Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.

If this is your first love murder episode, tune back in on Wednesdays for our main full-length episodes.

Today we have three shorter stories,

and our first is called a fake live stream. On December 18, 2022, a 32-year-old woman named

Natalie McNally was stabbed to death inside her home in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. She was 15

weeks pregnant. Natalie was described by her family as warmurgen, Northern Ireland. She was 15 weeks pregnant.

Natalie was described by her family as warm, vibrant, and deeply loved.

Her boyfriend, Stephen McCullough, was a YouTuber and gaming streamer with tens of thousands

of followers.

He ran a channel where he played Grand Theft Auto, Robot Wars, and other games.

He posted commentary and did some streaming

for his audience. On the night that Natalie was killed, Stephen appeared to have an airtight alibi,

a six-hour live stream of Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, broadcasting to viewers, and what looked like

real time. Natalie herself had been tuned in from home, watching what she thought

was her boyfriend playing games live. When police questioned McCullough, he pointed to the stream

as proof he'd been at his own residence the entire evening. Investigators released him and

Natalie's family believed he was devastated and mourning alongside them. They took him in and embraced him in their

grief. But when detectives pulled at the thread, his alibi collapsed. The entire six-hour stream

had been pre-recorded. Stephen McCullough had set it to play automatically on a timer while he

drove to Natalie's home and killed her. She suffered stab wounds to the neck, strangulation, and heavy blows to the head.

How are you going to think that they're not going to figure that out?

I mean, I don't think this guy is exactly a brain trust.

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