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Episode 301

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Episode 301", an episode of Sword and Scale published December 15, 2025 (58 min, about 9,498 words). It mentions 62 people, works and ideas, including Shabbat, All Swang, Sword and Scale, Larksburg Trail, Z All Swang.

What this episode is about

The content explores a true crime story set in Boca Raton, Florida, where a woman named Annie is concerned about her missing girlfriend, Kate, whose car is found outside a house where Annie believes she might be. The narrative unfolds with hints of strange messages received from Kate's phone, raising suspicions about her whereabouts and prompting Annie to investigate further.

Key takeaways

  • Episode 301: Odd numbering doesn't curb the allure of real-life horrors. People love a good fright.
  • True art in true crime: The chaos of a Florida suburb spins a web of eerie familiarity.
  • A rat’s mouth, high Teslas, and lost signals—Boca Raton, where mysteries brew under the July heat.
  • When in doubt, blame Shabbat: Technology-free traditions baffle modern crime-solving.
  • Mouthy dispatches: The phone's hotter than Florida sun when urgency meets bureaucracy.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Sword and Scale, Lark Spur Trail, Larksburg Trail, Orthodox Jewish
  2. – 10:00: 22147 Lakesburg Trail, John Doe, Lantana PD, Lantana Police Department
  3. – 15:00: Deerfield Beach, fire and rescue, LT Con, missing person report
  4. – 20:00: All Swang, cell phone, Larksburg Trail, Palm Beach County
  5. – 25:00: All Swang, case management, clinical team, cognitive deficits
  6. – 30:00: black plastic, case management, duct tape
  7. – 35:00: airplane mode, duct tape, Mr. President, tin foil
  8. – 40:00: hotel room, blood test, breathalyzer, Buon Police Department
  9. – 45:00: butcher knife, Lantana Police Department, Larksburg Trail, missing person report
  10. – 50:00: All Swang, Shabbat, Z All Swang
  11. – 55:00: All Swang, Shabbat, evaluation, follow-up treatment
  12. – 57:56: replacing cops with social workers

Notable quotes from "Episode 301"

  • Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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  • House on Larksburg was in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood and the day in question was Shabbat, which is the holy day of rest for the Jewish people.
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  • Did not. They were convinced that the police had made a big mistake. So, one of them called the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office again.
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  • And met with the complainant who filed the original missing person's report with Lantana Police Department. I cannot recall her name right now.
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  • I heard that. Came back to the front of the house. The complainant from who filed the missing person report. I go, Did you hear that? She goes, I heard that. Did you guys hear…
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  • First, it looked like he just was like choking her out. At the back of the closet was C. All Swang, the 20-year-old patient, and he had Kate in his grasp.
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  • Accept therapeutic services. And this is something that's not uncommon, especially in case management, to have some clients that might be really stuck in life or really…
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  • The front door and realized that it had now been covered with black plastic and duct tape.
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • All Swang — Person · 6 mentions · first at
  • Z All Swang — Person · 3 mentions · first at
    First, it looked like he just was like choking her out. At the back of the closet was C. All Swang, the 20-year-old patient, and he had Kate in his grasp.
  • Mr. President — Person · 2 mentions · first at
    So that was his reasoning. He was mad that Kate had reported something he felt was incorrect to his father. That's how sick and delusional this kid was. Kate kept trying to talk to him, but it wasn't working.
  • John Doe — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Of that house with a mentally ill patient. But if you want my name, my name is John Doe. Now, please tell me the officers who were dispatched at 22147 Lakesburg Trail and don't ask me another [ __ ] about this question.
  • LT Con — Person · 1 mention · first at
    We're getting a fire rescue at the locking. So that's what we're playing for. LT Con shows up. So at this point, we're pinging the phone. So now we're we're kind of doing like…
  • Sergeant Narris — Person · 1 mention · first at
    People went in there. because it ended up being everybody once they get into the house, myself and Sergeant Narris go into the house. So stink teams in front of us.
  • Courtney — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Might be present along with the clinical team. In addition to that, dad would always make remarks to Courtney who was his primary the who is his primary therapist and I was the…
  • Svi Alswang — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Can you believe that? Now, these are the court papers right here that detail a 15year-old girl's accusation that Svi Alswang raped her. All Swang was 16 at the time and the…
  • Roderman — Person · 1 mention · first at
    This man really was. So because of his young age and the fact he had never been arrested before, Roderman and the prosecutor agreed to ask the judge to go easy on all swing…
  • William Martin (prosecutor) — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Young age and the fact he had never been arrested before, Roderman and the prosecutor agreed to ask the judge to go easy on all swing that we would agree to probation with the…
  • Zwang — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

