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177: The Most Evil Mother-Daughter Duo You've Never Heard Of... The Shocking Case of Diane Staudte

Lights Out

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, News, History

4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Sources:
1. https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/2016/01/21/springfield-woman-pleads-guilty-poisoning-family-members/79109382/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staudte_Family_Murders
3. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-02-09/in-autopsy-study-over-90-of-former-nfl-players-showed-signs-of-brain-disease-cte
4. https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/mom-admits-poisoning-family-anti-freeze-part-38441481
5. https://www.distractify.com/p/diane-and-rachel-staudte-confessions


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0:00.0

Criminal justice reform does not mean letting people out of jail.

0:04.6

It means holding them accountable and putting them in jail.

0:08.1

When you don't solve a cold case, you leave the perpetrator on the street.

0:13.0

Have she left like this before?

0:15.0

And it's not common for her to be gone like late at night?

0:19.0

Not especially since my daughter got out of the chestpan.

0:21.0

Jessica wasn't just trash that was thrown away.

0:24.8

The fact that you have no idea what's going on is absurd.

0:28.3

So I put in there, you know, like, would you think I would hurt her or something? The mayor has asked the Federal Justice Department for help,

0:37.0

cleaning up the New Orleans police, long plagued by what many see as a culture of corruption.

0:42.0

Why did the family find her fucking body and not the police?

0:46.0

You don't care enough to make sure that you have the right person in the crosshairs of the legal justice system.

0:53.0

Then you are ignoring evidence and you ignoring the person that caused the real harm.

0:58.0

Well, I don't want to be sexist, but women tend to do that, you know, at least to me, I put it that way.

1:04.0

I mean, so close to home too, like what an utter failure.

1:07.0

This tells you that this can happen to anybody.

1:09.0

Nobody is immune from crime.

1:20.8

Justice to me is being in a courtroom and the person who did this to my sister, the judge says guilty. What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out. Another evil mom case.

1:38.0

So let's talk about Diane Stouty. So Diane met her husband Mark Stouty at a bluegrass festival in 1984.

1:48.0

He was always happy with the kids, he was always happy with his wife.

1:52.0

He loved him. He loved his family and it was just a great family.

1:56.1

So the day after Mark's birthday was Easter and that's when they found Mark

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