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Serialously with Annie Elise

286: Toxic & Cheating Wife Takes “Over His Dead Body” Literally | The Case of Michael Shaver

Serialously with Annie Elise

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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This week on Serialously with Annie Elise, when Mike Shaver suddenly vanished after a heated argument with his wife, Laurie, the story she spun raised more questions than answers. His car, wallet, and clothes were left behind, but Laurie insisted he had "left for Georgia." As the investigation dragged on, strange texts and erratic Facebook posts only deepened the mystery. For years, there were no answers, until a welfare check uncovered a devastating truth that no one expected…

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0:00.0

33-year-old Michael Schaver left work and was never seen again.

0:04.8

Lori Shaver is accused in the 2015 shooting death of her husband Michael Schaever.

0:09.0

He put his foot on my face, smashing it into the patio porch.

0:14.1

When Lori took the stand in her trial, she immediately became emotional,

0:18.3

wiping away tears before telling the jury how she first met her then-husband Michael.

0:22.9

When that motion was filed to say, Lori Schaeber didn't do it, it was her daughter stepping in to defend her.

0:28.7

That daughter was seven years old at the time.

0:32.3

I had nothing to do with the murder of Michael Schaver.

0:45.3

My name is Lori Filmer, also known as Lori Schaver.

0:52.6

I'm coming before you guys today just to let you know that we have our suspicions, but I don't know why I've been targeted.

0:54.8

I am a daughter. I'm a friend, I'm a neighbor, I'm a servant of God, I'm a wife, and I'm a devoted mother of four.

1:07.0

Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly.

1:45.0

And Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of serialously. I am your host, Annie Elise, and I'm here to break down another true crime case for you. Now, if you are brand new to the podcast and checking it out for the first time, let me just kind of give you the breakdown of what we do over here on

1:48.9

serialously. I know, and it's a mouthful, okay? I trust me, I know the name is hard to say.

1:54.4

But over here, what I like to do is discuss these cases in more of a conversational way,

2:00.4

almost like you're talking with your friend

2:02.8

or your sister or, you know, your true crime BFF, which I would love the honor to be that for you.

2:08.0

But like, just in less of a clinical and sterile way that I feel like a lot of the times these

2:14.2

cases are discussed. You know, I grew up watching 60 minutes, date line, documentaries,

2:19.1

all the things. And I still watch them. Don't get me wrong. But I felt like I was kind of craving

2:24.2

for something where people would just talk to me about these cases as if it were like my sister

2:28.8

and I on the couch or a friend of mine was like trying to update me on a case. So we talk about

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