Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors.

I'm Katie.

And I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

Last week, we introduced you to Randy Roth and described his early life and his escalation from

ridiculous loser and petty criminal to the chief suspect in the death of his second wife jan jan

jane plummeted to her death from beacon rock on the washington oregon border leaving behind a young

daughter and a hefty life insurance policy with Randy Roth as the beneficiary.

This week, we find out more about Randy and Jan and learn how close yet another wife came to death at the hands of a husband she barely knew at all.

This is part two of For the Love of Money, the Crimes of Randy Roth.

Music of For the Love of Money, the Crimes of Randy Roth. Janice Miranda grew up with her mom, Billy Jean, and three siblings in Texas.

Their dad had run off to Arkansas, and Billy Jean had to work three jobs to make ends meet.

When her dad belatedly tried to repair his relationship with Jan by sending her birthday cards and offering her little bits of money,

she said, if you want to help somebody, start sending checks to mom.

She grew up simultaneously hoping for a good man for her mom and later herself and doubting that such a thing

existed. But when she was 17, she started dating a soldier, Joe Miranda, and a year later, they got

married. When Joe was transferred to Germany, Jan went with him, and that's where their daughter

Jolina was born in 1973. They were back in Texas soon after.

There are plenty of exceptions to this, obviously,

but getting married really young and immediately having a kid can be a recipe for disaster.

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