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Alright. Hey, you and welcome.

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My name is Mike. And in this old podcast,

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yep, hitting you with a fresh one folks.

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Today, I've got for you two stories.

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It's a twofer. And both of these

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stories are based around the

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same team. Yep. Same

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team. Pretty much.

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I mean, it's really about when love goes

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bad. And one of

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them sees red. One of the people in that

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relationship sees red. Well,

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actually, I I suppose come sees a lot

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of red booklets of it.

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In fact, definitely in one of these ones.

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In both of these stories, the purple.

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The scumbag. To quote

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Kop shows is the lady in

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a relationship. And in both accusations

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were flying, their flying lads left right and

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center about Listen

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to this buckaroos, the accusations were

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that he had it common. It should have been done

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a long time ago. He asked me, Though,

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spoiler alert, in the first story,

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I don't think anyone deserves

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what happened to them. And in the second

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story, No

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spoilers for that, so just

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disregard what I just said. You know me.

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Before we get into it, my friends, please, if

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Or I suppose I can just give you a verbal thank

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you if you'd prefer. Thank you.

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Now, let's give it a go.

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So this first story, it's

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kind of hard

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one to to kind of put it mildly.

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See, you know, we see the typical murder weapons

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of guns of knives, your poisons,

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hammers, axes, you get it. Right? The usual

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kind of The

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default. Weapons. But in

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this one, the weapon of choice,

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or Rolus was really weapon of convenience

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rather, was a fancy, schmanci,

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blue, Stiletto heel.

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Yes, that's correct. Stiletto

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heel. You know, I've always said, every

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person around you wearing high heels

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They may as well be strapping an a or fifteen.

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And once again, I feel vindicated.

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A typical, you know, female murderer.

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It's it's different from a male murger.

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They tend to have, like, patterns. The

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female murders, they typically are related

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or know their victims, and

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they usually kill in self defense

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or, you know, maybe due to mental illness.

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Whereas I you know, a lot of times men

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are just more like, you know, the male killers

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who just assume. Fucking.

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There also, they're more likely to use

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a weapon other than a

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gun. And so in this one,

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the shoe fit. So our lady

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in this old case is one

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Anna Trujillo born on

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February twenty fifth nineteen sixty

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nine, nice in Mexico She was

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a mother of two, a divorcee, and

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according to many, promiscuous,

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often jumping from man to man.

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Very nice. After the failure

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of her second marriage, she left her

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children with their stepfather as she happily

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Moved on to, you know, the cougar

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single lifestyle. Yeah. Fuck you at it.

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She was described as flirty, you know, she loved

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to party. And the more attention from

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then, a better a

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very healthy mindset. If

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by very healthy mindset, you mean

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mid life crisis if you ask me.

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She had moved to Houston to actress

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in two thousand and nine where she

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continued her fishing of men

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Where they would happily pay for her rent

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and for, you

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know, other things, winkety

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wink. By that, I mean, you know, wink

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at you wink means her time and nothing else,

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all men. She did however previously

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work as an executive for Coca Cola

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and in more recent years, which is

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the time of error story, she worked

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as a masseuse. But

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ain't no happy ending in

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our story, I'm afraid. Anna,

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forty five at the time, was living in an

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upscale high rise apartment in twenty thirteen.

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With another man when she

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ran into our victim.

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The next boy toy, you know, she was

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going through them like there were skills and

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that was doctor Alf, Stefan Anderson,

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who was fifty nine years of age.

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Anderson was a professor with the University

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of Houston's biology and biochemistry department.

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Now sparks must have flown when

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you know she accepted an offer to go out for

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a drink the same night

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they bumped into each other. And then just

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just weeks later, she moved into

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his upscale high rise on the eighteenth

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floor. So she dumped the guy she had

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been living with and quite literally

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moved up in the world. Their

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romance now, spoiler alert,

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it wouldn't it wouldn't survive long.

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When Just a couple months later,

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in June twenty twenty, Anna

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would stab Stefan twenty five

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times in their face. Yikes

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Stahl, leave mark with

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her five inch Stiletto heels, a

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gift from Anderson. She

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would claim, you know, self defense, whereas

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anybody with half a brain would say it's

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clearly murder. Alv

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Stefan Anderson was born May eleventh

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nineteen fifty nine in Sweden. He

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was one of three children being the only

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boy. He would move to Jamesch

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in the nineteen eighties to pursue a career

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in medical research and eventually went

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on to his role in the nineteen nineties

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at the University of Houston. During

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his immuno medical research, he was able

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to contribute to developing treatments

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for prostate cancer and male pattern

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baldness with the pharmaceutical company,

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Merck. No, Anderson, he

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he struggled with alcoholism. But

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friends

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say, you know, he had banned it he had taken

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into the ring, he had bait the shite out of us, and

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he had

6:09

won. At the time of his death,

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he was grand. It was a non issue. He

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would still like the occasional

6:16

drink, but he had he had self control.

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He was able to to manage it. He

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he could go out for, you know, a glass of

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wine now and then and he was able

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to stop himself after a couple.

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His obituary stated that not only

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was he a highly intelligent man, I mean,

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goddamn worked at the University of Houston, but

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he was selfless, giving, and he had

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a great sense of humor. I

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guess that's why he ended up with Anna. He also

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had been previously married to a Jackie

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Swift divorcing in nineteen ninety

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five after just five years of

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marriage. Now, Stefan, he lived

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in the elite. Park

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Lane Apartments in the museum district

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in Houston. It provided personal,

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personal concierge services, Vale,

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A park on the third floor with a tennis court,

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pool with private cabanas and a

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gym. Can I

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let me defocus it seriously? In

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the early morning errors of June nine,

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twenty thirteen, A911

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call was placed by Era

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dear, dear Anna Trujillo.

