and came out and spoke about it and he got a year. You never know who that devil is because he's wearing a disguise. Sometimes it's a police uniform.
Listen to What Happened to Her starting on September 30th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Melissa Jeltsen and what is the focus of her new show “What Happened to Her”?
0:00–0:21
2
Why does Melissa investigate cases where women’s deaths were quickly ruled suicides?
0:21–0:47
3
How does Melissa handle the guilt and doubt that come with reopening “closed” cases?
0:47–1:08
4
What systemic failures do the stories highlight that left women unheard and unprotected?
1:08–1:35
5
When and where can listeners tune in to new episodes of “What Happened to Her”?
1:35–1:57