Episode 394: Toby Beaugh

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In February 2006, a newly married 29-year-old man is walking home from a Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans when a black truck nearly strikes him and his wife. One block later, the truck circles back, runs him down, and flees, leaving his wife screaming in the intersection. Detectives call it a deliberate burst of road rage. But as weeks turn into months, the homicide investigation loses momentum. Years pass without an arrest, and his family is left questioning whether the urgency this case deserved was ever truly there. In episode 394, Jac and Alexis examine the unsolved murder of Toby Beaugh, and the years-long fight his sister has taken on to keep his case from being forgotten. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree 📓 Substack: http://thefirstdegree.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.4	First degree.
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0:59.0	You see it on the news.
1:00.3	You see it on the paper.
1:01.3	You see it on Facebook.
1:03.4	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
1:19.6	The truck was stopped at the stop sign, almost as if the truck was waiting for them. They paused a little bit and then decided to proceed to walk.
1:25.6	The driver of the truck accelerated, completely hit the gas and just ran over
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1:40.0	you might end up on. My name is Jack Vannick. I'm sitting here at the Lexus Linkletter.
1:45.4	It's another hump day.
1:51.0	These weeks are really flying by, which is weird because it's like this is usually when they drag on.
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