Chaz Higgs - The Man Who Would Have Committed The Perfect Murder

The Casual Criminalist

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True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Watch the shocking true story of Kathy Augustine, a politician whose sudden death raised suspicions, leading to her husband's arrest for her murder. Discover how a mistake led to his conviction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm here to tell you about my new podcast Welcome to Paradise It sucks.
0:03.6	A podcast where we'll hear about real vacation stories that don't go as planned.
0:08.1	Listen to Welcome to Paradise It sucks on the iHeart app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.2	Today we're going to take a look at the murder of Kathy Augustine, an ambitious politician who suffered a heart attack
0:24.8	early one morning and never recovered. From the outset, a sudden illness raised the suspicions of her
0:29.9	families. But it would be the testimony of a nurse on the other side of the city that would
0:33.6	result in the arrest of her husband, Chaz Higgs, a man who thought it figured out the way to commit
0:40.1	the perfect murder.
0:48.7	And with that, welcome back to another episode of The Casual Criminalist. As always, I'm your host
0:53.0	Simon. I'm Sarah One of my writers. Thank you, Emma, for the written news script.
0:56.0	Chaz Higgs, the man who would have committed the perfect murder. Well, Chaz, the features of
1:00.5	the Casual Criminalist base, it wasn't as perfect as you thought it was. You're probably in jail somewhere.
1:05.7	Or I don't know, wherever this is where did this take place? Sounds American. Maybe you've got
1:10.3	an e-line. Hey, hey, let's just jump in, shall we? Committing the perfect crime isn't as easy as
1:15.3	some might think since there are a lot of variables to take into consideration the type of crime,
1:19.6	or when and how you commit it. What kind of preparations you might take and get you get
1:23.2	caught? How many of Simon's rules you have to follow, etc. Yes, there are many rules that we've
1:28.2	established here. Throughout the Casual Criminalist's rule number one, of course, is don't write down
1:31.4	your crimes. The number of criminals writing out their crimes. Truly extraordinary.
1:36.0	Anyway, Chaz Higgs thought that he found the perfect way to murder someone even if the police tried
1:40.4	to pin it on him, they wouldn't find a smoking gun. They wouldn't find traces of his DNA or his
1:45.0	fingerprints or even a till slip that proved his guilt and yet just hours after he attempted to kill
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