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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 today you'll be

hearing part two of the Ryan Sullivan case.'d want next to you when things go bad.

After two tours in Iraq, he was back at Fort Hood, Texas, prepping for a third deployment.

But just weeks later, Ryan was found brutally murdered in his off-base apartment, stabbed 34 times with no sign of forced entry,

and a deadbolt locked from the outside. Detectives dug into Ryan's personal life and found it was

extremely complicated, and none of that was his fault. There was Katie Briggs, an ex-girlfriend with a

bizarre backstory that started with catfishing him as a supermodel, and her suspiciously close relationship

with one of Ryan's supposed friends, John Valdez. Then there was Kyle Moche, who admitted to being with Ryan the night he was killed.

By the end of part one, Katie's behavior was raising every red flag ever launched,

from filing for Ryan's life insurance benefits within one day of his body being found,

to showing up at his funeral giggling and calling herself his fiancé to draining his bank account to cover her trip to that funeral.

Detectives believed she had motive, but they also knew she couldn't have acted alone.

And as they kept looking into other suspects, a call came from a soldier named Jeremy Jacobs.

What he told detectives, blew this entire case wide open.

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