10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes. What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature. Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast.

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today, let me thank those of you that have messaged me and told me that you have listened to

every single episode. I don't know how many there are because I stopped counting after about

100. So there are a bunch. And a whole lot of you have smoked this thing right down to the filter. It feels good to know that so many of you are into something that I put a lot of hard work into. Like right now, it's late. I'm going to have a long day tomorrow and I should be in bed, but here I am talking to you about murder, knowing full well that it's going to give me nightmares tonight.

I really do appreciate each and every single one of you that listen.

The murderer in today's story did his killing in Cleveland, Ohio.

And several years ago, I was in Cleveland for Workstuff for about a week.

It's one of those weird cities where I never really felt safe.

There were some really cool parts of the city that I enjoyed exploring, and I wanted to catch a Cavaliers game, but they happened to be on the road for the week that I was there.

I got my work done, and I still had a good time, but in certain parts of the city, I was wandering around, and I think I actually said it out loud to someone that was

traveling with me. I said, if you're going to get murdered, this would be a convenient place.

Then a couple of streets over, it was awesome again, and I had a fantastic lunch. It's a weird city.

I don't know, I just never felt really comfortable. Well, Anthony Sewell was a resident of Mount Pleasant,

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