81: Mommy Murdered the Night Before Christmas

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Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In 2011, the night before Christmas, a mother of 3 and student Za’Zell Preston was murdered hours after leaving a Christmas Eve party in California. On Christmas morning her body was found propped up on the sofa, wearing sunglasses, watching her children open presents, in an apartment covered in blood. Her husband William Wallace made phone calls to the entire family, before finally agreeing to call an Ambulance for Za’Zell. But shortly after calling that Ambulance, William would find himself incarcerated awaiting trial, for almost a decade. For the 3 years leading up to her death, William had subjected Za’Zell to a relationship from hell. William’s abuse had put Za’Zell in hospital multiple times and he promised to kill her if she ever left Za’Zell would share her emotional turmoil in love on Facebook and desperately tried to fix the man she loved most, even enrolling to study domestic violence herself. But in 2011, with plans to finally leave him for good and become a counsellor to help other women break free from domestic violence, Za’Zell’s time to escape with her life, would tragically run out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
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0:56.0	trial at Shopify.com slash setup. It was the night before Christmas in Anaheim, California, 2011,
1:04.4	where 26-year-old mother of three, Zazel Preston and her newly-wethered husband were out
1:10.7	enjoying their first Christmas Eve together as a married couple.
1:14.1	But all was not as merry and bright as it seemed, and the very next day on Christmas morning, authorities would arrive and discover a house of horrors.
1:25.3	Because while Zazel was sitting on the sofa watching her children open their Christmas presents,
1:30.3	something was deeply wrong.
1:33.3	She wasn't smiling or interacting with her kids at all as they were holding up their toys to show what Santa had brought.
1:40.3	She didn't reach out to hug them, she didn't speak a word.
1:43.3	Her beautiful children hadn't realised out to hug them. She didn't speak a word. Her beautiful children hadn't realized
1:45.8	that mummy was dead and dressed up by her husband to make it look as though she was still alive
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