He Committed the Perfect Murder... Until He Bragged About It
This Is Monsters
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Episode 22 : Daniel Marsh
Daniel Marsh had an uncontrollable urge to kill and once he finally did, he left no evidence behind. He could have gotten away with it, but he bragged to his friends who reported him to the police.
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| 0:00.0 | On Sunday, April 14, 2013, Chip Northup and Claudia Moppin were not at church, and everyone |
| 0:08.0 | else there knew that was unusual, especially since they hadn't told anyone they would be away. |
| 0:14.7 | After some unanswered calls and even a knock on the door, the police were sent out to the |
| 0:19.8 | couple's house where they found them |
| 0:21.4 | dead. After two months of investigation, there were no leads and the crime could have easily |
| 0:27.0 | become a cold case, but then someone bragged about the murders and the community was shocked |
| 0:32.0 | to learn it was only a child. This is Monsters. Daniel Marsh was born on May 14, 1997 to Bill and Sherry Marsh and grew up in Davis, California. |
| 1:09.7 | Davis is a medium-sized city located just west of Sacramento. |
| 1:13.6 | It has a large student population as the home of the University of California, Davis. |
| 1:19.6 | It also is a strong cycling community and became the home of the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2010. |
| 1:33.5 | Daniel was the younger of two siblings with a sister named Sarah who was two years older than him. |
| 1:39.2 | Their family was rocked when Daniel was only nine years old when his mom took off with a woman she was having an affair with. That woman happened to have previously been Daniel's kindergarten teacher. |
| 1:46.0 | When she returned a few months later, she and Bill got a divorce and the kids started going back and |
| 1:51.6 | forth between the two parents. Daniel explained that they obviously stayed with their father |
| 1:57.0 | after their mother took off, but once she was back, there was no official custody agreement. |
| 2:01.9 | They just stayed with whichever parent they felt like, at least for a while. |
| 2:07.3 | When Daniel was 10, his father had a heart attack, and the boy performed CPR on him, saving his |
| 2:12.7 | life. He received an American Red Cross Heroes Award, which could have been the beginning of a promising |
| 2:18.4 | life, but it wasn't enough to counter the negative effects of his parents' divorce. |
| 2:23.6 | Daniel said he became depressed, and not long after his parents split up. |
| 2:28.4 | When he was 12 or 13, he was diagnosed with clinical depression and prescribed a number of medications. |
| 2:35.0 | Wellbutrin and Zoloft, which are common antidepressants, and Ambilify, which can be given to help manage the side effects of the other drugs. |
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