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Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster may be the most shocking true crime docuseries of 2023. It’s barely March, but that bold claim is backed up by three episodes filled with nonstop reveals that will leave you sick to your stomach.
If you watched television from 2000 to 2015, then you know exactly who Jared Fogle is. He’s the average Joe who lost a truly remarkable amount of weight by just eating Subway sandwiches every single day. With something like 20 new Subway commercials released each year, Fogle became one of the most recognizable people in America. His year-round speaking engagements at Subways and schools only helped bolster his fame — but none of us knew the truth.
In 2015, Fogle shocked everyone when he was charged with and convicted of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography. How could the Subway guy be a child predator? It didn’t make sense with his image — and now there’s a Discovery+ series that exposes the real Jared Fogle.
Below you’ll find some of the most shocking revelations from the three-part series — and here’s a warning: Fogle’s crimes are even worse than you could ever imagine.
Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds in less than a year on his “Subway Diet“
He ate a small turkey sub for lunch and a veggie delight sandwich for dinner every single day and lost weight. The diet even worked for others! The docuseries doesn’t spend much time on Fogle’s diet, understandably since the series has a lot of horrible stuff to get into, but I wouldn’t mind someone explaining the science behind this weight-loss plan because it just sounds like madness.
Fogle’s job as a Subway spokesperson kept him on the road 200 days a year
That’s pretty much a full-time job — a full-time job holding a pair of large pants in front of his body. And the way people freak out when they meet him! Radio journalist / FBI informant Rochelle Herman likens Fogle’s popularity to that of Michael Jackson, which…
Fogle flat-out admitted to being a pedophile to a stranger right before going on live television
In the fall of 2006, Sarasota-area radio journalist Rochelle Herman was assigned to interview Fogle on TV from a middle school. Fogle, as Herman tells it, leaned over and whispered in her ear — unprompted — that he found middle school girls attractive.
A local talk radio host took it upon herself to expose Jared Fogle as a pedophile
Rochelle Herman got Fogle’s phone number with the intention of getting him on the phone and recording those calls so she could get evidence that she could take to the FBI. Herman had to play along with Fogle, who would sometimes call her 15 times a day.
The stories Fogle told…
In conversations with Herman, Fogle revealed that he’d had sex with someone as young as “11 or 12.” He spoke fondly of Thailand because of how easy it was for him to have sex with children over there: “I mean you just sort of choose who you want and there’s a price for it and off you go.”
Fogle made 300 commercials for Subway and was worth $15 million in 2013
All that money while the above was happening. Horrifying.
Herman became an FBI informant so she herself wouldn’t be charged with a crime
When she finally got proof of Fogle’s desires on tape, Herman went to the FBI. They were shocked, agreed that something needed to be done, and broke it to Herman that what she’d done was actually illegal. You can’t tape someone in Florida without their consent, which made all of Herman’s work inadmissible in court. So Herman became an undercover agent for the FBI, which included handing evidence to an agent in an empty parking lot at all hours of the night.
Fogle made Herman choose one of her children for him to hypothetically abuse
After almost 3 years of recording presumably hundreds of perverse conversations with the Subway guy, Herman wanted out. So in 2009, the FBI had her arrange a fake birthday party for her son that she would invite Fogle to — this was a sting operation. In preparation for the party, Fogle had Herman run through the guest list and tell him everyone’s age, like he was scrolling through a hook-up app. He wanted Herman to watch him have sex with a minor, and he was specifically interested in a seven year old girl “from a broken home.” He eventually turned the conversation to Herman’s children, who were 10 and 11, and asked her to install a hidden camera in one of their rooms.
Fogle may or may not have threatened to kill Herman if she didn’t turn over nude pictures of her children to him?
This is a weird tangent that the doc takes when they interview one of Rochelle Herman’s friends, fellow DJ Sean “Ozzie” Osborne. He claims that he found out about all the Subway guy stuff, Herman also told him that Fogle had threatened her life and that there were black vans following her around. This is the only time it’s mentioned and Herman never herself makes that specific claim.
Rochelle Herman turned from the FBI to the police in 2010
Seriously. When Fogle still remained free after years of her gathering evidence for the FBI, a fed-up Herman went to the Sarasota police and told them everything. The police were just as shocked as the FBI was a few years prior, but they told her that they couldn’t do anything since Fogle didn’t live in Sarasota. The FBI was understandably not happy about this.
The FBI also hated it when Herman threatened to just broadcast the incriminating tapes with Jared Fogle on her radio show
When the police gave her the same treatment as the FBI, Herman came close to taking matters into her own hands for real. The police assured her that that would make the situation infinitely worse, and then the FBI raided her work and home and took all of her materials pertaining to Jared Fogle.
There’s a bestiality twist, because of course there is
Russell Taylor, the man that Jared Fogle hired to run his charity foundation, was investigated after a claim was made that he was texting images of bestiality. That led to a raid on his home where police discovered even more incriminating texts — including one where Taylor bragged about having sex with an underage girl to, who else, Jared Fogle. Fogle’s response: “When do I get to pound [name]?”
Taylor granted Fogle’s fantasy about putting cameras in a kid’s bedroom
The raid uncovered a number of hidden cameras in areas where they would capture footage of Taylor’s two teenage stepdaughters in states of undress. Taylor and his wife, the girls’ mother, were also incredibly sexually explicit with the teens, giving them sex toys as gifts and plying them with alcohol. It would later be revealed that the girls’ mother had expressed a desire to have sex with her own children, and for her husband to have sex with them too. She is now in prison for 33 years.
Jared Fogle spent $12,000 a year on sex workers
He’d then ask those sex workers to connect him to underage sex workers.
Kathleen McLaughlin, Fogle’s ex-wife, alleged that Subway was warned about Fogle’s pedophilia on at least three separate occasions
Subway only admitted to one serious complaint about Fogle’s behavior, which was not of a sexual nature.
Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison
He will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Russell Taylor was sentenced to 27 years. Taylor’s wife, Angela Baldwin, was sentenced to 33 years.
If you or someone you know needs to reach out about sexual abuse or assault, RAINN is available 24/7 at 800-656-HOPE (4673), or online at RAINN.org.
