A shocking new documentary about pedophile former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle will show how a Florida radio host went undercover and befriended him to hear about his depraved fantasies and the debauchery he committed.
Rochelle Herman says in the series, Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster, that for four years she wore a telegram to record conversations with Fogle.
The Sarasota-based former host and reporter’s recordings are featured in the series.
Herman says Fogle, 45, would tell her about the ages of the children he was sexually interested in, how he wanted her to witness “beating a small child” and his desire for them to watch child pornography together.
She describes in the three-part documentary how, after suspecting Fogle of being a pedophile during their first meeting, she formed a fake flirtatious friendship with him to frame the former pitchman.
Herman eventually said the effort she put in cost her a relationship with her daughter and led to health problems as she strives to put Fogle behind bars.
Former Florida radio host Rochelle Herman says she began a flirtatious friendship with Jared Fogle after she suspected him of being a pedophile in 2006
Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2015 for possessing or distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor
A photo of Fogle and Herman together that will be featured in the documentary Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster
Fogle, who started working at Subway after losing more than 200 pounds as a college student, in part from eating the chain’s sandwiches, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2015 for possessing or distributing child pornography and talking about the travel state lines to have sex with a minor.
He has a son and daughter, now aged 12 and 10, with second wife Kathleen McLaughlin, who divorced him shortly after the scandal broke. The Indianapolis native is due for release in 2029.
In the documentary, which airs on ID on Monday, March 6 at 9 p.m. Eastern, Herman describes how Fogle told her about having sex with underage sex workers in Thailand.
“It was so hot honey. It was so, so damn hot,” he told her.
Herman explains that she first met Fogle in 2006 while interviewing him for her show and then they attended an event at a high school for the American Heart Association. At the event, Fogle confided in Herman that he thought some of the adolescents in attendance were “hot.”
At one point, Fogle asks Herman if he can see her two children naked. She goes on to say that her pursuit of Fogle led to her estrangement from her daughter, while her son, Thomas, has nothing but admiration for his mother, according to the Daily Beast.
When she went to the FBI, Herman accuses the agency of being complacent and forcing her to go to the local police.
In another instance, Herman discusses confronting Fogle in a motel room, but escaped after fearing for her physical safety.
Rochelle Herman says her pursuit of Fogle has left her estranged from her daughter
Fogle, 41, gained fame for losing nearly 250 pounds by eating two Subway sandwiches a day and exercising. He became the face of the sandwich chain in 2000 until his arrest in 2015
A prisoner file for Fogle who is currently serving his sentence in a Colorado prison
Hannah Parrett and Christian Showalter, two of Fogle’s victims, will tell their stories in the documentary
Herman previously performed some of her recordings of Fogle in a 2015 performance on Dr. Phil.
In that appearance, in clips that played, Fogle said he wanted to get kids “sexed as much as we can.”
“I want to know what turns you on the most: the young girls or the young boys?” she asked Fogle at one point.
“You know, they both do,” he replied.
At the time, Herman described her fake friendship with Fogle as her “role-playing” with him.’
The same year, Herman spoke briefly about her interactions with Fogle in an interview with ABC news.
“He told me what age he was interested in, boy or girl. He indicated that he had done it before and told me in gross detail what happened,” she said.
The new documentary also features two of Fogle’s victims, Hannah and Christian. They were the stepchildren of Russell Taylor, who ran Fogle’s charitable foundation.
The pair discuss how their stepfather introduced them to Fogle, as well as the fact that Taylor planted cameras around their home to capture them and their friends in a state of undress.
Taylor was sentenced to 27 years in prison in May 2022 for similar crimes to Fogle.
His ex-wife and sister’s mother, Angela Baldwin, were sentenced to 33 years after being found guilty of two counts of producing child sexual abuse material, one count of conspiracy to produce such material, and one count of due to possession.
The couple shared with Fogle videos and photos of the girls captured by hidden cameras Taylor had installed at the then-couple’s Indianapolis home, prosecutors said.
Russell Taylor, 50, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to 30 child pornography and sexual exploitation offenses last year
Taylor’s wife Angela Baldwin (pictured) was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for her role in the crime. She was not originally charged with wrongdoing until her husband’s case was re-examined in 2020 and new evidence linked her
At Taylor’s sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt described the four-year caregiving, exploitation, and molestation of the children from 2011-2015 as a “mutual perversion” between Taylor, Baldwin, and Fogle.
In an interview with Yahoo, the sisters said one of the things they look forward to most in the documentary is Herman’s perspective.
Last year, a letter written by Fogle from his prison cell in November 2021 was leaked.
“I really screwed up royally to end up where I am,” Fogle, a father of two, wrote in a handwritten letter dated Nov. 7, 2021. “I was selfish and entitled.”
Fogle goes to great lengths to quote the famous prison movie “The Shawshank Redemption” in relation to his own experiences.
“Something like, ‘You can either be busy living or busy dying’ when you get sent to prison.” I did everything I could to live a busy life and make the most of this unwanted experience.”
Fogle said he thinks about “all the people I let down every day, especially my family.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is available 24/7 to survivors with free, anonymous help. 800-656-HOPE (4673) and online.rainn.org.
