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Morning Cup of Murder

117: A Tragic House Fire - August 27 2019 - Today in True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Becoming a mother changes your life in both good ways and bad. You get this wonderful new addition to your life, but you exchange it for some sleepless nights and less of a social life. On August 27th 2003 a little boy was killed in a house fire that left everybody wondering if it was a freak accident, or a mother getting her social life back. Nicole Diar (2003) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer * ** ***Information for this podcast was collected from the following source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Diar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-rache sexual...

0:03.9

We have a weird...

0:05.8

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.4

A cup of murder.

0:11.5

Becoming a mother changes your life in both good ways and bad.

0:15.6

You get this wonderful new addition to your life, but you exchange it for some sleepless nights, and less of a social

0:22.3

life. On August 27, 2003, a little boy was killed in a house fire that left everybody

0:29.5

wondering if it was a freak accident, or a mother trying to get her social life back.

0:35.4

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start

0:39.4

your day with a morning cup of murder. On the evening of August 27th, the home of 28-year-old

0:48.5

Nicole D.R. was set ablaze. Nicole made it out a line with no burns, but her son, four-year-old Jacob,

0:57.0

perished. When police found his body, he was in his bed with his dead puppy next to him.

1:03.0

Nicole was no stranger to fire. She was a burn victim herself. When she was just four years old,

1:09.0

she suffered from burns over 20% of her body when her brother accidentally lit her nightgown on fire.

1:14.6

She even received a settlement from the nightgown's manufacturer.

1:18.6

She worked summer camps for burn victims and helped speak to the children it affected.

1:22.6

She understood the pain and suffering that a severe burn could cause.

1:26.6

Which is why everyone was shocked when police began to suspect that the house fire wasn't an accident.

1:34.4

Their suspicion started when, the day after Jacob's funeral, Nicole had been seen outline dancing, singing karaoke, and drinking with friends.

1:43.6

An odd reaction from a grieving mother, though it's hard to judge how others choose to grieve.

1:49.2

However, this wasn't the first time Jacob came second to her partying lifestyle.

1:54.9

According to reports, she would often drug her son with codeine, so he would sleep for his

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