Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Murder of Larry McNabney, Pt 2

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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When we left you last week, attorney Larry McNabney’s attempt to become the biggest personal-injury attorney in Nevada had just crashed and burned like the Hindenberg, thanks in no small part to his new wife, Elisa. Elisa was a small-time thief and fraudster from Florida who had thrown the state and her whole life in the rear-view mirror to avoid the possibility of some brief jail time. She’d struck gold when she was hired as an office manager by high-flying attorney Larry in Las Vegas, and rapidly climbed the emotional ranks from employee to mistress to girlfriend to wife. But she had trouble keeping her itchy fingers out of the law firm’s cash register, which led to the state bar banning her from working there and reprimanding Larry. Looking for a new start, the couple moved to Sacramento to try and set the whole business rolling again, and at the start of 2000 Elisa hired 19-year-old Sarah Dutra to help her out with the business. But “helping” was not exactly what she did. Join us for part 2 of this chilling true crime story.

Sources:
Cold Blooded by Carlton Smith
Marked for Death by Brian J. Karem
ABC's 20/20, episode "Hell in Heels”
Investigation Discovery's "Evil Stepmothers," episode “She Can’t Hide”
Seattle Met: https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/11/jz-knight-ramtha-yelm-washington-school-of-enlightenment
Herald-Tribune: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2002/03/15/woman-sought-in-california-murder-has-ties-to-florida/28711016007/

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello, campers.
0:37.0	campers.
0:39.0	Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:42.0	We're your Camp Counselors.
0:43.2	I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:45.3	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way
0:47.7	stranger than fiction, or roasting murderers and marshmallows
0:50.7	around the True crime campfire. When we left you last week, attorney Larry McNabney's attempt to become the biggest personal injury attorney in Nevada had just crashed and burned like the Hindenburg,
1:06.0	thanks in no small part to his new wife Elisa.
1:09.0	Elisa was a small time thief and fraudster from Florida who had thrown the state and her whole life in the rearview mirror to avoid the possibility of some brief jail time.
1:18.0	She'd struck gold when she was hired as an office manager by high- flying attorney Larry in Las Vegas and rapidly
1:24.4	climbed the emotional ranks from employee to mistress to girlfriend to wife.
1:29.6	But she had trouble keeping her itchy fingers out of the law firm's cash register, which led to the state bar banning
1:35.1	her from working there and reprimanding Larry.
1:38.5	Looking for a new start, the couple moved to Sacramento to try and set the whole business
1:42.2	rolling again, and at the start of 2000, Elisa hired
1:45.5	19-year-old Sarah Dutra to help her out with the business. But helping was not exactly what she did.
1:52.2	This is part two, of Love will tear us apart, the
1:55.4	murder of Larry McNabney. Sarah grew up in Vachaville, California, about midway between San Francisco and Sacramento,
2:15.1	and by all accounts you'd think she'd be set up for a happy successful life.
2:19.1	She graduated in the top 10% of her class.
2:22.1	She was on the drill and swim teams and the student
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