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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET-Rod Kackley

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

No body means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder.
Doug Stewart even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes. What better plan could any murderer hope for?
But Doug's forgotten one thing: the power of a mother's love.
Venus' mother believes her daughter's husband lured her outside. They fought. He won. Venus' mom wants her daughter back, dead or alive.
Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley tells the true story of a woman whose fear of her husband seems to turn out to be justified. It's also the story of a mother’s quest to win the return of her child — her best friend — even if it’s only to bury her.
The disappearance of Venus Stewart is a shocking true crime story that rocked southwest Michigan and eventually the nation. Hundreds of volunteers spent thousands of days searching for the mother of two young girls.
The police and her mother were sure Venus’ husband killed her. But he was in Newport News, Virginia when the crime was committed in Michigan. The neighbors saw him. He used his credit cards and even paid on his account at his lawyer’s office.
And it wasn’t just the day that Venus disappeared that her husband was seen in Newport News. He was spotted the next day too. How can anyone be in two places at one time?
Here’s something else: no corpse. That’s right, the police don’t have a body. How can investigators even be sure Venus is dead?
Her mother had to wait more than eight long years before finding out what had happened to her child.
A community rose up to stand by Therese McComb and her mission to learn the truth, and after searching for Venus hundreds of times, they stood by Therese at the very end.
Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking True Crime Story is a hard-hitting tale of a mother’s undying devotion and love for her child; and two police officers’ refusal to give up. It's a story that you will never forget. This gripping book will also leave you with a question. If you were Venus' mother; could you ever forgive?
NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET: A Shocking True Crime Story-Rod Kackley.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History,

0:12.9

and the authors that have written about them.

0:15.4

Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stocker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking

0:23.6

about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History.

0:27.7

True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke.

0:34.7

Good evening.

0:42.5

Nobody means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder.

0:46.8

Dug Stewart even has an iron clad alibi.

0:50.4

He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely white Venus vanishes.

0:55.0

A better plan could any murderer hope for.

0:58.2

But Dug's forgotten one thing, the power of a mother's love.

1:02.1

Venus's mother believes her daughter's husband lured her outside.

1:05.6

They fought, he won.

1:07.0

Venus's mother wants her daughter back dead or alive.

1:10.5

Never forgive, never forget, tells the true story of a woman whose fear of her husband

1:14.8

seems to turn out to be justified.

1:16.7

It's also the story of a mother's quest to win the return of her child, her best friend,

1:22.0

even if it's only to bury her.

1:23.8

The disappearance of Venus Stewart is a shocking true crime story that rocked Southwest Michigan

1:29.1

and eventually the nation.

1:31.0

Hundreds of volunteers spent thousands of days searching for the mother of two young girls.

1:35.8

The police and her mother were sure Venus's husband killed her, but he was in Newport

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