Speaker 1: Content warning. This episode features topics related to sexual assault
Speaker 1: and abuse, as well as struggles with drug addiction. For
Speaker 1: those in search of help, there are resources in our
Speaker 1: show notes for today's episode.
Speaker 2: Fire Department of twenty six baby not breathing. He was
Speaker 2: just found like this question, Karen, I don't know you.
Speaker 1: Called me crying. On October fifth, twenty seventeen, Dori orders
Speaker 1: three week old baby a boy named Boez stops breathing
Speaker 1: and a man who calls it in. The man on
Speaker 1: that nine to one one call is Carmen Puliafido.
Speaker 3: When I found out that Polyofido was the one to
Speaker 3: call nine on one, I just almost broke down.
Speaker 1: That's Dora's sister, Miriam Jones.
Speaker 3: Because it's just so painfully obvious that he is responsible
Speaker 3: for my sister's drug habit. And at this point I
Speaker 3: found out that Sarah Warren and others who were involved
Speaker 3: with him were addicted to drugs, and I just could
Speaker 3: not believe that nothing was being done about this. No
Speaker 3: one cared.
Speaker 1: Pulliafido tells the paramedics that Dora is his quote girlfriend,
Speaker 1: like Sarah Warren, He's been subsidizing her lifestyle with money
Speaker 1: and drugs. In exchange for sex. The reporting team at
Speaker 1: the La Times, Matt, Sarah, Harriet, Adam and Me had
Speaker 1: learned about Dora Yoder during our reporting on Sarah Warren.
Speaker 1: Dora was one of a number of young people in
Speaker 1: Pulliafido's circle. But when we learn of the baby's death,
Speaker 1: we have questions, how exactly did this three week old
Speaker 1: boy die? Why was Pulliafido the one to make the call,
Speaker 1: And finally, if he's involved in this tragedy, we'll pull
Speaker 1: the a Fido finally face justice. My name is Paul
Speaker 1: Pringle and this is Fallen Angels. This is episode eight
Speaker 1: Bad Doctors.
Speaker 4: I got a text one day and I was like
Speaker 4: standing in my front yard doing some kind of like
Speaker 4: yardwork or something, and the text was just like their
Speaker 4: baby died.
Speaker 1: Reporter Harriet Ryan.
Speaker 4: I think the first direction we had is just all
Speaker 4: feeling like guilt and just should we have done something more?
Speaker 5: But then we just you know.
Speaker 4: Started going into reporter mode. We've done a lot of
Speaker 4: door knocking of associates of Polifido, including Dora Yoder, and
Speaker 4: she hadn't talked to us, but being out in that area,
Speaker 4: we had developed some sources.
Speaker 5: I remember kind of frantically checking the La County Coroner's
Speaker 5: website looking for a baby with the last name Yoda,
Speaker 5: and there it was that this infant had died, and
Speaker 5: it was like a holy shit moment. It's like, oh my,
Speaker 5: like how could this happen? Matt Hamilton, I remember immediately
Speaker 5: filing a bunch of public records requests for everything about
Speaker 5: Dora Yoda calls for service. So I did that for
Speaker 5: Dora at all her addresses and got a bunch of
Speaker 5: records within a few weeks. One was a call from
Speaker 5: Dora's father, Meno Yoder, a few years prior.
Speaker 1: I'll do you a share station, you may I help you.
Speaker 2: I would like to make a report on my daughter. Okay,
Speaker 2: and my daughter's been known to do drugs and she's
Speaker 2: involved with a doctor that's also known to do drugs. Okay,
Speaker 2: last Saturday night, my daughter left and we haven't seen
Speaker 2: her talk to her since. But the doctor keeps showing
Speaker 2: up at the house and telling us you did a
Speaker 2: moto some one place and what she's doing at a
Speaker 2: moodkill is that's true, But we just don't know. This
Speaker 2: is all coming from this doctor that she's involved with.
Speaker 2: And I got his name. He's an eye doctor.
Speaker 1: Dora's father, Meno, had made these calls when the family
Speaker 1: was trying to get Pullia Fido out of Dora's life
Speaker 1: after it had become clear to them he was supplying
Speaker 1: her with drugs and had gotten her hooked on myth.
Speaker 5: And then the other was the nine one one call
Speaker 5: from the morning the baby died.
