Episode 174: Susan Heyliger

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s closing time at the bar, so a 42 year old bartender checks the bathrooms to make sure they're empty, shoos the lingering patrons out the front door, then locks the deadbolt. Thinking she’s alone and safe in the bar, the bartender starts her list of closing duties. Then, out of nowhere, a man drops out of the ceiling - he is shocked to see the bartender - he thought the bar was empty. A struggle ensues and the bartender fights hard for her life, but the man eventually overcomes her. The man then robs the cash register and flees. He is not brought to justice for 21 years. In episode 174, Jac, Alexis, and Billy follow the long path it took to bring the killer of Susan Heyliger to justice.

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	Get on the news.
0:12.0	Get on the K-3.
0:14.0	Get on the safe.
0:16.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:20.0	He would hide up in the ceiling tiles and drop down after.
0:26.0	And it was typically after the person had left for the night after they were done re-stocking and inventory or whatever they were supposed to do, he had come down,
0:34.0	project and left.
0:36.0	So we have no idea why this turned out so differently.
0:40.0	Why she was the one that ended up having her life taken.
0:44.0	Whereas no one else had, he hadn't murdered anybody else.
0:50.0	Welcome to the first degree.
0:52.0	I'm a podcast that you might end up on.
0:56.0	My name is Jack Vannick.
0:58.0	I'm sitting with Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen.
1:00.0	And just in case you thought I was gone forever, I am back again.
1:02.0	Back again.
1:04.0	I'm alive.
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