78: Dating Naked & the Abduction of Amber Hagerman

Published: July 17, 2019, 6:01 a.m.

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When Jessie Nizewitz agreed to be on VH1\\u2019s reality dating show \\u201cDating Naked,\\u201d she knew one thing for certain \\u2014 she\\u2019d be filmed naked. When Jessie arrived on set, she says producers encouraged her to wrestle naked with her date. They urged her to playfully slam him into the sand. Jessie was hesitant, until they reassured her that all of her private parts would be blurred when the episode aired. A few weeks later, Jessie was back at home, watching her episode. Just as promised, her naked body was blurred. But then, for a split second, it wasn\\u2019t. That image was captured and spread all over the internet. Jessie was humiliated. She felt lied to. So she decided to sue.\\xa0
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\\nThen Brandi tells us about the abduction of Amber Hagerman. Her name might not initially sound familiar, but you probably know her legacy. Amber was just nine years old, riding her bike a few blocks from her grandparents\\u2019 home when a man abducted her. A neighbor witnessed the abduction. He called police to report what he\\u2019d seen. Soon, the FBI stepped in. But did they have enough information to find Amber?
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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:
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\\u201cThis is why Dating Naked was Canceled,\\u201d by Nicki Swift for YouTube
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Dating Naked\\u2019 cast member sues after crotch-blur fail,\\u201d by Jamie Schram and Amber Sutherland for the New York Post
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Dating Naked\\u2019 cast member sues after VH1 showed her naked,\\u201d James Hibberd for Entertainment Weekly
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\\n \\u201c\\u2018Dating Naked\\u2019 lawsuit seeks to strip Viacom of $10M for showing too much,\\u201d by Dominic Patten for Deadline
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Dating Naked\\u2019 $10M lawsuit stripped by judge,\\u201d by Dominic Patten for Deadline
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Dating Naked\\u201d $10M \\u201cinadvertent\\u201d nudity suit should be tossed, says Viacom,\\u201d by Dominic Patten for Deadline
\\n\\u201c$10M \\u2018Dating Naked\\u2019 lawsuit dismissed,\\u201d HNGN.com
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cAmber Hagerman\\u201d by David Krajicek, The Crime Library
\\n\\u201cAmber Hagerman: 20 Years Later\\u201d CBS DFW
\\n\\u201cAmber Alert\\u201d wikipedia.org.
\\n\\xa0\\u201cAriel Castro Kidnappings\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n
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