CRU with Sheryl McCollum and Joshua Schiffer | Property Battles, Bond Denials & the Seatbelt Clue
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week on Crime Roundup, Sheryl McCollum and Joshua Schiffer connect the dots between courtroom outcomes and the quiet ways the system keeps punishing people anyway. From post-verdict property battles to pretrial detention games and overlooked red-flags, they expose the slow grind of justice—and the real lives caught in its gears.
Highlights:
- (0:00) Sheryl checks in from the field—and the Georgia heat
- (1:35) Why hasn’t Karen Read gotten her SUV back?
- (4:50) Joshua explains bond procedures—and what’s broken
- (6:00) Diddy’s $50 million bond request: bold move or fair ask?
- (10:00) Overcharging and government missteps in Diddy’s case
- (13:30) Brian Kohberger’s seatbelt stop and what it might suggest
- (17:00) Planning, pride, and mistakes
- (21:15) What life inside prison looks like—and what Kohberger isn’t ready for
- (23:00) Cell doors, holding tanks, and the moment your body knows it’s locked in
- (24:20) Epstein resurfaces, verdict watch in an honor killing, and a birthday send-off
About the Hosts:
Joshua Schiffer is a veteran trial attorney and one of the Southeast’s most respected legal voices. He is a founding partner at ChancoSchiffer P.C., where he has litigated high-stakes criminal, civil rights, and personal injury cases for over two decades. Known for his bold courtroom presence and ability to clearly explain complex legal issues, Schiffer is a frequent media contributor and fearless advocate for accountability.
Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award-winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnline, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nany Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department, She is the co-author of the textbook, Cold Case: Pathways to Justice and the founder of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a national nonprofit that unites universities, law enforcement, and students to work on unsolved homicides and missing persons cases.
🎧 Want more from Sheryl?
Catch her every Wednesday on Zone 7, where she doesn’t just talk cold cases—she works them. Sheryl brings firsthand insight from active investigations, joined by fellow forensic pros and criminal justice insiders who are in the trenches with her. Then on Mondays, tune in to Pathology with Dr. Pryia, where the physical evidence takes center stage—because every body tells a story.
📢 If you enjoyed this episode, follow Crime Roundup on your favorite podcast platform and leave a review to help others find the show. Have a case you’d like Sheryl and Joshua to cover? Email [email protected], or connect with the hosts on social media:
- Sheryl on X: @ColdCaseTips
- Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum
- Joshua on X & Instagram: @lawyerschiff
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | Welcome to Crime Roundup, y'all. I'm Cheryl McCallum. |
| 0:19.1 | Y'all, I might sound a little different today because I am out in the field where Josh, of course, is with his feet up, having a nice cool drink in the air conditioning. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm out here just, you know, working like a dog in this Georgia heat while he's sipping on lemonade. |
| 0:35.6 | I am just fantastic. I'm a touch hot. Let's just, |
| 0:40.0 | let's just rip that band-aid off. It's a little spicy for people that, |
| 0:44.2 | who, uh, have my specific physical existence. Um, this is, uh, this is warm. Listen, I'm |
| 0:52.2 | I'm nicely air-conditioned, so it is, it is something. It is I'm nicely air conditioned, so there's great. It is something. |
| 0:55.0 | It is something. |
| 0:57.0 | I have a friend. |
| 0:59.0 | She's got a buddy in Rhode Island and she called her and said, hey, how hot is it down there? |
| 1:05.0 | And my friend said, well, have you ever been cremated? |
| 1:09.0 | It's like a brick wall walking outside. Have you ever been cremated? |
| 1:14.6 | It's like a brick wall walking outside. And here's the people that don't know about the cell. |
| 1:17.6 | Every afternoon it gets so hot that it squeezes a 20 or 30 minute thunder shower that just pops up and disappears. |
| 1:24.6 | It's practically like clockwork. |
| 1:25.6 | But then everything's damp and hot and moist, |
| 1:29.4 | and that's your afternoon every day. Every day. It'll end soon, I promise. Yes, yes. Listen, |
| 1:36.3 | I got to talk to you about something. Yeah, we've had quite a week here with some headlines in the |
| 1:41.1 | true crime universe. Let's round this up. Quite a week, but I've got a pet peeve. |
| 1:47.4 | I am one of those folks that if you are found not guilty, you should walk out right that minute, |
| 1:54.3 | free as a bird. You know how sometimes they'll say, oh, you've got to go back through and get |
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