Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek Lavasser. So today we are diving into part two of the Dr. Fred Jablins case. In part one, we traced

the volatile relationship between Dr. Fred Jablins, a respected University of Richmond professor,

and his ex-wife, Piper Roundtree. Go Piper. Yeah. What began as an opposites attract romance

in the early 1980s, gradually unraveled under the weight

of Piper's instability, secret deaths, substance abuse, and violent mood swings. Their marriage

devolved into years of false accusations, public humiliation, and an ugly custody battle that left

Fred raising their three children alone, while Piper's resentment turned into

obsession. By the fall of 2004, Dr. Fred Jablins was finally at peace. He had built a new life

for himself and his children, far removed from the chaos of his marriage to Piper Roundtree.

He was thriving in his work as a respected professor. He'd started to find happiness again, and he was really looking forward to celebrating

his favorite holiday, Halloween.

But on the morning of Saturday, October 30th, everything he'd rebuilt was shattered.

Just after 6.35 a.m., Fred stepped outside to grab his newspaper like he did every morning,

and he was shot multiple

times in his driveway, with bullets going through his right arm and lower back. Inside the house,

his three children were still asleep, unaware that their father was lying dead just outside their

door. When detectives arrived, they found no signs of forced entry, no sign of a robbery,

nothing that made sense.

But as they started talking to Fred's friends and neighbors, one name came up over and over again.

And whose name was that, Derek?

Our good friend Piper.

Yeah, our girl Piper Roundtree.

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