What Happened to Her

Investigative series on unsolved deaths of women and systemic failures AI summary

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For four seasons, investigative reporter Melissa Jeltsen has told the stories of women whose lives — and deaths — were shaped by the failures of the systems meant to protect them. Now she's widening her lens, with new episodes every week. In What Happened to Her, Melissa takes on the stories that won't let her go. Women whose deaths were too quickly ruled suicides. Women no one believed. Cases everyone else called closed. Some weeks, a mystery unfolds across multiple episodes. In others, Melissa sits down with fellow investigative journalists and podcast hosts to go behind the scenes on the cases — and the women — they just couldn't shake.

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Sandra Birchmore: Part 5

2026-11-12 · 36 min · Season 6, episode 5

The FBI makes an arrest and presents a very different story of the last few months, days, and hours of Sandra Birchmore’s life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sandra Birchmore: Part 4

2026-11-05 · 34 min · Season 6, episode 4

Sandra’s family asks an outside medical expert to review her autopsy, and his findings send shockwaves throughout the community. Meanwhile, the FBI turns its lens on Sandra’s case.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
Sandra Birchmore: Part 3

2026-10-29 · 41 min · Season 6, episode 3

Stoughton’s police chief orders an internal investigation into Sandra Birchmore’s ties to the department, and to the men inside it. What it uncovers changes not only the story of Sandra’s death, but the story of her…
Sandra Birchmore: Part 2

2026-10-22 · 35 min · Season 6, episode 2

Massachusetts State police interview the man Sandra was seeing, married Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell. During a non-recorded conversation in a school parking lot, Farwell refers to Sandra as a casual fling.…
Sandra Birchmore: Part 1

2026-10-15 · 29 min · Season 6, episode 1

In February 2021, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore is found dead in her apartment in eastern Massachusetts. Officers quickly label the death a suicide. This news confounds her family, because Sandra was pregnant and…
Isolde Raftery

2026-10-08 · 37 min · Season 5, episode 2

When Isolde Raftery was in her senior year of high school in the late 90s, the budding journalist and her best friend published a piece in the school newspaper that deeply fractured — even shattered — the image the…
Lisette Johnson

2026-09-30 · 41 min · Season 5, episode 1

Lisette Johnson survived what almost no one does: her husband shot her, then killed himself. Murder-suicides happen every week in America, and they usually disappear after a local headline — with the perpetrator dead,…
Introducing … What Happened to Her

2026-09-23 · 2 min · Season 5, episode 1

For four seasons, investigative reporter Melissa Jeltsen has told the stories of women whose lives — and deaths — were shaped by the failures of the systems meant to protect them. Now she's widening her lens, with new…
Beginnings and Endings — Nashville E6

2025-12-17 · 43 min · Season 4, episode 6

As new chapters unfold, experts examine whether the law can truly recognize the harm caused when fertility care fails. Former CRH patients are left to reckon with the lives they’re living — and how far some have…
The Unraveling — Nashville E5

2025-12-17 · 46 min · Season 4, episode 5

Two former employees describe what they saw as the clinic unraveled. Their stories, and a look into public records, help piece together how CRH fell apart. Plus court documents reveal Dr. Vasquez’s version of events.See…

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Oldest episode in feed: 03/2022 · over 4 years
Typical length: 32 min
Format: Serial Meant to be heard in order

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