A bright and mesmerizing teenager tries to make her way in the world only to find her father is the one person standing in her way. Sharon Marshall navigates high school in the 1980s with a mysterious home life that troubles all those around her. As her teenage years unfold, so does the darkness of Sharon and her father's relationship. Girl in the Picture Podcast is a companion to the documentary coming to Netflix on July 6, 2022. The podcast is a standalone audio documentary and can be listened to before or after watching the film. If you are hoping to avoid spoilers, we recommend watching the film before listening to episode 3.
A bright and mesmerizing teenager tries to make her way in the world only to find her father is the one person standing in her way. Sharon Marshall navigates high school in the 1980s with a mysterious home life that troubles all those around her. As her teenage years unfold, so does the darkness of Sharon and her father's relationship.
Girl in the Picture Podcast is a companion to the documentary coming to Netflix on July 6, 2022. The podcast is a standalone audio documentary and can be listened to before or after watching the film. If you are hoping to avoid spoilers, we recommend watching the film before listening to episode 3.
Girl in the Picture Podcast is brought to you by Netflix and Main Event Media.
Narrator: Skye Borgman
Writer and Producer: Anna Priestland
Executive Producers: Emily Bon and Jimmy Fox for Main Event Media, Skye Borgman and Matt Birkbeck.
Sound Editor: Joel Porter
Sound Designer and Mixer: Reed Thomas Lawrence
Original Music Composition by: Jimmy Stofer
Based on the books “A Beautiful Child" and “Finding Sharon” by Matt Birkbeck.
Special Thanks: Heather Lane, Sherry Forston-Bailey, Lynn Clemons, Jenny Fisher, Diane Cranley, and Kurtis Bloss.
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Skye 00:01
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Joe Fitzpatrick 00:53
One of the first things I did was show him the photograph of him and the little girl. And I'll never forget his reaction to it. He looked at me. He says, "That doesn't bother me."
Lynn 01:04
So there's a child or children missing.
Lynn 01:10
It's very clear that he was not capable of actually true love and loving a child.
Jenny 01:16
We were kids. It's his fault. He did this.
Joe Fitzpatrick 01:22
When I looked at the picture and saw what we had, it added more depth to the horror of the case.
01:32
That was the end goal for her just to have an open door but never walk out.
Heather 01:39
I had so many questions. We won't ever have all the answers. But if we can get any positive out of it, that's all that matters.
Jenny 01:50
I think to this day, I'm still like, "You know, who was she? Where did she come from?"
Skye 02:06
This is a story about a very smart, very capable girl who was under a monster's complete control. And despite having many different names, she never really knew who she was. Hi. I'm Skye Borgman, director of the Netflix documentary "Girl in the Picture." While making the film, I discovered how many questions I still had about this young woman's life. I wanted to understand how she became the person she was, how she survived, and how she lived. We've built this podcast a little differently from a typical film companion show. We're releasing the first couple episodes before the film comes out on Netflix. But it won't matter if you listen to the podcast first or watch the film first. Either way, you'll find that here, we're just going deeper into the story of what happened to this young woman and why it would take several agencies decades to solve the mystery. This is the "Girl in the Picture Podcast."
Heather 03:26
Sharon Marshall could have been anything she wanted to be. She had so much inner strength, and she had to have it. I mean, she was smart enough to survive, and she had to be smart in order to be where she was. I'm sorry. She had so much potential. She had something to offer the world. She really had a gift, and she was such a good person and so smart and so sweet.
Skye 04:27
It was January, 1984, when 15-year-old Sharon Marshall and her father Warren walked into Forest Park High School on the southern fringe of Atlanta. It was Sharon's fourth school in a year. And Warren told the staff they'd moved around a lot since her mom had died of cancer. She had past report cards filled with mostly As and an IQ of 132. Teachers found Sharon quiet but confident. And despite the loss of her mom and her constant moving around with her single dad, she seemed to be thriving. I spoke with Sherry, one of the first friends Sharon made there.
Sherry 05:07
It was just your regular high school, loud hallways, crazy kids. And I just remember her, you know, coming into the gifted program. And they came in and introduced her. And all the boys went crazy, and, you know, she was very, very smart. And she was going to be an aerospace engineer. There was no--there was no, "Oh, I might wanna be this," or, "I might wanna be that." That was what she was going to do. We were the Ally Sheedy of the breakfast club kind of people. We weren't really all that popular. We were the gifted kids. You know, the gift kids are not necessarily usually the popular ones. You know, she always picked up on people who might have been sad or not. People didn't pay attention to, and she would pay attention to them to make them feel better. She was just very cheerful, smiled all the time. She was just a happy person. She hung out with Ray. But she really couldn't hang out a lot, 'cause she had to be home after school. So whatever hanging out was happening was happening at school.
