Feb 9, 2015: David Messerschmitt Murdered

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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While preparing for a hotel rendezvous with a man he met online, David Messerschmitt was instead accosted by a woman and stabbed to death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, February 9th, 2021.
0:09.0	On this day in 2015, Washington, D.C.
0:12.3	based attorney David Messerschmitt was brutally stabbed to death at the Donovan Hotel.
0:28.6	Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parkast.
0:32.6	Due to the graphic nature of this crime, listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of homicide and sexual situations that some people may find offensive.
0:39.0	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:43.9	Today we're covering the murder of David Messerschmitt, a lawyer stabbed to death in a robbery gone wrong.
0:51.2	The investigation revealed that David was a victim of internet killing. His killer
0:56.1	posed as someone else online to lure him in. Let's go back to the afternoon of February
1:02.9	9, 2015, just as the lunch hour was coming to an end in Washington, D.C. Sometimes people aren't allowed to be who they want to be in life.
1:23.6	Depending on where they've ended up professionally or personally, people sometimes have to mask who they really are.
1:31.6	30-year-old DLA Piper Associate David Messerschmitt may have been feeling that inability to be who he really was,
1:40.0	because at around 2 p.m. on February 9, 2015, he posted an advertisement on Craigslist.
1:47.8	The ad was short and to the point.
1:50.3	He was looking for a discreet encounter with another man that evening.
1:55.7	Later that afternoon, David received a response from Chris Sanchez 0906 at yahoo.com. Clearly interested in what David was offering, the two began chatting back and forth. At one point during their exchange, Chris Sanchez 0906 sent David a picture of his torso. Finally, the two agreed to see each other later that night.
2:21.2	They would meet up for a little fun at the Donovan Hotel in Room 400.
2:30.4	David checked in around dusk.
2:32.8	The plan was for his date to arrive between 7 and 7.30 p.m.
2:37.1	In the meantime, David prepared the room, making sure the condoms and lubricant were ready.
2:43.2	But by 7.30, Chris Sanchez 0906 hadn't arrived. David decided to keep the door open so that his rendezvous could let himself in.
2:54.0	But because he was running behind schedule, David needed to let his wife, Kim, know that he'd be home in about an hour.
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