When a woman is murdered in broad daylight in downtown Cleveland, her killer is caught on camera.

After a dozen years of searching for answers, her alleged killer is finally charged,

and one of the most bizarre motives for murder imaginable is exposed in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Music Thank you, Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime

storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your coach, Scott. Today, we're revisiting one of the cases

we covered years ago in the best possible context, the context of it finally being solved. It's always

a relief to be able to say that a case has been solved,

especially when we know that a family has waited years to see someone held responsible for the

death of their loved one. And that's very much the case here. Elisa Sherman was a dedicated parent

and her children, among other family members and friends, have waited a dozen years for answers.

And the answers are truly bizarre.

Her alleged killer's motives were far from typical. In fact, it's one of the strangest I've ever heard of. I've never encountered a case in the course of my work involving a motive quite like this one,

and I doubt I ever will. With that being said, Elisa Sherman was last seen alive

on March 24, 2013.

She was 53 years old at the time

and lived in Cleveland, Ohio.

She was at the peak of her nursing career

and she found a tremendous amount of meaning in her work.

She was employed at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic,

which has been consistently

ranked as one of the best hospitals in the U.S. for decades. There, she cared for others as a

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