  • Sword and Scale — Company · 3 mentions · first at
  • Lantana Police Department — Company · 2 mentions · first at
  • Sword and Scale Television — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Of my horrible salesmanship, you should go on over to sword andcale.com and check out Sword and Scale Television. We have 15 fulllength episodes. They're each about an hour…
  • Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Did not. They were convinced that the police had made a big mistake. So, one of them called the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office again.
  • records division — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Okay. You can contact the records division.
  • Lantana PD — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Approximately 6:45 this morning sometime roughly in assist in reference to assisting Lantana PD in recovering a missing person's from their jurisdiction. I arrived here with my…
  • fire and rescue — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Scream confirmed that it sounded off. So the sergeant called his lieutenant and the two decided to have fire and rescue come break the door. That way if it did turn out to be a false alarm, the homeowners would be left with minimal damage.
  • Buon Police Department — Company · 1 mention · first at
    I was calling the Buon Police Department. I called the Delray department. I called the Bokeh. I called the county office.
  • Delray department — Company · 1 mention · first at
    I was calling the Buon Police Department. I called the Delray department. I called the Bokeh. I called the county office.
  • Party City — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Police were able to obtain video footage of him buying plastic bags and other supplies from Party City of all places before the kidnapping. And check this out. This is the part…
  • SNSTV — Company · 1 mention
  • swordandscale.com — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • duct tape — Product · 2 mentions · first at
  • hotel room — Product · 2 mentions · first at
    I'm fine. They got me a hotel room for all the [ __ ] they put me through. I'm still kind of shook. I'm staying here tonight. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now. Good night. Which.
  • cell phone — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Heard a peep from inside since the first scream. Then they received information that the cell phone ping was off.
  • black plastic — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Flipped. She picked up her pace towards the front door and realized that it had now been covered with black plastic and duct tape.
  • tin foil — Product · 1 mention · first at
    He wanted to wrap our phones in tin foil and put them on airplane mode. I noticed on his phone he was using this VPN.
  • condom — Product · 1 mention · first at
    I convinced him. convinced him to wear a condom. Thank God. Tried to tell me his pull out game was strong. and then he put me on the bed and he put the condom on.
  • sleeping aids — Product · 1 mention · first at
    That you know I'm not hungry I don't he offered to give me like melatonin and like sleeping aids and I told him I don't want any of that I said like I can't sleep like when are you going to let me go and this was something that I kept.
  • breathalyzer — Product · 1 mention · first at
    And she if she did have one drink with someone and she was pulled over and she perfused a breathalyzer, like it just didn't make any sense to me. and then when she said that…
  • sports bra — Product · 1 mention · first at
    And then he came all over me and my hair, on my face, on my chest, on my sports bra. I have it on here right now, and on my hair.
  • sex toy — Product · 1 mention · first at
    At some point within the beginning part of it though, he had tried to use heavyduty sex toy that he had on me to try to stimulate me, right?
  • butcher knife — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Kate could hear the knocks and doorbell rings from inside the house, but Z had grabbed a large butcher knife from the kitchen and told her that if she made a sound, he'd kill her.
  • plastic beige helmet — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Have to face what he did on that horrible Shabbat Saturday. Z showed up in court in a wheelchair with a plastic beige helmet on his head. He was charged with firstdegree…
  • wheelchair — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Have to face what he did on that horrible Shabbat Saturday. Z showed up in court in a wheelchair with a plastic beige helmet on his head. He was charged with firstdegree…

Concepts & topics

  • Shabbat — Concept · 6 mentions · first at
  • Orthodox Jewish — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    By the looks of it, no one was home. It was hard to tell what was going on. The house on Larksburg was in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood and the day in question was Shabbat, which is the holy day of rest for the Jewish people.
  • missing person report — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
  • case management — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
  • therapeutic services — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Was willing to be flexible because it's been a challenging start for him to accept therapeutic services. And this is something that's not uncommon, especially in case…
  • cognitive deficits — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    And this was something that dad was particularly concerned about in terms of there being any cognitive deficits that might be present along with the clinical team. In addition…
  • clinical team — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    There being any cognitive deficits that might be present along with the clinical team. In addition to that, dad would always make remarks to Courtney who was his primary the…
  • community service — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Case was ultimately sealed and resolved in the sense that he did his service. He did community service that he did his you know time.
  • airplane mode — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    He wanted to wrap our phones in tin foil and put them on airplane mode. I noticed on his phone he was using this VPN.
  • blood test — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    I got pulled over on my way. Cop thought I was drunk. Taking me to station. I'm going to take blood test there cuz the cop is a dick. Love you. See you later.
  • field sobriety test — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Arrested for drinking and driving or if anyone had brought got brought in for like a field sobriety test or something like that.
  • sexual battery — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Beige helmet on his head. He was charged with firstdegree attempted murder, kidnapping, and several sexual battery charges. No one in his family attended his court appearances…
  • evaluation — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    That we would agree to probation with the special conditions that he undergo evaluation and any kind of follow-up treatment.
  • follow-up treatment — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    That we would agree to probation with the special conditions that he undergo evaluation and any kind of follow-up treatment.
  • replacing cops with social workers — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Well, I hope that by the time you hear this story, we're done with all that replacing cops with social workers [ __ ] Perhaps we should stop listening to people that come up with really [ __ ] ideas like that.
  • court-mandated counseling — Concept · 1 mention
  • first-degree attempted murder — Concept · 1 mention
  • phone pinging — Concept · 1 mention
  • SWAT — Concept · 1 mention
  • VPN — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

  • Larksburg Trail — Place · 3 mentions · first at
    That didn't seem right. and Annie wanted to be sure. The friends had rallied around the house in Larksburg Trail while the cops did their due diligence, knocking on doors and…
  • Palm Beach County — Place · 2 mentions · first at
  • Lark Spur Trail — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Vandals, I'm sure, a group of friends in their mid20s were standing outside a big yellow stucco house in Lark Spur Trail before sunrise. One of the friends in the group was a…
  • 22147 Lakesburg Trail — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Name is John Doe. Now, please tell me the officers who were dispatched at 22147 Lakesburg Trail and don't ask me another [ __ ] about this question.
  • Deerfield Beach — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Cannons on the way, drones on the way, we get dispatch says her telephone number came at 7 a.m. in Deerfield Beach. So that kind of put the brakes on. I regret that. I'm just mad that way.
  • Bokeh — Place · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

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And that's when um he grabbed me really fast to yank me back in there and I got really startled and scared and so I screamed.

Not as excited about episode 301. doesn't have that nice round number to it, you know. Nevertheless, this is going to be a good one. So, welcome episode 301 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

So, apologies for giving you the wrong description of the SNSTV episode that's currently available. I I'm losing track of what's what cuz there's so much going on. But, you know, we're just trying to produce as much true crime content as possible for you and uh it all starts to blend together at some point. Regardless of my horrible salesmanship, you should go on over to sword andcale.com and check out Sword and Scale Television. We have 15 fulllength episodes. They're each about an hour long and tell an incredible tale of murder and mayhem in only the way we can here at Sword and Scale. Heat.

Heat. It was July of 2022 in a little place we like to talk about a lot called Florida. this time, Boca Raton, a place named after the mouth of a rat. On a suburban street where crime was low and the Tesla count was high, along with a few vandals, I'm sure, a group of friends in their mid20s were standing outside a big yellow stucco house in Lark Spur Trail before sunrise. One of the friends in the group was a woman who we will refer to as Annie. And her girlfriend, who we will call Kate, had been missing for over 12 hours. Annie had this feeling that Kate was inside the yellow house.

