150. [Virginia] Harvey and Valerie Looney

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, a worker at the Pizza Plus in Claypool Hill, Virginia walks into the restaurant for the opening shift and finds the manager, Valerie, lying on the floor of the kitchen in a pool of blood. When police arrive, they find it is a double homicide. With very few clues, it would take an FBI profiler and a new interrogation technique to finally solve the case.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to bless this mess in the true crime podcast. I'm Carrie here with Stu, so hey, Stu. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Bless This Mess in the True Crime podcast.
0:23.0	I'm Carrie here with Stu. Say, hey, Stu.
0:24.2	Hey.
0:24.9	All right, we're back this week, and we're going to Virginia.
0:28.0	This was actually a case that was suggested by someone, Stu, that messaged us.
0:34.9	It was Laura Witt.
0:36.2	She sent this in for us. And it was that show,
0:43.6	murder comes to town. It was an episode of that. And, you know, so here lately, I've been
0:49.2	having to just get my research based off of shows because I used to try to go and like I read newspaper articles
0:56.2	and things like that every single newspaper article now you click pay for it they want you to pay for
1:01.7	it so I can't pay for every small newspaper on the planet you know to get more information so I try
1:09.1	my best but I have to do it's really gotten down to that because they just don't give you free stuff.
1:14.9	And then I used to be able to get, when we lived in Louisiana, I had the library provided all access to all those old newspaper articles.
1:24.4	Yeah.
1:24.7	And you could search them by keywords and it would find them in like they're actually scanned. It's like, what is that called whenever you go to the library? Microfish. Microwish. Anyways, similar to that, but an online version. But we don't have that anymore. And this library sucks here. I can't believe how shitty. That's a nice lookinglooking royal library when you go in there.
1:47.3	Yeah, but they only have two in the whole town.
1:50.3	Yeah, Lafayette had like 15. Yes, Lafayette had a huge library system.
1:53.3	They had a ton of online resources.
1:55.0	They're audiobooks that they have.
1:56.8	They had such a huge collection of audiobooks.
1:59.6	This one has barely anything.
2:01.4	I swear to God, if it's got even the mention of sex in it, they're like, nope, we're not putting that one on there.
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