Chasing Bill Cosby
Tonight, my special guest is Nicole Weisensee Egan who is an award-winning journalist, former senior writer for People Magazine and Bill Cosby's worst nightmare. Get her book Chasing Cosby to read what she uncovered about American's pudding pop hero.
Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. The mounting allegations against Bill Cosby - more than 60 women have come forward to accuse him of similar crimes - and his ultimate conviction were a shock to Americans, who wanted to cleave to their image of Cosby as a pudding-pop hero.
Award-winning journalist and former People Magazine senior writer Nicki Weisensee Egan was the first reporter to dig into the story when Constand went to the police in 2005. Other news organizations looked away, but Egan doggedly investigated the case, developing ties with entrenched sources and discovering incriminating details that would ultimately come to influence the prosecution.
In her debut audiobook, Chasing Cosby, Egan shares her firsthand account of Cosby's 13-year run from justice. She tells us how Cosby planned and executed his crimes and how Hollywood alliances and law enforcement knew what Cosby was doing but did nothing to stop him. A veteran crime reporter, Egan also explores the cultural and social issues that influenced the case, delving into the psychological calculations of a serial predator and into the psyche of a nation that fervently wanted to put their faith in the innocence of "American's Dad".
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free, when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. So that's where she worked.
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And he was on the board of trustees of the university where she worked. He was a very powerful figure at her employer.
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So but then she there came a point in time where she realized she she did not want to keep being a coach or even try to be a coach.
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She decided she wanted to move back to her native Canada and go to school and become a massage therapist like her father. But she was nervous about telling her boss and knew Cosby was close with her boss.
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So he invited he she called to talk to him about about how she should break the news. And he invited her over to his house that evening so they could talk about it. And she had been there alone with others before.
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He'd held dinners there and everything. There was nothing unusual about this invitation. What was unusual is what happened next. And this is what I think is so diabolical about the whole thing.
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