226: CoolSculpting & the Disappearance of Michele Harris

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 11:30 a.m.

Supermodel Linda Evangelista was feeling insecure about her body. Her thighs weren\u2019t quite as slim as they used to be. Her jawline wasn\u2019t quite as hard. A new cosmetic procedure called CoolSculpting seemed like the answer to her problems. The procedure was marketed as a non-invasive method for shrinking areas of stubborn fat. So imagine Linda\u2019s surprise when the areas where she received CoolSculpting began to grow.
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\nThen Brandi tells us about Michele Harris, a mother of four who went missing on September 11, 2001. In the months leading up to her disappearance, Michele and her husband Cal were in the middle of a contentious divorce. She\u2019d begun dating other men. She got a part-time job. When she went missing, people suspected that Cal was to blame.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cLinda Evangelista is the latest to go to war against this fat-freezing company,\u201d by Andrea Marks for Rolling Stone\xa0
\n\u201cBack in bloom: The rebirth of the indomitable Linda Evangelista,\u201d by Sarah Harris for British Vogue\xa0
\n\u201cLinda Evangelista shares first photos of her body since fat-freezing nightmare: I\u2019m done hiding,\u201d by Jason Sheeler for People.com
\n\u201cLinda Evangelista says she \u2018looks forward to the next chapter\u2019 after CoolSculpting lawsuit settles,\u201d by Arielle Weg for Prevention
\n\u201cWhat to know about CoolSculpting,\u201d by Rachel Ann Tee-Melegrito for Medical News Today
\n\u201cLinda Evangelista covers British Vogue after CoolSculpting procedure: \u2018Miss my work so much,\u201d by Edward Segarra for USA Today
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cA Time To Kill\u201d episode 48 Hours
\n\u201cDisappearance of Michele Anne Harris\u201d wikipedia.org
\n\u201c9/11 horror limited investigation into upstate N.Y. mom\u2019s disappearance\u201dby David Krajicek, New York Daily News
\n\u201cMichele Anne Harris\u201d charleyproject.org
\n\u201cCal Harris Says Acquittal After 4th Murder Trial Was 'Total Relief,' How He and Kids Are Moving Forward\u201d by Matt Gutman, Marc Dorian, Mike Repplier, and Lauren Effron, ABC News\n
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