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The First Degree

Episode 261: Steve Fason

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Late at night on Saturday, February 8th of 2020, 57-year-old Steve Ray Fason meets 22-year-old Sandra Marie Rappold for a discussion at his home in Bigelow, Arkansas. For weeks, Sandra has been hounding Steve by texting him, calling him, and showing up at his house uninvited. Sandra is convinced that Steve has committed crimes he had been acquitted of years ago. Finally, Steve decides to give Sandra what she wants: a conversation. The next day, Steve’s lifeless body is discovered at a neighboring business’s dumping grounds. Someone has stabbed Steve to death and burned his house down to destroy the evidence. When an anonymous tipster tells the authorities that Sandra is the culprit, Sandra immediately confesses to everything. Two months later, a second perpetrator is arrested. But, to this day, Steve’s family believes that more people were involved in Steve’s death. In episode 261, Jac and Alexis untangle the intimate relationships, alleged shady business dealings, and potential corruption surrounding the murder of Steve Fason.

Transcript

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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 grid.

0:12.0

Get on the grid.

0:14.0

You see it on Facebook.

0:16.0

These things are supposed to happen in movies.

0:18.0

Not real life.

0:20.0

Well, it wasn't but a week later he catches human Sandra having sex.

0:28.0

And dad was so close to Kelly.

0:30.0

Kelly was like his soul mate.

0:32.0

It was like a forbidden love thing.

0:34.0

They had this deep profound love for each other that they never acted on.

0:40.0

My dad and Kelly.

0:42.0

Everyone knew it.

0:44.0

Everybody just did what it is what it was.

0:46.0

And dad was like you sorry mother fucker.

0:48.0

Sorry for mulling, which was what the fuck is wrong with you.

0:52.0

Your wife just died.

0:54.0

And when he caught them together it was like how dare you.

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