The Champion Family Murders

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week we are discussing the Champion family and the attack that left three out of four members tragically murdered. Research by Haley Gray with Haley Gray Research. Thank you to our sponsors! Tired of searching for the perfect doctor only to be left with a headache? Check out Zocdoc.com/MYSTERIES and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Elevate your cleaning to the next level with Blueland. To get 15% off your first order, go to Blueland.com/MOMS. New merch! Check out Moms and Mysteries Threadless! You can also get new episodes a day early and ad free, plus merch and more at Patreon.com/momsandmysteriespodcast Listen and subscribe to Melissa’s other podcast, Criminality!! It’s the podcast for those who love reality TV, true crime, and want to hear all the juicy stories where the two genres intersect. Subscribe and listen here: www.pod.link/criminality Check-out Moms and Mysteries to find links to our tiktok, youtube, twitter, instagram and more! Make sure you subscribe and rate our show to help others find us! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/MomsandMysteriesATrueCrimePodcast Sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ryan-champion-kentucky-man-who-orchestrated-his-familys-killings-avoids-death-penalty/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prosecutor-son-plotted-kentucky-family-killings/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/questions-linger-in-kentucky-shooting-that-left-4-dead/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-man-arrested-for-killing-parents-sister-and-acquaintance/ https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/family-confronts-ryan-champion-at-sentencing-for-murder-of-parents-and-sister/article_40e1ffa7-74a8-5804-8bbf-1c27afc28a64.html http://kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/Details/461232 https://paulickreport.com/news/the-biz/police-say-racetrack-vet-emily-champion-was-killed-by-her-brother/?_token=3d18ea6109 https://www.paducahsun.com/plotkin-gets-22-years-for-role-in-champion-murders/article_de9032c7-ca3b-5c96-bd1b-b8cfdccfee5f.html https://www.whvoradio.com/2019/02/08/conspirator-in-champion-murders-dies/news-edge/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-woman-played-role-in-kentucky-shooting-that-left-4-dead/ https://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/news/article_4e47d77c-b241-11e4-a2b3-a787894dcda8.html https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2014/10/31/kentucky-police-charge-brother-murder-sunset-veterinarian-three-others/18273089/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137872479/boyd-lindsey-champion https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137872574/emily-kathryn-champion https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137872519/joy-madolen-champion https://people.com/crime/ryan-champion-accused-of-murdering-hit-man-he-hired-to-kill-his-family/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141031093724/http://www.wsmv.com/story/27052841/neighbors-remember-family-killed-in-shooting https://web.archive.org/web/20141029035442/http://www.wsmv.com/story/27018695/ksp-investigating-four-deaths-at-a-trigg-county-home https://web.archive.org/web/20141031204353/http://www.wsmv.com/story/27147218/roommate-friend-of-suspect-in-trigg-co-murders-speak-out https://www.newspapers.com/image/771826537/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/771826562/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/413843869/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/413850867/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/413994295/, https://www.newspapers.com/image/413994363/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/413930164/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/414031002/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/414386987/?terms=lindsey%20champion&match=1 Oxygen’s Killer Motive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.0	Tees and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restrictions apply. You're going to. Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast a true crime
0:57.2	podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa hi Melissa.
1:01.3	Hi Melissa.
1:02.3	Hi Mandy how are you? I'm doing well. That's all I have. You're looking up in the sky? Okay.
1:09.2	I told you about my son getting stuck on the roof this weekend. Yes I had so much
1:18.5	anxiety just from looking at the photo that you sent me on your son on the roof. I'm not that mom. I'm not the let your kids go on the roof kind of mom I guess.
1:28.6	I want to be that mom so then I try that and then I'm immediately faced with this was a terrible idea
1:34.5	because he got stuck up there or you know we didn't have a we didn't have the
1:39.6	right ladder to get up there and so coming down he was like nope not doing it I can't I'd have to kind of
1:44.9	hop and anyway have you ever been on a roof Melissa and had to get down isn't it kind of like I
1:50.7	feel like it seems fine until it comes time to get down and that gets a little
1:54.0	tricky even if you have a taller ladder I feel like that's the part where I get scared as
1:59.0	having to go down. Yeah but see I remember very vividly like my uncle redoing our roof when I was a kid
2:05.8	and being up there just like walking around so like I have fun memories of being up on a roof
2:11.0	which was what I was trying to create for my son but then two
2:14.4	nights ago did I tell you this I might have saved this because I wanted to tell you now he
2:18.7	got stuck in a tree in our yard oh so he's like just new to this whole climbing thing and he doesn't have
2:27.2	shoes on. I'm vacuuming my vacuum dies and I hear mom help. Luckily my
2:32.1	vacuum dies ever what. No, I go up there, he's stuck and like proud of himself though, you know, because he's like, look how high I am.
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