He Orchestrated Her Murder, But Failed?!

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Schanda Handley was kidnapped from her home in Louisiana by two men posing as delivery workers — but this wasn’t random. In this episode, Kendall Rae unpacks the harrowing case and the shocking revelation that Schanda’s estranged husband was behind the plot. A chilling story of betrayal, survival, and strength.

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0:23.6	CrimeCon London, partnered by True Crime Channel 7th and 8th of June 2025.
0:29.6	Well, hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kendall Ray.
0:44.8	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:46.5	I'm so happy to have you here as always.
0:48.7	And if you are new to the show, welcome.
0:50.6	I'm so happy to have you as well.
0:52.2	So, guys, today I'm going to be telling you a story of one
0:55.7	remarkable, inspirational, incredibly strong and resilient woman, and three remarkably
1:04.7	unintelligent, unimpressive, idiot men. Personally, I love to sprinkle in some stories about survivors because I find so much inspiration covering their stories and learning about their stories. And I think you will leave here feeling inspired by Shonda as well as I tell you her story. It really helps me personally to cover stories of survivors, and it just
1:28.8	kind of breaks up some of the more heavy content we talk about here. And I've seen a lot of comments
1:35.2	from you guys that you really appreciate that as well. And I think you will find this story to just
1:39.5	be, again, fascinating, but also really, really inspirational. That being said, though, this story is still
1:46.1	very heavy, even though it does have a happy ending to some degree. The victim, in this week's
1:51.9	case, Shonda Handley, went through, I mean, unimaginable suffering, both mentally and physically.
1:59.1	Before we jump into her story, though, and speaking of inspiring,
2:02.8	a few months ago now, my team and I worked with Kay and Chloe, Nikki Saly-McCain sisters, to tell
2:08.7	Nikki's story. And I'm sure a lot of you have seen that episode, and there was a lot of great
2:14.0	feedback on there, but a lot of, you know, questions about what was going to
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