Episode 73: Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 1) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley

She Goes By Jane

By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home to travel to Barbados, Tahiti, and Samoa chasing new story ideas and escaping the turmoil of her parents’s divorce. And by age 15, she’d disappear. Barbara Newhall Follett never did anything by half measure.

Join Aimee and Vanessa for this week’s episode of She Goes By Jane as they dig into the first episode about the disappearance of child prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett.

This week they’re joined by Kerry O’Malley whose recent film credits include her scene-stealing role as Dolores in David Fincher's The Killer, Mother's Mother in Marielle Heller's Nightbitch, Azalia in Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa, and Mildred in Tyler Perry's Six Triple Eight. Recent television credits include her recurring roles as Megan in A Man on the Inside on Netflix, Samantha Miles on SEAL Team, first class passenger Lilah Folger on TNT's Snowpiercer, and Mavis in the second season of Marc Cherry's Why Women Kill for Paramount Plus.

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