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[otherworldly music playing]
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DISPATCHER: 911.
This line's recorded.
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What is your emergency?
ARNOLD: Um...
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It's Christa
Worthington. I think she fell
down
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or something. I'm p--
I'm sure she's dead.
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[dramatic music playing]
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NARRATOR: Christa Worthington
was never the type
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to regret anything.
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But after she was
brutally murdered,
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it was her way of life
that was put on trial.
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MANSO: Here's a single
mother murder victim
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being called a-a whore.
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NARRATOR:
Slut-shaming,
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small-town gossip,
and a convenient killer.
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What really happened
to Christa Worthington?
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[seabirds chirping]
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Born December 23, 1956,
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to an affluent family
in Truro, Cape Cod,
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Christa Worthington was an
only child with a bright
future.
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- I knew Christa.
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My home in Truro is
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less than a mile
from Christa's house.
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She was bright, as I say,
she was definitely--
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she was brighter
than most people.
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She was quite literary,
she read a lot.
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And she wrestled
with ideas.
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She had dreams of
becoming Virginia Woolf.
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NARRATOR: After
graduating from Vassar,
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Christa moved to New York
City to pursue a career as a
writer.
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- I met Christa
probably in 1991.
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We worked on the first of the
Chic Simple book
series.
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Her writing was both
sensual and sensible.
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"Sex is part of the
design motivation
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"behind every pair
of boots, pumps, sandals
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and signature mules."
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She would describe a handbag
as "Freud's take on the
womb."
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I mean, like, who would
come up with that?
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MANSO: She shortly
gets a freelancing job
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with several fashion magazines,
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including The
New York Times.
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GROSS:
She was amazing.
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She just captured the
zeitgeist of the '90s.
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[upbeat music playing]
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NARRATOR: By the time
she reached her 30s,
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Christa was well-known
in the fashion industry.
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GROSS: She knew the beat.
She knew fashion inside out.
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MANSO: She moved to Paris
for about a year and a half.
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She then got a job
with Women's Wear Daily,
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which is the gospel
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when it comes to
fashion publications.
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LATART:
Christa Worthington
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reminds me of The
Devil Wears Prada.
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She, like the Anne
Hathaway character,
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turned into the Anna
Wintour character.
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♪
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NARRATOR: She was at
the top of her career,
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but there was
something missing.
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Christa wanted a child.
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- She was not married,
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and she was just
gonna do it her way.
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LATART:
It was in her late 30s.
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She was told by a doctor
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that she wouldn't be able
to have children.
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When she was told no, I think
that it probably crushed
her.
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NARRATOR: But Christa
was determined.
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She left her career in
fashion, moved home to Cape
Cod,
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and began writing
about fertility,
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hoping to find a way to
have a child on her own.
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CARROLL: It's something that
she was very open about.
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WORTHINGTON: Trying to
figure out how to be
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the best parent to your
child, given that there is no
father.
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- Christa's personal life
in Cape Cod was complicated.
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Truro is a really
small town,
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and she didn't care
about small-town morals.
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She was a woman who really
took her life into her own
hands,
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and I think that was
threatening to some people.
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People didn't like that she was
flouting these norms and saying,
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"I can find happiness
however I want."
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She had an affair
with Tony Jackett,
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the town's
shellfish constable.
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- Tony was married.
He has four children
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with his wife,
and then two adopted children.
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Tony is a
good-looking guy.
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He has a charm to him.
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They would sneak away
and they would meet
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right there on the ocean.
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[dramatic music playing]
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♪
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CARROLL:
She got pregnant.
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LATART: Obviously, this
was a blessing for her.
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And it was a shock for him, and
he wanted to keep it a secret.
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MANSO: That's when
her lover Tony Jackett
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broke off the relationship.
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LATART: So Christa
was going to be
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a single mother.
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After Christa
gave birth
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to her daughter Ava,
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she wanted to start
seeing other people.
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So she started
dating Tim Arnold.
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CARROLL: He was a
children's book illustrator.
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LATART: He just
wanted to be with her.
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He thought that she was
going to be the one.
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They dated for
a couple months,
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but then they
ended up splitting.
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It was something
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that he seemed to not be able
to deal with very well.
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NARRATOR: Tim was
heartbroken. But Christa moved
on.
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LATART:
She decided to go on
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as many dates as she thought
she needed to or wanted to.
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In the Cape Cod area,
that was kind of frowned upon.
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NARRATOR: Between her affair
and ongoing love life,
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she developed an
outsized reputation.
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MANSO:
Locally,
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there were women who
resented Christa.
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NARRATOR: What happened next
would shake them to their
core.
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DISPATCHER: 911.
This line's recorded.
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What is your emergency?
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ARNOLD: I don't
know what happened.
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I-I think she's dead.
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[high-pitched
ringing]
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