Speaker 1: Baby not breathing yet, baby not breathing.
Speaker 5: And like, as soon as it played, I remember hearing
Speaker 5: Pulli Fido's voice and it was the same voice heard
Speaker 5: in those videos he and Sarah Warren using drugs, and
Speaker 5: it was just like, oh my gosh, that's Pulli Fido.
Speaker 5: I can still hear him saying, baby not breathing, like
Speaker 5: it was very calm clinical. That phrase is stuck with
Speaker 5: me because it's like, if a child was dead, I
Speaker 5: think you'd put in more personal terms, but it was
Speaker 5: a baby not breathing in like a very direct, calm,
Speaker 5: almost composed way. And those recordings are playing at my
Speaker 5: desk and I'm like, oh my god, they took my
Speaker 5: breath away. Now, in La County, you don't know why
Speaker 5: someone died for several months sometimes because the toxicology reports
Speaker 5: take forever. I mean up to six to eight months,
Speaker 5: and frankly, the corner didn't know how the baby died.
Speaker 1: While the police are still waiting for the coroner's toxicology report,
Speaker 1: Miriam and her family are already convinced that Puliafido is
Speaker 1: accountable for what happened.
Speaker 3: I learned about this from my parents. They called to
Speaker 3: tell me that doors baby died. It just from the
Speaker 3: day this happen, I knew he was directly or indirectly
Speaker 3: responsible for this baby's death. My sister, according to medical records,
Speaker 3: was not on drugs when she had the baby. She
Speaker 3: had the baby in a hospital. When she left the hospital,
Speaker 3: the baby was healthy. She left the hospital and stayed
Speaker 3: with Ariel's parents' house in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: Ariol Franco is Dora's boyfriend, the baby's father.
Speaker 3: The baby was at a checkup two days before this
Speaker 3: baby died and it was healthy. There were no drugs.
Speaker 3: And remember at this point, Poiafido had not met the baby,
Speaker 3: had not been in the hospital, had not been near
Speaker 3: this baby. Ril said that Luiafido insisted she come to
Speaker 3: the house by herselves. He wanted to meet the baby,
Speaker 3: and all of this stuff, and she agreed, So she
Speaker 3: took the baby, went by herself to her Altadain house,
Speaker 3: the house Fido pays for, and by morning she's on
Speaker 3: drugs and the baby's dead.
Speaker 5: At that point, we were one of the only people
Speaker 5: to have put together some of the dots in the
Speaker 5: situation and connected some of them. So we're like, how
Speaker 5: do we approach Dora's family, or do we approach Dora's family?
Speaker 5: We hadn't done any outreach to the Yoders, but in
Speaker 5: researching her family, we realized that our colleague at the
Speaker 5: newspaper had written about Dora's older sister years prior, and
Speaker 5: Dora's older sister was a hairdresser, and she had been
Speaker 5: profiled in Yella Times about being former Amish now being
Speaker 5: a hairdresser in Los Angeles. Miriam had had a great
Speaker 5: experience in working with Yelly Times. Before she answered the
Speaker 5: phone and she's like yes, Like oh my God. She
Speaker 5: had almost been waiting for the call, it seemed, but
Speaker 5: she just was ready to talk. And I felt like
Speaker 5: this was the Warren's Part two in a sense of
Speaker 5: just another family recognizing Pullifido's influence in their sister or
Speaker 5: daughter's life. And are kind of powerless for how to
Speaker 5: extricate their loved one.
Speaker 1: The nine to one to one call and this conversation
Speaker 1: with Miriam are the basis for our first story about
Speaker 1: BoA's Yoda. It runs in January twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: The first story we did was really just to kind
Speaker 5: of point out what we did now, which was you
Speaker 5: have the nine one one call, you have Pullifidos in
Speaker 5: the picture, he's paying the rent, and that Dora's sister
Speaker 5: is kind of pushing authorities to investigate.
Speaker 1: Two months later, the coroner's Talks of Collegey report confirms
Speaker 1: what Mariamne her family have suspected. There was meth in
Speaker 1: the baby's body. So now the La County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 1: opens an investigation with the DA's office into Pulliafido.
