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Final Days On Earth with Claire St. Amant

Justice Pending, Episode 21: Heidi Childs & David Metzler

Final Days On Earth with Claire St. Amant

Rogue Media Network

News, True Crime

4.4742 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Claire and Susan discuss the unsolved 2009 double murder of Virginia Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler in the Jefferson National Forest.Learn more about the case and submit a tip to the Virginia State Police on their website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Rogue Media Network podcast.

0:06.3

Do you ever have a story that you just can't get out of your head?

0:10.6

One that you play the details of over and over with your friends.

0:15.2

Well, you've come to the right place.

0:17.9

I'm Claire.

0:19.1

And I'm Susan.

0:20.4

And this is justice pending. A weekly true crime

0:24.4

podcast where we discuss tantalizing crimes with more questions and answers.

0:31.4

Hey everyone and welcome back to Justice Pending. I'm Claire. And I'm Susan. And today we're covering the heartbreaking and

0:39.7

still unsolved murders of two promising college students, Heidi Childs and David Metzler. They were

0:46.5

found shot to death at a quiet recreation area in Jefferson National Forest, and it's been over

0:52.8

15 years since that warm August night in 2009,

0:57.2

yet still no arrests.

0:59.4

This is one of the many cases that has come to our attention through our listeners.

1:04.6

A shout out to Frank Shushok for sending this one our way.

1:09.0

Heidi and David were just 18 and 19 years old, both in their

1:13.5

sophomore years at Virginia Tech. Devout Christians, active in their church youth group, both with

1:19.7

big plans for the future. They were smart, musical, athletic, and close to their families.

1:26.3

Truly, the kind of couple everyone describes as inseparable.

1:30.8

And then tragedy struck. Susan, let's set the scene. Okay, on August 26, 2009, Heidi and David drove

1:40.9

out to Caldwell Fields for what was supposed to be a peaceful evening. David brought

1:45.6

his guitar. Heidi was planning to talk to him about changing her major. And the next morning,

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