And one of the things that clued her into that was the fact that her car was sitting in the driveway. The night before, she had received some strange messages from Kate's phone that did not sound like her. Maybe Kate was at a hotel like the text messages claim, but that didn't seem right. and Annie wanted to be sure. The friends had rallied around the house in Larksburg Trail while the cops did their due diligence, knocking on doors and windows, announcing themselves to the property owners, but they are met with silence.

By the looks of it, no one was home. It was hard to tell what was going on. The house on Larksburg was in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood and the day in question was Shabbat, which is the holy day of rest for the Jewish people. Shabbat starts at sunset on Friday and ends 24 hours later at sunset on Saturday. And during this time, Jewish people are not allowed to use any forms of technology. Orthodox Jews take Shabbat very seriously. And everyone in this neighborhood was on their day of rest like the good Lord. The cops continued knocking and calling out property owners, but no one responded.

Without cause, they couldn't just break in. I mean, do you want cops breaking into your house without permission? So, the police left. But Kate's friends did not. They were convinced that the police had made a big mistake. So, one of them called the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office again.

There were officers outside of the house of the missing person, and they refused to go inside to uh retrieve her. So, I'm just trying to get reconnected with those officers if possible because they literally hung up on me when I asked for their name and badge number. And if you can't reconnect me, then I would like the officers who were dispatched to that call and I would like their name and badge number, please.

Okay, hold on just a second. I never spoke with you, so let me I completely understand. I'm I'm just letting you know what's going on.

The scene was tense. Annie had already reported Kate missing to the police department near their home, which was in another jurisdiction.

Okay. What's your name? That's irrelevant, ma'am. I just want to know the the officer's name and numbers cuz the ones who were just called for that address.

Yes, ma'am. We were we were the same ones who called. Okay. Well, what is your name so I can verify that or I'm can't give you any information?

It doesn't matter. Yeah, ma'am. Ma'am, I'm sorry, but but you don't need to ask me irrelevant questions. I'm asking for the officers who were dispatched to that call. You're a public servant. I I am a part of the public and I'm asking you a question. I need you to answer it, please. No,

I'm not answering any questions related to that address cuz I can't verify or know if you're the one who called.

The dispatch operator had a point, but so did the caller. And things only escalated from there, as they tend to do when one party is emotionally charged. Like I just said, ma'am, we have a missing person who's sitting in the back of that house house with a mentally ill patient. But if you want my name, my name is John Doe. Now, please tell me the officers who were dispatched at 22147 Lakesburg Trail and and and don't ask me another [ __ ] about this question.

Okay. I can't give you any information because I don't show that name listed on the person who called.

Oh, so so if I called on a star 67 number, you guys got that on file, right? Come on, man. Let's not play this game. I I I don't do this. Like like there is a missing person right here. This is our friend. This is our loved one. Do you understand? Listen, no one's here.

No, you're not. No, you're not. You're playing some a game with me. Don't play the game with me. 22147 Lakes Trail. Which officers were were dispatched to that call?

Are you at that location right now? Yeah, I am. So, officers were speaking officers that are on scene if you're there. But the police had left. However, this caller was too heated to relay that.

Ma'am, are you going to hang up on me, too? Are you You're Is there anything else I can help you with? I'm not giving you enough.

Absolutely. There is. Okay. You can contact the records division. And badge number.

You can contact the records division during normal business hours to get that information. I'm not going to give you' ma'am. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.

Yeah. Ma'am, no no no no no. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. No, ma'am. You What are you doing right now? You're acting like like I'm not calling like with with emotion and care right now because I care for one of my friends. You're acting like I'm another [ __ ] random robot in the world. Like, can you please help me right now? My friend willing to help me patient and we are trying to help her. and the officers outside of her house who refused to go in there and and literally save her from this mentally ill person hung up on me.

So, can you please help me? Why not just say your name? If it's the emergency you say it is, I mean, say your name, right? The dispatch operator told the caller that she would contact an officer and have them call them back. That was all she could do from the 911 line. I mean, you can't just call up 911 and start obtaining personal information about prior calls. There are rules and procedures for a reason, to protect the public. That's when a calmer friend took over the phone and gave his number to the operator. Then they waited. As intense as it was, that 911 exchange worked because more officers were soon sent back to the scene. This time they heard something that made them second guess if Annie and her friends had been right.

We would dispatch to this location approximately 6:45 this morning sometime roughly in assist in reference to assisting Lantana PD in recovering a missing person's from their jurisdiction. I arrived here with my trainee deputy parent. We arrived here and met with the complainant who filed the original missing person's report with Lantana Police Department. I cannot recall her name right now.

Um she told us that she believes her girlfriend is inside that house and she did report her in fact

with Lantana Police Department last night. Asked her how do she know she's in there? She goes, "Well, her car is here." Okay. Um, originally we're trying to gather as much information as we can. Kind of things were not really that clear, but it became clear later on when other deputies arrive arrived um that she is a therapist and she came here to meet a client.

Kate was a social worker who had been sent to the yellow house on Larksburg by her boss to check on a client. Soon the officers found themselves walking around the perimeter of the house, knocking on doors and windows

repeatedly. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. got no answer. We did notice that the window to the door was obscured with something. We didn't know the fact that was our We had that conversation. But anyhow, we went

The window in the house. Oh, the front door. The front because we were trying to look in the glass to see if we could see anything in the house, but the obvious front windows had the blinds closed. We continued around the outside of the house, see if we could look in, see if we could see anything that would indicate people inside the house. As we're going around the house, we're at the rear of the house now on the pool deck. There is a big sliding glass. It's a double sliding glass door. We kind of pulled on that. Hey, you know, try to see if it's open. And when we were the door, I don't know if at the moment we pulled it or let go or whatever, we heard a very loud scream female clearly from inside the house and that's all we heard. And we confirmed we checked, hey, did you hear it? Yeah, we I heard that.

I heard that. Came back to the front of the house. The complainant from who filed the missing person report. I go, "Did you hear that?" She goes, "I heard that. Did you guys hear that?" So, she heard the scream also from inside the house. Kind of confirming we all heard something from inside the house. I think it was before we came around the front of the house, my uh traininee got on the radio and made an announcement that we heard a scream come from inside the house.