Lynn 06:25
I think a lot of people thought that Sharon and I were dating, 'cause she would wear my jacket. And, you know, she would always hug me in the hallway and hold my hand. When I met her, I was probably at one of my lowest points. Life at Forest Park for someone like me was hard. And I'll tell you why is because I was very, very petite. And I guess you could say, I might have been a little, you know, feminine, even though I wasn't trying to be. And she would hear people in the hallway. They would call me, "Fag," or, "Gay Ray." And she was a short girl, but she would get in their faces. And she would--she would say things and take up for me. And those people would leave me alone afterwards. I could have--I could have very easily committed suicide, or I could have very easily have dropped high school to get away from the harassment. And then where would I be? To me, she was an angel became at one of my darkest times.
Skye 07:44
During the summer of '84, Sharon went off to Student Council Camp where she met Jenny. She lived just outside of town.
Jenny 07:54
I was on the student council for my ninth-grade year, and they sent us to summer camp at Berry College. Sharon was in my group, and I don't know. It was just instant hit it off. Like, I felt like from the first day I had known her my whole life. And she told me that her mother was killed in a car accident. That she was hit by a car on a bridge and died when she was in the second grade.
Skye 08:18
There were different stories of how Sharon's mom died. And with Jenny attending a different school, no one spoke about it or questioned it. Why would they?
Jenny 08:29
We didn't exchange numbers when we left. But I looked in the directory, and I found her name and number. I was like, "Oh, my God. There she is, you know?" So I called, and when I called, she picked up the phone. You know, she said, "Hello." I said, "Sharon, hey. It's Jenny." And she's like, "Oh, my God. How did you get my number?" And I said, "It was in the directory." And she said, "You can't call here." And I said, "Why?" And she said, "My dad doesn't allow me to use the phone." And then I could hear him screaming in the background, "Who's on the phone?" And she's like, "Oh, it's a girl from camp." "How did you--did you give her the number?" Just screaming at her. "Did you give her that number? How did she get the number?" She was like, "Daddy, no. It was nothing." And then the phone hung up. And I sat there, like, shocked, because this did not sound like the same girl that I had been at camp with. And then that was my first experience with Warren Marshall.
Skye 09:18
Even though Jenny felt weird about the way Warren and Sharon were on the phone that day, she knew they didn't have the easiest home life.
Jenny 09:26
I thought, "Well, you know, this is just a working dad who's doing the best he can." You know, had seemed like her rules were very, very, very strict. She would always tell me, "When daddy comes home, I have to give him a back massage. I have to sit down with him, and we have to go over the bills. We have to pay the bills, and I have to cook dinner. I have to have the house clean. I have to get my homework done." She was--you know, it was like she was the little wife, and I just thought she was doing the best she could with her mom being gone.
Lynn 09:58
I would go to her house, and we would stay outside. She was always saying that her dad, you know, was napping because he works real hard, and he works, you know, painting houses and doing construction work. And she would say, "I'm tired." And I said, "Well, aren't you not getting any sleep?" And this was a moment that is frozen in time in my mind. She goes, "Well, you know, sometimes I have to give my dad backrubs and massages. He comes in the middle of the night, because he's so tired. And I have to rub his back and make sure that he's got a massage." And I said, "What?" I recognized that something wasn't right. And I asked her. I said, "Is your dad doing anything?" I said, "I don't wanna mess up our friendship, and you can be honest with me." I said, "Sharon, you know that I was molested. And is anything not right with your dad?" "Oh, no. Don't be silly. You know, that's my dad." And she blew it off. And I said, "Is he, you know, touching you inappropriately or anything?" And she just--she kind of laughed it off. She never answered the question. And to this day, I still remember that she never answered the question. She laughed it off, and she just hugged me. I had to respect him. I had to be very careful, because I didn't wanna lose my friend.
Diane Cranley 11:43
Without somebody saying, "Here's how it looks. Here are the things to look out for," they don't have the confidence to understand that it's real.
Skye 11:51
Diane Cranley is a sexual abuse survivor and has dedicated her life to abuse prevention.
