Major League Monster: Gary Spohr, Wendy Wood and Dan Serafini
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
When a senior married couple falls victim to a deadly home invasion, the police search for answers from the family - including an adult daughter in a complicated marriage to a former professional athlete.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.4 | All right, Jesse, last week's show had a very strange twist. What's the story this time? |
| 0:16.3 | When a married senior couple falls victim to a home invasion. The police search for answers from their family, |
| 0:22.7 | including an adult daughter and a complicated marriage to a former professional athlete. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Andy Cosette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jane. Hi, Jessie. |
| 0:59.1 | Welcome back, everyone, to Love Murder podcast about new flames, wicked games, and love gone |
| 1:06.0 | fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook |
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| 1:12.9 | If you are enjoying this show, please Love slash Murder, a five-star rating on your podcast app. |
| 1:17.9 | Subscribe and review to help new people discover us. Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, |
| 1:24.0 | feeling a little festive as we get into the holiday season, Head on over to patreon.com slash lovemurterpod |
| 1:29.9 | where you can learn all about the different tiers of support. |
| 1:32.6 | This week, we are thrilled to shout out an amazing new set of patrons. |
| 1:36.3 | So a big old thank you to Jerry S and Rebecca D. |
| 1:40.3 | Katie S and Alyssa A. |
| 1:42.3 | Thank you guys so much for being part of the team, for tuning in, for hanging with us. |
| 1:48.5 | I know some of you guys have been with us for five and a half years just about now. |
| 1:53.9 | Whoa. |
| 1:54.6 | I know. |
| 1:55.4 | I can't believe it's been that long. |
| 1:57.0 | So I think we should probably jump right into this episode. |
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