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A lot, you know, a lot of what she

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said, and her emotions in that call seemed

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a bit put on. With her end, you

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know, mostly coming out as gibberish,

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I guess you could say, something about he attacked

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her and he was almost about to

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die. And what do

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you need medical plates of ours?

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Okay, ma'am. Ma'am?

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Ma'am? Hello? Give

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it up about about

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Now, when the responding officer arrived,

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all he had to go on was that,

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you know, whatever happened happened

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to an apartment number eighteen. However, What

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was confusing for the first responders

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was that in this particular building,

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all the apartments were listed by the floor

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number followed followed by a letter.

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So on the fourth floor, for example, all

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apartments were 44A4B4C,

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and so on. So when you know

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there's funding officer arrived, he had no idea if it

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was apartment eighteen f or apartment eighteen

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a until he got onto the

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corridor and he started just walking slowly.

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Putting his little ear, you know, next to

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the door is listening for, I need distress or

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sounds of, you know, it indicates, yep,

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that sounds like, you know, what the they were calling

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the police for. He heard crying coming

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from apartment eighteen b. Upon

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knocking and announcing it was the police,

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Anna, covered in blood,

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opened the door. The

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officer would later go on to say that Anna

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had blood on her forehead, and her cheeks,

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her hands, and her clothes. The

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crotch area of her jeans was also

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soaked. Anna

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said he attacked her and she acted in self

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in self defense. When asked what

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weapons she had used she said she had

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grabbed the closest thing to her

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in the heat of the moment. Her

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five and a half inch Heel.

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That's you may as well just grabbed a fucking

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butcher knife. When checking Anderson

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for any signs of life, he noticed the

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shoe lying nearby covered in blood

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and matted with hair. Now

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Anna mentioned that she had tried to revive

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him once she realized think

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he might be dead. probably should have tried to maybe

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revive him earlier. However, it kind

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of appeared that that wasn't the case. I mean,

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She used the straddle heel on

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his face, yet her mouth

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and the, you know, the area around her mouth.

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It should have been covered with blood. It

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wasn't. Also,

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at the scene was a taro book where

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the death card open.

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Shitloads. Testimony would show

9:54

that Anna, she was interested in the

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occult, in witchcraft, in

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black magic. To what degree, is

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unknown, but My

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folks. You know what that means?

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Set panic, black magic. Shit.

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Stilettos haunted. Once

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taken to the station for questioning Anna's

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story of events and even, you know,

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the way she described Anderson's personality,

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Well, the way she described them were very,

10:20

very different to many who knew them, family

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and friends. According to Anna,

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she and Stefan went out that night, mere

10:27

together to celebrate their recent engagement

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after being together literally a handful

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of months. This crazed witch had enough

10:34

of the masseuse and was ready to settle down.

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Again till something better came along.

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When they got home, fueled by alcohol,

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and jealousy, he attacked her,

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doctor Dr. Stephan, become Dr. Evolstefan.

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Now the actual cause of the fight isn't

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clear. One version of events stated

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that Stefan saw Anna's suitcases by

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the door and he immediately just like boom

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assumed she was leaving him.

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Now she was packed up to travel to Waco

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to visit her daughters. But he attacked

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saying, you know, she was never gonna leave him. You know, I'm

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not letting you out of here alive. Other

11:09

stories said, you know, he attacked her

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because Anna was too flirtatious at

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the bar. She was like, shown a little bit of

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nipple to your patients. I don't know

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who she was. He drew her

11:20

against the wall. They wrestled and they

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toppled over a couch. Now Anna

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said she she ripped out handfuls of

11:26

his hair. There was no blood in those

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clumps of hair

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confirming, you know, that she did rip out his

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hair before the shoe got involved.

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Push me. He hit me against the

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wall. And I tried I tried them

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I I tried everything. And he

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took me and he

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slimy. Anna then said Stefan

11:48

was pulling at her leg as she was trying to

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get away. And then, using

11:52

whatever she had, she grabbed her shoe and

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swung it behind her, hitting Stephan

11:56

Anderson, causing him to lose

11:59

balance. She then straddled

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on top of him and continued to stab him

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twenty five times.

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Twenty five times. Let just think

12:09

about that. Just act out stabbing

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someone where you were and counter as you're

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doing Twenty five,

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it takes a lot of effort. Like, it's kind

12:18

of exhausting. You think by, like, the tenth

12:20

time it's to be, like, You know, I

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I think he's dead my dear. Yeah. She

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then later would have the nerve to testify

12:27

that she didn't realize she heard him so badly. You

12:29

know, III lost Kent. Did I stab

12:31

him three times or twenty three times? Fuck

12:33

it. Let's make sure. She didn't know what she

12:36

had done until she reached out and felt the blood

12:38

on him. Ep8 the blood

12:40

on him as opposed to just looking at

12:42

him and seeing you putting your sledo through

12:44

his eyeballs. Alright. Now. And

12:47

the fact that he probably wasn't moving could be

12:49

an indicator or just

12:51

the indicator of you stopping him twenty five times in

12:53

the face. She

12:55

clearly wasn't the sharpest tool in the

12:57

shed. But the is,

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if she had truly been fighting for her life, she

13:02

would have just run away as soon as she could.

13:04

Like, what's the number of stabbing

13:06

somebody that it stops being self defense

13:08

and starts being murder? And there

13:10

were defensive wounds on his hands

13:12

and his wrists. Now her

13:14

statements with the police, they were often rambling,

13:17

off topic, and many times she would just dance

13:19

around the questions

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they had been asking her, and she never

13:23

showed any tears or any remorse over

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what she had done. Oh,

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so free, if I got off of him? He

13:31

was gonna I know. Nah.

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I

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wasn't. I know. He was

13:34

gonna get up and take seat in.

