Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true

story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime

campfire.

The heart has been the subject of mythology for humanity for centuries.

Egyptians believed that in the afterlife, your heart was weighed against a feather,

and if all your life's sins didn't outweigh the feather, you could join Osiris in the afterlife.

If it was heavier, your heart was consumed by Amat, the demon, and your soul disappeared

forever. Ancient Greeks believed that the heart was the anchor for the soul and instinctively thought it was

the source of heat for the body. Cultures all over the world recognize the importance of the heart,

before even realizing how

crucial it was to survival. Today's case is about matters of the heart, both literally and

figuratively. A heart surgeon's wife is murdered in her locked house, shot through her heart in the

middle of their nasty divorce, and when the police find mounds of evidence, it all seems to lead

them to nowhere. This is, and you're to blame, the murder of Miriam Illis.

So, campers, for this one, we're in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a teeny tiny town that's most famous for hosting the Little League World Series.

It's the kind of place you see on postcards with lush woods and picturesque little buildings.

But on Sunday, January 15th, 1999, something sinister was brewing.

Paula and Dean Peters had just gotten home from church, and they were worried about their friend Miriam Illis. Forty-seven-year-old Miriam served as their church's Sunday school teacher,

and she'd missed that day's classes without telling anyone, which was

hugely out of character. She took a ton of pride in her work, and it wasn't like her to not let anyone

know that she'd be absent from church. Paula and Dean lived nearby, and stopped by Miriam's home

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