Julian and CJ Lewis | The Head of the Serpent?

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 2002, a home invasion left two people dead but the plot quickly unraveled. The only question–one that would last beyond the deaths of two of the co-conspirators–is who was the mastermind.

This case is solved.

(Episode correction: Matthew Shallenberger's name is mispronounced as Shallenberg twice in the episode. I am out of town and cannot re-record to correct it.)

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0:00.0	Gerard Schaefer joined the police force to serve and protect.
0:03.9	At least that's what he told everyone.
0:06.3	He wore the badge, filed the reports, and pulled over young women under the pretense of safety.
0:13.0	There was just one problem.
0:15.1	He wasn't there to protect them.
0:17.0	He was hunting them.
0:19.0	When the bodies started turning up, fiction and reality became impossible to separate.
0:25.4	Join me, Susan Davis, every week on unlawful acts.
0:30.2	As we dig into stories that look one way on the surface, but reveal something far more sinister underneath.
0:37.2	We're not just here to recount crimes,
0:40.0	we're here to understand them, one episode at a time.
0:44.2	As one listener put it,
0:45.5	this is the podcast for people who crave the full story,
0:49.0	without the filler.
0:50.6	Tune in to Unlawful acts wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.3	In 2002, a home invasion left two people dead, but the plot quickly unraveled. The only question, one that would last beyond the deaths of two of the co-conspirators, is who
1:19.1	was the mastermind?
1:20.7	I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.
1:34.3	Hello and welcome to Crime Lines. Do not forget to check out the link to the True Crime Podcast Festival in my show notes. We're about a month out from that event. And if you use code
1:39.4	Charlie 20, you can get a discount on your ticket. It is in Boston this year and I love any excuse to go
1:45.4	back east. So come with me and keep me company. Again, link in the show notes. Let's go ahead and get
1:52.1	into today's case. We are talking about the Lewis family, starting when Julian Lewis, who was
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