Upon hearing the scream, the officers immediately called their sergeant who drove to the scene. As Annie and her friends huddled on the sidewalk watching, the officers briefed one another.

Tell me all the details they have. And then they say, "We've looked in all the windows. We can't see in the windows. There's a section where they could see them, but you couldn't see anything. I think it was a hallway or something. We're looking for phone numbers, all that." I said, "All right, good. Let's We're talking about the screen again.

So, we're trying to hash out, is this a healthy screen?" because now we have more information that there was something about a 22 year old. I don't think we had that this was a patient. I'm not I'm not I don't remember what the time frame was, but I don't think we had that right away cuz I think that's what we're trying to figure out is who's the parents? Where are they at? There's two kids that live in the house. It's a 26-y old female, 22-y old male. So, we had that. So, the conversation we're having where we're standing at the front door is hey, is this a fault file or is this an affair? She got caught and it's that.

Hours passed and more details began to unravel as the day broke. Kate was a 26-year-old social worker and the client she had gone to meet was a 20-year-old man who lived on the house at Larkpur. But the cop was right. There were many ways this could play out, and one of them could have been an affair. Still, something about this still wasn't right. And there was another option.

It's a call for no. You can write that [ __ ] up. I said we'll [ __ ] kick the goddamn door at you.

The officer who originally heard the scream confirmed that it sounded off. So the sergeant called his lieutenant and the two decided to have fire and rescue come break the door. That way if it did turn out to be a false alarm, the homeowners would be left with minimal damage.

And then we start getting more details. And one of the details was that the doctor who is caring for this kid, so now we know it's the kid is the patient. The 22-year-old is the patient. The doctor who is caring for the kid sent her here on assignment at 6:00 p.m. last night. And I don't know if it was him or the girlfriend, somebody told us they got a text message saying, "I made contact." I think it was a doctor. I made contact. I'm in. He let me in the house. So we now we have that information.

After realizing that Kate was potentially inside the house with a mentally ill patient, the cops knew they had to get in immediately.

We're getting a fire rescue at the locking. So that's what we're playing for. LT Con shows up. So at this point, we're pinging the phone. So now we're we're kind of doing like the extra like, hold on, let's just make sure this isn't some 26y old that ran off with a 22y old. So we're pinging phones. We're getting trying to get everybody's number this whole time, you know. Hey, you uh a deputy is being tasked with get the parents on the phone. We can't get the parents. We know the neighbors told us the parents are out of town and it's I don't know what holiday or what uh what Saturday is to the Jewish religion, but something about on Saturday they can't use phones though. We we knew that oh they don't use electronics. They don't use phones.

Remember that it was Saturday of Shabbat. The all swings weren't permitted to use technology, so no one could reach them on their cell phones.

And while we're pinging the phone, cannons on the way, drones on the way, we get dispatch says her telephone number came at 7 a.m. in Deerfield Beach. So that kind of put the brakes on. I regret that. I'm just mad that way. And it's nobody's fault. just checking above the boxes.

So they waited. They followed the protocol like the sergeant said, checking all the [ __ ] boxes. But time was ticking and Kate was potentially inside the house. No one had heard a peep from inside since the first scream. Then they received information that the cell phone ping was off. Finally, it was time to go in. So once everybody gets into the house, and I'll be honest, I don't even know how many people went in there. Um because it ended up being everybody once they get into the house, myself and Sergeant Narris go into the house. So stink teams in front of us.

Okay. So you went in? Yes. Now I'm in the front door. Um there was a room to the right. I did not go into it. Uh at this point I have my gun out. We're kind of clearing behind them, you know, opening closet doors as they're making their way through. The officers began thundering through the quiet house, opening closets and checking rooms with their weapons drawn and their shields ready. And then I start making my way to the other side of the house and they start saying, "Hey, we got a locked door. We got a locked door."

At the back of the house, off a bedroom, the cops found a locked door and knew the scream had to have come from inside. A female officer opened the door and was stunned at what she saw hiding in the back of the closet.

At first I was like, "Okay, you you kind of do that like glance like, "Oh, it's clear nothing in here." Then I'm like, "No, no, no." Assessing. No, there's people in here. I now see a man and a female at when I saw them. I'm now trying to figure out what I got. At first, it looked like he he just was like choking her out. At the back of the closet was C. All Swang, the 20-year-old patient, and he had Kate in his grasp. C. What a name. I guess his parents didn't like vowels.

So, they're they're now talking to me. What do you got? What do you got? What do you got? I'm trying to access processing. I'm like, okay, I see he's he's got her, you know, and then I'm like, okay, I now I'm seeing the knife. I'm like, knife. It's got a knife. At this point, as I'm talking, the gear slides in.

Where was the knife in relation to her body? Neck. He had it at her neck. What was she doing? Did she say anything?

No. She was dead silent. She was staring at me like scared. Did he say anything?

No. He's right there. He's just there not moving. She has her hands up uh like chest maybe like even in her throat like kind of doing this and like uh like her thumbs are against her throat and the knife was either on the thumb or right above it.

It was right there and Will starts giving him commands. You don't want to do this. You don't have to do this. You know there's a better way. He's talking.

Drop knife. Drop knife. Then he starts to command. Just talk to me. Just talk to me. Just talk to me. And and literally as I'm behind him, you know, I see the knife and I'm thinking this to myself. I shouldn't I'm thinking this myself like this [ __ ] thing is going to cut the [ __ ] throat and shock.

Okay. Shot the guy in the head. He dropped. We go in. It all happened in a flash. The shot rang out 100 times as loud in that tiny closet. It hit Z and he dropped to the ground. Kate was free.

Uh she was uh grabbed, taken out of the room. Couple deputies took her out of out of the house. People moved in.

