131: Lust - The Tragic Mishandling of Amanda Wienckowski's Case

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Wienckowski was found frozen solid, upside down in a garbage can in the middle of a Buffalo, NY winter in January 2009 - her case was somehow ruled an accidental suicide by the authorities despite her last known location being the drug dealer's house across the street who was later convicted of rape and strangulation.

Rachael talks with Amanda's mother and older sister to divulge the details of the tragically mishandled case.

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0:57.0	Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners.
1:00.0	To perhaps one of the most tragic cases we've covered, a story shrouded in government
1:07.1	cover-up and a blatant disrespect for a young woman's life, a family shunned and an
1:14.1	unthinkable murder swept under the rug, and for what?
1:19.9	Well, most likely secrets, secrets that could change the course of political careers.
1:29.6	They'll throw out the at-risk lifestyle card, she's an addict, a sex worker.
1:35.8	But sir, what are you hiding in your little black book of secrets within your brotherhood
1:42.9	of decadence and sin?
1:46.0	And what a coward you are to discard a 20-year-old girl and blame her for the most unfathomable,
1:54.5	accidental, death I have ever heard of.
1:59.4	You must have something to lose, my friend.
2:05.6	Like I've said many times before, when it comes to cults, or falling into maybe an addiction
2:11.2	or perhaps a bad relationship, I don't think any one of us is immune to it.
2:18.7	Not one of us is so far superior that we can't get into something that takes us over without
2:24.8	us even realizing it.
2:27.1	Just like the frog in the boiling pot scenario I've mentioned many times.
2:31.2	You don't know you're in it.
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