13:37

He was gonna hurt me. So I

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was hearing them and I was like, at least

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step on step on, you know, and

13:45

it was really much. You know what?

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When she was asked why she continued to stab

13:49

him when he was clearly not fighting

13:51

back or not moving at all, she would

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say he wouldn't let go of my leg.

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Okay. So twenty five

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times the eye. Gotcha.

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Officers also reported that Anna smelled

14:04

strongly of alcohol, but for for

14:07

whatever reason her blood level it was

14:09

never tested. She was arrested

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directly after giving her statement.

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Now her version of events was,

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according to many, possibly including

14:21

yourselves was a bunch of mother Hekken

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BS. SKUs my language. She

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was clinging to to the victim's cycle

14:27

of abuse narrative, but

14:30

everybody else would say, Interesting

14:34

story. I don't think it's

14:36

true. One old friend

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James. He actually

14:41

had two two violent run

14:43

ins with Anna. Now she had previously

14:46

stayed with James, whose place

14:48

was right across the street from Stephan's.

14:51

James, he lived with his girlfriend, a chandra,

14:53

and her young daughter, and Anna

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had a physical altercation with James'

14:57

girlfriend, Chandra, one night.

15:00

Now according to Anna, Shaundra

15:02

acted first by throwing Anna down

15:05

and then she threw all her things

15:07

away. No charges were placed

15:09

for this incident, but That's

15:11

not all. Another time Anna

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returned to James' place, drunk,

15:16

after having an argument, wait, Stefan.

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According to James, they were they were sitting in

15:21

his room and he thought she was drunk or

15:23

something as she was mumbling to herself giggling

15:25

acting very peculiar. He

15:27

asked her if she was drunk, she didn't say

15:29

anything. He then said he was sitting in

15:31

a recliner chair, and she came

15:33

over, you know, seductively like Zif to

15:36

kiss him. But instead, what

15:39

she did was bite the top of

15:41

his head. Like, not like a

15:43

little, you know, nibble like

15:45

a love bite or something. No.

15:48

He said this was violent, like his

15:50

skin was pulled up and away

15:52

from his a

15:53

bullon. Shop. Your

15:55

scalp looks delicious, pal. And

15:57

she comes over as if she's gonna kiss me,

15:59

and she leans down, and she bites me on my

16:01

head, like, violently, and then

16:03

like, where he pulls his skin away from lying. So

16:05

He then told her she had to leave, ah,

16:07

his apartment doesn't want the fuck is

16:09

wrong. Get get out. He

16:11

wouldn't have this kind of behavior in his house with

16:13

this young child there, the kind

16:15

behavior where she just bites the top of his

16:17

head, like, not not I mean, not

16:20

in a sexy way even. I don't know how you

16:22

could make biting someone's scalp

16:24

sexy. I mean, hey, when I said wanted

16:26

head, that's not exactly what I meant.

16:29

So with nowhere else to go, she ran back

16:31

to Stefan, and this was just

16:33

days before his murder.

16:36

There were other examples of violence and just

16:38

plain old weird behavior from

16:41

Anna. One of Stefan's friends

16:43

who double dated with the couple often

16:45

recanted one night that Anna

16:47

and Stefan had a disagreement at a local

16:49

taco eatery. They frequented they went

16:51

too often. During that disagreement,

16:54

Anna bit Stefan on his face.

16:56

She was a biter. The

16:58

staff at the taco place even said, yeah, we

17:00

had to give him ice to ice

17:02

the fucking junk that was taken out of him.

17:06

There were multiple accounts of unsteady behavior

17:08

from Anna, but not one account

17:10

of violence or even raising his voice

17:13

or getting having a temper from

17:15

Stefan. Not one person could ever

17:17

recall him. Feeling like that. He was

17:19

a nice guy. You know, calm, chill, agreeable

17:22

who didn't deserve what happened

17:24

to him. Stiletto to

17:26

the eye? Who who

17:29

does deserve that? Like, that's a rough way

17:31

to go. So if anybody does deserve

17:33

it, it's like Hitler. Stalin,

17:36

and people who don't indicate when they drive.

17:38

That's it. End of list. So

17:40

while Stefan was a nice guy

17:42

always chill. Anna, on the other hand,

17:44

had two previous convictions for

17:47

her drink driving. At once driving

17:49

world intoxicated in two thousand and eight,

17:52

and another driving down the highway

17:54

the wrong way.

17:56

What? They're going the wrong

17:59

way.

18:02

You guys are going the wrong way. Oh,

18:04

he's drunk. How do you know

18:06

where we're going? In twenty ten, she was

18:08

sentenced to six months in jail when police

18:10

found her intoxicated and sleeping in her

18:12

car. In a parking lot. So

18:15

the night of the murder, remember Anna and Stefan

18:17

had gone out and had a few drinks, and

18:20

they came back to the apartment by

18:22

a taxi. taxi driver brought them back home.

18:24

The police questioned that taxi driver

18:26

who would have been, you know, one of the last people

18:28

to to see them together. Everybody's

18:31

got an opinion over here. The taxi

18:33

driver that night had her husband riding

18:35

along with her as she felt safer,

18:37

you know, doing the late night shift sweater husband

18:39

beside her. Fair. Well,

18:41

according to the couple, the taxi driver

18:44

and her husband, Anna was yelling

18:46

and insulting staff in the whole way

18:48

home. And then telling the taxi

18:50

driver that she's going the wrong way. I need

18:53

you yell at Rohr and had her calling her all towards

18:55

a shite. Then she got mad and

18:57

yelled at Steph and Porton defending. The

18:59

taxi driver is saying if Steph was just saying she knew

19:01

she's just doing her job. Fucking

19:03

Anna was going red in the face. The

19:06

driver during her statement with police mentioned

19:08

that Stefan was polite, very passive

19:10

acquire guy. There was never any hint of anger

19:12

from him even when Anna was yelling in his

19:14

face. Everybody's story

19:16

was straight except Anna's. And

19:19

when the taxi arrived at Stephan's apartment,

19:21

the taxi driver concerned from

19:24

the way Anna was was being with him literally

19:26

asked him Are you gonna be okay

19:29

as Stefan got out of the taxi? He

19:31

assured her she'd be fine. Begrange. That

19:34

was his last words. To anybody

19:37

except Anna, and he would most certainly not

19:39

be fine. And if that wasn't enough,

19:41

even the front concierge at Stephan's apartment

19:43

had run ins with Anna.

