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Speaker 1: I first got the tip about the incident at the

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Speaker 1: Sarah Warren. Eight years later, many things have changed, but

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Speaker 1: others have not. I'm Paul Pringle. This is Fallen Angels,

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Speaker 1: Episode ten. In this final installment of our show, I'll

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Speaker 1: a kind of epilogue. George Tindall, the former gynecologist at

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Speaker 1: June of twenty nineteen. He was charged with more than

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Speaker 2: Well, George Tindall has died, and he died before the

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Speaker 2: LEDA even bothered to get us closer to trial, and

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Speaker 2: that was a huge disappointment because none of us got justice.

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Speaker 1: And it was quite a delay. Leave The story ran

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Speaker 1: in twenty May of twenty eighteen, and he died five

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Speaker 1: He was out on bail and live in his life.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty unheard of in the criminal law for case

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Speaker 2: tried before that. It's very obvious that the authority slow

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Speaker 1: Lucy, how did you feel when you heard the news

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Speaker 1: of Tyndall's death.

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Speaker 3: So I was getting ready to go to court who

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Speaker 3: I got a message that they were postponing the court

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Speaker 3: And I was so devastated.

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Speaker 1: Did you speak to each other about this when you

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Speaker 2: Lucy texted me right away and it wasn't one hundred

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Speaker 2: had in their hands homemade videotape that doctor Tindall made

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Speaker 2: gun evidence. He knew what he was doing was wrong,

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Speaker 1: There are no plans to prosecute anyone else as far

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Speaker 2: In the Tindal matter, detectives didn't ask any questions about

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Speaker 2: anyone else and their complicity, or any of the people

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Speaker 2: there will be no further investigation as far as I

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Speaker 3: Andrea and I spoke with one of the people that

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Speaker 2: I have a profound sense of frustration with the criminal

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Speaker 2: thirty years, and it's just so frustrating to be on

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Speaker 2: how justice can be completely not achieved, not a team,

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Speaker 2: and because the authorities didn't want justice. If they wanted

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Speaker 3: So I've been trying to look on the bright side

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Speaker 4: Very disheartening.

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Speaker 2: We did get a lot done, We got a lot

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Speaker 3: And actually that similar bill that passed to New York

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Speaker 1: Finally, as for common Puliafido, to this day, he has

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Speaker 1: The only real consequence Puliafido has faced is losing his

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Speaker 5: Maybe a year or two ago, I was contacted by

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Speaker 1: That's Miriam Jones. Dori Yoda's sister. Dora is the young

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Speaker 1: The Medical Board of California rejected Pulliafiedo's petition to reinstate

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Speaker 1: something to help her sister escape Pulliafido's influence. As for

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Speaker 1: and worked hard to rebuild their lives. I often spoke

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Speaker 1: to Sarah. She remained frustrated that Pulliafido was never prosecuted,

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Speaker 1: but she was also trying to move on because of

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Speaker 6: When she came, she was with us, and then she

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Speaker 6: and yeah, for oh gosh, I guess seven months, and we.

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Speaker 4: Were overjoyed to have her back. And she was working.

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Speaker 6: I think waiting tables, and she bought her two cats home.

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Speaker 6: And Charles was enrolled at the what's it called Long.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, the two of them like spent a lot

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Speaker 6: And we're out in the movie room, you see, oh sir, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: So that was good.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, the devastating power of addiction overwhelmed

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Speaker 7: It was primarily alcohol. They probably smoked a little weed,

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Speaker 1: And I know again YouTube did everything you could to

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Speaker 4: Absolutely rehabs. Oh my gosh, it didn't stick. It just

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Speaker 1: Sarah and Charles' brave decision to go on the record

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Speaker 1: is what finally cost Pulia Fido his medical license and

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Speaker 8: A part of me feels that all of the work

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Speaker 8: The faulest that I held onto was that I saved

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Speaker 8: it's just a shame and just my knowledge of drug

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Speaker 1: Don Stokes, the Huntington Beach DJ who dated Sarah briefly,

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Speaker 9: Her smile could light up her room. Their eyes dazzled

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Speaker 9: that and be captivated, you know, my sir my sincereus

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Speaker 6: Lots of great memories, you know, and that's where we

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Speaker 18: subscribe to a place like the La Times. So I

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Speaker 18: of the more expensive things to sustain.

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Speaker 4: In a newsroom.

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Speaker 10: Feeling depressed about journalism but the thing about investigative journalism.

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Speaker 4: Is it's supposed to.

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Speaker 10: Tell people something that they don't know and they actually

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Speaker 10: can't find online. It can't be replaced by AI. That's

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Speaker 10: it's very powerful still, and maybe it would be like

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Speaker 10: one of the last things standing in journalism would be

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Speaker 10: investigative journalism.

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Speaker 1: In so many cases, investigative journalism does not happen without

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Speaker 1: brave people like the warrants, the folks who often risk

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Speaker 1: everything just to get the truth out. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: risk is even greater when they speak the truth on

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Speaker 1: the record in clear public view, knowing there could be

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Speaker 1: a terrible price to pay. Sarah and Charles Warren did that,

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Speaker 1: and their courage set in motion a series of events

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Speaker 1: that brought down powerful people who needed to be brought down.

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Speaker 1: Of all the names you've heard in this story, I

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Speaker 1: hope theirs are the ones you remember again. I'm Paul Pringle.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Fallen Angels, the story of California corruption.

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Speaker 1: I'm still an investigative reporter for The Times, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you continue to support local journalism in LA and elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: Fallen Angels The Story of California Corruption is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm

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Speaker 1: Paul Pringle. This show is based on my book Bad City,

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Speaker 1: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels

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Speaker 1: was written by Isabel Evans, Adam Pinkas, and Brent Katz.

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Speaker 1: Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is co producer.

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Speaker 1: Associate producers are Hannah Leebowitz Lockhart and On Pajo Locke.

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Speaker 1: Executive producers are Me, Paul Pringle, Joe Picarello, and Adam

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Speaker 1: Pinkas for Best Case Studios. Original music is by James Newberry.

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Speaker 1: This episode was edited by Max Michael Miller, with assistants

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Speaker 1: from Nisha Venkat, Additional editings, Hound design and additional music

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Speaker 1: by Dean White, Harriet, Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sarah Parvini and

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Speaker 1: Adam Almarik are consulted in producers. Our iHeart team is

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