Legally Brunette Presents: ‘Til Death Do Us Part - Linda Stermer’s Double Attack
Legally Brunette
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Emily and Shane are taking a time machine back to 2007, when Linda Stermer lit her husband on fire and ran him over with their family van…
Linda’s adamant that the entire scene was an accident, but her two children beg to differ. What is their recount of that night? Was the relationship between Linda and her husband, Todd, tumultuous?
Why was Linda sentenced twice for Todd’s murder? What led to her release and eventual retrial seven years later?!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | Hi, guys. Welcome to Till Death Do Us Part. |
| 0:08.9 | I will be your host today, Emily Simpson with... |
| 0:11.6 | Jane. |
| 0:13.0 | Again, Till Death Do Us Part, we like to discuss cases that have to do with wives who have |
| 0:18.7 | murdered their husbands or husbands who have murdered their wives. |
| 0:21.9 | And I'm telling you, there seems to be no indication that we will ever run out of cases. |
| 0:27.4 | No, it's not an economy-based crime. |
| 0:30.3 | No, every time I think, oh my gosh, are we ever going to run out of cases for this sake? |
| 0:35.1 | As long as there's marriages, there will be murders. |
| 0:54.4 | There will be murdered. You're right. Okay. All right. Let's just go through a brief synopsis of this case. Also, this case, by the way, was recommended. So thank you guys. I truly do appreciate that you listen. And then you also have cases that you recommend. So this is recommended to me. The woman's name. This is the wife. Her name is Linda Sturmer, and she was convicted of killing her husband, Todd Sturmer, at their home in Van Buren County, Michigan. |
| 1:01.8 | This was back in 2007. So we're going to take a little time machine here and go back to 2007. |
| 1:08.2 | According to the prosecution, on the night of January 7th, 2007, |
| 1:12.9 | Linda set fire to the family home |
| 1:15.0 | and then ran over Todd with the family van |
| 1:17.6 | as he tried to escape the burning house. |
| 1:19.9 | The family van. |
| 1:20.6 | The family van. |
| 1:22.7 | Todd died from the injuries. |
| 1:24.8 | Prosecutors argued that Linda was motivated |
| 1:26.9 | by a combination of an |
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