All right, Jesse, last week involved a lot of drugs and a lot of people getting other people to kill people for them.

What's the story this week?

When a beloved mother, teacher, and artist is killed in her own Arizona home, the police look at two men close to her, her ex-husband, and her good friend who lives on her property.

I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder.

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Maybe when, like, my last board, when Gus and Echo go to college, maybe we could just, like, move next to each other. And then we could do it in studio. The plan. That's the plan. Open our seafood restaurant. Yes. Samshack. The clams shack. Now that you know our plans for the future, I think we should jump into today's episode. Yes. At 53, Carol Kennedy was reinventing herself once again.

She was already an accomplished therapist, teacher, and mother. The type of professor who had a

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