Legally Brunette Presents: ‘Til Death Do Us Part - A Burned Body & One Surviving Tooth
Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge
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3.6 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
When Zachariah Rasch shot his wife in the head, burned her body, and impersonated her for days after her death, what did he expect the outcome to be?
How did investigators identify his wife, Crystal, by a single tooth? When Zachariah took the stand at his own trial, what was his defense? Did the jury see through him, or did he walk away a free man?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to an episode of Till Death, Do Us Part. |
| 0:09.8 | I'll be your host today, Emily Simpson with... |
| 0:12.9 | Shane. |
| 0:13.7 | All right, today we are going to talk about a very recent case. |
| 0:17.1 | The husband's name is Zachariah Rash. |
| 0:20.1 | He just went to trial recently. So let's just do a little |
| 0:24.2 | breakdown. Let's just give you a little brief background on this case. So his wife's name was Crystal. |
| 0:30.0 | So after Crystal Routch disappeared in June of 2024 investigators in Dodge County, Wisconsin, |
| 0:37.4 | uncovered evidence suggesting that her estranged husband, |
| 0:40.8 | Zachariah, attempted to cover up her death. |
| 0:44.9 | Surveillance footage showed the couple together the day she vanished, and investigators discovered |
| 0:50.7 | Zachariah's suspicious internet searches, cleaning supply purchases, and a burned site |
| 0:56.8 | containing crystals remains. His trial began on June 1st, 2026, where prosecutors charged him with |
| 1:03.6 | first degree, intentional homicide, and hiding a corpse. All right. |
| 1:11.2 | So this is a husband killing a wife. |
| 1:13.3 | Do you prefer husband killing wife stories or wife killing husband stories? |
| 1:16.8 | I don't prefer. |
| 1:17.6 | I prefer husbands and wives getting along stories. |
| 1:19.7 | Oh, would you like to do that? |
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