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Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

On the morning of December 30, 1978, the bodies of 45-year-old Nancy Spangler and her two teenage children were found in their home in Littleton, Colorado.

All three had been shot to death with a handgun. The children were found in their bedrooms, and Nancy was slumped in a chair down in the basement

with a bullet wound visible on her forehead. A typewritten suicide note was found nearby,

and it was signed with an end, Nancy's initial. Join us at the quiet end for a very bad husband,

Robert Spangler. Nancy's husband admitted to police that he and his wife had

marital problems, that he did plan to leave her, and that he was having an affair with another

woman. The implication was that Nancy was so distraught over her failing marriage that she took her

and her children's lives. But many people close to Nancy just couldn't believe that she could kill her beloved children.

They wondered if Robert could have killed his entire family, setting the scene to make it look like a murder suicide.

This began to seem even more likely after his second and third wives also died suddenly with Robert

beside them. Wow. So you look at hindsight and you say three wives, three deaths. Yeah, plus two

children, which is even more tragic. Yeah, that is. Yeah, his own children. So why don't you give

us a beer review? Because this is going to be

pretty lengthy conversation, but fascinating for sure. Yeah, this is a Mexican hot chocolate milk

stout from left-hand brewing company. Pretty nice beer. It's got a nice aroma, chocolate,

little vanilla, hint of spice on the aroma.

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