David Copenhefer
True Crime All The Time
Emash Digital / Wondery
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
David Copenhefer was born into a life of wealth and privilege near Dayton Ohio. But, as an adult, David realized that he couldn't make the kind of money that he wanted to, at least not legally. How far was David willing to go to the kind of money he wanted? Was he willing to commit murder?
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the case of David Copenhefer. David was put on trial for the murder of John Calkins when he was in his early twenties but was acquitted by a jury of his peers because the case hinged on circumstantial evidence. Copenhefer later moved to Pennsylvania but found out that he couldn't things happen there the way he wanted to either. So, he plotted out an elaborate kidnapping for ransom plot. But, when the woman he kidnapped, 37-year-old Sally Weiner, turned up dead the police began to zero in on him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast |
| 0:05.7 | Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga |
| 0:14.7 | Last year we also started a second weekly show |
| 0:17.6 | Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like |
| 0:22.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood |
| 0:26.8 | The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction |
| 0:32.8 | Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior |
| 0:37.8 | Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist |
| 0:44.4 | Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon music or by subscribing to |
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| 1:27.5 | You |
| 1:29.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 147 of the true crime all the time podcast |
| 1:35.1 | I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might give some gimme how are you good man? |
| 1:41.5 | How about you? I'm doing great. Yeah. I am ready to record a couple of episodes first is true crime all the time |
| 1:49.4 | And then right after that we roll into true crime all the time and salt where efficient very efficient |
| 1:56.4 | Well, you do have to come to my house. So hey, I tell everybody is the studio |
| 2:02.3 | It is a studio. I'll be saying house after all this time. I've been saying studio |
| 2:06.0 | It's a studio that's in my basement. I think I've said that before I don't make any bones about it |
| 2:10.9 | I'm not a rich man. I don't have my own |
| 2:14.3 | studio |
| 2:15.5 | Offsite |
| 2:16.7 | No, we just don't have it just got up great too much air. Oh don't start with the chairs. Don't start all right |
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