What It’s Like to Take Down the World’s Most Notorious Sexual Predator Kate Briquelet “ Woman Passes Gas in Store, Then Pulls Knife.” It was 2018, and as she watched her newspaper’s monitor broadcasting the site’s leading stories, She didn’t realize the impact her work was about to make. That morning, the Herald had published Brown’s three-part investigation into wealthy sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient plea deal—brokered in 2008 in secret from his victims, who didn’t learn of the agreement until it was too late. It was a bombshell series that sparked a seismic shift in the public’s awareness of the case—and a collective fury that finally brought justice to Epstein’s victims before his death by suicide in 2019.