Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus returning

for another adventure into the world of true crime.

In this episode, we're taking a quick detour from violent crime, though I promise we'll

get back to bludgeoning and strangulation in the very near future. For now, I want to take a look at the

social implications of a different sort of attempt at taking someone's life. Not

in a biological sense, but as an act designed to take everything you've worked for and for the same reason the person might kill.

Revenge.

In your life, you might come across somebody who has no desire to kill you, but instead wants to watch you suffer

their wrath for the perceived injustice you caused.

They don't want you to die. They want to see you living your shattered dreams, looking into a broken mirror in which you can never seem to become whole again.

Such is the case of Kelly Peters. It's a story not only about the dangers of having power and

privilege, but perhaps even more so about the darkness that overwhelms our pursuit of acquiring it. We all want to be somebody

or something, a label, a look, a reputation, an identity.

Whether you're on your way up or down the social ladder,

so to speak, or hanging on for dear life, hoping not to fall,

but unable to climb higher, something haunts you. It's a question. How do I climb

higher or how do I stop falling? How do I escape my current circumstance for a better one? Because I feel trapped here.

Sometimes we can't manage to transcend our bad circumstances due to lack of power,

whether we're talking financial, personal, legal, etceterum.

Transcendants comes with the authority to open and close the necessary doors to achieve your stated goal.

This means if I have a goal that's dependent upon having money and I'm not able to produce the amount necessary,

I might seek to compensate by substituting authority in its place at least for the time being.

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