Happy Independence Day Sassholes,

Welcome back to Sword and Scale Daily,

your daily pod covering all things true crime, five days a week.

It's Thursday, July 4th. I'm Ryan Williams.

We finally made it to a national holiday, so everyone gets the day off.

Well, I guess not everyone.

But anyhow, if you're out traveling, make sure you stay safe. If you're out blowing things sure you stay safe if you're out blowing things up tonight have some fun for me

I don't live in an area where I get to do cool stuff unfortunately and we'll talk a little bit about that here in a second. Kind of ties in the first story, but let's get into it.

We're going to cover the story of a missing mother in Northern California, my hometown,

and there's some weird things happening with it.

Over in Pennsylvania a man has been arrested for the murder and dismemberment of a teenager.

And we have an update in the murder trial of Samuel Woodward,

the man accused of killing Blaze Bernstein back in 2018.

All this coming at you right now, here

on Sword and scale daily.

So as I've prefaced in the intro,

the story is near and dear to my heart.

This is my community,

and what's occurring here is still so much of a mystery.

Now on the evening of May 17th, 39 year old at Nicki Chang Sele Macane

texted her sister informing her that she was with a family member at a

local hospital in Redding, California due to a health issue. A few hours later at

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