70--Double Murder-Suicide: The Crimes of Lieutenant Cory Sasser

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 2010, a Georgia Glynn County police officer, Lieutenant Cory Sasser, was involved in the shooting of an unarmed woman. Though he was cleared of wrong doing by a grand jury, the decision was controversial and the bad press followed him for years. In 2018, his wife Katie Sasser, could no longer deal with his mental health issues. When she left him, he became suicidal and then full of rage. His colleagues at the police department would give him the benefit of the doubt every time, despite many red flags.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:08.0	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:11.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.0	When it comes to murder suicide cases, often there is immediate shock for friends and family.
0:20.4	The sentiment usually is, they seem like the perfect family, or we can't believe this
0:25.0	happened in our community.
0:27.6	But in hindsight, there are often signs.
0:30.8	We just miss those signs because people hide their pain, and they hide the worst of
0:35.2	themselves.
0:37.1	But sometimes, the warning signs are there.
0:40.3	Cory Sasser was a police officer and a 16-year war veteran.
0:44.9	In 2010, he was involved in the shooting of an unarmed woman that supposedly left him
0:49.0	with PTSD due to the continued publicity once he was controversially cleared of wrongdoing.
0:55.3	In May of 2018, he physically threatened his estranged wife, Katie Sasser, having to
1:01.1	be restrained by responding officers, who then let him leave without arresting him.
1:06.2	He was allowed to turn himself in the next day and was released on bond.
1:10.4	Just three days later, he was involved in a standoff with a SWAT team, after he drove
1:14.4	into the woods threatening suicide.
1:17.2	He resisted arrest so violently a taser was used to subdue him.
1:21.2	Again, he was released on bond.
1:24.6	Next week's later, he would be responsible for the deaths of three people, including himself,
1:30.2	shattering many other lives in this final brutal and selfish act.
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