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Stranger in the Mirror: The Crimes of Theresa Ramirez

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True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We tend to think of doctors as leading pretty cushy, privileged lives—lots of money, social status, and respect. But a dark trend has been developing in recent years, and it’s only getting worse. Increasingly, doctors are experiencing violence at the hands of their patients. Sometimes it’s a verbal threat, a push or a shove. Sometimes it’s stalking. And sometimes, it’s murder. This is one of those stories, about a woman whose obsession with physical perfection led her to an unimaginable act.

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Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/03/08/dr-michael-davidson-died-as-he-lived-saving-others/?sh=176e90165e12
Oxygen's "Snapped," episode "Theresa Ramirez"
Dr. Joni Johnston: https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-murder-of-dr-paul-tavis-e5ad525c88ba
SFGate: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/disgruntled-patients-hazardous-to-health-3069418.php
MDLinx: https://www.mdlinx.com/exclusive/unsafe-haven-the-rise-of-violence-against-physicians-in-the-workplace/LyJwbDwQgHps1wJ00QYYn

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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:05.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:08.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime

0:14.2

campfire.

0:21.2

We tend to think of doctors as leading pretty cushy privileged lives, lots of money, social status and respect,

0:28.0

but a dark trend has been developing in recent years and it's only getting worse.

0:33.0

Increasingly, doctors are experiencing violence at the hands of their patients.

0:38.0

Sometimes it's a verbal threat, a push or a shove.

0:41.0

Sometimes it's stalking. and sometimes it's murder. This is stranger in the

0:47.0

mirror the crimes of Teresa Ramirez. So, campers, for this one were in Petaluma, California, the morning of July 3rd, 1997.

1:07.0

Dr. Michael Tavis and his wife Deborah were in a rush to get to work at their plastic surgery clinic.

1:14.5

They'd been up late celebrating Deborah's birthday the night before.

1:17.9

Now they were hauling ass across town to make the doctor's first appointment of the day.

1:22.3

They were going to be a little late, so as Dr.

1:24.4

Tavis drove, Deborah tried calling their office manager Kay Carter on her cell phone.

1:30.3

No answer, which was strange.

1:32.9

And this was even stranger.

1:34.7

When they finally pulled into the parking lot, they noticed that Kay's car was there, but their

1:39.2

830 appointment was standing by the front door of the clinic looking confused. The door was

1:44.0

the front door of the clinic looking confused. The door was still locked.

1:45.9

Why hadn't Kaye unlocked it yet?

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