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This episode contains descriptions of coercive control and some strong language.
Did you know anything about this witness protection program that he was in?
I did, actually.
Yeah, I did.
I thought it was really odd, actually.
That's like a mafia movie, isn't it?
It's like, you know, goodfellas or something, you know?
So this is when the story starts to get weird.
Like, really weird.
You remember in November 2013, Kirak got a message to say that Bobby, this handsome cardiologist she'd been speaking to online, had been shot.
He'd gone into a coma, and then a few months later, he died.
Well, it turns out it wasn't that simple.
So it was kind of like you'd hear her talk about him a bit, but then because of this whole thing about witness protection, it would go quiet for a long time and she wouldn't hear from him.
So there was a period when Bobby got shot, and then he was in a coma, and then he started to get better, but then he died.