305. [CHINA] The Red Milkshake || The Murder of Robert Kissel

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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A successful businessman, a luxury apartment, and a play date followed by a blackout. [Part 1] Contributing Writing & Research: The Queen of All Things Haley Gray. For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley. Sponsors: BollandBranch.com/BIGMAD - Get 15% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets. Hiyahealth.com/bigmad - Receive 50% off your first order. This deal is not available on their regular website. Get your kids the full-body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. BigMad True Crime can qualify to see a registered dietitian for as little as $0 at FayNutrition.com/BIGMAD Save your smile and your bank account with Remi! Get up to 50% off your custom-fit mouth guard at https://www.shopremi.com/BIGMAD today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	Hey everyone and welcome back to big mad true crime where we get big mad over true crime.
0:36.5	I'm your host Heather, and today's case is
0:39.3	out of Hong Kong, China. Small talk sucks, so let's dive in. Robert Kistel was incredibly smart. By the time he was five, he was solving math problems in his head.
1:08.7	But Robert wasn't just smart. He was also friendly, outgoing, and had this
1:13.8	amazing sense of humor. Rob grew up in New Jersey with his brother Andrew Kissel. The two of them
1:20.1	were inseparable, whether they were riding bikes together, playing football in the yard,
1:25.1	or spending time indoors with a board game, these two were always
1:29.5	together. If Andrews name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because I covered his murder in a
1:36.2	previous episode. Tragically, both Kissel brothers were murdered, though their stories are totally
1:43.2	unrelated. As you can imagine, Rob was
1:47.4	unnatural when it came to school and he got stray days without much effort at all. After high
1:53.0	school, he graduated from the University of Rochester's College of Engineering and then went to
1:58.8	NYU for business school. After that, he began a successful
2:03.1	career in investment banking. According to NBC News, when Rob was in his early 20s, he went on a
2:10.4	vacation in the Caribbean with a college friend. While there, he met a woman named Nancy, who was a
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