This is a scream queen production.

I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead podcast.

Happy True Crime Tuesday, everybody.

Welcome to the last new episode of So Dead before I take a brief hiatus.

I know, it's a bummer, but I did save a pretty big one for you guys today.

Today's story was chosen by a Patreon subscriber, Super Freak Sue Lewis.

Super Freak is the highest level of patronage, so it comes with the most benefits, one of them being choosing a topic for the show.

Sue has been a fantastic fan, pretty much from the beginning.

She comes to the live shows.

I'm pretty sure she made it out on a tour last year, and this is actually a story that I know

very well. I've been telling it for years on the Demented Mitten Tours. I included a very

abbreviated version of it in Haunted Lansing. I've been to the scene of the crime many,

many times. If you follow Michigan True Crime, you know this one. The only reason it's taken me so long to cover it is because I do try to keep some of the stories from the tour separate from the podcast.

But Sue wanted to hear it.

So Sue, this one's for you.

Before the ID Channel and Oxygen, we had Made for movies and after-school specials, most of which were

later acquired by the Lifetime Movie Network. I spent many a Saturday when I was single on my couch,

watching Lifetime movies from the time I woke up until the time I fell asleep. I've seen them all,

probably. Some of my favorite oldies. Nightmare in

Columbia County about the murder of 17-year-old Sherry Smith, the one where she disappears from

the mailbox at the end of her driveway, like her car's just sitting there with the driver's side door

open, and she fucking got snatched out of her own yard,

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