Diane Cranley 11:57
You know, if you see one boundary being broken, okay. You know, maybe no big deal. But if you see a pattern of boundaries being broken, you should suspect that abuse is either already happening or it's going to happen if somebody doesn't intercede. And so when you know what it looks like and you know what the boundaries are and you're seeing these behaviors, you're empowered.
Lynn 12:20
One night, her dad came to pick her up. And my mom had just gotten home. And she was--she was in her police gear with badge, everything done. No work. He knocked on the door. We were in the living room, and my mom answered the door. And the look on his face, you could just tell that he was kind of shocked. And he goes, "Is my daughter here? Is Sharon here?" And my mom goes, "Yeah, you wanna come in?" He goes, "No, I'm fine out here. Tell her to get her ass out here so we gotta go." And Sharon left. And my mom goes, "That's her father?" I go, "Yeah." And she said, "I don't want you around him." And I said, "Why?" And she goes, "I don't know. He just--he just doesn't give me a good feeling." And that's when I told her about the massage, and she goes, "Well, you know, I can't do anything." And nobody could do anything unless she comes forward and sys something. You know, that she actually has to say that.
Diane Cranley 13:24
The problem is one person saw one thing. Somebody else saw another thing. This person saw something else. Whereas independently, it was just weird or creepy. But together it's like, "Oh, no. Something is definitely going wrong here."
Skye 13:37
Despite Sharon's happy façade, she was being sexually abused at home. Some of her friends suspected it, but no one wanted to push her. And although people knew something wasn't right with Warren, they just weren't sure what it was.
Jenny 13:56
She didn't have emotional problems that we could tell. She wasn't crying. She wasn't, "Oh, woe," with me. She had a very positive outlook on life. She had very high grades. She read a lot. Looking back, I think Sharon had a lot of little signs of cries for help. I look back. The signs were there. You can wave a red flag all you want. But if you don't realize what a red flag means, you're not gonna look for it. It's just gonna be part of the scenery.
Diane Cranley 14:26
Sometimes, you know, we list all these things. You know, look for kids who are depressed or withdrawn and, you know, all these things. And those things are all true. But sometimes kids go the other way. And it's like, "If I can just make everything perfect in my life, right, if I can put on this façade of perfection, then I can get through this." And it is a coping mechanism, and it's multiple things. Sometimes it's so that other people don't see the total brokenness, you know, underneath. And sometimes it's just about control. And so we see that sometimes as their means for coping, because they can't control other parts of their life that are so painful. So they thrive in the areas that they can control. You know, sometimes people say, "Well, she was more resilient." I'm not sure that that's resilience. It may look like it on the surface, right? But everything that she was struggling with is still buried below, and so that's a coping mechanism.
Skye 15:32
Thinking about the signs or these cries for help that Jenny mentions. In the 1980s, we just weren't having conversations about what to look out for or how to recognize signs of sexual abuse. And that sort of education we have now on boundaries between adults and children really didn't exist yet. Looking at Sharon's life in retrospect, I wonder how she could stay so positive. And the thing, is we'll never really know. At the time she was working towards a college scholarship and had hopes of studying aerospace engineering and working for NASA. Perhaps her drive to succeed was a coping mechanism, or maybe being so positive was just who she was. There was a time when Warren's behavior was vague but now began to escalate. And he started acting out in front of others. Sharon told her dad that Lynn was acting in shows and had done some commercials. And Sharon showed Lynn photos that her father had taken of her, ones that Lynn felt were just way too sexy for a teenager. Then Warren offered to take photos of Lynn and Sharon together.
Lynn 16:55
He drove us to a part of Atlanta that I had never been to. It was very seedy. It was a bunch of warehouses. And he stopped in front of this warehouse, 'cause he went inside. He says, "I'll be right back." And that's when I saw it. He had a gun with him. And I just kind of looked. And Sharon looked at me, and she goes, "What?" As he was leaving the car I say, "Your dad has a gun." And she goes, "Oh, that's just protection. He protects me that way." And I go, "Okay." He came back from the warehouse, and he was very upset. He said, "We can't take the pictures today. They got it locked up." When I told my mom that I got in the truck with him, I don't think--I don't think the roof ever came back down. My mother was so angry with me that she was, "Suppose he would've killed, I would never know where you were." And I just--I just know that she did whatever he told her to do. I mean, to the letter. Whenever he said, "Do something," she did it.
