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Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more like a frat house than a quaint roadside sandwich spot. And the crude behavior kept escalating—until one day she says her boss went too far.
Chase turned to the local police for help, but what happened next further complicated her life. Her quest for justice triggered a legal battle that dragged on for years, eventually reaching the US Supreme Court.
“My whole life has been flipped upside down,” Chase told Reveal reporter Rachel de Leon.
For years, de Leon searched for and investigated cases across the country in which people reported sexual assaults to police, only to find themselves under suspicion. In this hour, we explore one case and hear how police interrogated an alleged perpetrator, an alleged victim, and each other.
De Leon’s investigation is also the subject of the documentary Victim/Suspect, streaming on Netflix, which won the 2024 Emmy Award for outstanding documentary research.
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