Speaker 3: There was a criminal investigation, a homicide investigation opened up
Speaker 3: into this incident with Boaz because I went to the
Speaker 3: homicide department and I gave a statement for almost three
Speaker 3: hours about everything I knew about Pulifido and my sister
Speaker 3: and Ril, how he gives her drugs, how he monitors her,
Speaker 3: about how he gives Ril drugs, and they agreed to
Speaker 3: investigate further.
Speaker 1: In the face of a homicide investigation, Pulliafido starts to
Speaker 1: feel real heat. He hires a law firm and claims
Speaker 1: he never gave drugs to Dori Yoder, and he threatens
Speaker 1: the La Times with a libel lawsuit. He also tries
Speaker 1: another tech to intimidate the witnesses.
Speaker 3: Only a month or two after the investigation began, I
Speaker 3: received some strange visitors at my house and they didn't
Speaker 3: identify themselves fully except by name. They didn't say who
Speaker 3: they worked for or that they were private investigators. They
Speaker 3: just simply said they had some questions for me, and
Speaker 3: they started asking me questions about baby's death. I told
Speaker 3: them the same thing I told the Sheriff's department, and
Speaker 3: I figured it out when they were asking me questions
Speaker 3: that they were clearly working for Puliafido, and I told
Speaker 3: them to leave and never come back. And at that
Speaker 3: end of the conversation, they left and instead approached my
Speaker 3: family and they literally provided my parents with a completed
Speaker 3: written statement for them to sign. The statement was obviously
Speaker 3: in favor of Puliaffido the entire story of everything that happened.
Speaker 1: Dora's parents won't sign the statement, and based on the
Speaker 1: suspicion that Pulliafido was the source of the myth in
Speaker 1: BoA's bloodstream, La County Sheriff homicide detectives began building a
Speaker 1: case for involuntary manslaughter.
Speaker 5: They did interview Dora because she admitted using meth the
Speaker 5: night before the baby died.
Speaker 1: But the detectives have one big problem. Dora won't say
Speaker 1: anything to implicate Puleiofido. She won't testify whether he provided
Speaker 1: the myth. She won't say whether he was using drugs
Speaker 1: with her the night before the baby's death, and Pulliafido himself,
Speaker 1: is it any more forthcoming?
Speaker 5: He did acknowledge that he had gone to Dora's apartment
Speaker 5: the night before for to see the baby, but he
Speaker 5: claimed that he saw no drug use and that in
Speaker 5: the morning, he said he was at home with his
Speaker 5: wife in Pasadena when Dora had called him, and that
Speaker 5: his first instinct was to call nine one one, and
Speaker 5: that after the call, he said he drove over to
Speaker 5: her apartment, but it was swarming with empties, so he
Speaker 5: kept driving.
Speaker 1: But when the coroner rules on the cause of death,
Speaker 1: it's not a drug poisoning. Despite the fact that there
Speaker 1: was myth in a baby system. It's deemed a quote
Speaker 1: accidental asphyxiation caused by the blankets in the crib. Meth
Speaker 1: Amphetamine exposure from breast milk is listed as a quote
Speaker 1: contributing condition, but not related to the immediate cause of death.
Speaker 1: But Matt and Harriet discovered that the deputy medical examiner
Speaker 1: who conducted the autopsy had changed her ruling after learning
Speaker 1: that the Times was asking questions. Initially, she had determined
Speaker 1: the cause of death was inconclusive, but now it's an accident.
Speaker 3: I mean, a baby doesn't just have meth in its system.
Speaker 5: It was fifty nanograms per milla leader a meth in
Speaker 5: the baby's body, which is not super high.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of studies that are done. It
Speaker 4: was a very tiny amount and it wasn't enough for
Speaker 4: them to determine that it played a role in the death,
Speaker 4: so they have never charged anybody.
Speaker 5: There was also a burn on Bos's hand. I know,
Speaker 5: like kids get injuries generally. That I mean, there was
Speaker 5: a burn on the baby's hand, and Yoda had told
Speaker 5: investigators that her eighteen daled infant had reached out and
Speaker 5: touched a hot pan and that's how he got the burn.
Speaker 5: This pathologist had told us that in his view, the
Speaker 5: burn that was described to him was from more than
Speaker 5: just touching something hot.
Speaker 1: Dennis kill Coin was a homicide detective with the LAPD
Speaker 1: for thirty six years. He investigated high profile cases like
Speaker 1: the serial killer, Grim Sleeper, and the Black Widow murders.
