155: Forensic Breakthrough: George Trepal - Thallium Testing

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Spats with a neighbor aren't uncommon. Barking dogs, unmowed grass, and trash on the lawn can be reasonable complaints. But rarely does it actually escalate to murder. However, this episode involves just that, as well as murder mystery dinners, hidden bedrooms, and more.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:

https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/george-trepal-evil-genius-69896b7c69c5

https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/trepal-george.htm

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1996-03-31-9604110244-story.html

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1606616.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2OnQOL4i0

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.7	And welcome back to Forensic Breakthroughs.
0:29.7	This is Corpus delicti.
0:31.0	We are super excited for you to join us today.
0:34.3	Yeah, so this series has been pretty interesting so far.
0:37.1	We're learning a lot. We're learning some stuff we didn't know before. We're learning about some things we did know and where they came from. So this is pretty neat. It's good. It's nice to have a happy ending to some of these stories if there is such thing as a happy ending in these stories. But today we've got another one for you.
0:56.1	And this one is about a couple who were members of Mensa and they came up with a plan to take
1:02.2	care of their loud neighbors. So Jen, you want to kick us off? So for those of you like me
1:07.9	had to look up Minza to figure out what it is it is a high IQ society now they get
1:16.2	together in their communities and exchange ideas theories they talk but you have to have a very
1:22.7	high IQ just to become a member which is why we had to look it up.
1:29.0	We've not been invited.
1:32.4	Apparently.
1:37.5	I mean, they can probably pronounce and Valanche, so let's just get that straight.
1:38.4	What fun is that?
1:47.1	So in this week's story, I'm going to take you to meet Diana and George. They lived in a very small community in Altres, Florida. Now, this was a very sleepy community. The type that never
1:53.2	locks its doors, and I had a really low crime, right? I think the biggest crime in this area is
1:59.1	people picking oranges off the trees.
2:01.5	So that's the type of little community that we're talking about.
2:06.5	Diana and George Trappell.
2:08.5	Diana was an orthopedic surgeon who majored in chemistry in college,
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