19:46

One front desk employee said

19:49

Anna always seemed like she was

19:51

high, she was drunk, she was on

19:55

They they said that Anna and Stefan do not

19:57

make sense. They didn't mesh. And another

19:59

had warned Stefan about Anna.

20:02

Did it warn them saying, yeah, you gotta watch it

20:04

for her. When in the middle of the

20:06

night, Anna cut the waterline to

20:08

the fridge because it was, quote,

20:11

making a noise. No

20:13

shit, sure. Like what happens when you're gonna cut the water

20:15

line to the fridge with water still going into

20:18

the apartment. Water will go everywhere. And

20:20

they had to make an incident report. If

20:22

she did that to my fridge, she'd

20:24

be at the window. So they filed a

20:26

report, you know, with the people who worked at the apartment

20:28

building in the report, it's written. The

20:30

employees warned Stefan Anderson

20:33

about Anna saying, like,

20:35

she's a head case if she's doing this

20:37

shit. Bodge.

20:40

Stefan didn't listen. You never think

20:42

it'll happen to you till it does. So

20:45

she was an insane person, like,

20:47

severely mentally ill, but she also

20:49

just sucked. With Anderson

20:51

for his money, no dignity, no Ep8. Anger

20:54

issues. And I guess one night, like

20:56

an abusive space, she ended

20:58

him. Adam

21:00

Ep8 on trial in twenty fourteen at

21:02

the end of the two week trial, the

21:05

jury came back with a verdict after just

21:07

four hours, guilty of

21:09

murder. Although her defense was

21:11

that she was traumatized by years

21:13

of abuse from previous partners. It

21:16

worked against her that she had no proof or police

21:18

reports of those years of abuse

21:21

from previous partners. The

21:24

jury also dismissed the idea that Anna

21:26

acted in the heat of the

21:28

moment saying, yeah, twenty five

21:30

stabs at the face that's a bit more

21:32

than the heat at a moment to hear. That's that's you're

21:34

gone from a heat at a moment to the cool at a moment, and

21:36

you're still burying your slow down into

21:38

his face. She also went on the stand

21:40

for a portion of the trial, reenacting

21:43

the gruesome murder in front of Stephan's family

21:45

and friends. That was probably

21:48

a very poor idea on her

21:50

part. Obviously, hey, this is how I

21:52

killed him. Let me share you again. Nevertheless,

21:55

she was sentenced to life in

21:57

prison. She will be eligible

21:59

for parole at the age of seventy five.

22:03

Who knows? And maybe, you know, when she gets out, she can

22:05

pick up the the man eating lifestyle as a

22:07

silver name. You know, a gift? Good

22:09

luck to her if she does. Maybe she'll beat

22:11

her next partner's death with her

22:13

zimmer frame. Jackie

22:16

Swift, Anderson's ex wife, set best

22:18

that the sentencing hearing, that

22:20

woman is pure evil.

22:23

Yeah. That sounds about right. The

22:25

cold angle, by the way, I think she just had an interest

22:27

in it and, you know, just was fascinated

22:30

by it. As as I think a lot of people

22:32

are including me, But maybe, you know, when that when

22:34

she was going through her Tara cards and the death

22:37

card came up, she looked

22:39

to Stephanie and

22:39

said, Yeah. She did the old

22:41

cool one ambulance, but not

22:43

for me. What the

22:45

card says goes? Hold

22:47

on to your status, folks, for the next

22:50

story is even more, battered bananas.

23:05

So moving swiftly on, we go from

23:07

to extra I don't know why I keep saying it like that.

23:09

To California, to discuss

23:12

big d in the city of Carlsbad,

23:15

the names in this one, though,

23:17

they're really like Wow.

23:19

A story of of crime in Karl's

23:21

bad. What are you odds? Dead giveaways.

23:24

There, Diana and Greg were going

23:26

through some turbulent time times

23:28

as we all do. And so Diana,

23:31

big b decided, you

23:33

know, she she was she kind of thought to herself in her

23:35

own noodle, and she She's like, I think if I get I can

23:37

think of a quicker and easier way to get past

23:40

this, you know, turbulent time. If

23:42

only I knew the right guy,

23:45

she met him. No.

23:48

Give me a second, my friends. Let me just

23:51

click on this old video.

23:56

I'm Diana Lovejoy, and quick meals

23:58

are my specialty. I know

24:00

that you don't have all day. We've got salads

24:02

to be Welcome to

24:04

my kitchen where I really like

24:07

to cook, but I'm often short

24:09

on time. So speed is the hook.

24:12

I'll show you how to make a meal at almost

24:14

no time flat. Takes less than

24:16

half an hour, and you'll have it don't

24:18

pat. The recipes from

24:20

craft who makes fantastic, tasty

24:23

stuff that's freshly

24:25

impaired. So dinner is not too

24:27

tough. If you've thought on this enthusiastic

24:30

and incredibly nack Sheryl. Smooth

24:33

as silk presenter was headed for

24:35

the small screen, you

24:37

would be right just not in the way that

24:39

she was hoping. And that

24:41

is Eredir Diana. The

24:44

city of Carlsbad lies to the north

24:46

of the city of San Diego in Southern

24:48

California. It's coastal city,

24:51

population roughly one hundred thousand.

