Matthew Restelli

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 2024, Matthew and Kathryn Restelli were living together on a seven-acre property in Aguanga, about eighteen miles east of Temecula, California. The couple had been married for about seven and a half years, but the marriage had started to fall apart around 2020. Kathryn decided to take the kids to her mom Tracey Grist’s home in American Fork, Utah. She took the kids there without asking her husband, and that caused further friction.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss Matthew Restelli. Matthew was found shot to death in his mother-in-law's home; it appeared as though he had broken into the house to get his kids back. However, authorities noticed some signs that led them to believe that everything was not as it seemed. And as the investigation unfolded, Kathryn and her family became the primary focus of investigators.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 37 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.3	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.2	Morph. How you doing, buddy? I haven't talked to you since you got back from CrimeCon.
0:50.2	Yeah, we had a little bit of a break, I guess you would say. And, you know, I came back from CrimeCon with COVID, which at this point I expect,
0:58.8	but it wasn't too bad.
1:00.1	I was only sick for a couple days and feel 100% now.
1:03.5	How you been?
1:04.8	I've been good.
1:06.4	You know, I was talking to Gibby on our other podcasts about, you know, that weekend was rough for me because it was like the whole time I kept thinking I'm supposed to be in Colorado and I really missed hanging out with everybody.
1:20.3	So it was a rough weekend for me.
1:23.3	Well, you know, we're only, what is it, nine months away from Vegas, I think.
1:26.8	So, you know, hopefully that's something you'll be able to go to. And we'll hang out there. Yeah. No, I'll definitely be going to Vegas because my family is wanting to go. They love Vegas too. So something to look forward to. We didn't have any new Patreon shoutouts this week, but we appreciate everyone who helps out the show.
1:47.0	Yeah, we have a lot of great supporters.
1:48.8	We can't thank them enough for anyone else that would like to help support the show.
1:52.4	Head over to patreon.com slash criminology to get signed up.
1:56.5	All right.
1:56.7	We're diving in.
1:58.2	And this week's episode takes us to American Fork, Utah.
2:02.3	Though the story begins in Riverside County, California, it's one very unfortunate act of
2:08.5	violence that changed the lives of multiple people forever and ended the life of one man
2:14.1	who's the subject of this episode, Matthew Ristelli.
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