She Tried to Blame it on the Horse
This Is Monsters
Jiles
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Episode 21 : Patricia Olsen
Patricia Olsen went into the barn where she found her husband, Neil Olsen, dead. When police arrived, she told them that the horse must have trampled him to death, but they would soon find out the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | At about 8 a.m. on January 10, 2005, Lanesboro Police received an emergency call from a frantic woman. |
| 0:07.9 | My husband, I think he's dead, she cried out. |
| 0:11.5 | Police quickly arrived on the scene and found the man lying on the floor of their barn in a pool of his own blood. |
| 0:18.0 | Near him was his beloved horse, Hannah, and she had blood on her, specifically on her |
| 0:22.6 | hooves. Lanesborough was a small town in northwestern Massachusetts with only about 3,000 residents. |
| 0:30.8 | It has a pretty low crime rate, and at the time the body was discovered, the last murder in |
| 0:35.4 | Lanesboro had happened in 1980. |
| 0:38.4 | Because of that, when it was suggested that the victim had been trampled to death by the horse, |
| 0:43.3 | authorities initially saw it as the most likely option. |
| 0:47.1 | It didn't take long, though, for detectives to realize there was much more to the story. |
| 0:52.4 | This is Monsters. Patricia Hall was born on October 6th, 1963, and grew up in Bennington, Vermont. |
| 1:25.5 | She was the youngest of four sisters, and when one of her sisters |
| 1:28.4 | graduated early through an accelerated program, Patricia asked her mother if she could do the same thing. |
| 1:35.1 | Her mother agreed, but on the condition that Patricia go to college once she had graduated |
| 1:39.6 | from high school. She was able to make that happen when she was 16 years old but did not keep her promise |
| 1:45.7 | of enrolling in college. |
| 1:48.1 | She planned to take a year off during which time she met a young man named James Robinson. |
| 1:53.6 | By the time she was 18, the couple were married and their first child, a son named Christopher, |
| 1:58.7 | was born in 1984, and then their daughter, Amanda, was born in |
| 2:02.8 | 1986. Three years later, Patricia and James divorced. Patricia would end up doing an interview for a show |
| 2:11.2 | called Facing Evil with Candace DeLong, and every single word that came out of her mouth during |
| 2:16.1 | that interview should be considered |
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