I handcuffed the subject at that time. He starts speaking. I can't tell you what he was saying. It's not because I don't know. I just don't remember. And it wasn't like it was gurgling. He was actually communicating words. He was saying something. Then he starts hitting the ground. An officer grabbed a towel and pressed it on Z's gunshot wound as they handcuffed him to the gurnie and wheeled him out of his parents' 1.5 millionoll bungalow. Outside, Kate's friends rejoiced. But now it was time to take her to the hospital and find out exactly what happened on Larksburg Trail.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's had spent the early morning hours in a SWAT style takedown at a home in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Boca Raton. A missing 26-year-old social worker had been trapped inside with her 22-year-old client Zwang for the last 15 hours or so. The social worker's girlfriend, Annie, had reported her missing the evening before, but it took until the next morning to find Kate and get into the All Swang's house. When they did, the police found Kate trapped in a closet being held at knife point by Z. When he refused to comply, an officer shot him and saved Kate's life. It was an incredible and terrifying scene. Now Kate was in the hospital recovering from the kidnapping and was ready to tell police what happened to her inside that house. Kate's identity had been protected, and since we want to honor that, the details of her exact employment status will remain confidential. Despite what you might

have heard on certain forums where people who spend all of their time online hang out, we do not dox victims. And if we do make a mistake, we typically correct it within 24 hours. Anyway, back to the story. You just need to know that she was finishing up her degree to become a counselor and she worked for a mental health practice of all things that had Z all swing as a client. She was tasked to help him find employment and to help him figure out how to exist in the adult world because obviously he was having trouble doing it. Z wasn't a normal 22year-old.

Despite his privileged upbringing and resources, he was floundering. Kate had a big morning at work and the last client of the day was Z.

Everything was kind of smooth sailing. Um, went through and saw the rest of the clients for the day. Um, and then I had scheduled for originally for 5:30. feet pushed it back to 6:00 p.m. He didn't have a particular reason, but I was willing to be flexible uh because it's been a challenging start for him to accept therapeutic services. And this is something that's not uncommon, especially in case management, to have some clients that might be really stuck in life or really struggling to need additional support in order to get them on track and everything.

Kate drove up to Z's parents' house like she had done for the last month she'd been working with him. She met with Z there and they would have their session in the den while his parents stayed in the living room. Kate only had about four or five sessions with him, so she didn't know him all that well just yet. But what she did know was that he was socially off. I guess what I would say that would be unusual with SI was that he was a little off at times, meaning that SI was not fully able to be present in conversation and engage.

And this was something that um dad was particularly concerned about in terms of there being any cognitive deficits that might be present um along with the clinical team. In addition to that, dad would always make remarks um to Courtney who was his primary the who is his primary therapist and I was the case manager on the case would mention to Courtney that Steve's dad was very scared of Steve and wouldn't necessarily give any context to it. Then um I started speaking with dad a little bit more often because he's a very you know overprotective and involved parent in Spi's life. Um and he had disclosed that SPI had a history of sexual assault as a minor where he was convicted and the case was ultimately sealed and resolved in the sense that he did his service. He did community service that he did his you know time.

Um he went to courtmandated counseling uh and the therapist at that time had given him a clear bill of health. Speeever had never opened up about that side of his history even when directly asked about it.

So Z had a history of assault on his record but it was sealed and obviously no one thought it was too big of a deal to deny him home visits. Kate waited at the front door for someone to answer. Z swung it open and let her inside the cool airond conditioned Florida home.

So, you know, I go in with him and right off the bat, he's a little bit more talkative than he normally is. Um, he's a little bit more engaged. Um, he's asking a lot more, SP is asking a lot more questions about me to get to know me. And I had looked at it from a perspective of, okay, we can for focus on rapport building.

Kate was a little surprised by Z's new attitude, but saw it as positive. Then they sat down for their usual meeting. while we were meeting for a regular case management discussion which was rapport building job discussion um and a little bit more about like getting to know each other. SVI had gotten up a few times either citing that he need that needed to go to the bathroom that needed to go get some water and I didn't think anything of it at the time. So then when I got up to leave when our time was over, he kept trying to persuade me to stay and saying that he wanted me to help him with more things.

Kate kept it professional and told him that she had to go. They could schedule another time to meet next week. As she walked towards the door, she noticed that all the blinds in the house had been shut. In that moment, her stomach flipped. She picked up her pace towards the front door and realized that it had now been covered with black plastic and duct tape.

And as I was about to get to the door, which I never made it to, he um he put his arms around me and put his body weight on me. He was squeezing me really tight and I kept saying, "Speed, what are you doing?

What are you doing?" He was trying to kiss my neck. He was trying to overpower me. He started dragging me back into the living room and and at that point I was resisting and he didn't like that. So he um he he started grabbing my hands like this with his really tightly and I have you know his hand marks here from it and I tried to struggle and break free multiple times to which was met with his first round of beating me which included punches in the face um being me in the gut just to get me to calm down and be compliant.

Kate fought as hard as she could, but Z was strong, tall, and overpowered her. I bit his hand at one point, you know. I tried to kick him out in his scrotum. I I really tried everything I could and he he let me know that there wasn't anything I can do and that he was much stronger than me. Well, there was this struggle going on and he was trying putting his body weight on me and trying to subdue me and trying to and hurting me. Um, he kept wanting me to sit on his lap. Um, and at this point he had obviously uh he had a a hard penis and he kept wanting me to sit on his lap and

pulling me on his lap. It was so quiet in the house, just the sound of the air conditioner humming and Z's grunts and struggles as he yanked Kate back every time she tried to get away. He would squeeze her towards his body and smack her anytime she fought. So Kate dug into her social worker toolkit and tried another approach. So I that's when I switched to the rapport building, you know, just to try to talk to him, get to know him more, figure out what, you know, his game plan is here. And then I moved next to him, which he let me do while he was holding my wrist.

He was really, really angry at me. And he seemed really odd at this point to a place where SP was sounding, you know, delusional. He was unable to listen to any logic. He was unable to listen to any reason. He couldn't comprehend or try to see my perspective or engage in a rational discussion. And he said that the reason he was so angry at me and was doing all of this was because at our previous meeting, he had told me by accident that he had applied to a job in Pennsylvania. So I reported to dad that he had applied to a job in Pennsylvania and then SPI had corrected himself and said, "Oh, never mind. It wasn't a job in Pennsylvania."

And I had not followed up with Speey's dad about that. But Speey's dad confronted Spee about this miscommunication about the location of jobs he was applying to. And SVI thought that I was doing that to make him look bad, to steal his family's money, and to ultimately try to make SI need to spend more time with me.

He held Kate's wrists tightly like a human handcuff, and he explained all this to her. She was terrified and she started pleading.

