We Saw the Devil: A True Crime Podcast12 Sep

Breaking - Gisèle Pelicot 2.0: The Men Who Knew the Guest List Was for Rape

This episode covers rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, and the death of a woman. Nothing in it is graphic for the sake of being graphic. Resources are below.

Late on June 25, 2026, in the small Upper Austrian town of Marchtrenk, a teenage girl finds her mother unresponsive and bleeding. Paramedics pronounce her dead at 12:44 a.m. Her husband tells police it was rough, consensual sex that went wrong. That story lasts until the autopsy.

Austrian prosecutors have said on the record that she was extremely intoxicated and unable to defend herself; that her husband is under investigation for sexual abuse of a defenseless person resulting in death; that a neighbor has confessed to abusing her twice, including the night she died; and that a third man was expected to take part and did not show. Reports of a wider paid network, secret drugging, and specific chat messages.

From there the episode goes to Gisèle Pelicot: the 2024 Mazan trial, the fifty-one convictions, France’s 2025 consent-based rape law, her 2026 memoir A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides, and her daughter Caroline Darian’s still-open fight to be believed without a hard drive full of proof.

Then Stockport, England, where a husband has pleaded guilty to five rapes of his unconscious wife while twelve co-defendants stand trial beside him. Then the CNN investigation into the so-called rape academy: sleep-content platforms, Telegram groups, a Polish arrest that started with an undercover reporter, Project Medusa, and the viral 62-million figure that was wrong.

The Reality Check covers how common incapacitated rape is, leftover marital-rape loopholes, what actually moves cases, and the men who were invited, declined, and told no one.

US: RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline — 1-800-656-4673 / rainn.org
US: National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-7233 / thehotline.org
International resources are linked below.

If you have unexplained blackouts or lost time, you can ask a doctor about testing for chemical submission. You do not have to be sure first.

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