Mom Shoots 'Mouthy' Children, Claims She Saved Them

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On January 27, 2011, Julie Schenecker did the unthinkable: Armed with a .38 revolver she had purchased five days before, the former Russian linguist fatally shot both of her teenage children in the head. Beau Schenecker, 13, was found dead in a car parked in the garage of the Scheneker’s upscale Tampa home; 16-year-old Calyx had been placed in her bed after was killed. Julie Schenecker reportedly lifted her daughter’s mouth in the shape of a smile in a bizarre staging of the body. Calyx had been doing her homework on the computer in another room when Julie Schenecker came up behind her and shot her in the head, then in the face. Julie had already killed Beau, reportedly shooting him in the head as they were in the car, headed to soccer practice. Julie’s husband Parker Schenecker, at the time an army colonel, was stationed in Qatar when his children were killed. In an interview with police just after the double homicide, Julie Schenecker admitted to killing both of her children, because they were “mouthy.” She later changed her story, and said in a jailhouse interview with ABC News that she “saved them” — Beau from alleged sexual abuse, and Calyx from mental illness. Read the full story on CrimeOnline Joining Nancy Grace today:Ashley Willcott - Judge and trial attorney, anchor, www.ashleywillcott.comDr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire' Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Sarina Fazan - Four-time Emmy award-winning TV Anchor & Reporter (interviewed Julie Schenecker in 2015 for ABC), Sarina Fazan Media, www.sarinafazan.media, Podcast: "On The Record with Sarina Fazan" @sarinafazannews, YouTube: Sarina Fazan TV

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
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0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
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0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,
0:45.7	to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
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0:57.2	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.6	You know, some people go their whole life trying to have children. They'll pay thousands and
1:12.4	thousands of dollars for fertility treatments to give birth. They will fly around the earth to try
1:20.3	to adopt a baby. So it's really hard for most people to get their heads wrapped around a killer mom.
1:39.2	I'm talking about none other than Julie Shinnecker. Listen.
1:45.4	Police say about seven o'clock Thursday night, Shinnecker armed herself with a 38 caliber pistol.
1:52.5	She had just purchased over the weekend. They say she shot her son twice in the head in the
1:58.0	family's garage. Then went upstairs and shot her daughter in the back of the head while she was
2:04.0	doing her homework. She did tell us that they talked back that they were mouthy and that she was
2:09.6	tired of it. Detectives say Shinnecker's mother contacted them from Texas Friday morning after
2:15.6	receiving a disturbing email from her daughter and being unable to reach her. When they arrived at
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