Episode 263: Teresa and Rosanna

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Late at night on Saturday, July 12th of 2008, 31-year-old Jacob Daniel Ethridge travelsto a section of Adams Avenue in Ogden, Utah, for the purpose of hiring a sex worker. There, Jacob meets 25-year-old Rosanna “Rosy” Marie Cruz. Jacob hires Rosy, accompanies her to an abandoned apartment building, and shoots her through the neck. Approximately 30 minutes later, as Jacob goes toward his vehicle to return home, Jacob meets 43-year-old Teresa Rene Tingey. Just as he had with Rosy, Jacob hires Teresa, travels with her to an isolated location, and executes her. When Jacob returns to his home in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 13th, he wakes his father and explains what he’s done. Together, the two men go to the police station where Jacob confesses. In episode 263, Jac and Alexis explore how a dangerous combination of anger issues, alcoholism, and psychotropic drugs could have contributed to one man making the decision to randomly murder two innocent women.

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0:00.0	First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.
0:09.0	Get on the news, get on the trailer, get on the space film.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:24.0	I've still to this day never met anybody that could finish my sentences.
0:29.0	He just was really intuitive like that.
0:32.0	He wanted to be married and have kids so, so badly.
0:37.0	And at that point, I'm 21 and I just felt too young.
0:41.0	And so I literally remember him just disappearing like ghosting.
0:48.0	And I just one day, I just didn't hear from him.
0:51.0	And it turned into a week and then two weeks.
0:54.0	And I should never heard from him again.
0:56.0	I turned on the 12 o'clock news and they brought it up.
0:59.0	They said there's, you know, here's the picture.
1:02.0	It was insane.
1:05.0	I was hysterical.
1:08.0	I remember being hysterical.
1:10.0	And I called my best friend and just hysterics like, oh my gosh, it's just snowballed from there.
1:18.0	Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime Podcast.
1:21.0	You might end up on my name is Jack Viennick.
1:23.0	I'm sitting here with Alexis Linkletter.
1:26.0	And before we start our episode today, I mean, I feel like I've gotten really good at reminding everybody to join us over on Patreon.
1:33.0	But we've been covering some really crazy stories over there.
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