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 podcaster 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 Terney, 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.

February 14, 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

seven a.m. surgery at an outpatient clinic. That surgery was over by eight a.m. 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. He was only at home for a few minutes because

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