S1 E42: A Starbucks Receipt Solved Her Murder: Case of Lesley Herring

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Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Lesley Herring was a 44 year old woman from South America that had everything one can dream of. She was beautiful, had a thriving career, a beautiful husband, a luxury home, and a determination to build more for herself. Lesley and her husband Lyle were seen as a power couple. Both were not just hard-working, wealthy and loyal, but they were also deeply in love with each other. The couple did everything together and never got tired of each other's company. But on the morning of February 9th 2009 when Leslie doesnt show for work, the family contacts Lyle but he also is nowhere to be found. It wasn't until 2 weeks later when Lyles car was found crossing the Mexican border with Lyle inside and no Leslie that the police would learn that this picture perfect couple, had a dark and abusive relationship behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, my name is Haley Elizabeth and if you don't know who I am this is my true crime
0:04.9	podcast where once a week I sit down and I talk about all things true crime ranging from murders
0:10.3	to appearances cult all the way to the biggest drug bus in history, the biggest bank ice in
0:14.4	history all things true crime. So if you're interested in any of that you can subscribe to the
0:18.7	YouTube channel to watch the visual version every Wednesday or you can head over to Spotify
0:24.0	Apple wherever you can find podcasts and listen to the audio version every Tuesday.
0:28.9	But for today's case we are going to be talking about the case of Leslie Herring. Now there is a
0:33.4	lot to get through so we're just going to hop right into it. Leslie Herring was a 44-year-old woman
0:38.9	from Guiana in South America. She had a brother named Lyndon and a sister named Asha.
0:45.5	When she was young her whole family up and moved from Guiana to LA and as a child she was described
0:52.6	as sort of the mom of the group. She was always the most responsible one. She was always the
0:58.2	person to tell people like hey maybe this is a bad idea we shouldn't be doing this. She always made
1:04.2	really good choices and also always had a really good head on her shoulders and this behavior
1:09.9	definitely followed into her teen years. She wasn't really the type of girl to enjoy going out
1:16.1	and like drinking or smoking or going to parties. She was just more focused on her career and her
1:22.9	future and as a teenager she was described as very caring but trust do not cross her because she was
1:31.2	also the type of person that did not put up with anyone's nonsense. So essentially she was just
1:37.6	the type of person that you know is very happy and joyful but if you cross her she will most
1:42.9	definitely cross you and also as a teenager she grew very very close with her mother and her
1:49.0	sister Asha. Them three were like the three musketeers they were best friends and did everything
1:55.2	together and actually her sister Asha Davis may sound a little familiar because Asha is actually
2:01.5	a pretty well known actress and she's been in things like Grey's Anatomy and Friday night lights
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