Welcome back to My Bloody Valentine, our two-part Valentine Day special. If you're just

joining and haven't listened to the first part of this special, I suggest you do so.

I have seven more podcast of friends who will be joining me for crime stories of Love

Gone Wrong in this episode. But first, are you curious, who this mysterious

saint Valentine is? Well, it's really a mystery. We know that the Catholic Church recognizes

at least three different saints by that name. One legend goes, that Valentine was a priest

that served during the third century in Rome. One of the Roman emperors decided to outlaw

marriage for young men because they made better soldiers. A priest named Valentine defied

the emperor and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. Later, the emperor

found out when Valentine was put to death. But others will say it came from Valentine

of Terny, a bishop who was also beheaded by the same Roman emperor. Both Valentine's

became saints after their deaths. Whichever may be the case, Valentine's Day is a day

of love, until that love goes wrong. Which brings us to our next story from my friends

Raven and Mandy from sirens.

In February 14th, 2001, Susan Hamilton had been strangled and brutally beaten in her own

bathroom. Her naked body was discovered by her husband, John, that Valentine's Day

morning. Dr. Hamilton was an OBGYN doctor who had privileges several different Oklahoma

city hospitals, one of which I worked at. I had was an office manager for a doctor and

would see him in the doctor's lounge on several occasions. So according to Dr. John

Hamilton himself, he had been up at dawn for a 7am surgery at an outpatient clinic. That

surgery was over by 8am and afterwards, John stopped by the hospital where he had another

procedure scheduled for later that morning. Afterwards, the doctor decided to swing back home.

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