S3 Ep145: Aliza Sherman | The Meeting That Ended in Murder (Part 1)
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On a Sunday evening, in March of 2013, |
| 0:15.0 | 53-year-old Alisa Sherman went to meet with her divorce lawyer in downtown Cleveland, just days before |
| 0:22.3 | her long and bitter divorce was set to go to trial. |
| 0:25.9 | She never made it inside. |
| 0:27.8 | Instead, she was found, stabbed to death on the sidewalk outside the office door. |
| 0:32.9 | Her purse was still with her, her SUV was parked nearby, she was still wearing all of her jewelry. |
| 0:39.2 | Nothing about it looked like a random act of violence, yet nothing about it made any sense. |
| 0:45.2 | For years, Elisa's murder lingered in that terrible space between mystery and suspicion, |
| 0:50.4 | where answers feel close enough to touch, but never close enough to hold. |
| 0:54.6 | And as time passed, the case began to expose something even more chilling than the attack itself. |
| 1:00.1 | Little by little, the names and details surrounding two men emerged. |
| 1:04.6 | Two men Elisa should have been able to trust, more than almost anyone in her life. |
| 1:09.3 | One was tied to the home and family she had built, |
| 1:12.4 | the other was tied to the legal fight that was supposed to help set her free. And in that realization |
| 1:17.5 | lies the deepest horror of this case, that the people with the closest access to your life, |
| 1:22.7 | your fears, your plans, and your vulnerabilities may not be protecting you at all. This story is not just about who killed Elisa Sherman. |
| 1:30.4 | It is about what can hide beneath the surface for years, |
| 1:33.7 | about betrayal, wrapped in familiarity, about trust handed to the wrong people, |
| 1:38.4 | and about the devastating possibility that the people standing in your inner circle |
| 1:42.0 | may be the very same people who are quietly working against you. |
| 1:58.7 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
| 2:02.7 | And I'm Derek Lavasser. And today we are talking about a new case that I have actually been |
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