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The First Degree

Episode 85: Sheila Bellush Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.510.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Bellush is found dead, her throat slashed and shot in the face in the laundry room of her Florida home. The only witnesses to her murder? Her 23 month old quadruplets, covered in their mother’s blood. In the 85th episode of The First Degree, Jac, Alexis and Billy unravel the tale, which takes them from the beaches of Sarasota to the golf courses of San Antonio, uncovering a wicked tale a revenge. 🎟 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   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.

0:07.0

You get on the tree, you get on the tree, you get on the tree, you get on the tree.

0:13.0

These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.

0:19.0

That their clothes were just drenched in blood because they'd been playing all around her body.

0:28.0

It was like very, very sad.

0:31.0

And that he had actually gone to Walmart, I think, to get them clothes because they're clothes that they were wearing.

0:40.0

I had blood all over them and they couldn't go back in their house because of the crying scene.

0:47.0

Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime podcast that you might end up on.

0:51.0

My name is Jack Vannick. I am sitting extremely far away from Alexis Linkletter and even farther away from Billy Jensen.

0:58.0

We are social distance podcasting.

1:01.0

Today, we hope our sound sounds okay. Please forgive us if it doesn't.

1:06.0

But Billy, what day is it today?

1:09.0

You know what? It's International Manatee Appreciation Day.

1:13.0

I think we got all get behind that.

1:15.0

Manatees are my favorite animal.

1:17.0

Manatees are so cute.

1:19.0

Jack tagged me on a thing on Instagram, put all your favorite things.

1:23.0

Did you see? I put a manatee as my favorite animal.

1:26.0

You know what I'm saying? That's a good one.

1:28.0

I think I like to see my favorite.

1:30.0

Blu-gawails, I think I like more, but they're little, fat little seam animal.

1:34.0

They're little, they're little big fat slugs.

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