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In the winter of 2007, the Nintendo Wii reigned supreme. It was cool, new, and impossible to get ahold of. So when the California radio station KDND-FM 107.9 The End announced their \\u201chold your wee for a Wii\\u201d contest, 28-year-old mother of three Jennifer Strange signed up. She and 17 other participants went to the radio station, where they were given water every ten minutes for nearly three hours. As the contest went on, the participants ached with discomfort. It was entertaining radio. But concerned listeners called the station. They warned the DJs that the contest was dangerous. Hadn\\u2019t they heard of water intoxication? One DJ said that he had, but he wasn\\u2019t worried. The participants had all signed releases. No matter what happened, the station couldn\\u2019t be held liable.\\xa0
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\\nThen Brandi tells us one of her strangest stories yet. It\\u2019s hard to know what\\u2019s true about Treva Throneberry\\u2019s complicated life, but one thing is for certain \\u2014 she was a very troubled girl. When she was in high school, Treva sought the help of police. She told them that her father had raped her at gunpoint, and that when she\\u2019d tried to tell her mom, she\\u2019d just laughed. Treva\\u2019s three sisters doubted her story, but they didn\\u2019t doubt that she\\u2019d been raped. They\\u2019d all been sexually abused by an uncle. Surely the predatory uncle had gone after Treva, too. But before anyone could get to the truth, Treva vanished.\\xa0
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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\\u201cWoman dies after being in water-drinking contest,\\u201d Associated Press
\\n\\u201cJury rules against radio station after water-drinking contest kills California mom,\\u201d by Suzan Clarke and Rich McHugh for Good Morning America
\\n\\u201cRadio station behind \\u2018hold your wee for a Wii\\u2019 promotion shuts down,\\u201d by Joon Chun for Chief Marketer.com
\\n\\u201cWii death case resolved,\\u201d by Patrick Kolan for IGN
\\n\\u201cTrial over woman\\u2019s death in radio station contest to begin today,\\u201d by Andy Furillo for McClatchy-Tribune
\\n\\u201cJennifer Strange case finds end, Entercom forfeits license,\\u201d by Dan Morain for the Sacramento Bee
\\n\\u201cNo charges in radio contest death,\\u201d by Henry Lee for the San Francisco Chronicle
\\n\\u201cSue from Fiddletown took a stand in the public interest,\\u201d by Dan Morain for the Sacramento Bee
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\u201cThe Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared\\u201d by Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly
\\n\\u201cTreva Throneberry\\u201d by Rachael Bell, The Crime Library
\\n\\u201cForever Young\\u201d by Emily White, The New York Times
\\n\\u201cTreva or Brianna\\u201d by Katia Dunn, Portland Mercury
\\n\\u201cTreva Throneberry\\u201d wikipedia.org\\n