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Southern Fried True Crime

17: Cold Cold Heart: Murderess Shelly Michael (Part 1)

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.610.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The story of Shelly Michael, wife, mother, stepmother, nurse practitioner and murderer could not be contained in one episode. I hope you enjoy part one of this West Virginian saga about a former Mountaineer cheerleader turned murderess.

Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/17-18-shelly-michael

If you’re interested in learning more about this case, check out my best source. Author John Glatt wrote the definitive work on Shelly Michael: Playing with Fire: A Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal. He covers Shelly’s trial in depth as well as many more players in this story I didn’t have time for.

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Researched by Erica Kelley
Original Graphic Art by Coley Horner
Original Music by Rob Harrison-Gamma Radio

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0:00.0

7.

0:04.7

Southern Fraud True Crom covers cases that may not be suitable for young listeners, and

0:09.5

there may also be some explicit language used.

0:13.1

Listener discretion is advised.

0:19.6

Imagine that you're lying in bed, maybe in that twilight place between waking and dreams.

0:26.2

You feel a small sting, but it was quick, and no worse than a mosquito bite.

0:31.8

So you keep drifting.

0:34.2

Now you're starting to feel funny.

0:36.9

Within a minute, your arms and legs have become weak, and you're having trouble breathing.

0:43.4

Has panic started setting in?

0:46.1

Or is this a dream?

0:48.6

In another minute or two, you won't be able to stand up.

0:53.0

You will be able to speak or cry out.

0:56.4

You are trapped in your body and yet fully aware of what is going on around you.

1:02.0

In just a couple more minutes, you will stop breathing altogether.

1:07.6

Now the panic has set in.

1:09.6

Is there someone there with you?

1:12.3

Are they comforting you?

1:15.7

Are they taunting you?

1:18.4

Or are they just sitting there watching you suffer?

1:22.3

Who is it?

1:23.3

Is this your husband?

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