24:53

And to be among those one hundred thousand,

24:55

you'd need to be earning a lot more than

24:57

that per year. You'd need to be a

25:00

Fingerprints rich bitch. It's one of

25:02

the most expensive sorry.

25:04

Affluent quotation

25:06

marks. Cities in America.

25:09

If you can't live there, you're just not good enough.

25:11

Sorry. I don't okay. I actually don't know

25:13

why I'm speaking so negatively about it. I mean,

25:15

it's probably it's a lovely city I'm sure the people

25:17

there are so lovely too. I don't know why I'm just

25:19

the faulting into it sucks. Sorry,

25:21

Carol's body ins, Carol's badlands.

25:24

Carl's Pablo. That's actually that's pretty good. It's beautiful

25:26

city. Carol's good. And there you got

25:28

your beaches, your babes, your

25:30

LEGOLAND, your Gulf. One

25:32

more new one than that. And so

25:34

the city of Carrolsbad is where we meet

25:36

this human, the main character

25:38

in our story and her name is

25:41

Diana love joy. And she really loved

25:43

joy, but more than that,

25:45

she loved hate. Hate owner,

25:48

Diana. I like to call

25:49

her. Passions about food.

25:51

My trip is fresh garlic pressed

25:54

and ginger and sliced.

25:57

Associated with oil for a minute.

26:00

Clearly. But not only that

26:03

thank God, because I would not trust her with

26:05

a toaster. She also loved fitness, she loved

26:07

writing, she loved music, she loved it all.

26:10

Diana was born in nineteen seventy

26:12

five, a native Californian. After

26:14

attending Mountain View High School, she went

26:16

on to the University of California, San

26:19

Diego, graduating with ABA

26:22

in literature, music psychology,

26:25

and Lefron said one of me.

26:27

Her career would be mainly centered on

26:29

technical writing, you

26:31

know, engineering documentation, data

26:33

protection, action, installation, guys. You

26:36

know when you buy pretty much

26:39

anything, those forms

26:41

you get The forms

26:43

that you get that you never read have to

26:45

be written by someone, and that's someone that was

26:47

Diana. So Diana, thank you

26:49

for your exceptional work on

26:51

some bullshit I'm never gonna read ever,

26:53

Antrade, just immediately. She stared

26:56

out at Nucky and then she went on

26:58

to work for a number of digital companies

27:00

before landing at Salesforce in

27:02

twenty fourteen as a senior

27:04

technical writer, where she

27:06

would, quote, welcome the

27:08

opportunity to make your documentation exceptionally

27:12

effective. Yeah.

27:14

Great stuff. Thanks, Dan. So technical

27:16

writing, it paid the bills, but it was

27:18

not no no no her passion.

27:21

I mean, I know technical documents Lads.

27:23

It's so it's interesting stuff. But no, her

27:25

real passion, fitness. That's

27:27

when she wasn't making shitty

27:29

cooking YouTube videos. She

27:31

would, in two thousand and eight, become a

27:33

personal trainer and triathlon coach.

27:36

She would also write for the women's triathlon

27:39

organization. Now to quote

27:41

Diana herself, she, you know,

27:43

what she was all about was balancing

27:46

the cerebral with a physical is

27:49

a lifestyle for me. Now,

27:52

I don't know her at all, but that really sounds

27:55

like something she would say. My gosh.

27:57

Balance this pal. I think anybody who would

27:59

write that is just so full of shit.

28:02

So during these excite

28:04

waiting times for a big d, that

28:06

is when she met Greg Mulvehill,

28:09

who worked in the tech industry, who was

28:11

a software engineer. They

28:13

met on a dating site in two thousand

28:15

and five and seemed like a great

28:17

match from the get go. They both worked

28:19

in the tech industry They both loved

28:21

fitness and yet doors, and they

28:23

met at an age when you're you're kinda

28:25

looking to start settling down, maybe start

28:27

a family. In August two thousand and

28:29

seven, they married, and that is when

28:32

they moved to Carole's badge together,

28:34

buying buying a home there. This

28:36

was followed five years later by the

28:38

birth of their first child. Now

28:41

this came with great difficulty for Diana.

28:43

She had she had had eight eight miscarriages

28:46

before then. So when they had that

28:48

one kid, it was, you know, they're

28:50

everything. However, when

28:53

the child was two years old,

28:55

that is when the

28:57

marriage started to decay. That's

29:00

my decay noise. See, Greg, he

29:02

he lost his job, and Diana, she became

29:04

the sole winner of bread.

29:06

But she herself had own prone

29:09

physical issues, she thought she may have

29:11

fibromyalgia. Which can be quite painful,

29:13

essentially, she has this horrendous pain all

29:15

over your body. A lot of times, is for no

29:17

reason, and it can be very hard. It

29:19

can be exhausting and very hard to treat.

29:22

It's also very hard to diagnose,

29:25

so that can be extremely frustrating trading, you know, when

29:27

you're trying to find out why am I in constant

29:29

agony, and no one knows why, and

29:31

therefore no one can tell me what to do.

29:33

And she thought her her young son

29:35

might have it too. So she was,

29:38

you know, it was this is AAA turbulent

29:40

time as I said at the top. In twenty

29:42

fourteen, Diana and Greg, after

29:44

going through marriage counseling, they

29:46

separated. Though they

29:49

they remained married, they just

29:51

didn't live together and they they co parented

29:53

their their son. Now,

30:01

big booty time, my friends. Because what

30:03

I just said, it's a very

30:05

nice way of saying what actually

30:07

happened. What I just said

30:10

was the way they might explain it

30:12

if they were asked. In twenty

30:14

fourteen, Greg, he returned home

30:16

one day with their son, and he was

30:18

served a temporary restraining order

30:21

by the sheriff. He had ten minutes, get

30:24

into the house, pack up your shit, and

30:26

get the hell out. Diana,

30:28

she alleged that she had woken up in

30:30

the middle of the night two days prior

30:33

to find him sexually assaulting

30:35

her. And she wanted him gone.

