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Talk Murder To Me

211 | Blood Math: The Grizly Murder of Colleen Ritzer

Talk Murder To Me

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True Crime

3.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Colleen Ritzer was likely alive when Philip Chism dragged her body into the woods behind Danvers High School and raped her with a branch, an assistant district attorney said in Essex Superior Court Monday after the prosecution rested its case.

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0:00.0

Tonight's story has a community divided.

0:03.2

On one factor, 14 is too young to be tried as an adult,

0:06.8

but on the other, the killer, slashing his victim 16 times

0:11.0

makes the difference.

0:12.2

The total rage and severity of this murder is so gruesome that the sentence should be equal

0:17.2

to, if not greater than, life in prison.

0:20.2

No matter your angle, the atrocities feel multiplied because of the victim herself, a kind-hearted math teacher. Welcome to talk murder to me coming to you from Casa de Collins. I don't know what the Gaelic word for, I don't know what the Gaelic word for houses so I'm going to go with the Spanish

0:46.2

word coming to you live from my bar as you can see in the background so still got a lot of work to do in the house,

0:54.1

but I'm glad to have John Nicole here.

0:57.7

Thanks for having us as always, Jen.

1:00.4

So I want to say tonight, this story that we're doing right now if you're new here.

1:05.0

I put all my sources on talkmurder.com.

1:08.0

All you guys getting on YouTube now and following us doing the videos on YouTube. Thank you so much for all the new

1:14.2

subscribers. I'm doing these videos, the ones at Jen's house for Supremos only and

1:21.9

we just launched the forum and we just launched the forum at talkocast.com

1:27.4

slash join and the membership is $25 a year that's $2 a month and we think is a great deal.

1:37.5

So every week when we do a video at Jen's house,

1:41.3

we'll put that on exclusively for you guys our new

1:46.0

Supremos so I think it's a pretty good deal and our old Supremos too.

1:50.3

Yeah exactly so go to talkocast.com and the reason we're using talkocast is

1:56.4

because when we had the the initial supremeo program going on people were sort of not complaining but they really

2:06.2

couldn't get on talk murder.com at work you know because of the murder stuff valid point myself included yeah so that's why we're switching to

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