We've put his family through hell, especially Mary Ann Ricker.

I do want to say that I'm sorry for the loss of the family.

I know what you want, they will kill me.

Hey, true crime besties.

Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialesley.

Hey everybody. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialessly with me, your host, Annie Elyse.

It's Monday, which means we've got a new deep dive.

We've got to go over this one, and I'm going to talk to you about it in a minute here. But it also means it is the start of a brand new week.

So whatever it is you're doing today, whether you're driving,

cleaning, running, working, wherever you're at, whatever you're doing while you're listening to this,

I just want to say, I hope you had a great weekend and I am wishing you all of the best for an

amazing week ahead. That being said, okay, there's always a butt right now. That being said, we've got to talk about this case because as soon as I heard about it, there was no doubt in my mind.

I was like, got to jump on the mic, got to talk to people about this.

Because it feels honestly like it was ripped directly out of a lifetime movie or maybe even a Hallmark movie gone bad, because you've got

murder. You've got murder for hire. You've got a hitman. You've got a hit on the hitman.

You have mistaken identity. I mean, this case is so convoluted and crazy that when I tell you

the twists, they are a twisted. We're going to go through all of it,

but it is definitely like Mr. Toad's wild ride. Now it takes place in 2006. So just to paint the scene

for you, that was what? 2006 was the year after I graduated high school. So it was like the

mecca of the Y2K era. It was the simple life with Paris Hilton and Nicole

Ritchie. It was the Y2K fashion. It was like peak 2000s. So in the early morning hours of May

26, 2006, 31 year old Daniel Ott and his girlfriend, Marianne, were woken up by the sound of their

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