Welcome to the podcast Crime Salad where we talk true crime.

I'm your host Ashley and with me always is my husband in Partner in Crime, Ricky.

The purpose of this podcast is to honor the victims through ethical storytelling in the

hopes of preventing future tragedies.

We want our stories to resonate and educate others in hopes that some of these similar

cases with identifiable patterns can be prevented.

Now before we jump in, please let us warn you that this is a true crime podcast.

The details of this episode may be triggering to some listeners.

In our discretion advised.

You cross paths with a person who seemingly looks harmless and kind.

Well, what if that person keeps dark secrets and has dark desires?

Do you ever wonder how many people you walk past that are just waiting for an opportunity

to strike or maybe someone that has already played out on their desire to murder?

It's a type of evil that seems to grow inside as they use things like manipulation to

control the way people think.

Now there are typically signs before someone actually initiates an attack to kidnap, rape,

or murder, but what brings them to that point?

It makes me question if, when we see these red flags, at what point should we attempt

to stop evil before it actually happens?

Madison Nygard is a surviving victim of a man who saw this young girl as an opportunity

to act on his sick desire and had every bit of evil intention.

But luckily it just didn't fully work out for Jeffrey Ellis.

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