Today is Friday, September 24th, 2021.

On this day in 2008, David Heiss was arrested for murdering the boyfriend of a woman he'd fallen in love with online.

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from the 90s.

Tea break.

Lunch break.

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time or time to visit

your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombolla open for fun terms apply

18 plus gamble aware.org welcome to today in true crime a Spotify original from Parkast.

Due to the graphic nature of these crimes, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder and stalking that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13. Today we're covering the arrest of David Heiss for the murder of Matthew Pike.

Now let's go to September 24, 2008, to the community of Hunfelden in Hesse, Germany.

David Heiss emerged as a suspect in Matthew Pike's murder very quickly.

Pike and his girlfriend, Joanna Whitten, knew Heise well.

In fact, he'd been stalking them.

Whitten and Pike ran an internet forum for fans of the Nintendo Tactics video game, Advance Wars. The cult classic

drew a passionate group of international fans who loved trading strategies online. Pike and Witten,

or Slade and Jojo, as they were known on the site, managed the site from their home in Nottingham,

England. Heist was one of their site's most

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