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Behind You

Murdered her Best-friend because He Wasn’t “Trans Enough”: Case of Ryan Zimmerman

Behind You

Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you're out early one morning taking your dog for a walk. You take the trail you always go on, full of trees and birds and nature. But as you're walking, you notice something white on the ground in the distance, you really don't think anything of it until you get a bit closer. You lean in to take a closer look and on the ground there seems to be what looks like a human femur, your heart drops and as you start to look around the area. Just a few feet away from the femur you then discover what looks like a human spine. The woman walking her dog this morning, Paula, takes a picture of the femur and spine and sends them to her daughter who is a pharmacist and even she agreed, they seemed to be human bones. Paula immediately called the police. Police then identify the body to be the remains of a 22 y/o Ryan Zimmerman and get in contact with Ryan's 3 ex-roommates to get a better understanding of what happened to him. And although 2 of his roommates claim Ryan just up and left one day without saying anything to anyone, One roommate spares no details and is quite open with the horrific actions she did to her “best friend” as he was trying to leave the abusive household. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So imagine it's early one morning and you wake up, you flip over, you check your phone just to check the time and you get this excited feeling because you realize that you still have about an hour or two left of sleep. I feel like everyone kind of does that. They check their phone and they're like, okay, I have 30 minutes left. I'm going to go back to sleep. You turn over and as you're going back to sleep,

0:21.1

you start to hear your dog barking, wanting to go out for a walk. So you're like, okay, okay,

0:27.1

you get up, super groggy, put on your shoes, go out for a walk and you walk this very specific

0:32.7

trail that you and your dog like to walk because it's filled with trees and nature and birds.

0:38.8

And as you're going on your walk, you're waking up into the morning and you start to notice how

0:44.2

the air kind of smells like rain because it rained the night before. You feel this nice,

0:49.1

cold, morning chill. And as you're walking, you're looking down at the ground because since it

0:53.8

rained the night before, you want to make sure that you're not stepping in any puddle. So you're looking down at

0:58.4

the ground, you're walking. And as you start to look up the path a little bit, you kind of notice

1:03.2

off to the side of the path what seems to look like a white stick. And it catches your eye because

1:08.6

you think, wow, I've never seen a stick that pale before.

1:12.3

But as you start to walk closer and now you are leaning over it, that's when you realize that this

1:18.7

is not a white stick, but what seems to look like a human femur. Now, this situation actually did

1:26.2

happen to a woman named Paula. In Columbus, Ohio, she was

1:30.0

walking her dog on her usual trail, and that's when she comes across what looks to be like a human

1:34.6

femur. So at this point, she gets a really deep set feeling in her stomach, but she's, you know,

1:39.5

thinking maybe it's just a really well done Halloween decoration. So she walks a few feet deeper into the

1:46.1

woods, and that's when she comes across what looks like a human spine. So now she's starting to get

1:53.0

a really terrified feeling. And so she decides to take pictures of the femur and the spine

1:59.0

and send them to her daughter, who is a pharmacist and went to

2:02.7

medical school and has experience in anatomy. So she sends these pictures to her daughter and she

2:07.5

asks her, do these look like real bones or do you think these are just fake? And her daughter's

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