Episode 359: Megan Trussell

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In February 2025, a college freshman is reported missing from her dorm at CU Boulder. Days later, her body is discovered in a canyon miles from campus, an area her family says she never would have gone alone. She is bruised and battered, missing one shoe, and both her phone and purse are gone. When those belongings later turn up in the possession of strangers, Megan’s family braces for answers. But what they get instead is a ruling of suicide, leaving them reeling and desperate for answers. In episode 359, Jac and Alexis examine the mysterious death of Megan Trussell, and the relentless fight her parents are waging to get her case reopened.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.8	First degree.
0:03.9	First degree.
0:05.2	First degree.
0:06.3	First degree.
0:07.3	The first degree.
0:08.9	You see it on the news.
0:10.1	You see it on the paper.
0:11.1	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.2	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:23.4	It's not well lit at night.
0:27.2	And there's a lot of parts that go under the street, like little tunnels.
0:30.4	And it's just not safe.
0:33.5	And students know to stay away from there, especially women.
0:39.8	Like, the Boulder Canyon is off limits to students all the time. the day it's okay for taking the bike path or whatever or going out to the creek but everybody on that campus and this is
0:45.7	I'm talking to people our age that know in Boulder you stay away from Boulder Canyon after dark period
0:52.7	welcome to the first degree the true crime podcast that you might end up on my name is stay away from Boulder Canyon after dark, period.
0:57.9	Welcome to the first degree, the true crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:58.8	My name is Jack Fannick.
1:03.7	I'm sitting here with Alexis Linkletter, and my husband is making scrambled eggs right behind me.
1:04.7	We're right in front of me.
1:06.1	Cracking eggs.
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