Jared Fogle: The 'Monster' in a Child's Bed

“The real Jared Fogle is truly a monster. He said he thought middle-school girls were hot the very first time that I met him.” ~ Rochelle Herman-Walrond, FBI informant

The idea of Jared Fogle as a sandwich pitchman was born in Chicago in 1998. Hal Riney, at Publicis & Hal Riney in Chicago, conceived the first Jared Subway campaign and sold the company on Jared as the face of their franchise. He was likeable, and people could identify with him and his struggle to lose weight.

Soon, one could not think of Subway without seeing Jared, the man who’d lost 200 pounds eating low-fat sandwiches.

Now, one cannot think of Jared Fogle without revulsion.

Radio host Rochelle Herman, who became a source for the FBI in the Fogle investigation, met him in Florida and interviewed him at a school where he was touting healthful eating habits. Immediately, Fogle revealed his evil predilections to her.

‘The real Jared Fogle is truly a monster,” she said. “He said he thought middle-school girls were hot the very first time that I met him.

“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”

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She had him on her radio show, and she began recording their conversations, amassing tens of thousands of hours or recordings which she turned over the FBI.

“He asked if he could see my children naked. And he asked if I would let him put cameras in their rooms,” she said. “He wanted me to go to Chicago and he was expressing to me how he could get children, what we needed to do, and at that point ...

“That’s when I brought it to the FBI.”