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73: Marriage and Murder - July 12 2019 - Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Marriage can be difficult. Every couple has their fights, some even end up in counseling. Not many resort to murder to solve their marital issues. But, on July 12 2000 a wife would do the unspeakable to end her unhappy marriage.  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.

0:02.8

The police arrive, they found a telemoles and electricity line.

0:05.4

A weird.

0:05.8

A couple of murder.

0:10.9

Marriage can be difficult.

0:12.8

Every couple has their fights.

0:14.8

Some even end up in counseling.

0:17.1

Not many resort to murder to solve their marital issues.

0:21.0

But on July 12, 2000, a woman would do the unspeakable to end her unhappy marriage.

0:28.4

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:38.2

Stephen and Adele Craven secretly married in 1989 shortly after meeting.

0:43.9

He was trading to become a pilot with the U.S. Coast Guard and she was in mortician school.

0:49.0

They went on to have two sons together and moved to Kentucky.

0:52.8

But by the spring of 2000, the marriage had turned

0:55.8

into a rocky one and the couple's out counseling. Adele would tell friends that she wished

1:00.7

her husband, who piloted for Delta, would get into a plane crash and die. Her mother even gave her

1:07.3

$3,000 for a divorce, but Adele instead pocketed it and hid the funds from her

1:12.8

husband. Around the same time, the Cravens were having repairs done in their home. That is when

1:19.5

Adele met, befriended, and eventually started an affair with Rusty McIntyre, son of their

1:25.4

contractor. He would also become her accomplice when she eventually told

1:29.8

Rusty that if he helped her kill her husband, they could be together and share in his $500,000

1:35.5

life insurance policy. Because Rusty admitted he could not kill Stephen himself, the pair

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