Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

I'm your host Heather Ashley and this week I'm bringing you a case that fell right out of our

last one. The case of Lee Ann Sluder, the mother of Daniel Meyer's son who was found dead of an

apparent suicide just years before he confessed to killing Heather Bogle. And let me tell you,

things do not add up. If you haven't listened to the Heather Bogle episode, go check that one out

before you listen to this one so you get a feel for the depravity that Daniel Meyer's is capable of.

Small talk is worse than talking about politics on a first date, so let's dive in.

Lee Ann Sluder had a rough start at life. She was one of six kids but the home was broken and I'm

talking broken. Her and her siblings were split up and put into foster care moving from foster

home to foster home and from group home to group home. But Lee Ann was always able to keep one

familiar thing with her at all times. Her sister Lori Ann. They were the closest of the six siblings

and always managed to stay together regardless of the family they were with this month. And

eventually they were both adopted by the same family. But Lee Ann was the black sheep. The family

was nice. Her adoptive dad was even a cop but it's awkward being the added kid. You know your

loved and they chose to love you but you know it's different that the kids born into the house.

It didn't help that Lee Ann was independent and free spirited and wasn't one to stand in line

and a house run like a well-oiled machine and there's nothing wrong with that. I love me a tight

ship. But sometimes you're just trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. When it was time

to move out on her own, she did. She got a job as a dog groomer which might sound like a nightmare

to some. Seriously what dog care is my hell on earth. But Lee Ann was all about the animal life.

She loved it and this was her dream job. In 1993 she met a man in fell in love. They got married

and started a family adding a baby boy into the mix. We'll call him Cody and even started building

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