Episode 273: Joseph Heidesch

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 11 a.m.

b'On October 6th of 2021, Catholic high school music teacher 45-year-old Joseph Martin \\u201cJoe\\u201d Heidesch is arrested for multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child and breach of privacy. Further investigation reveals that, from 2016 to 2021, the choir director secretly filmed his female students changing into their performance outfits in his private office. Court documents revealed that Mr. Heidesch would strongly encourage his female students to use his office to change clothes. He told the girls there was a \\u201c\\u2018special lock\\u201d on his office door that would make their experience safer. Ultimately, more than 100 young women who attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kansas, are notified that they were victimized by Mr. Heidesch\\u2019s crimes. In episode 273, Jac and Alexis unravel how one man\\u2019s pedophilia, lies, and exploitation negatively impacted many young women, their families, and the community as a whole.'