You know, if you need to, you can, you know, look at the text messages if that's what you want, you know, but that would require you to give me my phone. Oh, at this sorry it's okay. I'm like

it's okay pieces here. No, it's okay. You're doing great. You are doing great. At this point, he had taken my phone. Um, and that was what much of the struggle ensued on was when he originally was first dragging me into the room. Um, he was very methodical in wanting to take my bag and my phone away from me. And that's where and he started calling me a dumb [ __ ] and telling me that I'm like, you know, just a hoe that wants money and asking me how much I make and asking me, you know, what I'd like to do with that money.

You know, at that point, I I just I really focused on a very calm and collective tone, saying sweet like what you're talking about like that doesn't make sense. Like that doesn't fit right now. and he like couldn't hear any of that.

So that was his reasoning. He was mad that Kate had reported something he felt was incorrect to his father. That's how sick and delusional this kid was. Kate kept trying to talk to him, but it wasn't working.

He went to go grab duct tape and bonded me with my hands like this behind my back. And he put a lot on you know, telling me that he didn't want me to be able to get loose and that he knows all the tricks I could pull and that he thought this through. And at that point, I was like, um, I'm going to be in this for a while. And then after that, while I was bound, he got my phone and was trying to convince me to give him my give him my phone password. And I didn't want to give him my phone password. So I, you know, I lied or tried to give him the wrong ones

and try to have him, you know, type in the wrong ones enough times so that it would disable my phone and and he told me he knew my tricks. He knew what I was doing and and that's when he started to beat me again.

Z beat Kate again until she was face down on the floor. Still want to be a social worker? Yeah, I'm talking to you. And when he had me overpowered on the floor and my knees were on the floor and he put my head into the couch and he put his hand on the back of my head and he said, "You know what would happen if I smash this reindeer? You know, you would be dead." Throughout this process, throughout the struggle, he is trying to grope me. He is rubbing me over my pants, on my vagina. He's grabbing my ass. All of this is mixed into the struggle.

So, I knew at some point that that was most likely coming. He was really well planned at times and other times just seemed like he didn't know what was going on or he wasn't totally there or things just weren't connecting or adding up. It was really strange and scary because it was so volatile and unpredictable. Part of his plan was to make sure that no one could reach Kate.

He wanted to wrap our phones in tin foil and put them on airplane mode. I noticed on his phone he was using this um VPN. He was saying, you know, strange things about how his like location could be tracked or pinged. He was talking about, you know, odd things related to people watching him and being able to see him and hear him. And for example, like he did let me go to the bathroom if he took me in there and watched me, but he wouldn't let me flush the toilet because that would make too much noise and he would cover my mouth if I started to speak any louder than a whisper.

Back at Kate and Annie's house, Annie was beginning to become worried when Kate never came home.

She's supposed to be home by like 6:30. When it was 7:30, that's when I texted her, "Where are you?" And the message didn't go through. I went straight to like the green text bubble. So then I was sending uh just like question marks and then I was like, "Are you good?" "Hello, I'm concerned." And then I'm like, "What the [ __ ] Hello, are you okay? Where are you? Are you okay?" And then I was like, "I'm going to have to call her boss." Um and then I was like, "Hello, please. Are you okay?" And then then randomly it turned back to blue.

Like her phone went back on. And then I got the text message, quote, "Oh my god, I got pulled over on my way. Cop thought I was drunk. Taking me to station. I'm going to take blood test there cuz the cop is a dick. Love you. See you later."

And what time was that at? That was at 9:13. At that point, he took me over into the bedroom closest to the front door. And that was the first time he forced me to have sex with him. I convinced him. convinced him to wear a condom. Thank God. Tried to tell me his pull out game was strong. Um, and then he put me on the bed and he put the condom on. And like I was dry. Like I it hurt. And I told him that I was like, "This is uncomfortable. Like I don't like this. This doesn't feel right." You know, like I'm not into it right now. And he like was fixated on me calling him daddy

and putting it in him anyway and putting it in me anyway, which he did as I was lying down.

He was barreling over me with his full body weight on top of me. And I remember just thinking, when is this going to be over?

When is he going to finish? Cuz this isn't going to stop until he's done. So it did. this point he was tired and he wanted me to go to sleep and I told him I was not going to go to sleep that I was too scared that I was too anxious that you know I'm not hungry I don't he offered to give me like melatonin and like sleeping aids and I told him I don't want any of that

I said like I can't sleep like when are you going to let me go and this was something that I kept reiterating the whole time when is he going to let me go

after he raped her Z decided to follow up with Annie on Kate's phone. So then I'm saying, "What the hell is happening?" Only three messages got delivered and then the phone was turned back off. Um, and then nothing. I just was like blowing up her phone trying to see if anything got sent.

Okay. And then I got a text message at 12:28 a.m. Hey, sorry I never got back to you. I'm fine. They got me a hotel room for all the [ __ ] they put me through. I'm still kind of shook. I'm staying here tonight. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now. Good night. Which just did not sound like her.

That's not how she normally texts. Not not how she usually texts. In 5 and 1/2 years, we've had three nights apart because we were on vacation.

And also a cop like the whole thing about going for blood tests sounded sketchy to begin with cuz I she was she was coming from a client, you know, like and she if she did have one drink with someone and she was pulled over and she perfused a breathalyzer, like it just didn't make any sense to me. Um, and then when she said that the cops got her a hotel room for all the trouble she caused, that was a major red flag. And I immediately called the police back. And then that's when I before then, I was calling just to see if she had been arrested for drinking and driving or if anyone had brought got brought in for like a field sobriety test or something like that.

Did you call 911 or what number did you call for the police? I was calling the Buon Police Department. I called the Delray department. I called the Bokeh. I called the county office.

Okay. and the sheriff's office and no one had any records of her. Z thought that his pathetic messages to Annie would keep her at bay. But Kate also did something smart. She never let Z know that Annie was her girlfriend. She told him that Annie was a roommate, which probably helped him underestimate how hard Annie would be looking for her. I told him I wasn't going to go to sleep and we were back uh on the living room couch at this point and he was ready for round two was sex and I told him that I was still sore and in pain and that I wasn't in the mood and then he said again if you ever want to get out of here if you want to be able to leave then we're going to need to you know figure out something that works for us.

