A discussion about Marty, a remarkable woman with a unique storytelling approach, who overcame challenges and faced resistance in her pursuit of support for her evidence collection kit.
In the early 1970s, Marty Goddard was worried about the high rates of sexual assault in Chicago. She learned from police that evidence from sexual assault cases often wasn’t collected properly — or at all. “They said, ‘We don’t get evidence.’ And this really kicked everything off.”
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