Capt. Lynn Reister | Danger on the Homefront
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Crimelines True Crime
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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When a key witness refused to testify against a defendant, the entire case was in jeopardy until the prosecutors found a new angle to take.
This case is *solved*
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| 0:00.0 | When a key witness refused to testify against the defendant, the entire case was in jeopardy |
| 0:15.8 | until the prosecutors found a new angle to take. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. |
| 0:29.5 | I do have two quick event announcements for you before we get started. |
| 0:37.3 | The first one is that I'm going to be an albacurky for a live show on Sunday March 5th at 4pm. |
| 0:44.2 | We are finalizing the location details, now and I'll leave information in the show notes. |
| 0:50.0 | It's going to be me, Crime Lines, True Crime Bullshit, already gone, true consequences, |
| 0:55.2 | and true crime cases, and possibly a few others. |
| 0:59.5 | And then on June 10th and 11th, I will be at CrimeCon UK in London. |
| 1:06.8 | We are staying very close to the Tower of London, which seems pretty fitting. |
| 1:11.4 | And if you use my code Crime Lines at checkout, you will get 10% off your ticket price. |
| 1:17.2 | Using that code also helps me as they comp some of my expenses, based on how many people |
| 1:23.0 | use that code. |
| 1:24.5 | Also for the full legal FTC compliant disclosure, I do have to inform you that I do get some |
| 1:31.2 | benefit from that code. |
| 1:32.8 | And I really do appreciate it if you are coming and decide to use my code. |
| 1:37.4 | It helps out a lot as I do pay for all of these live shows and events and meetups that |
| 1:43.6 | I travel to out of pocket. |
| 1:46.3 | So with all of that out of the way, let's get into the case. |
| 1:49.6 | We are going to start with Lynn Armstrong, who grew up in Pensacola, Florida, with a brother |
| 1:54.6 | and two sisters. |
| 1:56.3 | She attended Norwich University in Vermont, which is a senior military college. |
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