Episode 352: Lynn Schockner

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Around 11am on the morning of November 8th, 2004, a resident of the Bixby Knolls neighborhood in Long Beach saw what looked to be a prowler hoping the fence into the backyard of Lynn Schockner. Concerned, the neighbor immediately called the police. Within minutes, police were at Lynn’s front door, asking her to open her side gate. In the span of minutes, with police outside her house, Lynn was stabbed to death by an intruder. What initially seemed like a burglary gone wrong soon unfurled into a murder for hire plot that crossed Southern California. In episode 352, Jac and Alexis dig into the shocking events that left one woman dead and three men in jail for life.

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0:00.0	The first 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	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	By the next night, it was late.
0:25.0	And she called me, and she was like, turn on the news.
0:27.9	And I'm like, okay, why am I doing the news?
0:31.6	She goes, Nick got arrested.
0:32.9	I said, oh, they sell drugs.
0:34.5	And she goes, no, he killed somebody.
0:36.0	I'm like, I'm sorry, what?
0:37.7	And she said, yeah, he killed somebody. And'm like, I'm sorry, what? And she said, yeah, he killed somebody.
0:39.5	And I'm like, oh, my gosh.
0:42.0	Welcome to the first degree, the true crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:45.6	My name is Jack Fannick.
0:46.5	I'm sitting here with Alexis Linklutter.
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