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MANslaughter

Psychopath | 5

MANslaughter

Wondery

Murder, Manslaughter, Stordock, Psychopath, Dorothy, Marcic, With One Shot, Slaughter, Exhibit C, Man-slaughter, Sociopath, True Crime, Black Widow

3.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After time in a mental hospital, Suzanne went on to meet a final husband -- and achieve professional success. But Dorothy immerses herself in criminal psychology, trying to determine whether her aunt was a psychopath using a test created by one of the top experts in the field. Suzanne’s friends and family paint a very different picture of her than Dorothy does.


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0:00.0

Oh, the Shark Bay has such teeth dear, and he shows them pearly wine.

0:14.0

Just a dark night has only Keith Bay, so there's never a trace, never a trace of rain.

0:36.0

We're back in the foothills of Eastern Tennessee. A meeting is happening for the first time in about 30 years.

0:43.0

Between a woman who shot her husband, and the niece of the man who died.

0:48.0

After the death of Verne Stordock in 1970, his wife Suzanne and his niece Dorothy met just one more time in a mental institution.

0:59.0

Eventually they drifted apart.

1:05.0

They didn't see each other again until they met at a farm in Tennessee.

1:09.0

In Suzanne's small bedroom, located in her daughter's house. Dorothy says she entered the room of a woman whose actions had consumed her for the last year and sort of for decades.

1:22.0

The room was cluttered with furniture and knick-knacks. It was small, maybe 10 by 12. A wheelchair was folded up behind the door.

1:30.0

Suzanne sat up on a single bed, a wooden one, which seemed to have an adjustable mattress or maybe a lot of pillows.

1:38.0

There was a room divider folded up also. I remember Suzanne's long blonde hair, not much grey.

1:46.0

She was sitting up on pillows, wearing a pink robe, tucked in under a chanille bedspread.

1:52.0

And I remembered her green eyes.

1:56.0

I came into the room and there was a small dog, brown and white, wavy fur, jumped all over me.

2:03.0

The dog's name was Holstein.

2:06.0

It felt strangely familiar. I knew her so well when I was a child and in college, but I hadn't seen her for decades.

2:14.0

And yet I was filled with anxiety because here was the woman who had confessed to murdering my uncle.

2:22.0

What do I say?

2:26.0

I looked around, I saw a few large books. Every surface had some white lace doggies on it, the kind my grandma used to crochet.

2:35.0

All around me were pictures of Suzanne with an older man.

2:39.0

That man was Suzanne's fifth and final husband. His name was Paul.

2:45.0

Suzanne had nicknames for all her husbands. She called him the keeper.

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