Jeanine Nicarico's murder | Ep 217
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
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Jeanine Nicarico was home sick from school when someone kicked in the front door of her family’s quiet Naperville home. What followed was not just a horrific crime against a ten-year-old girl, but a decadeslong unraveling of truth, lies, and catastrophic failures within the justice system. Two young men (neither of whom matched the description of the killer) were sentenced to death based on manipulated confessions, junk science, and a system desperate for a conviction. Meanwhile, the real killer had already moved on to take more lives.
Allison tells us the rest of this story that started with one little girl and exposed one of Illinois’ darkest legal disasters.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's |
| 0:07.5 | Allison. And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey. Hey, girl. Hey. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. Oh, good. Um, I'm just |
| 0:15.3 | drinking some coffee here I made this morning. And it was supposed to be like 14 ounces I put on the thing. |
| 0:20.1 | But it turned out to be like eight ounces I put on the thing but it turned out to be like |
| 0:21.2 | eight and it tastes like four four to six espresso shots it's very very very strong it's going to |
| 0:28.1 | grow lots of thick hair on my back which I need no help with well I hope you're going to be able |
| 0:32.8 | to sit in this chair and listen to the story with all of that caffeine running through your veins |
| 0:36.9 | if anything I'm going to be more excited about it. Well, not excited, but excited to hopefully catch the murderer and kill them. You know, it is usually my thing. So you made me my latte today and it is quite delectable. It's in my ember mug. So it's keeping it nice and warm. And no don't sponsor us yeah not yet but ember if you |
| 0:55.1 | want to sponsor you know reach out to your boy over here i just like a hot cup of coffee i don't know |
| 0:59.5 | about you but i get distracted very easily i ping from one thing to the next to the next i'm one of |
| 1:05.6 | those it's like oh i got to do this but on the way to do that i start doing this and i'm like well |
| 1:10.2 | just focus and then i turn around my coffee as ice cold. So it's kind of interesting. Since you've taken over more of a role on the podcast, like researching more and doing your other job a little bit less, like you've been just obsessed. Like all the time, every free second, you're basically like trying to get into your laptop and trying to research more it is it's a little bit of an obsession or even just like today I was on the treadmill |
| 1:32.3 | and I popped on um Netflix and I was like oh they have an ed gine special so I was like Mike you got to do a |
| 1:38.8 | TikTok on that yeah if you guys are following our TikTok account it's basically it's Allison does a nice |
| 1:43.0 | deep dive I would say for for, for TikTok, like |
| 1:45.1 | three and a half minutes or something like that or three. |
| 1:46.8 | Three. |
| 1:47.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.9 | And then I do these like minute, 30 second. I try to do like just basic quips and bites and I, those been going decently. So we'll see. Yeah. Yeah. But other than that, I was singing a Christmas song earlier today because it's, you know, we're getting towards the end of Halloween almost. |
| 2:02.3 | We're getting to Halloween. |
| 2:03.0 | So I'm starting to think like Christmas time. I was singing a Christmas song earlier today because it's, you know, we're getting towards |
| 2:01.1 | the end of Halloween almost. We're getting to Halloween. So I'm starting to think like Christmas |
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