Episode 88

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When a 14 year old boy named Philip Chism goes missing in the middle of a school day, his mother thinks the worst and calls 911. Little does she know, that her son isn't the only missing person from Danvers High School that day. A 24-year-old math teacher is missing also. She is Phillip's teacher which raises some immediate questions, but after finally solving a mishap with the school's 140-camera security system, police are able to come up with a theory as to what happened that day. Another big clue, of course, is the body in the woods. Colleen E. Ritzer was a 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School. She had a warm smile and love of teaching. Some of her friends would later say that she was "born to do this job." However, no one could have imaged the darkness that would shroud the school on that particular day, and when all is said and done we are all left with the nagging question of "why?"

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Philip Chisholm had a box cutter.
0:15.0	Philip Chisholm wanted to use that box card.
0:38.0	Welcome to Season 4, Episode 88 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:53.0	This is part two of a two-part story.
0:55.9	So if this is your first time listening, go back and listen to episode 87 first before we spoil it for you. Last time on Sword and Scale, we dove into
1:02.6	a mystery. A 14-year-old boy goes missing after school. And at the same time, a math teacher
1:09.2	from the same high school is reported missing
1:11.1	as well. Hours later, a body is discovered in the woods. But what on earth could possibly
1:18.3	turn a young high school student who everyone says is polite and well-mannered, talented, friendly,
1:24.7	and athletic, to suddenly, without provocation,
1:28.6	become a monster.
1:31.0	We're going to try and dissect that answer today.
1:33.8	And to do so, we're joined by Boston Globe reporter Maria Kramer.
1:38.1	Stay with us.
1:38.8	Music Ladies and gentlemen, the terrible, horrible events of October 22, 2013 didn't unfold in a screen capture. They didn't unfold in a still image. They happened
2:04.6	in real time, in real life at Danvers High School in the middle of what should have been a normal
2:11.0	day in the middle of the afternoon. And to make no mistake, they didn't happen to Philip Chisholm. He did these
2:22.3	terrible things to Colleen Ritzer, and she was only 24 years old. And the only still
2:30.3	image that matters in this case is the image of Colleen in the woods.
2:37.0	The image that the defendant painted of Colleen, strict, battered, brutalized, and violated,
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