Major Ménage à Many: David and Joan Shannon
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
When one member of a military couple is found murdered in their own bed, police discover the average seeming couple had a shocking secret sex life.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jessie, last week was sad, but a testament to the power of friendship. |
| 0:05.6 | What do you have for us this week? |
| 0:07.0 | When one member of a military couple is found murdered in their own bed, |
| 0:11.4 | police discover the average-seeming couple had a shocking secret sex life. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Jesse Prey and everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about steamy nights, |
| 0:52.0 | petty fights, and love gone fatally wrong. |
| 0:55.0 | You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook by searching Love Murder Podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | If you are enjoying the show, please love slash murder a five-star rating on your podcast app, |
| 1:05.6 | subscribe and review to help new people discover the show. |
| 1:09.3 | Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, |
| 1:12.0 | head on over to patreon.com slash lovemurterpod, where you can learn all about the different |
| 1:16.7 | tiers of support. And I also want to do a really quick shout out. We've gotten quite a few orders on our |
| 1:21.7 | Shopify this week. I'm assuming their holiday gifts, but I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 1:26.5 | That always is very helpful as well. Yeah, it's great. And we're going to try to do our darnness to get those |
| 1:32.4 | orders filled as fast as possible. They're already filled. You're so on top of it, Andrea. |
| 1:39.6 | I've been living in Shopify between my main job and this for the past three weeks. |
| 1:46.5 | So surprisingly, this is not an ad. |
| 1:48.7 | It's just the truth. |
| 1:50.1 | It's just my life. |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.2 | I'm powered by Shopify currently. |
| 1:54.2 | Truly. |
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