Sammy Wheeler
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In June 1992, 35-year-old Samuel "Sammy" Wheeler was found murdered inside his Isuzu Trooper in Virginia's George Washington National Forest. His SUV had been riddled with bullets, wiped clean of fingerprints, and someone had unsuccessfully tried to burn it to destroy evidence. The investigation quickly focused on a bitter custody dispute involving Sammy, his fiancée, her estranged husband, and even Sammy's identical twin brother.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of Sammy Wheeler. For years, accusations flew between those closest to him before investigators discovered the shocking truth: none of the prime suspects was responsible. The killer was a complete stranger, and Sammy had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 418 of the criminology podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | This is Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:43.3 | And this is Mike Morford. |
| 0:44.9 | Mr. Morford. |
| 0:45.6 | How you doing this week, buddy? |
| 0:46.9 | Doing good. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, we're talking before we started recording about our aches and pains and getting |
| 0:52.0 | up there in age and comparing notes. |
| 0:53.8 | But I'm here. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm talking and hanging out with you. What are you doing? Yeah. That is, you know, it's the |
| 1:01.5 | fun part, right? I haven't talked about this in a while, but, you know, there's the research part, |
| 1:07.2 | which, you know, is fun in its own way. But the recording and the, you know, us going back and |
| 1:13.8 | forth, that's really the fun part of the week for me. Yeah, I look forward to Friday mornings. That's |
| 1:17.9 | when we usually record and, you know, hang out for a couple hours to talk about a cool case and |
| 1:22.6 | get ready for the next one. Well, we didn't have any new Patreon support this week, but just wanted to say |
| 1:28.9 | thank you to everyone who does support us on Patreon. We really appreciate it. Yeah, it really goes |
| 1:33.8 | a long way to helping us out. And we appreciate everyone that does do that. And if you want to get |
| 1:38.5 | started, head over patreon.com slash criminology. All right. We're jumping right in. And for our listeners who are fans of the show, Unsolved Mysteries, this is a case you might |
| 1:48.7 | remember, the 1992 murder of Sammy Wheeler in Virginia. |
| 1:53.8 | In the Unsolved Mysteries episode about Sammy's case that first aired in 1994, there seemed |
| 1:59.5 | to be no shortage of suspects mentioned. And amongst them, |
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