30:40

She also said he was abusing drugs

30:43

around the kid, and molesting

30:45

him. The custody battle it

30:47

began, Greg initially he was

30:49

only able to see his son ten hours

30:51

a week, There were psychological

30:54

examinations, that sort of thing, drug

30:56

tests, and Greg, he were

30:58

toward it. He was like, No. Diana is a

31:00

crazy she's a nudge. She's a crazy

31:02

bitch who would physically and verbally and emotionally

31:05

attack him regularly. Like, when

31:07

she's making this entire thing up, you would

31:09

never, you know, sexually assault her

31:12

or their son. In

31:14

November twenty fifteen, custody was changed

31:17

to fifty fifty. No evidence

31:19

of abuse spike Greg on the sun was

31:21

found at all. The

31:23

divorce was eventually finalized in

31:25

June of twenty sixteen. Diana,

31:28

though, after it was all said non

31:30

she she was scared. She was worried.

31:32

She was fearful. She was all the other

31:34

synonyms for scared. She was fearful

31:37

that you know, the police, they

31:39

hadn't listened to her. You know, she'd gotten a temporary

31:41

restraining order, but Greg,

31:44

you know, he was out together. They

31:46

hadn't then believed her when she was saying

31:48

all of these things. She was worried

31:50

out that Greg would be out to get her,

31:52

so What Diana began to do was visit

31:55

a shooting range on the

31:57

reg called Iron Sites.

31:59

She was looking to become a marksman, a

32:01

crack shot. And she wanted to know

32:03

how to defend herself in case

32:06

Greg the molester came back.

32:09

She got herself a trainer, a former

32:11

marine, named Weldon McDavid.

32:15

Okay. Today, I'm gonna teach the

32:17

five minute shooting lesson made famous

32:19

here at shooting range I

32:21

work at.

32:23

First thing? Yeah.

32:28

They're shooting on the other side. So Okay.

32:31

That's a problem. I said, I'm gonna hop

32:33

by I'll line up your

32:34

site. And, yeah, first

32:37

thing to do, They

32:41

would communicate constantly and and weld

32:43

them. Well, you know, she was

32:45

telling all of this whole story to weld

32:47

them. And he was a big

32:50

big guy who was very, you know,

32:52

wanted everybody to be safe and was caring.

32:54

And he wanted to take care of her,

32:57

simplify. He believed that

32:59

Greg could be a threat to her

33:01

and her child. And so he, you know, he

33:03

became he eventually became her protector.

33:07

And then, Greg was shot

33:09

in September twenty sixteen. On

33:19

the first of September on a dark

33:21

and moonless night, this

33:24

nine eleven call came in to dispatchers.

33:27

Hello. It's a nine eleven. Yeah.

33:30

I have a my friend has just been shot.

33:32

No. He's mad. There's a guy lying down,

33:34

like, a sniper. A sniper? Did you see

33:36

him at all? Briefly. We saw that he

33:38

said, Jordan. And he tried to just, like, hit me

33:40

at the time. Holy moly, there

33:42

was a god damme act on the loose.

33:45

The caller was Jason Kovach, and

33:47

he was telling the operators that it was

33:49

his friend and coworker, Greg,

33:52

that had been gunned down. When

33:56

officers arrived on the scene, a dirt

33:59

trail near a reserve on the

34:01

southeastern side of town where the mountains

34:03

begin, that where they found Greg

34:05

in a vehicle and he was bleeding out.

34:08

He had been shot in the

34:09

chest, the bullet passing right

34:11

through

34:11

him. He

34:14

was rushed to the nearest hospital

34:16

and armed police then descended

34:19

on the dirt trail just off Avenida

34:21

Soledad. You

34:25

know, they were walking through this brush,

34:27

but they didn't find the guy though. This this

34:30

this snooper who had shot

34:32

Greg. He had escaped into

34:34

the darkness that night. So,

34:39

yeah, watery. What's

34:42

going a weird situation. Right, guys? And

34:44

I mean, I have Okay. I haven't even got to the weird

34:46

part yet. Just trust me.

34:48

So what was Greg and

34:50

this Jason guy doing it there? That nice

34:52

in that remote area. Well,

34:55

I hear your barking big dog. Let me tell

34:57

you. See, Greg had already

34:59

rang 911 earlier that

35:02

same night. He'd called

35:04

saying he needed their help. See

35:07

a mysterious person again

35:09

earlier that night? I had called Greg,

35:12

someone claiming to be a

35:14

private investigator, telling

35:16

Greg he'd been hired by Diana.

35:19

This private eye told Greg he had

35:21

documents proving he had been abusing

35:23

his son, documents that Diana

35:25

would use against him to get

35:28

full custody of their kids and

35:30

maybe even some time behind bars for all

35:32

Gregi. Now,

35:34

Greg, he was obviously like, what

35:36

the shit? I haven't been touching my

35:39

son or her or anybody at all.

35:41

What are you on about? The PI

35:43

then said, I'll call you back.

35:46

He did call back. This time, saying he

35:48

had left the documents near Greg's house

35:50

in Carl's taped to a

35:52

power pole just off a dirt path

35:55

on Avenir Soledad in

35:57

that reserve. So after getting

35:59

these calls from this PI,

36:02

Greg called the cops and he was like, okay,

36:04

somebody is phoning me, saying

36:07

they have proof of things I didn't do.

36:10

What should I do? The dispatcher was

36:13

less than helpful. Just be like, fuck. I don't know.

