This is what actually happened to me

The Story No One Bothered to Investigate

For nearly a decade, I have been telling the same story.

Not versions of it. Not a shifting narrative. The same account, over and over, since I escaped in 2019. What happened to me. Who was involved. What I lost. What was taken. What evidence exists.

And yet, no one has meaningfully investigated it.

That alone should give pause.

Instead of scrutiny, I was given a smear. A story about me that never made sense, not structurally, not psychologically, not evidentially. A story that collapses the moment you examine timelines, incentives, or facts. A story that exists not because it is true, but because it is useful.

There is evidence everywhere for what I am saying. Paper trails. Witnesses. Digital records. Financial anomalies. Patterns that align disturbingly well with known tactics used against other women who threatened powerful systems. None of it is hidden. It simply has not been taken seriously.

This raises an unavoidable question: why?

At a certain point, the lack of investigation stops looking like negligence and starts looking like avoidance. Because if what I am saying were false, disproving it would be straightforward. A real inquiry would end it. Silence, by contrast, preserves uncertainty and shields those who would rather not have answers on the record.

It increasingly appears that no one has bothered to find out because they already know what they would find.

And they do not want to face the consequences.

This is not new.

Epstein survivors told the truth for years while being ignored, discredited, and dismissed. Their stories were labeled implausible. Their credibility was attacked. Institutions looked away. Only later did the world decide they had been telling the truth all along.

I am not making a comparison for drama. I am pointing out a pattern.

When a woman tells a story that implicates power, money, or reputation, the default response is not investigation. It is containment. Delay. Smear. Exhaustion.

I have continued to speak anyway.

I have continued because silence does not create safety. It only protects whatever caused the harm in the first place. I have continued because the facts do not change just because they are inconvenient. And I have continued because truth does not require permission to exist.

This video is not an appeal for sympathy. It is a record.

At some point, the question stops being “Is she telling the truth?” and becomes something far more uncomfortable:

Why has no one dared to look?

Jodi Schiller

Jodi Schiller

Storyteller, social scientist, technologist, journalist committed to telling the truth. Caring human working for collective action to end tyranny, free women. Survivor of sex slavery in the United States. Full story: https://connect-the-dots.carrd.co
San Rafael