60: The Most ELABORATE Web of Lies - The Delusional World of Love-Obsessed Psychopath Sheila Davalloo

The Criminal Makeup

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:30.0	Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal Maker podcast.
0:35.0	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history, and today we are going to be talking about the case of Sheila Davalu.
0:43.0	So, Sheila Davalu. Oh boy, this woman is on another level.
0:48.0	Sheila was a very, very intelligent woman, a very successful woman, but she is also described as an incredibly dangerous woman.
0:58.0	She has been called a love-obsessed psychopath. She is cold, calculating, and she is manipulative to the extreme.
1:08.0	Sheila was the type of person who wanted what she couldn't have.
1:12.0	And at one point in her life, she got herself caught in a messy affair that soon turned into a love triangle.
1:19.0	She felt rejected by the man she actually wanted, and Sheila just didn't know how to handle this.
1:25.0	She became obsessive, jealous, driven by greed, by anger.
1:30.0	She wanted things her way and her way only.
1:33.0	And this led to some absolutely tragic consequences.
1:37.0	And this case, let me tell you, there are so many secrets, so many lies, so many twists and turns that you just don't see coming.
1:48.0	This is the kind of case where you need to pay attention to this one, because the messed up world of Sheila Davalu really is unbelievable.
1:57.0	And that is what we're going to be talking about today, so let's dive in.
2:01.0	Sheila Davalu was born on the 11th of May 1969, making her a tourist.
2:12.0	She was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but when she was just two years old, she and her parents moved back to Iran, which is where her parents are from.
2:20.0	And Sheila spent her whole of her childhood, basically, living in Iran until she was 16 years old, and the family did move back to the US.
2:28.0	She said that she actually had a pretty great childhood.
2:31.0	I know, when do we ever hear that?
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