Monkey Business - Chester the Capuchin

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When you hear about a "break-in" at a music store, you expect to hear about stolen guitars or smashed windows. You don’t expect to find the sinks running, the snacks eaten, and a cinnamon-colored Capuchin monkey named Chester staring back at you. In this episode of True Crime To-Go, we head to Morristown, Tennessee, to investigate the bizarre Sunday morning when a local pawn and music shop became a primate’s playground. But as investigators dug deeper, they realized this wasn’t just a random escape—it was a case of animal theft that crossed state lines.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:13.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.6	Man, I tell you what, I loved that drunk raccoon y'all talked about.
0:21.0	So I'll tell you what, I'm going to see your raccoon, and I'm going to raise you a monkey.
0:25.2	Pull up to the second window, and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.7	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:33.9	I am John here with Jamie, and I'm sorry that I always turn redneck when I order
0:37.7	from your drive-thru.
0:38.9	It's okay.
0:39.5	I mean, if you, if anybody ever wants to raise me a monkey, the answer to that's a yes, every
0:45.3	single time.
0:46.0	Brother, I did not think that 2025 would gift us anything better than the drunk raccoon.
0:53.8	But early 2026, it's living up to the high.
0:58.8	It's off to a great start, you know?
1:00.4	You know?
1:00.7	And it's in God's country.
1:03.1	Jamie, take us to Tennessee and get this ball roll.
1:06.2	Yeah, January.
1:08.0	So this week, last week, last two weeks in Morristown, Tennessee. That is right
1:14.1	in the middle of like where my house was in Tennessee to where my grandmother's house was.
1:20.6	I drove through Morristown every time I visited that old lady. We drive through Morristown.
1:24.8	She's still alive. Go down to Morris Lake.
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