Lisl Auman

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the case of Lisl Auman — the only person in Colorado history convicted of murder while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car. In 1997, a 21-year-old woman brought some guys along to retrieve her stuff from an ex-boyfriend's place in the mountains. What followed was a high-speed chase, a standoff at a Denver apartment complex, and the shooting death of Officer Bruce VanderJagt — a murder committed by her associate Matthaeus Jaehnig, who then turned the gun on himself. Lisl never fired a shot. She was already under arrest when it happened. She got life without parole anyway. We'll break down the felony murder rule that made it possible, the two cops who suspiciously revised their reports two days after the fact using nearly identical language, and how a dying Hunter S. Thompson threw the full weight of his gonzo legacy behind getting her out — rallying everyone from Warren Zevon to Johnny Depp to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers along the way. It took eight years, but the Colorado Supreme Court finally agreed something had gone very wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1997, a police officer was killed during a shootout with a fleeing gunman in Denver.
0:11.0	But the person who received a life sentence for the murder wasn't the shooter.
0:15.0	It was a woman already handcuffed in the back of a patrol car when the trigger was pulled.
0:20.0	The case would ignite a national debate over the felony murder rule
0:23.9	and attract the attention of an unlikely ally,
0:27.2	Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
0:30.0	Tonight, we break down the controversial case of Liesel Alman.
0:34.4	I'm Mike.
0:35.8	I'm Ian.
0:36.9	And I'm Dave.
0:38.1	If you thought fear and loathing only took place in Las Vegas, stick around.
0:42.5	Turns out the mile high folks in Denver want to get in on the action as well.
0:47.2	This is Necronomopod.
0:48.9	This is Necronomopod. The
0:57.0	The Ian, I have some horrible news.
1:23.9	What's that?
1:24.7	My book loft candle has perished.
1:33.1	Oh, no. And I do not have another one damn you have to go to bath and body works i know but you really got to wait till they do their sales otherwise you just
1:38.3	get fucking raped on the pricing yeah it's a little pricey sometimes if you don't go on those like
1:43.5	buy whatever for yeah usually m Mrs. Dave Namapod Will send me a tax when they have the sale Because she keeps up on that And then I always fucking put it off And I wait and then I don't I miss out Meanwhile, she has a closet stocked with them And then I'm left with one fucking book loft. That's true. Yeah.
2:02.3	Dave's like, I can confirm.
2:04.6	I have a candle closet in my house.
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