36:16

Do what you wanna do? I don't give a shit. So

36:18

Greg then called Jason and asked

36:20

him to go to go with him. You

36:22

know? Jason lived in the same building and

36:24

they worked together. So

36:26

at about eleven pm, armed with a

36:28

flashlight, Greg and Jason

36:30

started plotting down that dark trail.

36:33

And as they approached the pole of this mysterious

36:36

collar mentioned, Greg,

36:38

he saw something at the base of

36:41

this pole. It

36:44

looked like some rags at the base of the

36:46

pole, but there was nothing

36:48

taped to the pole, which is what the

36:50

guy said he was gonna do. So

36:53

so centerfield pinky, suspicious.

36:55

Like this was cedar, frank collar,

36:58

or some kind of setup, they they didn't go

37:00

too close to it. They kept their distance and

37:02

were looking around in the dark of the night

37:04

checking their surroundings. Then

37:08

further beyond the pole he

37:10

saw in the darkness lit

37:13

only by flashlight clothing.

37:16

And then a barrel. Someone

37:19

was hiding in the bushes pointing

37:21

a rifle right at him. They

37:24

opened fire. Greg and Jason,

37:26

they booked it. They booked it out of their

37:28

butch as they were running Greg was

37:31

shot. One hit out of the six

37:33

shots that whizzed by. They

37:35

made it back to Greg's car and then

37:38

he lost

37:38

consciousness. And then

37:41

because

37:41

the guys went down like a sniper. So

37:44

the police were on the trail that night,

37:46

but they found nothing. There

37:48

was a tell on the base of the pole,

37:50

though. And underneath the tell was

37:54

well, underneath the tell was

37:58

shit. Human shit.

38:01

It's a nice little surprise there.

38:03

The water and that they didn't find really

38:05

anything at all. Now, Greg very,

38:08

very nearly died. The bullet passed

38:10

under his left armpits, which is where, you know,

38:12

kind of all your good shit is. But

38:15

miraculously, you know, he survived. He

38:17

survived surgery. He was in the hospital

38:19

for two days before being released.

38:22

So the investigation to who this was, who

38:24

was this, you know, attempted murder,

38:26

attempt a sniper. Well, you

38:28

know, all roads led to Donna at first

38:30

as you can imagine. But They didn't

38:32

think she would do it. She's not exactly the

38:35

sniper wolf, you know, type

38:37

type character. And when she was

38:39

questioned, she had no clues as

38:41

to who who would? Man, who would try

38:44

and kill the husband who are just for making up all

38:46

these kind of accusations about, don't

38:47

know, beats me. The mysterious caller

38:50

that night, the PI?

38:52

Well, that number was traced to a burner

38:54

phone. So they couldn't,

38:57

you know, link that phone to anybody in

38:59

particular, but they could tell

39:01

where the burner phone had been bought,

39:04

at Best Buy a couple of miles away.

39:06

And CCTV revealed it had been

39:08

bought by one Diana loved Joy

39:11

just two weeks before the shoe

39:13

end. She was

39:15

then taken in and placed under

39:17

arrest. Give

39:20

me kidding. What is a hilarious

39:23

hilarious motion? I wish you guys could see it. If you're

39:25

on a computer on your phone, just Google, Diana

39:27

love joy mugshot right now. It's

39:30

it's gas. You know, Diana, she

39:32

she's a pretty woman blonde hair. Think

39:35

everything I said about her, the type person she

39:37

is, she looks probably exactly

39:39

like you would imagine. But her expression

39:41

in this photo, it's it's so funny. It

39:43

looks like someone told her they ate the

39:45

last of the cake and it ruined her day.

39:49

I actually, it's cake or does anything fun

39:51

though. But Dan and she denied

39:53

having anything to do with it. But

39:56

someone volunteered to help me with

39:58

my husband. No. I don't know. He did anything.

40:01

I mean, maybe he did. He did say he was gonna

40:03

scare scare him, but I

40:06

don't know. She said she had met

40:08

with Weldon that night. Gave him the

40:10

burner phone and dropped him near Greg's

40:12

house. She said, don't know

40:14

what he did. heard that, but he said he would call

40:16

me. Then a little while

40:19

later, she drove back and weldon jumped

40:21

into the car, saying it's all gone

40:23

horribly wrong, and I just had to open up on him,

40:25

you know, couldn't be helped. Also, that smell

40:27

shit. Don't worry about it. On the

40:29

eighth of September, SWAT busted open the

40:31

door of Weldon McDavid searching

40:34

his house. They found, well,

40:36

a shitload of guns, a suppressor,

40:39

illegal in California and spent

40:41

shell casings. Weldon

40:43

was arrested. Then remember

40:46

that big old pile of shit found at the

40:48

scene under the pole, DNA

40:50

testing revealed that well

40:52

Yeah. When you gotta go? Yeah. You gotta go.

40:55

I mean, maybe he was so nervous about

40:57

what he was gonna do, which was try to

40:59

murder Greg. That he just, you know, he was

41:01

he was literally shitting himself, and so

41:03

he decided to go in the park. But it

41:05

that's it's kinda weird for me, you know,

41:07

for Marine. You know, you think they

41:10

that he wouldn't have been nervous having been in

41:12

combat situations

41:12

before. There you go though,

41:15

I I guess. More like Sempra

41:17

Pie. Am I

41:17

right? It was then

41:20

that it finally dawned on Weldon

41:22

that Diana had fabricated everything

41:25

about Greg. This was

41:27

like an eye opening moment for Weldon,

41:29

because he'd believe everything Diana said,

41:32

but Greg wasn't on drugs. Greg

41:34

didn't abuse her or

41:37

their child. Diana just wanted

41:39

him gone. She then met Weldon

41:41

She knew he was he was a noble guy who

41:43

would take, you know, matters into his own hands

41:45

if necessary and she

41:47

made it you know, by telling

41:50

this guy, this guy, weldon who

41:52

only saw in black and white good

41:54

guys versus bad guys, what he

41:56

needed to hear. Greg was a bad

41:58

guy, a molester, a rapist, and he needed

42:00

to get gone. Go get. She

42:03

also Ep8 also slapped with

42:05

welding though, I guess, which would help.