Skye 18:22
Whatever Warren was planning to do that day, he was using the fact that Lynn trusted Sharon. Edging towards breaking boundaries is a key part of an abuser's process.
Diane Cranley 18:36
It's really the cyclical process where they're constantly whether consciously or subconsciously thinking about all of these aspects and moving every ball forward just slowly but surely. And anytime they get, you know, direct pushback, significant pushback from a child, you know, they'll slow down. Or they'll, you know, take a step back, and maybe even take that child off their list and move on. And again, they're testing the waters to see who will and won't tell.
Skye 19:04
Warren, didn't just push boundaries with Sharon and her friends. He pushed them with adults too. Jenny told me about the time when Warren first met her parents. Sharon and her dad came to their house, and almost straight away, he asked Jenny's parents for a loan. Her dad said, "No." And then later told Jenny that he adored Sharon, but he didn't like her dad. And Warren's weird behavior didn't stop there. Another time not long after this, Jenny and her parents came home from the mall to find Warren and Sharon inside their house. He'd opened the garage door and just walked in.
Jenny 19:49
He was just lying on our sofa, and she's sitting there mortified. She was, I mean, all hunched over like, "Oh, my God. I can't--"you know, she's like, "I'm so sorry." And my mom was like, "Why is he in our house?"
Skye 20:02
Furious, Jenny's dad told her she was never allowed to be alone with Warren or to go to Sharon's house ever again.
Jenny 20:14
And of course, you know, we broke the rule that weekend and went out that weekend. Sharon wanted me to come down so bad, and my dad was outta town. My mom said, "Just this once I'm gonna let you go down and spend the night down there. One night. I'm gonna drop you off, you know, mid-afternoon, and I'm gonna have you back the next morning. And do not tell your father." I understand now why my dad said, "No." I never could tell him that I went. He bought us dinner, and we sat. We just laughed. And I was very nervous around him, because I knew how strict he was. And I knew that he had a temper, and I'd heard him yell. So I was really--I was on my best behavior, and I was really kind of timid and everything. But she and I were having fun I mean. And he seemed that night like he was gonna be really cool. I remember right after we ate, we went and got gas. And he said, "Let's go drive down Stewart Avenue and look at the prostitutes." "What?" You know, I thought that's weird. And she's like, "We'll just go, and we'll just look at 'em." You know, I was like, "That's weird. I don't think my parents would really like me driving down Stewart Avenue." But hey, you know?
Diane Cranley 21:34
Perpetrators tend to be ones that allow kids to get away with a lot of things. So when we start to see people who allow--you know, don't have good boundaries with kids, right? And they let them break rules. Any way that they can get the child complicit in it, so that the child's thinking, "If I tell I'm gonna get in trouble, because I did X, Y, Z, or I wasn't supposed to." And it kind of comes into creating some level of complicity. So at some point, they want the kids to break the rules or break the law or whatever it may be with them.
Skye 22:07
Warren had been chipping away at these boundaries with Jenny all evening. He'd even become the cool dad. And Jenny was about to learn that Sharon often did things that teenagers were not supposed to be doing.
Jenny 22:21
He said, "I'm gonna take y'all back to the house, let you get ready, and I'm gonna take y'all dancing tonight." And I remember when we were changing, she pulled open one of her drawers and pulled out all this very, very sexy lingerie, negligees, and stuff. And I said, "What in the world?" And she said, "Oh, daddy buys this stuff for me and lets me have it." I said, "Oh, my God, these are beautiful. But, oh, hello. You know, why do you have this?" So we went out. We left back out, and he took us to a bar. We were 15, 16 years old. And he took us into this bar that looked like a truck stop bar. I said, "You know, we're kids. We can't go in there. It's a bar." And she said, "No, you know, daddy knows the owner. He lets us come in there." So she's like, "I just like to go in there and dance, you know?" And Sharon loved to dance. And I mean, she was very sexy when she danced, I mean, the way she moved her body and everything. So we go in there, and there are all these truck-driver-looking dudes everywhere and a dance floor, no girls, no females. And her father sat at the bar for a little bit. And then he said, "I'm gonna leave you guys here, and I'll come back in a couple of hours and get you. Y'all stay here and dance." And there are all these men just watching us. So he came back about two hours later and picked us up. Nobody approached us. Nobody talked to us. Nothing happened. We were just two teenage girls dancing at a bar. You know, it