Crime Time with Samantha Leary —The Cost of being seen

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~Samantha Leary

This case started the way many of them do — with visibility mistaken for safety.

She documented her life carefully. What she ate. Where she went. Who paid attention. She believed being seen meant being protected, that attention created a kind of shield. It doesn’t. It never has.

The people who watched her the most weren’t the ones she worried about. They learned her routines, her tone, her boundaries — and exactly how far they could push them. Visibility didn’t make her safer. It narrowed the distance between her and the wrong person.

People don’t die because they want to be seen.

They die because someone else decides to use that need.

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