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ANNOUNCING SEASON 6 OF THE HIT PODCAST

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“5.0/5” - Great Pods

“Andrea is the perfect host” - Podcast The Newsletter 

"A rich and harrowing chronicle of the condition." --The New York Times 

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8 EPISODES OUT WEEKLY BEGINNING JUNE 19, 2025

 

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Season Six of the hit podcast Nobody Should Believe Me, hosted by Andrea Dunlop, out weekly beginning on June 19, covers the extraordinary and tragic saga of the McDaniel family, a ‘real-life Southern Gothic’ tale of Munchausen by Proxy that spans decades and has left untold damage in its wake. 

 

For the past twelve years, Lisa McDaniel worked as the director of patient advocacy for The Guthy Jackson Foundation, a high-profile non-profit founded by Bill Guthy and Victoria Jackson, dedicated to a rare disease called NMO (Neuromyelitis Optica), from which Lisa claims her son suffered. 

 

But while Lisa appears to be a sweet Southern mom whose personal tragedy led to her heroic work for others,  this image hides her dark history of abuse. When her adult daughter Mishelle bravely decides to break the silence, everything comes crashing down. 

 

How was Lisa able to keep her felony conviction for poisoning and suffocating her infant daughter hidden for years? How did her children slip through the cracks of the healthcare and legal systems again and again? What really happened to her son Collin?  

 

On Season 6, Nobody Should Believe Me enters new territory by breaking a story that is years in the making and made possible through the astounding courage of Mishelle Roberts. Season 6 ties together many elements introduced in previous seasons: ways that systems fail vulnerable victims, the culture of silence and inaction within hospitals that enables abuse, and the damage done to rare disease advocacy and victims’ groups which can devastate families and echo through generations.  

 

Dunlop hopes listeners will gain an understanding of what this abuse looks like, and recognize the real threat that it poses to vulnerable children, families and communities. She aims to sound the alarm about perpetrators infiltrating rare disease groups, a shockingly widespread danger. She knows listeners will be moved, as she has been, by the bravery of the family members coming forward.

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MORE ABOUT ANDREA DUNLOP:

 

Andrea Dunlop is an author and podcaster based out of Seattle, WA

 

Andrea is the author of five novels including Losing the Light (February 2016; Atria), She Regrets Nothing (February 2018; Atria), We Came Here to Forget (July 2019; Atria), Women Are the Fiercest Creatures (March 2023; Zibby Books), The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy (February 2025, St. Martin’s). Her books have been featured in Town & Country, Bustle, InStyle, US Weekly, Vanity Fair, People, ABC Live and elsewhere. 

 

Andrea is host and creator of the popular true crime investigative podcast about Munchausen by Proxy: Nobody Should Believe Me, which was a New & Noteworthy pick for Apple’s Dark Side collection. The show has over 15 million downloads and is the winner of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Media Coverage Award two Signal Awards and a Vega Award. It has been featured in The New York Times, Armchair Expert, Something Was Wrong, Business Insider, NPR, ABC News Live, TMZ, and many more.

 

She is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Munchausen by Proxy Committee. She presented at the March 2023 and July 2024 APSAC Colloquiums, the October 2024 American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Annual Meeting, and was a keynote speaker at the November 2024 Stanford Child Abuse Conference. Andrea is the founder of Munchausen Support which is dedicated to providing resources for frontline professionals, families, and survivors dealing with MBP. 

 

She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and two children