Speaker 1: He's worked extensively with medical examiners.
Speaker 6: We were required to as part of our investigation and
Speaker 6: required to attend the autopsies, and because that was deemed
Speaker 6: to be a continuation of your crime scene investigation, because
Speaker 6: you would gather information from the body and the wounds
Speaker 6: and this and that, and recovery of bullets from the
Speaker 6: body and that type of stuff. I've never heard of
Speaker 6: a baby dying of asphyxiation because of too many blankets
Speaker 6: put on them, not blankets put over their face, blanket
Speaker 6: waiting down their chest cavity is what they're claiming. That
Speaker 6: seems pretty off the wall to me. There shouldn't be
Speaker 6: methamphetamine traces in any kid's body.
Speaker 5: It's something that.
Speaker 6: Shouldn't be there, you know, any more than rat poison
Speaker 6: should be there. You've got a baby that's got methanie system.
Speaker 6: You've got a baby that has about a week old
Speaker 6: burn injury to his left hand. And the mother's story
Speaker 6: with that is that she has the baby in some
Speaker 6: type of a rap that holds the baby close to
Speaker 6: the mother's chest, and she said, well, when she had
Speaker 6: the baby in this wrap up against her, that the
Speaker 6: baby reached for a hot pan. Well, I've got a
Speaker 6: handful of kids myself, and I've never seen any baby
Speaker 6: at twenty days old reach for anything.
Speaker 1: The former detective is also skeptical about the fact that
Speaker 1: the deputy medical examiner had changed her conclusion about the
Speaker 1: cause of death.
Speaker 6: I never had a case where that happened.
Speaker 3: The detectives after they told me what the medical examiner
Speaker 3: ruled and told me the DA can't file charges, the
Speaker 3: detectives were, in my opinion, genuinely upset. They felt, just
Speaker 3: like I did, that all the evidence pointed to Puliaffido.
Speaker 3: They made it clear that they referred this to the
Speaker 3: DA as a homicide and that Polifido should be charged
Speaker 3: at minimum with manslaughter. The DA would not budge because
Speaker 3: of the medical examiner's ruling, and so they were very upset.
Speaker 6: I would guarantee you that the prominence of this doctor
Speaker 6: and USC and all that stuff had had something to
Speaker 6: do with it. If this was Joe Blow's kid, Joe
Speaker 6: Blow probably would have been in jail right now. He just,
Speaker 6: you know, dance through the raindrops, as they say, and
Speaker 6: it's just it's maddening.
Speaker 1: In Puliafido's medical board hearing, he denies ever giving drugs
Speaker 1: to anyone, and he lies about his relationship with Dora.
Speaker 5: I was asked under oath about his relationship with Dori
Speaker 5: Yoder and the prosecutor asks him, you know she's a
Speaker 5: known drug user, right, And his response is I don't
Speaker 5: know what her current status is. And the prosecutor says,
Speaker 5: but you have use with her, correct, and he says, no,
Speaker 5: I have not. And he initially said that he had
Speaker 5: no firsthand knowledge of Yoda's drug use, but acknowledges eventually
Speaker 5: that he knew of her addiction. He's paying for her apartment,
Speaker 5: but denies he's a sugar daddy and describes himself as
Speaker 5: her healthcare consultant. So he's situated himself in this under
Speaker 5: oath as kind of a practicing Catholic who is trying
Speaker 5: to help a young mother save her unborn baby's life.
Speaker 1: But after hearing the testimony of the Warrens, Don Stokes,
Speaker 1: and Devon Khan. The Medical Board has had enough. It
Speaker 1: strips Puliafido of his medical license for now, at least
Speaker 1: he won't be able to practice medicine in the state
Speaker 1: of California. For Miriam, it's not enough. Pulliafido is still
Speaker 1: in her sister's life, paying for drugs and her silence,
Speaker 1: and he's dangerous.
Speaker 3: Pulifido is paying for her things to keep her from
Speaker 3: talking to the police. That's the only explanation. And when
Speaker 3: it becomes too inconvenient for him, she might conveniently overdose
Speaker 3: on drugs. It's only a matter of time. And because
Speaker 3: of their inaction, because the DA's office refuses to take
Speaker 3: any action, I wrote them this email and I explained
Speaker 3: to them that you're letting him murder my sister because
Speaker 3: if she dies, who's to say that he didn't murder her?
