Shallow Grave: The Murder of Amy St. Laurent
Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings
Jim Chapman
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Eric's dubious actions and testimony caught police attention, prompting Jeffrey Gorman, another person present that evening, to disclose crucial details under peer influence. Gorman corroborated Eric's version of events, intensifying the search for Amy despite inconclusive polygraph results, leaving her family in anguish.
Kelly covers the unsettling events surrounding Amy's vanishing, implicating Russ - who offered Amy a ride from a discomforting party - as a prime suspect. Russ's evasive demeanor, refusal of a polygraph, and inconsistencies in his roommates' statements unveiled a harrowing narrative involving assault, drugging, and a fatal shooting. Russ's erratic behavior, confession to his mother, subsequent arrest, and a 60-year prison sentence ultimately served justice, despite his mother's efforts to retract her statement, emphasizing the tragic injustice Amy endured.
Timestamps:
0:03:41 Amy's High School and College Dreams
0:06:46 Amy's Night Out in 2001
0:10:06 Eric Rubright's Confusion and Concern
0:17:56 Police Press Conference and Investigation
0:20:50 Tip Line and Jeffrey "Russ" Gorman's Call
0:23:32 Uncomfortable Departure
0:24:37 Polygraph Decline
0:26:51 Suspicious Details
0:28:32 Applying Pressure
0:30:20 Suspicious Detail
0:32:16 Search Initiates
0:35:20 Tool Borrowing
0:37:33 Cadaver Dog Discovery
0:43:03 Disturbing Confession
0:46:38 Compelled Testimony
0:48:37 Sentencing Reaction
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, |
| 0:11.7 | whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real? |
| 0:30.9 | I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts. |
| 0:34.4 | Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable. |
| 0:53.6 | Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences. |
| 0:56.3 | If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. |
| 1:02.2 | Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, KJ, here back for another episode of Unspeakable. What's going on, |
| 1:07.9 | y'all? I have been working my rear end off on this live show that's going to be coming up this week. |
| 1:13.1 | I am so excited. I have researched my little fingers to the bone and I'm going to put on a good show for you. So I'm excited. I can't wait to meet everybody that's |
| 1:16.9 | coming. And if you're not coming, do not worry because we are going to release an entire series |
| 1:24.3 | on the Derek Todd Lee serial killings in Baton Rouge. So you, if you can't make it, |
| 1:29.9 | no worries. I'm going to break it down. I'm going to tell you more than you probably ever wanted to know, but I'm going to do it for you. So no worries. But if you're coming, cannot wait. It's going to be fun. Remember food trucks and drinks and merch and and camaraderie, right? So I can't wait to see y'all there. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm going to jump right into this story, though, today. |
| 1:27.8 | And this one's going to jump right into this |
| 1:45.1 | story, though, today. And this one's going to take place in 2001, and it's going to involve a 25-year-old |
| 1:50.2 | named Amy St. Lawrence. And Amy was described as a hardworking and independent-minded New Englander, |
| 1:57.3 | and she was full of life. And she wanted to live life to every extent of the word. |
| 2:02.6 | She was someone that just would not settle for average. |
| 2:05.6 | She wanted all of the color and all of the sparkle and the fun. |
| 2:09.6 | She wanted all of it in her life. |
| 2:12.6 | And she was described by her friends as someone that just wanted more in every sense of the word. |
| 2:20.0 | And Amy had always been driven. |
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