177: The Disappearance & Murder of Theresa Parker

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In March 2007, 41-year-old Theresa spent the day moving boxes from her old house to her new apartment. The LaFayette, Georgia 911 dispatcher was leaving her husband. That evening, after seeing her sister, Theresa disappeared without a trace. And local law enforcement kept coming back to the same person: Theresa’s estranged husband, 52-year-old Sergeant Sam Parker of the LaFayette PD. Sam vehemently denied any involvement in Theresa’s disappearance. But he had also bragged for years about how he could kill someone and no one would ever find the body.

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0:18.4	One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.
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0:42.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners.
0:46.7	And there may also be some explicit language used.
0:50.2	This nurse's discretion is advised.
0:56.0	Nobody knows crime is a common phrase in the justice system, also known as bodyless murder
1:02.2	or nobody homicide.
1:04.8	But no matter what you call it, it means the same thing.
1:08.7	In years past, if you can't find the victim's body, then you can't prove the victim was murdered.
1:15.7	And when you think about it, that wasn't a terrible idea.
1:19.7	In fact, it makes a lot of sense.
1:22.8	Throughout history, the punishment for murder has always been severe, lifelong imprisonment,
1:29.2	death.
1:30.8	These are experiences that you don't come back from, literally.
1:35.6	It was difficult to justify sentencing someone to such extreme consequences without the
1:41.3	victim's body.
1:43.1	After all, what if the victim wasn't really dead?
1:46.6	And it's happened before.
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