When the Apology podcast first went live I got an email from someone with whom I corresponded years ago. She had been an Apology caller, an “Apologista”, as Allan once referred to Apology callers. I kept in touch with this woman and a few others for a couple of years after Apology ended.<\/p>\n
I am impressed this person remembered me enough to find my contact info. I don’t think we’d corresponded in over 20 years.<\/p>\n
She wanted to know if the Apology podcast was my doing. It is not. I had nothing to do with it. It was interesting that she asked, though, since she knows better than most that my involvement with the line went pretty deep, and I have the paperwork to show for it. But that doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n
A lot of people who called that line probably would not want to let it be known. Even the relatively tame confessions could cause trouble should anyone make a connection to them.<\/p>\n
The odds of someone hearing the podcast and thinking “Oh, so\u00a0that’s<\/em> who mugged me that night in 1989″ or “She really was cheating on me back in 1992” are pretty remote.<\/p>\n But you never know who might still be paying attention or looking for clues, especially with the more serious crimes.<\/p>\n One memorable series of calls came from a child molester, who called himself “CM”. Could his voice identify him all these years later?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Apology podcast first went live I got an email from someone with whom I corresponded years ago. She had been an Apology caller, an “Apologista”, as Allan once referred to Apology callers. I kept in touch with this woman and a few others for a couple of years after Apology ended. I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-73E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27785,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions\/27785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}