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The Criminal Makeup

103: Creepy Gym Teacher Grooms Teenage Student... Before Trying to KILL HER - Sam Shelton

The Criminal Makeup

Danielle Kirsty

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I hope you all doing so well and welcome back to the criminal makeup podcast.

0:14.4

Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today that is the case of Sam Shelton.

0:21.8

Sam Shelton was a 26 year old gym teacher and he worked at a high school in Illinois and he was apparently one of those teachers that every girl had a crush on which given what he goes on to do

0:36.6

really really creeps me out well I give her like a hug goodbye how would do that that's

0:41.8

not sexual is it?

0:43.0

Someone heard goodbye.

0:44.0

Because whilst he was working as a teacher, he started a relationship

0:49.0

with a 17 year old girl called Ashley Reeves.

0:53.5

And I really shouldn't call it a relationship,

0:55.4

should I, because it's grooming.

0:57.4

And Sam taught Ashley when she was in middle school,

1:00.5

like they first met when she was only 12 years old and things started not going

1:04.9

Sam's way and he acted out in a absolutely horrific way that ended in such tragedy.

1:11.2

She kind of started becoming obsessed with me.

1:12.8

Like I said, she was calling me, not like literally non-stop the time.

1:16.1

So that is the case we are talking about today, the creepy gym teacher Sam Shelton.

1:21.9

So let's dive in. Sam Shelton. So let's dive in.

1:23.0

Sam Shelton was born on the 9th of March 1980, making him a Pisces,

1:28.0

and he grew up in Fort Knox in Kentucky, where he lived with his parents George and Susan and his older brother George

1:37.0

Jr. Now to begin with Sam's childhood was pretty happy. His dad was a

1:45.0

pretty happy. His dad was a US Army major based in Fort Knox. His mom was a stay-at-home mom.

1:47.5

However, when Sam was just seven months old,

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