Schemer: The Crimes of Sheila Davalloo

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We’ve covered our share of scary ladies on this show. In fact, bad bitches are one of our special interests. There was Tracey Richter, who murdered an innocent neighbor to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit. Marie Hilley, the serial poisoner who eluded police for years and once passed herself off as her own (fictional) twin sister. Marjorie Orbin, the Vegas showgirl who murdered her husband for his life insurance and left his dismembered body in the desert. I could keep going—there are a lot of ‘em. But this week, I think we may have found the scariest one yet. You can tell us if you think I’m wrong, but I think the woman we’re about to tell you about may be the worst of all the women we’ve covered so far…a woman whose heart is a swirling black hole of need and darkness. This is Schemer: The Crimes of Sheila Davalloo.

Sources:
Obsessed by M. William Phelps
Oxygen's "Snapped," episode "Sheila Davalloo"
Killer Women with Piers Morgan
Murderpedia (various articles): https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/davalloo-sheila.htm

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0:00.0	Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:20.3	We've covered our share of scary ladies on this show. In fact, bad bitches are one of our special interests.
0:27.2	There was Tracy Richter who murdered an innocent neighbor to frame him for a crime he didn't commit.
0:32.8	Marie Hilly, the serial poisoner who eluded police for years and once passed herself off as her own fictional twin
0:38.6	sister. Marjorie Orbin, the vagus showgirl who murdered her husband for his life insurance and left
0:44.6	his dismembered body in the desert. I could keep going. There are a lot of them, but this week I think
0:50.7	we may have found the scariest one yet. You can tell us if you think I'm wrong, but I think the woman we're about to tell you about
0:57.0	maybe the worst of all the women we've covered so far, a woman whose heart is a swirling black hole of need and darkness.
1:04.8	This is Schemer, the crimes of Sheila Davaloo.
1:18.9	Music Sheila Davaloo. Just FYI, Katie's been screaming her lungs out coaching all week, so her voice is a little
1:23.8	shot, so I'm going to be doing a little more of the talking this week.
1:27.3	So, campers, for this one, we're in Westchester County, New York, March 23rd, 2003.
1:33.3	It was about 5.30 in the evening, and there was a fracas going on in the parking lot of a
1:37.9	behavioral health center in Pleasantville. A man and a woman were struggling, fighting next to a car.
1:44.1	The man was trying to break free of the woman, who was grabbing at his jacket and trying to pull him toward her.
1:49.8	Finally, the man took a swing at her, and she let go of his jacket.
1:53.3	Spotting a group of people standing in front of the med center doors, the man started running toward them, yelling,
1:58.0	Help me, I've been stabbed.
2:00.4	Shocked, the witnesses watched as the woman ran up behind him. P yelling, help me, I've been stabbed. Shocked, the witnesses watched
2:01.9	as the woman ran up behind him, panting, she said, that's not true, he attacked me. The man looked
2:08.3	rough, paper white and struggling to breathe. He was bleeding profusely, blood all over his shirt.
2:15.6	They all watched as the guy sat down on the curb next to the entrance.
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