Speaker 3: Because look what he's done.
Speaker 1: One thing is different at the LA Times as the
Speaker 1: reporters keep working on the Yoder story. The top editors
Speaker 1: are fully on board for the investigation.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the story was scrutinized, edited that it for legal risks,
Speaker 5: but ultimately we were able to publish with a reasonable amount.
Speaker 1: Of time, and it turns out we're going to need
Speaker 1: their support. It's February twenty eighteen. Harriet Ryan is in
Speaker 1: the newsroom at the La Times.
Speaker 4: It's actually related to the baby ca a little bit.
Speaker 4: Because I was sitting at my desk. I have a
Speaker 4: phone on my desk. When I looked down, it was
Speaker 4: from a block number, and the police always call on
Speaker 4: block numbers, And because I was working this baby death story,
Speaker 4: I was like, it might be one of those guys.
Speaker 4: So I picked it up and it ended up being
Speaker 4: this tip about George Tendall.
Speaker 1: This is how reporting works. A hotel manager happens to
Speaker 1: meet a photographer who works for The Times and tells
Speaker 1: me he has a tip. The photographer comes to me,
Speaker 1: We report and report, find documents, get witnesses on the record,
Speaker 1: and ultimately publish an expose about a powerful doctor using
Speaker 1: drugs to control the lives of young women. And that
Speaker 1: leads us to this guy, doctor George Tindall. If us
Speaker 1: he had problems with pull your Fido. Tindall is a
Speaker 1: liability on a whole other level.
Speaker 4: The person asked if we could speak confidentially and give
Speaker 4: their name. Did not like explain who they were and
Speaker 4: just said, like, I know you guys have been writing
Speaker 4: a lot about USC. I'd really encourage you to look
Speaker 4: into doctor George Tyndall. I was like asking a bunch
Speaker 4: of questions.
Speaker 5: Who is he?
Speaker 4: I think they told me he was at the Student
Speaker 4: Health Center, and then the person was just like, I'll
Speaker 4: call you back, wouldn't give me their number. So yeah,
Speaker 4: so I started googling George Tyndall. I saw that he
Speaker 4: had been a gynecologist at the student Health clinic, and
Speaker 4: that alarmed me because I mean, that's if it's like
Speaker 4: somebody who's the manager at the bookstore, like who cares,
Speaker 4: you know, but like, yeah, that's a very sensitive job.
Speaker 1: When the tipster calls back and describes Tyndall as a
Speaker 1: quote creepy gynecologist, Harriet digs in more. She learns that
Speaker 1: the doctor who still licensed actually doesn't work for USC anymore,
Speaker 1: but apparently he's trying to get his old job back.
Speaker 4: He was trying to return to us at the time.
Speaker 4: The person that had called me was very concerned that
Speaker 4: he might be working someplace else.
Speaker 5: Harriet came over to Paul and me shortly afterward, and
Speaker 5: Harriet's not someone who's rattled. But there was something about
Speaker 5: the call that rattled her. I remember her telling us
Speaker 5: that the fear in the person's voice was just very
Speaker 5: palpable and memorable. And she was taken aback by that
Speaker 5: level of caution and hesitancy, because all this person was
Speaker 5: saying was look at doctor Tindall and why he left
Speaker 5: the university.
Speaker 4: We started working looking at court records. He didn't really
Speaker 4: have any lawsuits against him, nothing as far as USC.
Speaker 5: We looked at databases across the United States, at court
Speaker 5: systems across the US. We really found nothing. Usually there's
Speaker 5: some sort of indicator in the public record that there's
Speaker 5: some smoke and potentially some fire, and we found none
Speaker 5: of that. Doctor Tindall had a clean medical board record,
Speaker 5: find any evidence of him having kids. There was a
Speaker 5: woman who appeared to be his wife. Her name's Daisy Patricio,
Speaker 5: and she showed up on a lot of public records.
Speaker 5: So I did call the DMV and wanted a list
Speaker 5: of all vehicles doctor Tyndall owned. And I remember two
Speaker 5: or three coming back and the license plate on one
Speaker 5: of the vehicles was co ed Doc. And when the
Speaker 5: DMV tells you this, they don't pronounce it like that
Speaker 5: they say each letter, so they're like see Charlie, oh
Speaker 5: ed DC, and I'm like, wait, that says co ed doc.
