Episode 282: Kimberly Kaye Jones Wallace

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On December 13, 1990, 27-year-old Kimberly Kaye “Kim” Wallace travels to her estranged husband 62-year-old Dr. Jack Ray Wallace’s home in Cobb County, Georgia to grab Christmas decorations. She is never seen alive again. Hours later, a small airplane lands 300 miles to the south near the Okefenokee Swamp. Those piloting the Cessna 172 aircraft did not turn on the radio-activated runway lights while landing, and an onlooker calls the authorities. When the officers arrive, they find Kim’s nude body on board the plane stuffed into a large, black toolbox with a plastic bag tied over her head. Piloting the plane is Dr. Wallace’s divorce attorney, 53-year-old Michael Glean, and his former neighbor, 43-year-old Frederick Steven Speas. Both men, along with Dr. Wallace and a fourth co-conspirator, are arrested, charged, and tried for orchestrating Kim’s murder. In episode 282, Jac and Alexis reveal how an elaborate murder-for-hire plot unraveled through sheer chance.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper, you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	She's missing, or looking for her her that kind of thing and then I mean a week later is when it all just
0:29.2	Blue wide open with the idiots running out of gas in their airplane and having to
0:36.0	emergency land on a dirt road in South Georgia. Small towns a lot of times don't have small secrets. You know there's big secrets in small towns.
0:48.0	Don't overlook a sleepy little town. There could be a devil waiting there, you know?
0:54.6	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:57.8	My name is Jack Vanick.
0:58.8	I'm sitting here at the Lexis link letter.
1:01.2	Lex, thank you for holding down the fort last week alone, solo.
1:05.0	Honestly, it was not as fun recording alone.
1:08.0	It's like very hard to stay focused.
1:10.0	I was like, how am I going to do this?
1:11.0	How am I going to sit here and do this by myself with like no TV on?
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