This guy is such an unbelievable monster. Listening to this poor woman recount what undoubtedly is the most terrifying experience of her life is heart-wrenching. This young man deserves to be locked away for the rest of his life. Regardless of any mental health issues he might have because it ain't an excuse. If you act like an animal, you belong in a cage. And the same thing happened again, except this time he couldn't get it inside of me because I was just too dry and I was just wailing in pain. I told him I didn't want it and then he said I need to suck him off. So I sucked him off, you know, with his hands there and and then he came all over me and my hair, on my face, on my chest, on my um sports bra. I have it on here right now,

and on my hair. And at this point, he wanted me to change into his clothes or shower. And I told him that I was okay, that I wanted to stay in these clothes. And then I really started after that to plead with him more about when he was going to let me go. You know, it is um hard for me to necessarily sequence because it comes in flashes. At some point within the beginning part of it though, he had tried to use uh heavyduty sex toy that he had on me to try to stimulate me,

right? And I told him it hurt. And I told him, you know, that it hurt because he didn't he didn't know. While Kate was trapped in hell, Annie had rallied some support and was not giving up on finding her girlfriend.

Her boss, he's also like the rest of this community, Orthodox Jewish, so he does not use electronics. So all night I knew that like she was with her client. So I was trying to get in contact with him to just find out like if he heard anything that there was an issue with a client,

the boss or the client? The boss. Okay. Um, but he was not answering the phone because he doesn't use electronics during Shabbat. Um, so but I didn't really care at that point. So I was just continuously blowing up his phone. And he finally called me back at 3:00 a.m. And I explained the situation. I was like, "I need the address of the LA of the last client she was going to see." And um, he gave it to me and that's this house. And then I called back the um Lantana Police Department because at that point I had already filed a missing person's report.

Okay. So you did speak to Lantana. Okay. Yeah. When her mom called Lantana um the police then came to my house like my apartment and we discussed everything. They went down and uh checked all the files to make sure she wasn't in any systems anywhere and then came back up and then gave me the option to make a police u a missing person report. So that's what I did.

And what time was that at? Did they come in? probably around like 1:00 a.m. 1:30.

So, at that point, he started to express how he's had like a history of suicide and that he's not planning on letting me go. And I kept at this point trying to get him to turn on his phone just to maybe like see if, you know, anyone's called or there's someone he can talk to and like figure out another way out of this like that it doesn't have to escalate this whole big thing. And then he said he's [ __ ] and that he's sorry.

And at that point, he didn't have any hope anymore and he wanted to take us down together.

Annie was frustrated. She had checked with every police station and filed a missing person's report. There was nothing left to do except go to Kate's last known address herself and knock on the door. So Annie along with some friends drove over to Z's house on Larksburg Trail at 400 a.m. and took matters into her own hands.

And what did you see or hear when you got here? Nothing. I saw her car in the driveway and I was just banging on the door and like walking around the house and my friend stopped me from using a rock to try to crack the window even though I probably wouldn't have done anything. Kate could hear the knocks and doorbell rings from inside the house, but Z had grabbed a large butcher knife from the kitchen and told her that if she made a sound, he'd kill her.

outside. Annie was calling Kate's name and waiting. Of course, they couldn't break in, so they tried to talk to some neighbors.

6:00, I knocked on the neighbor's door just cuz I noticed that he had a Ring camera. So, I just wanted to know if like cuz it's p facing the street. So, you would have saw her car drive past that house. So it's like, okay, she we know she came here, but did she ever leave so with the client like how they were supposed to or did she only ever like get here? And he told me it was Shabbat and he could not help me.

I know religion is important to some people, but can you imagine if that was your loved one inside? As the knocks grew more frequent and police arrived on scene, Z began to freak out and dragged Kate into his parents' closet. And that's when she let out that fateful scream.

But that was the one time that kind of gave confirmation that it's like, "Hi, I'm here was I screamed when he was taking me from the main part of the house with like the living room area and the bedrooms we had been in over to his parents' bedroom and closet." You know, at that point, the cops were around and he was starting to get he he himself was getting really scared. At one point he asked me to feel his heartbeat. Um, but he was also getting weirdly turned on and he kept asking me to [ __ ] in the closet and I kept telling him no, no, no. Like I don't want this anymore.

And I still had to cuddle him, you know, with his heartbeats up against me. Every time I tried to move away while we were laying on the floor in the closet, he would pull me back in. Miss Kate was being held in the closet with Z trying to rape her again while the cops surveyed the perimeter of the house. Annie waited with her friends outside and talked with the officers. She was getting fed up.

I waited here and then they got when they got back here, two of them showed up and I explained the situation and they did their little walk around and then they were in the back and they came up and we me and all my friends heard it. We all heard a scream and they came in and they said, "You guys heard that, too?" And we said, "Yes." And then it still took 3 hours for them to get inside that house.

So many things went wrong during those hours while the police figured out if they could get inside. Like the sergeant at the top of the episode said, "Just check in all the [ __ ] boxes." But while they were handling protocol, Kate was stuck in a closet being held at knife point by a deranged 20-year-old who had repeatedly raped her for the last 15 hours. I mean, [ __ ] protocol.

They laughed and they told me my friends to go get breakfast while we were sitting out here begging them to go inside. And then when I did get them to briefly for the two seconds, she was telling me that the only thing that kept her going was hearing me yell at the cops outside to do something. So, I just don't understand how this can be the correct way to handle this situation. To have your deputies be telling us that we should be going for breakfast and brunch when this was happening and chitchatting with the neighbors who were outside drinking their coffee, watching us have mental breakdowns on the road because no one's doing anything.

How could anyone have known what was happening inside that house? The cops had to play it safe to avoid being liable. And Annie was emotional and frantic. her gut firmly telling her that her girlfriend was in trouble and was behind those doors. But finally, they got in.

And eventually, as more and more knocks started to come more frequently, and he eventually heard the drill of the door or the saw of the door that was going to be knocked down. He wouldn't give me any answers, but he just told me he was like, "I need you to do exactly what I say." you know, and telling me that I can't say a word and then I say a word that I'm going to be dead.