Speaker 5: So that was one of the early indicators that was
Speaker 5: just like how many guynecologists on a college campus would
Speaker 5: call themselves co ed doc. It was a little alarming.
Speaker 5: We also wanted to talk to people that worked.
Speaker 4: Around doctor Tindall one on LinkedIn. We would use the
Speaker 4: Wayback Machine archive dot org for the roster of the
Speaker 4: student health clinic to figure out not just who was
Speaker 4: working there now, but who would work there and quit,
Speaker 4: you know, dating back like a decade. We would focus on,
Speaker 4: you know, specific people that maybe we're more likely to know,
Speaker 4: and then we would just like go into Nexus or
Speaker 4: voter egs, figure out what that person's address was, put
Speaker 4: their dress under their name, and then we would just
Speaker 4: start out in the morning and either my Pontiac Vibe
Speaker 4: or Matt had this like orange car.
Speaker 5: It was like bright orange.
Speaker 4: People would always be like, oh yeah, I saw the
Speaker 4: orange car, and we would just go and like we
Speaker 4: just go all day.
Speaker 1: It's painstaking work and it's frustrating no one they approach.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about doctor George Tindall until someone finally does.
Speaker 4: Went to this house and it had like a one
Speaker 4: of those la like metal screens that people got after
Speaker 4: Charles Manson, So it's like they opened their door, but
Speaker 4: there's still this like rough metal screen. You can't see
Speaker 4: the person. They can see you, but you can't see them.
Speaker 4: And it was like near the airports. It was really loud.
Speaker 4: It was the first time we'd like aggressively made or
Speaker 4: pitched somebody to talk.
Speaker 5: And it was like me and Matt are standing there.
Speaker 4: You're asking this person to take a huge risk to
Speaker 4: talk to you, to even just like open their door
Speaker 4: to you. That they cost them their job, their livelihood,
Speaker 4: and I was just trying to make the case that.
Speaker 5: It was worth it.
Speaker 4: And it seemed like I was talking for like ten
Speaker 4: minutes straight, but it was probably only.
Speaker 5: A few minutes.
Speaker 4: And then there's like a long pause and then the
Speaker 4: person just opened the door and we sat down at
Speaker 4: the kitchen table and they were like a first hand
Speaker 4: witness to doctor Tandall, and they just laid it out
Speaker 4: and they were like, I think he's been sexually assaulting
Speaker 4: women for years.
Speaker 1: You Over of twenty twelve USC master's student Lucy g
Speaker 1: called the student Health clinic to make a gynecology appointment,
Speaker 1: a routine visit. This is six years before Harriet and
Speaker 1: Matt first hear about doctor George Tindall.
Speaker 7: When I made the appointment, I made it a point
Speaker 7: to ask for a female doctor, and I was told
Speaker 7: that I would have to wait weeks, maybe even up
Speaker 7: to a month, or I could see the male doctor
Speaker 7: the next day.
Speaker 1: But when Lucy agreed to see the male doctor that day,
Speaker 1: she got an odd reaction from the receptionist handling the appointment.
Speaker 7: At first, she was very matter of fact about what
Speaker 7: the scheduling would be like. And I said, okay, then
Speaker 7: I'll just see the male doctor. And she said no,
Speaker 7: are you sure? And I said yeah, that's fine. And
Speaker 7: then she said you sure you can wait? And I
Speaker 7: said no, no, I'd rather not wait. So she was
Speaker 7: It felt like to me she was trying to encourage
Speaker 7: me to wait and see a female doctor. Looking back,
Speaker 7: there were a lot of science. I remember getting to
Speaker 7: the clinic and checkie in, and the receptionist was smiling
Speaker 7: at me and we were talking about, you know, what
Speaker 7: a beautiful day it was, And then she saw who
Speaker 7: I was seeing, and then she immediately started a frown,
Speaker 7: and she tried to schedule me for a different day,
Speaker 7: just see a different doctor. And I remember I was
Speaker 7: just like, you know, I just want to get this
Speaker 7: over with. I'll see him as fine. I was waiting
Speaker 7: in a waiting eric just outside of his office slash
Speaker 7: exam room, and I remember he opened the door and
Speaker 7: he gave me a really big smile. You know, I'm
Speaker 7: used to doctors being friendly but detached, not with such
Speaker 7: a big smile, and I remember that being a little strange.
