People You May Know: The Murder of Sheila Hachmeister

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 2011, Jason Hachmeister came home to find his 58 year old mother, Sheila, brutally murdered on her bedroom floor. Detectives quickly discovered that Sheila had been living something of a double life over the past few months, chatting with a much-younger online boyfriend who seemed almost too good to be true. She had also been seeing another boyfriend in real life--one her family much preferred to the mysterious Mr. Perfect from the internet. But Sheila couldn't seem to tear herself away from her online love. As they began to unravel Sheila's personal life, investigators would have to determine which part of her life had turned deadly: her internet romance, or the "real" people around her.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's "Web of Lies," episode "Divorced and In Danger"
https://www.kscourts.org/KSCourts/media/KsCourts/Advance%20Sheets/SupremeCourtVol311No3.pdf
cjonline.com/article/20150721/NEWS/307219789
https://www.kake.com/story/34846002/kansas-supreme-court-hears-convicted-killers-child-porn-appeal

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:15.4	It's an old story by now.
0:23.5	Be careful who you meet on the internet, because behind a keyboard it's so easy to pretend
0:28.3	to be something you're not, rich, gorgeous, successful.
0:32.8	You can pretend to be harmless, even if you're anything but.
0:37.0	What we can sometimes forget in all this hand-dringing about the dangers of the web is that
0:40.7	people we meet in real life can do the same thing.
0:44.0	They might just have a little more work to do to convince you.
0:47.4	This is People You May Know, the murder of Sheila Hackmeister.
1:05.2	So campers, for this one, we're in Topeka, Kansas, September 10, 2011.
1:11.1	Forty-year-old Jason Hackmeister came home from running errands and called out for
1:14.4	his mom, Sheila.
1:16.1	He'd been staying with her for a while now, ever since he heard his armate work.
1:19.8	She was supposed to be home now, but she wasn't answering him as he called out her name,
1:23.2	and her dog Harley was barking.
1:25.5	Jason could hear his mom's radio playing.
1:28.1	He dropped his bags and keys on the kitchen counter and called again.
1:31.1	Hey, mom?
1:32.6	Maybe she couldn't hear him over the radio.
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