was--the whole situation was not good. We went back to their house and the stuff happened that I've never talked about. We were starting to change to get ready for bed and getting our pajamas on. I had a sleeping bag and a pillow. And he came in with a gun, and he just--and to scare us. And he said--he opened. They didn't have doors in their house. They had curtains. There were no doors. And he walked in with a gun, and he pointed it at us. And he said, "What are y'all doing?" I mean, screamed the top of his lungs. I screamed. And we only had underwear on. We had--we were just changing. I didn't have clothes on. I grabbed everything to hold up. And he starts laughing. Maniacal, evil laugh. And then he says, "I'll be back." And he walked out. And I looked at Sharon, and she just laughed. And she said, "Oh, daddy's just being silly." And I was like, "I don't have--you know, trying to change here, you know?" So we changed, and then he came back. And he still had the gun. And he ordered me to lay down on the floor, on the sleeping bag, and put a pillow over my head. And I did. And he raped her at gunpoint. I was in the room. And we didn't talk after that. He got up, and he left. And the next morning I sat up, and I was just in shock. And I knew my mom was coming, and I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. And she came over, and she gave me a big hug. And she said, "Daddy's just like that." She looked at me, and she said, "I'm okay. Just let it go. Just let it go." And then my mom came and got me. And I never talked about it after that. And I never went back. I was never alone again. I never rode with them anywhere. I never, ever, ever after that.
Skye 26:32
Jenny and Sharon stayed friends, and they talked on the phone occasionally. But after this, they stopped seeing each other as much as they did before. Looking back now, Jenny recognizes that she mentally fell apart. And by senior year, Sharon had changed too. She wasn't the demure girl her friends had met just a couple of years before.
Lynn 26:56
You could tell if she had a rough night, 'cause her makeup would not be really put on right. Her hair would be kind of messy. And she would be wearing clothes that were really inappropriate. Something was just--something wasn't right. It just really wasn't right.
Jenny 27:17
I didn't, you know, really realize till later, you know, that probably he had her, you know, time occupied with nefarious things. Looking back now, that was, you know--he had friends that he would bring over that she talked about. "Oh, daddy has friends over. Yeah, I gotta go. You know?"
Skye 27:44
In her senior year, Sharon found out she'd been accepted into the aerospace engineering program at Georgia Tech on a full scholarship. That dream she had was finally becoming real, a shot at independence, and a chance at a life that Warren could not control. Warren had extended this control into all of Sharon's relationships. Boyfriends during high school all dealt with him chaperoning them on dates or sitting outside in his car wherever they were. Wherever Sharon was, so was Warren. But then she started dating Kurtis, and he was the first person in Sharon's life to really stand up to Warren.
Kurtis Bloss 28:34
I do remember that I told her, her father was a fucking nut job, and that I would love to take her away from him. She was a sweetheart, very friendly, and just trying to be social like other people. We just ended up talking. Her and I we went to the senior prom together.
Skye 29:05
That year, something happened that would change their lives.
Kurtis Bloss 29:10
She was pregnant. She told me I was its father. And I would do anything for her. So I was with her.
Sherry 29:24
She hid it for a long time. At a certain point, we knew. But it wasn't something we necessarily talked about. Teen pregnancy was not really a thing we talked about back then. There were whispers in the hallways. You know, it was a hush-hush kind of thing. And it was obvious that she was, but we didn't say that.
Skye 29:48
When Warren found out Sharon was pregnant, he went ballistic. A month or so beforehand, Warren had taken out a full-page announcement in Sharon's high school yearbook congratulating her on her scholarship. Now, he wouldn't even let her go to graduation or to Georgia Tech.
Sherry 30:07
So the last time I saw Sharon was at graduation. I saw her at Terra Stadium where we graduated, but I do not recall her walking on the stage. I remember seeing her very pregnant in the parking lot.
Skye 30:24
Warren told Sharon they were moving to Arizona, and Kurtis went with them.
Kurtis Bloss 30:30
I placed an ad for all of my stuff, and I sold everything I had to give us money to go to Phoenix.
Skye 30:41
Sharon and Jenny hadn't seen each other for a while. And the last time they spoke by phone, they'd squealed with excitement about Sharon's scholarship. So when Sharon called Jenny and confided that she was pregnant, moving to Arizona, and not going to Georgia Tech, Jenny had a hard time reconciling it all.
