Law&Crime Sidebar - Introducing: Devil in the Dorm

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

In late 2010, a middle-aged man moved into his daughter's college dorm and created what has all the hallmarks of a cult. Over the decade that followed, he extorted millions of dollars from vulnerable young adults through violence, psychological torture, and forced sex work. Actress and Director Elisabeth Rohm narrates Law&Crime's 6-part investigative series, which draws from thousands of pages of transcripts, exhibits, audio files, and video recordings from a federal trial and explores the actions and motives of Larry Ray. This is Law&Crime’s Devil in the Dorm. You can listen to Law&Crime’s Devil in the Dorm now exclusively on Wondery Plus. Find Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Everything about the Sarah Lawrence campus speaks to its uniqueness. A green lawn haven 45 minutes north of glass concrete and steel New York City its 19th century Tudor Revival architecture stands in a sharp contrast to the towering skyscrapers just 15 miles south. The campus is surrounded by 44 acres of lush woodland, shaded by oak, maple, and cherry trees, and wisteria vines on arbor. I often call the college the land of broken toys.

If you struggle to function or fit in anywhere else, Sarah Lawrence is the perfect place for you. This is the quality of Sarah Lawrence College that Larry Ray exploited to create. what is all the hallmarks of a cult on campus in late 2010. Please don't send me away. Howdy will you set yourself for you? I'm not going to send my toe. You're going to jail. No, I'm not going to jail.

Please call them. Get off me. Please fix it. I don't want you touching me. I don't want you touching me. I don't want you touch me. I'm not bullying. I'm not bullying.

Telling you're going to central jailing we're a family and I can behave love. Absolutely. Why are you screaming? Because I'm trying to talk to you. And you know what? I'm going back to where? Stop. I don't want you to tell me all day.

Stop touching me. Stop pulling me. Stop slapping me. Stop scratching me. Stop bullying me. I'm sick of it. Please stop it. I love you. Let me go. I don't want you touching me. What do I have to do to convince you? Stop it. My name is Elizabeth Rome.

I'm an actress and a proud Sarah Lawrence College graduate. In fact, I'm eternally grateful to Sarah Lawrence for who I've become as a woman and as an artist. My mom went there. I've served on the board, and I've even gone back and taught there. For me, Sarah Lawrence College is like a unicorn in a world where education isn't often uniquely formatted for creative children with a lot of depth. One of the school's slogans is, we're different, so are you. And I felt that motto in my bones.

Say, look at you crying. Why are you crying, Claudia? I don't want to. Well, you are. Why are you crying? Look, look, there's Claudia. Say hello to all your Facebook friends. I don't want to.

Don't want you. I don't want to damage things. When I first learned that a man named Larry Ray started what has been called a cult that took root in my old college, I was shocked, sickened, and disturbed. And it takes a lot to disturb me. For four years, I played a Manhattan prosecutor on the TV series Law & Order. And you also may have seen me in David O. Russell's Black Comedy American Hustle and Bombshell, a film about the sexual harassment scandal inside Fox News.

But nothing prepared me for the strange, twisted, and sword. distorted details of the Larry Ray story. Devil in the dorm draws from thousands of pages of transcripts, exhibits, audio files, and video recordings from a federal sex trafficking trial. There are no cameras or audio recordings in federal court, so all of the testimony that you'll hear has been recreated by actors. Prosecutors say Larry extorted the students of hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars, brutalizing them with a set of pliers, a hammer, a belt, duct tape, and simply with his fists, according to testimony from multiple victims in court. Over the course of roughly a decade, Larry would drive several students to the brink of suicide, and according to at least one account,

pushed one of them over the edge. He would make millions of dollars by forcing one of the students into sex trafficking. Long Crimes podcast, Devil in the Dorm, explores how that happened, and what became of him, his followers, his enablers, and his victims. And I personally look into the question I can't stop asking myself as a parent. How did this slip under the nose of the college I love? This podcast contains themes and descriptions of sexual assault, violence, suicide, and self-harm. If these are difficult topics for you, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is now 988, and it can be dialed anywhere in the United States. The lifeline provides 24-7 free, and confidential support for people in distress,

prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. Spotify.