178: Parental Alienation & The Death of Dr. Rick Lohstroh

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On a Friday afternoon, Dr. Rick Lohstroh parked in his ex-wife Deborah Geisler’s driveway waiting to pick up his two sons. It had been a nasty custody battle and their ten year old son, Aaron, had turned completely against his father. Every pickup day was drama. This day it was worse, Deborah and the boys were running late after having to get her car towed and everyone was in a foul mood. While Deborah was helping her seven year old son, Kurt, tie his shoes, Aaron found his backpack and climbed into the back of his dad’s SUV, in the seat directly behind him. In his backpack was a loaded pistol he found in his mother’s closet. What happened next was an unimaginable tragedy.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:05.2	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:08.4	Listar discretion is advised.
0:12.4	We know that about half of all marriages end in divorce.
0:16.3	The data changes slightly year to year, but that unfortunate percentage stays about the
0:21.7	same.
0:23.1	And divorce is difficult no matter who you are or how much money you have, although a good
0:28.0	therapist and support system certainly make it easier.
0:32.7	But when children are involved, the stakes are so much higher.
0:36.9	Some parents work very hard to make the experience as smooth as possible for their kids.
0:43.0	It will still be a trauma.
0:44.7	There's no avoiding some pain for the littles, but some marriages can end with minimal
0:49.9	carnage for the kids.
0:52.8	Other marriages that end, say, over infidelity, are harder to mitigate.
0:58.4	We think we can hide things from our kids, but they will always find out the truth.
1:04.0	Especially if that parent will then be in a relationship with the other lover afterwards.
1:10.2	Even in the most civil of breakups, there will be damage done in these situations.
1:15.6	The children must also adjust to a new adult in their life, often a new authority figure.
1:21.6	Maybe not right away, but soon.
1:24.8	And then we have the type of parents who weaponize their own children.
1:29.5	Sometimes the kids are treated as pawns in a messy game of adult chess.
1:34.6	Other children are quite frankly dropped in the middle of a battleground that they have
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