Jenny 31:02
When I found out that her father wouldn't let her go and how hard she had worked to get there and he said, "No." You know, when she found out she couldn't go, I was like, "Well, we'll just hang out together. I won't go to college either." And she said, "No, I want you to go to college."
Skye 31:20
Sharon, Warren, and Kurtis arrived in Phoenix in June of '86 where they rented an apartment. Kurtis had no idea that Warren and Sharon had ever been to Phoenix, let alone live there before they moved to Georgia. They never told him. And he didn't know that five years earlier in 1981 when Sharon was 12, Warren had registered a driver's license in the exact same block they just moved to. After they settled, Sharon called Lynn to give him her news.
Lynn 31:55
When I talked to her, she said that she was gonna have a baby. And I didn't know about that. And I told her to please stay in touch with me because, "I'll write you letters every day." And I never got an address, you know, and I never heard from her again.
Kurtis Bloss 32:19
She was pregnant, getting bigger. I would work 10, 12 hours a day, go home. He would sleep on the couch.
Skye 32:30
Kurtis started working to support Sharon and Warren. He says he didn't mind, because he just was so focused on looking after Sharon and their unborn baby. But one day, he came home to find a man and a woman in the apartment.
Kurtis Bloss 32:46
I was like, "What's going on here?" So she took me into a bedroom, our bedroom, and she proceeded to tell me, "The child's not yours. These are people from adoption agency." Warren had talked her into giving the baby up for adoption. It was a hard moment. And then I was furious. I just worked a long day. I got home. I was mad, very mad that she lied to me. I was stupid and ignorant thinking she was telling me the truth then. I got very mad, and I threatened both of them. And told 'em both to get out of my apartment, or I'd kill 'em both. I cried. She cried. I was so angry and upset and hurt. I mean, it devastated me. But, yeah, I remember her bawling. I remember her crying and her apologizing. And my last moments with her, I was just very angry, because they lied me. I never thought in a million fricking years of what the actual truth was.
Skye 34:08
A heavily pregnant Sharon took the bus from Phoenix to Georgia to visit Jenny and her family. When it came time to leave, she broke down begging Jenny's mom to let her stay and not send her back to Arizona. Jenny's mom said they really couldn't take her in without Warren's approval. Sharon was still under 18. Sharon called her father, and he said, "No, she had to come straight home." Warren and Sharon moved to Mesa and Sharon's baby, a boy, was adopted. Jenny received a letter from Sharon saying that her father had found a perfect couple from Texas to take the baby. Sharon started waitressing in the Marriott by Phoenix Airport and soon met a new guy, Greg. Like all her boyfriends before, he was smitten with Sharon, and he steered well clear of Warren. Sharon was careful what she shared with Greg. She told him that she deferred her scholarship to Georgia Tech, but she never told him that she had recently given up a baby for adoption. Greg arrived at work one day to find Sharon gone. She left a note for him saying that she needed to move away. Months later, she reappeared at work acting as if she'd never left only to disappear again. This time though, there wasn't a note, and she wouldn't be back. Just like Kurtis, Greg would never see Sharon again. In the fall of '87 while on the road, Sharon called Jenny. She and Warren had to leave Arizona, and they were headed to Florida to make a fresh start.
Jenny 35:57
She said, "Hey, I'm pregnant again. Having another one." And I'm like, "Oh, my God." She's like, "But daddy's gonna let me keep this one. His name's Michael." And she's like, "You know, I love him."
Skye 36:12
Coming up on episode two of "Girl in the Picture."
36:17
I heard on the radio about a kidnapping of a little boy,
36:20
We were just trying to find out who this guy was, and how do we run him down. Michael was in real trouble.
Heather 36:28
I knew that he was a monster.
Joe Fitzpatrick 36:32
Just nothing could be good about this.
36:36
And it just kept getting worse and kept getting worse and kept getting worse.
Jenny 36:42
She's like, "Next time I see you, you know, we'll go to a church, we'll do something, make it official, and you'll be his godmother." But, you know, we never got to that.
Skye 37:09
"Girl in the Picture Podcast" is brought to you by Netflix and Main Event Media. Narrated by me, Skye Borgman. Written and produced by Anna Priestland. Executive produced by Emily Bond and Jimmy Fox for Main Event Media, me Skye Borgman, and Matt Birkbeck. Sound edited by Joel Porter. Sound designed and mixed by Reed Thomas Lawrence. Music composition by Jimmy Stouffer. Based on the books "A Beautiful Child" and "Finding Sharon" by Matt Birkbeck.