72: A Killer at the Door - July 11 2019 - Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com The death of a child is always heartbreaking. How does a family move on when a child is lost, especially if that child is lost in a gruesome and horrifying manner. On July 11th 2001 a stranger would murder a 15 year old girl and leave her family, especially her sister, in an unimaginable amount of heartbreak. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow us on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer The show is produced and edited by Dillon Biemesderfer IG: @dungeonsanddillons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	The death of a telephones and electricity lines.
0:05.4	The weird is described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.5	The death of a child is always heartbreaking.
0:13.9	How does a family move on when a child is lost, especially if that child is lost in a gruesome
0:19.5	and horrifying manner?
0:29.6	On July 11, 2001, a stranger would murder a 15-year-old girl and leave her family, especially her sister, and an unimaginable amount of heartbreak.
0:32.6	So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and search your day with
0:39.6	a morning cup of murder.
0:45.8	On the morning of July 11, Stacey Payne, who was only 15 years old, was home getting ready
0:51.7	to leave for work while her younger sister slept upstairs.
0:55.9	A man named Roy Lee Ward, knocked in the door and told Stacey he was looking for his lost
1:01.5	dog and convinced her to let him in the house. Stacey screams woke her sister, Melissa,
1:08.2	who ran to the top of the stairs to see a man laying on top of
1:11.6	Stacy. She immediately ran into her parents' room and called 911 and could hear her sister
1:18.4	pleading for the man to please stop. Police arrived quickly and saw a ward standing in the doorway
1:24.6	covered in sweat and blood, holding a knife.
1:32.4	He complied, and when asked to get onto the ground, he told police, I didn't do anything.
1:36.3	They entered the home and found Stacey's body in the kitchen.
1:41.4	She was nude from the waist down, covered in blood, with her intestines exposed.
1:49.0	Her torso was nearly sliced into two, her throat cut down to her windpipe, and wrists slashed to the bone. Vaginal bruising was found later that would indicate that the girl was raped.
1:53.0	Incredibly, she was somehow still conscious but could not speak.
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