Speaker 7: He also locked the door for me. He didn't close
Speaker 7: the privacy screen, and he made me change.
Speaker 5: In front of him.
Speaker 7: And then when I was changing from him, he turned
Speaker 7: to the side, but I could see that he was
Speaker 7: looking at me at the corner of my eye, can
Speaker 7: see his eyes looking and I remember thinking, I don't
Speaker 7: know what's going on. Let's just get this over with.
Speaker 1: Tindall then pointed to a map of China on the
Speaker 1: wall of the exam emination room.
Speaker 7: He asked me about that after I was in the stirrups.
Speaker 7: He said, are you Chinese? Can you tell me what
Speaker 7: part of China you're from? You know, it's it's very strange.
Speaker 7: I mean people people know that usually there's like anatomy pictures,
Speaker 7: they're like or like Broucheer's about diseases, you know, not
Speaker 7: like a map of China on the wall. He asked
Speaker 7: me if I'd ever modeled before, which to me is
Speaker 7: very strange because being in LA, I know what models
Speaker 7: look like. I don't look like a model. You know,
Speaker 7: I'm short, i have bad skin, I'm like, I'm overweight,
Speaker 7: like like I you know, I know what a model
Speaker 7: looks like. And I don't know why he's asking me
Speaker 7: that question.
Speaker 5: It's so strange.
Speaker 1: It all fell off to Lucy, and once she was
Speaker 1: on the table, helpless, the doctor sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 7: Tendall told me that when he was examining me that
Speaker 7: he needed to he lacked my vaginal muscles, and I
Speaker 7: believed him. You know, I internalized it. I think I
Speaker 7: never wanted to allow myself to believe what he was
Speaker 7: doing was wrong. I think I was still very idealistic
Speaker 7: about doctors and the medical field in general, and so
Speaker 7: I didn't allow myself to believe, you know, the things
Speaker 7: he was doing to me were wrong. You know, he
Speaker 7: made vague excuses for when he was assaulting me. About
Speaker 7: how there was a medical necessity.
Speaker 1: Then Lucy heard the voice of one of the nurses
Speaker 1: just outside the examination room.
Speaker 7: She came when I was halfway through my exam, and
Speaker 7: she was knocking on the door and she's yelling through
Speaker 7: the door saying, are you in there with a patient?
Speaker 5: Let me in.
Speaker 7: Immediately after I left the exam room, I remember just
Speaker 7: wanting to get away as far away as possible, and
Speaker 7: there were so many female staff members. I was just
Speaker 7: running down you know, like a short hallway as staff
Speaker 7: members were calling me from left and right asking me
Speaker 7: if I was okay. Someone followed me out of the
Speaker 7: clinic to ask me if I was okay, to ask
Speaker 7: if there was anything that could help me with There
Speaker 7: were actually several instances that looking back that I realized, Oh,
Speaker 7: everyone knew.
Speaker 1: It's not just the staff at the health clinic, the
Speaker 1: people who work with Dyndall who knew what he did
Speaker 1: and had been doing for years. The more we investigate,
Speaker 1: the more it becomes clear at the highest levels of
Speaker 1: leadership at USC, they knew. Next time on Fallen angels Us, he.
Speaker 4: Just has this like had this culture of like no
Speaker 4: bad news, like nobody wants to hear any bad news
Speaker 4: just solve the problem.
Speaker 1: But USC could no longer avoid bad news.
Speaker 5: It seemed like they're a filibus strain to a certain extent.
Speaker 1: We needed him to see it was over and ugly
Speaker 1: truths are finally revealed.
Speaker 8: USC was not the only university to have a doctor
Speaker 8: who preyed on women's students, but USC again as the worst.
Speaker 3: We're always gonna have predators, but it's the good people
Speaker 3: who stand by and do nothing that allow them to flourish.
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Speaker 1: of California Corruption is a production of iHeart Podcasts in
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Speaker 1: is based on my book Bad City, Peril and Power
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Speaker 1: Isabel Evans, Adam Pinkas, and Brent Katz. Isabel Evans is
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Speaker 1: Hannah Leebowitz Lockhart and On Paho Locke. Executive producers are me,
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