4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:00.0 | Murder and such contains stories about murders, the macabre, true crime, serial killers, and other dark subject matter. |
0:28.5 | This includes adult themes, language, descriptions of gore, violence, and other information provided by news articles, witness testimony, and public record. |
0:42.3 | Murder and such is not intended for all audiences, and all their warnings will be set in place. |
0:50.4 | Listener discretion is still advised. |
1:08.5 | Last Friday, I sat in the courtroom to support a friend. |
1:15.5 | For the better part of a decade, our professional and personal lives were woven into a relationship akin to family. |
1:22.7 | As a family, the intention of my attendance was to publicly acknowledge the deep care and compassion I hold for this individual. |
1:25.6 | I watched as she searched for the strength to behold her transgressor for the first time |
1:30.5 | in over a year since learning about the plot to have her murdered. |
1:37.0 | I listened to her describe the love that she once possessed for this man whom she adored, |
1:41.2 | trusted, and depended on as her husband. I followed along as she detailed his abandonment of her and her children, a betrayal he |
1:48.9 | failed to own but opted to blame on a lost sense of morality. |
1:54.0 | This excuse became further excused by a defense that drug abuse had clouded his judgment. |
2:03.3 | She attempted to rebuild a life with three young children apart from a man who viewed them as disposable. The strength and resilience of |
2:08.8 | these children, whom she saved from abandonment, poverty, and certain early death were being |
2:14.1 | further challenged by his domestic unraveling. Her desire was to give them love and stability. |
2:20.0 | His response was to have her executed. |
2:24.1 | I observed his defense, acknowledged the crime, but defend it once again with the argument that steroids created mental instability. |
2:31.6 | I followed as the prosecution reminded the court of an intricately |
2:35.3 | calculated series of actions occurring over the course of many weeks. A scheme |
2:40.7 | which involved using her children to secure gate codes for a would-be assassin |
2:44.8 | and his plans for their further exploitation as an alibi, a plot indicative of |
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