Her Unimaginable Strength - Judy Malinowski

Wife of Crime

Jess & Russ

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On this episode of Wife of Crime I'm telling Russ the harrowing and tragic case of Judy Malinowski. In 2015 Judy was in a volatile relationship with her boyfriend Mike Slager. One afternoon while stopping at a gas station for cigarettes the two of them get into a fight and Mike pours gasoline on Judy and sets her on fire! Over the next 2 years she would fight through unfathomable pain to stay alive. She not only changed the law in Ohio but would be the first person in US history to testify in her own murder trial! Moral of this story... "we will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal Barca Huge shout out to Myrtle for helping me research this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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