Today is Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

On this day in 2000, Robert Bobby Glass pled guilty to killing Sharon Lepotka in the throes of passion. Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and today I'm joined by our guest host, Molly Brandenburg of conspiracy theories.

Every Monday and Wednesday, she digs into the complicated stories

behind the world's most controversial events and searches for the truth. She's here to discuss

the details of the investigation into Bobby Glass, while I'll cover the narrative of the crime itself.

Due to the graphic, violent nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of sexual activity and

consensual torture, which some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for listeners

under 13. Hello, everyone. I'm thrilled to jump into Bobby Glass's story.

Now let's go back to rural Lenore, North Carolina, on the morning of Thursday, January 27, 2000.

48-year-old Robert Frederick Glass, known as Bobby, was led to the courthouse from the Caldwell

County Detention Center. He'd spent the previous three years behind bars there, held without bail.

Bobby took the stand, wearing thick glasses, his long, graying beard nearly

touching his blue suit. He was an unassuming man, and before he was arrested, he had an

unassuming job. For 16 years, he worked as a computer analyst for the Kataba County government,

programming tax roles,

tracking the gas consumption of county vehicles, nothing out of the ordinary. Until a few years back, his personal life was similarly pedestrian. He lived with Sherry, his wife of 14 years,

and their three young children. But early in 1996, Sherry discovered

some alarming emails on Bobby's hard drive, messages she later described as raw, violent, and

disturbing. Shortly thereafter, Sherry left him, taking their kids with her.

With his family gone, Bobby burrowed deeper into the recesses of the internet, using the moniker

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