So, he holds me up in the closet behind me with me in front of him. Yeah. And he pulls out the knife and he has it up to his my neck and then he says, "Wait a minute." And then he is going through his his mom's clothing and he picks out a dress of hers and asks me to hold it up and hold it and I tried to put the hook of it, you know, over my neck so that he couldn't, you know, cut it. and he picked up on that knee, lowered my hand, and he held with this hand, this arm down and put the knife up to my throat and waited for the cops to come.

And he had been saying how hopeless he was. And at this point, I was shaking and crying and just saying, "Please let me go. It doesn't have to be this way. We can do something else. Like, please, I'm scared. Like, please don't hold the knife up to my throat." That's when the female officer broke in the locked door and found Kate and Z huddled at the back of the closet. The long silver blade held tightly against her neck. Then all the police swarmed in. Within a matter of seconds, a gunshot went off and I heard it in this ear and then a ringing came on. I couldn't look back and I was shuffled out of there. Z All Swang was shot in the front of the head. The bullet hit him right above his left eyebrow. It's not like it is in the movies. If you give them an opportunity, they will shoot you dead if you're threatening someone with a knife. This one was a near bullseye. And the most shocking thing of all was he survived. The

20-year-old rapist and kidnapper would have to face what he did on that horrible Shabbat Saturday. Z showed up in court in a wheelchair with a plastic beige helmet on his head. He was charged with firstdegree attempted murder, kidnapping, and several sexual battery charges. No one in his family attended his court appearances or spoke to the media on his behalf. Remember how Kate mentioned that Z had a previous sexual assault charge that had been sealed? It was also for rape. And he served not a minute of jail time because the victim's family did not press charges. He was let out back into the free world. A rapist.

Can you believe that? Now, these are the court papers right here that detail a 15year-old girl's accusation that Svi Alswang raped her. All Swang was 16 at the time and the victim's attorney told me tonight because of All Swang's age and his lack of criminal history, they decided to give him a break. It's a decision they'd all now like to have back. Even Z's first victim's lawyer regretted underestimating how dangerous this man really was. So because of his young age and the fact he had never been arrested before, Roderman and the prosecutor agreed to ask the judge to go easy on all swing

that we would agree to probation with the special conditions that he undergo evaluation and any kind of follow-up treatment.

The judge agreed and Roderman says even the victim's family was on board with all swang only getting probation. Z had planned Kate's attack out carefully. The police were able to obtain video footage of him buying plastic bags and other supplies from Party City of all places before the kidnapping. And check this out. This is the part that should sound some alarm bells and uh teach a little bit of a lesson about how the world works. Z All Swang, this rapist, chose Shabbat, a religious holiday, because he knew that no one in the neighborhood would be using their cell phones, ring cameras, or any other electronic device. Shabbat meant the Jewish world was turned off, so even Z's parents would be out of communication and out of town. That bought him a lot of time, a lot of leeway, and he knew it. Even Kate's boss was an Orthodox Jew. Z knew this, too. His sick plan would only work on this quiet, holy day.

What a sick [ __ ] Remember, Z was angry with Kate for relaying the wrong information to his father about a job application. Like, that was a justifiable reason for anything. In his twisted mind, Z thought that this was the perfect excuse to kidnap, rape, and torture the woman who was assigned to help him. The judge showed Z no mercy, and thank God for that. He handed him down four life sentences for his crimes to make sure that he would never be able to hurt another woman ever again. Kate lived through a woman's worst fear.

But she survived. I have to think that her education and social work helped her survive this situation. It must have. She used her compassion to her advantage and was wise enough to trick her kidnapper into thinking that the girl he was texting was only a roommate, not her beloved girlfriend of 5 years. So many things went wrong in this story between the cops and Kate's friends and family. But the most important thing is that Kate should have never been allowed to be alone with Z. He had a history of sexual violence and rape. Men who do this are going to do it again. Letting Z off so easily the first time only told his underdeveloped brain that he could possibly get away with this kind of behavior again.

But this time he took it too far and he underestimated Kate's prowess and Annie's devotion despite the cop's missteps. This truly is a story of love. Annie saved Kate. She never gave up and she trusted her gut even when the cops were moving too slow or telling her that they just had to follow protocol. This was simply not acceptable. Annie's love for Kate is what saved her. And that in its own way is what makes this tragic story kind of beautiful.

Well, I hope that by the time you hear this story, we're done with all that replacing cops with social workers [ __ ] Perhaps we should stop listening to people that come up with really [ __ ] ideas like that. But I'm sure those of you that believe that sort of nonsense will just complain and whine instead like you always do. Maybe just leave the adulting to adults. Adults have a way of being able to keep you safe. Then again, the cops weren't really adulting, were they? I don't know. I don't know what the [ __ ] I'm talking about. But I do think we need to stop making excuses for those with mental illness.

Just because you have an illness doesn't mean you're not responsible for your actions. I think we need to stop selling that lie. Cuz even at the height of madness, you still have choices to make. And those choices say who and what you are fundamentally. So sorry if you don't like that and your kids mentally ill. It's just the cost of living in a society. The good of all outweighs.

Yeah. Heat.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Episode 301"?

Mike Boudet (Host), Kate (pseudonym) (Guest), Annie (pseudonym) (Guest), Unnamed 911 dispatcher (Palm Beach County) (Guest), Unknown caller on 911 call (friend of Annie/Kate; uses 'John Doe') (Guest), Unnamed Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy (initial responding deputy; narrative statement) (Guest), Unnamed Palm Beach County Sheriff's sergeant (scene supervisor; narrative statement) (Guest).

What is "Episode 301" about?

The content explores a true crime story set in Boca Raton, Florida, where a woman named Annie is concerned about her missing girlfriend, Kate, whose car is found outside a house where Annie believes she might be. The narrative unfolds with hints of strange messages received from Kate's phone, raising suspicions about her whereabouts and prompting Annie to investigate further.

What is mentioned in this Sword and Scale episode?

62 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Shabbat, All Swang, Sword and Scale, Larksburg Trail, Z All Swang, Orthodox Jewish. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Episode 301"?

The episode runs 58 min; the transcript is about 9,498 words in 130 timestamped sections.

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