{"podcast":{"title":"The Opperman Report'","slug":"the-opperman-report-1173939","podcast_index_feed_id":1173939,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/oppermanreport","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dc56e5db00ed6e7610a32cff0bd08f93.jpg","author":"The Opperman Report","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join PI Ed Opperman with expert guests and authors as they discuss true crime stories in the news, conspiracy theories, issues of social injustice and NWO resistance. Follow on Twitter and Instagram @OppermanReport Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:19:19.801811+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939"},"episode":{"title":"Nathan Forest Winters / Victor Silva.","slug":"nathan-forest-winters-victor-silva","published_at":"2026-07-17T13:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939/nathan-forest-winters-victor-silva","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939","url":"https://www.patreon.com/c/oppermanreport","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73026721/nathan_forest_winters_victor_silva_1.mp3","summary":"Nathan Forrest Winters is a former child actor who was groomed and sexually abused by filmmaker Victor Salva during the production of the 1989 horror film Clownhouse . [ 1 , 2 ] The Case and Conviction The Abuse: Victor Salva befriended Winters' family when the boy was six years old. He began sexually abusing and videotaping Winters when the boy was 12 during the post-production of Clownhouse. [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] The Arrest: In 1988, local authorities discovered videotapes of the abuse alongside commercial child pornography in Salva's possession. [ 1 , 2 ] The Sentence: Salva pled guilty to multiple counts, including lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under 14 and procuring a child for pornography. He was sentenced to three years in prison but served only 15 months before being paroled. [ 1 , 2 ] Hollywood's Response and Controversy Despite his conviction, Salva was famously protected by industry heavyweights, notably Francis Ford Coppola Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .","meta_description":"Nathan Forrest Winters is a former child actor who was groomed and sexually abused by filmmaker Victor Salva during the production of the 1989 horror film…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3976,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-opperman-report-1173939/episodes/nathan-forest-winters-victor-silva/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939/nathan-forest-winters-victor-silva.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}