42:07

That's kind of just, you know,

42:09

to to be sure, you know, if you wanna be

42:11

sure, to be sure. Diana and

42:13

Weldon were both charged with attempted

42:16

murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

42:19

It was over a year after the shooting

42:21

in October twenty seventeen that Diana

42:23

loved Joy and Weldon McDavid both

42:25

would go on trial. Things

42:28

didn't look too good

42:30

for them. It would have been like a

42:32

faster than Dunk really, but the defense

42:35

went with what Diana went with.

42:37

That Greg was a bastard man

42:39

and so, you know, Listen, love. This

42:42

is a while, Lessa, here. Visual Adi Justice,

42:44

so you guys never listened to to Diana in

42:46

the first place? Well, you should've listened to her. You

42:48

know, he got what he had common

42:51

to him. Though surprisingly

42:53

at the trial, Diana's aunt

42:56

testified. Her name was also

42:58

Diana and she told the jury that over

43:00

a year before the shooting in

43:02

March twenty fifteen that while out

43:05

dining at a restaurant Diana, the

43:07

younger, had asked her aunt.

43:10

Just random question,

43:12

you know, totally random. You

43:15

wouldn't happen to know anyone who

43:17

would murder for me. Do you?

43:20

Probably in the same manner she might ask, where

43:22

is the best place to get hot sauce around here?

43:25

Then in the middle of this busy restaurant,

43:27

she's asking for a killer,

43:30

randomly a deputy district attorney

43:33

just so happened to be in that same

43:35

restaurant with an earshot that

43:37

very evening and heard the whole

43:39

thing. And Diana was soon contacted

43:42

by the police, but she denied everything. She obviously

43:44

wanted to protect her niece. No. She never asked

43:46

me, you know, for a assassin. But

43:49

I guess when her niece actually tried

43:51

to go true that she was like, oh, okay.

43:53

Maybe I should actually mention

43:55

that. And Antti

43:57

Diana had been fed the same shit weld

43:59

and had. That Greg, he he was

44:01

an abusedor and he needed to go. Both

44:04

Weldon and Anna said there was no

44:07

come on. We were just playing around. It's it's a

44:09

joke. There was no intent to

44:11

murder. Things just got out of hand,

44:13

you know. These things happen,

44:15

you know. Boys will be boys. After

44:17

all, listen up. Weldon was in the marines.

44:20

He worked at a gun range. He was an expert

44:22

marksman. If Weld didn't want it

44:24

to kill Greg, he could have

44:26

killed Greg. Yeah.

44:29

Right. I think weldon just didn't expect

44:31

Greg to bring Jason along

44:33

that very night. I I if Greg went up there

44:35

alone, he probably would have been killed.

44:38

Diana, she wanted her child and not

44:40

only that as part of the custody agreement,

44:43

she had to pay Greg child support and

44:45

a lump sum of a hundred and twenty thousand

44:47

dollars. Dan thought to herself,

44:49

I'll just pay well then two thousand dollars to

44:51

kill him. That's a late save

44:53

a bit of

44:54

money. After a half day

44:56

of deliberation, the jury returned

44:58

with its verdict. We the jury

45:00

in the above entitled cause, find the

45:02

defendant, Diana Gene Love Joy.

45:04

Guilty is charged in count one.

45:07

Wither the jury in the above and top of the cause,

45:09

find the defendant, Diana Gene

45:12

Love Joy. Guilty of the crime of

45:14

attempted murder of Greg

45:16

Mulvehill. And

45:17

then something kind of dramatic happened.

45:20

Guilty of the crime of conspiracy to

45:22

commit murder.

45:26

Alright. I need to take a break. Diana

45:29

was found guilty on all charges, but

45:32

she just wasn't having any of that.

45:34

She was like, I'm out of here. See

45:36

you later. At good literally, Google

45:38

YouTube this video because when Dana heard

45:41

the verdict, she's sitting down.

45:44

And she literally faints. I'm

45:46

not sure. It's it's actually it's it's not kinda

45:48

funny. It's very funny. She is straight of collapses

45:50

in her chair. And if only she

45:53

put as much effort into her cooking videos, Diana

45:56

was ultimately sentenced to twenty six

45:58

years to life in prison. Weldon

46:00

was sentenced to fifty years to

46:03

life. Diana will be eligible

46:05

for parole when she is seventy years

46:07

old. Weldon, when he

46:09

is a hundred,

46:11

And there you have it. That is the end of that

46:13

chapter. Those two chapters,

46:15

bizarre, scary, stupid, and

46:18

kind of funny in parts. Well, especially the second one because

46:20

nobody actually died. Whereas in the first one,

46:23

a guy got a stiletto to

46:25

the eye. So Yeah.

46:27

Yikes. Well, I hope you enjoyed this

46:29

old podcast, my friends. I you

46:32

know, you'll hear from me in a couple of days. As

46:34

I said, please Rate, review,

46:37

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46:41

thank you enough I never will be able to.

46:43

Also, if you'd like to see some more chapters, Go

46:46

on YouTube. Check out the YouTube channel where I'm

46:48

always doing crazy cases. The

46:50

Diana Lovejoy case I made in video a couple

46:52

years back so you can check that out and see what

46:54

all the footage and everything I was talking about. But

46:57

until the next podcast,

46:59

which would be, you know, probably in like a couple of days,

47:02

Please take care of each other, take care of yourselves

47:05

because I love you. Mike

47:08

out.