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LOVE MURDER

Sin City Secrets: Bruce Weinstein & Amy DeChant

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

When a beloved bookie disappears from his Las Vegas home, police believe that he may have been killed for being a police informant. However, when not one but two bodies are found buried in the desert, suspicion is cast upon his love life.

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  3. “The Naked & the Dead: Killer Amy DeChant Found in Nudist Camp – New York Daily News.” New York Daily News, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2010, https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/02/06/the-naked-the-dead-killer-amy-dechant-found-in-nudist-camp/.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, Jesse, last week was such a tragic but classic love murder.

0:04.2

What's the story this time around?

0:05.9

When a beloved bookie disappears from his Las Vegas home, police believe that he may have been killed for being a police informant.

0:14.2

However, when not one, but two bodies are found buried in the desert, suspicion is cast upon his love life. I'm Andy Cosette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this is, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about good friends, Andy. Hi, Jessie.

1:00.5

Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about good friends, bad ends, and love gone fatally wrong.

1:06.5

You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook by searching Love Murder podcast.

1:15.1

If you are enjoying the show, pretty please, love slash murder, a five-star rating on your podcast app, subscribe and review to help new people discover the show.

1:23.2

Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, head on over to patreon.com slash lovemurter pod where you can learn all about the different tiers of support.

1:31.4

This week, we are very excited to shout out an amazing new set of patrons. So a big old thank you to Gabrielle P and Summer H.

1:33.3

Tiffany K. and Katie.

1:34.7

And Carrie D.

1:36.5

Welcome, everyone.

1:39.0

I'm really excited to see some new patrons.

1:44.2

And Andy and I are gearing up for our watch party coming up with a group of our patrons.

2:00.8

And I'm very excited to watch this Netflix documentary everyone's talking about. It's all you've been talking about all morning. I know. I really want to see it. So I'm glad we're going to be doing it with a group of patrons. Obviously, by the time this comes out, we will. Actually, by the time this comes out, we won't because it'll be for like the day after.

2:03.5

So yeah, don't spoil it for me yet.

2:19.2

But it's will, actually, by the time this comes out, we won't because it'll be for like the day after. So yeah, don't spoil it for me yet, but it's the high school catfish, the unknown number. So guys, don't spoil it for me, but if you want to put some, wow, it was great or it was horrible or I hated it comments, that's fine. Just don't spoil it. I'm trying to stay off media because people are making a lot of content around it right now and I'm like, no, I can't know.

2:23.4

I feel like it would be nice for you to stay off media for in general. I should probably not check

2:28.5

our reviews, not check our social media. It'll be much better for my mental health.

2:35.1

With all that being said,

2:42.6

let's get into the episode. All right, let's do it. Viva Las Vegas. It was the fall of 1995, and a very successful gambling bookmaker, aka a bookie, named Bruce Weinstein, had just laid eyes

2:50.5

upon a pretty Auburn brunette named Amy Deschante.

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