Some fools fool themselves I guess, they're not fooling me.

Love hurts.

Who, who, love hurts?

Welcome to Manslaughter. That is, welcome to the Astroshoes Special for the podcast.

I'm Sarah Kallen. I'm a criminal behaviorist and homicide investigator.

For six episodes, we've told you a story about the 1970s shooting of former policeman Vern Stordock.

To share a little about the story behind the story, with me today, are some of the creators and participants of the show.

Including Dorothy Marsick, Vern Stordock's niece.

She explored his death for her book with one shot. Welcome Dorothy.

Hi Sarah. How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Dorothy, you spent years thinking about what happened in this house early on the morning of March 1st, 1970.

Tell us about your journey.

Well, I'd always thought, along with my family, that there had been some miscarriage of justice.

And there were rumors floating around that Suzanne didn't actually pull the trigger that night.

And we always wondered why she only spent 11 months in a hospital after confessing to a murder.

And so Shannon and I talked a lot about this and I would say for 10 years we kept trying to figure out what happened to Suzanne and her family.

We looked everywhere and this was before the internet. I traveled a lot.

Every city I'd be doing a consulting or workshop in, I'd find a phone book and I'd look for David Briggs, Suzanne Stordock, Donna Briggs, to try to find any of them.

Not realizing that most of them had changed their names.

So it wasn't until the internet came and Shannon found, find a grave, the grave of Daniel Stordock, Suzanne's youngest son, the one that my uncle had adopted.

And from there she was able to piece together where they were and what their names were.

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