454: Manhunt: The Murder of Emily Longley

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Emily Longley was only dating her boyfriend for four months when she was found dead in his bedroom. Though the cause of death was initially undetermined, the ensuing investigation would uncover not only the boyfriend's history of abuse, but also a plot to cover up the murder involving more members of his family.

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0:00.0	Having a touchscreen computer has changed my life.
0:02.2	In a good way?
0:03.0	Yes.
0:05.0	I never know.
0:06.5	That was a good cold open, I think.
0:08.2	Yeah.
0:15.1	Hi, Gillian Benzavali.
0:16.4	Hi, Patrick Heimes.
0:17.4	How's it going, girl?
0:18.3	It's going well.
0:18.9	I meant to tell you this.
0:19.8	I added a new Zell person that I was paying. And as I went to pay them, a little notification popped up that was like, beware of romance scams. Do you really know this person? No. It actually said romance scam. Oh, my God. Zell, you're doing the good work. I know. But you know those people would be like, no, it's not.
0:53.4	He's really on an oil rig, and he loves me, and he's super real. His face is three times the size of his head, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, but I like that about him. But I do. It's my favorite thing. Stop judging Zell. Thank you. What are we supposed to tell them about today before we get to it? The Patreon and the YouTube channel. Alright, you take the Patreon.
0:54.6	Okay, we have a Patreon.
0:55.9	We have a bunch of stuff on there.
0:57.6	We have ad-free versions of these episodes.
0:54.5	We also do. before we get to it. The Patreon and the YouTube channel. All right, you take the Patreon. Okay, we have a Patreon.
0:56.0	We have a bunch of stuff on there.
1:10.7	We have ad-free versions of these episodes. We also do, like, the series, right? So we just did Amy Bradley. We're doing Mr. and Mrs. Murder. Boy, did we ever. We did the hell out of it. We really did that hell out of it more than Netflix did. We felt it so deeply.
1:28.4	I just hated the documentary, and there was so much in there that was like, what? I felt crazy. You know what it made me sad about is that it made me realize that some documentaries are bad. Like it really... Welcome. I know. And it really made me like, oh, we can't just trust them because they're made. No. I know. Not a single statistic in that.
1:43.3	I told you about how it's like my first go at this planet, right? That some people are old souls. Brand new. Brand new. I love it here, though. Yeah, fun. I was supposed to tell them about the YouTube? Sure. Fam, we're up to over 70,000 subscribers. It's crazy. I mean, it's been like three months.
1:44.6	We were just at 50.
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