The Cheat: Parades and Poisonings
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover.
In this episode, we will cover the cold case slaying of Ronli Ratliff in Indiana, the murder of Lizbeth Medina in Texas, the unsolved double homicide of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra, the poisoning accusations around Erin Patterson in Australia, and the death of Armando Benavides in Florida.
The GoFundMe for Ronli Ratliff’s case: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ronlis-investigation?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=more&utm_source=customer
Our interview with Ronli’s aunt Kim Sink: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/505effa9-0889-4883-9e5a-0dc5eae76d2f
BBC’s coverage of the Erin Patterson case: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67293752
The Daily Beast’s coverage of the Erin Patterson case: https://www.thedailybeast.com/erin-patterson-who-cooked-allegedly-deadly-mushroom-lunch-admits-she-lied-to-cops
The Murder Sheet participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases: Our interview with The League of Lady Poisoners author Lisa Perrin: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/f17809a9-993a-4706-a17a-3fe49c59d1e0
An Instagram post from OnlyInDade about the discovery of the body: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1DdVUILL9R/comments/
CBS Miami on the discovery of the body: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/body-found-in-trash-bin-in-sw-miami-dade-residential-neighborhood-police-say/
Local 10 news on the Armando Benavides case: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/12/20/man-found-dead-in-trash-can-took-own-life-while-wanted-for-shooting-wife-miami-dade-police-say/
6 South Florida on the Benavides case: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/man-shot-ex-wife-days-before-his-body-was-found-in-kendall-trash-bin-police/3188796/
KHOU’s coverage of the arrest of Rafael Govea Romero: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/edna-texas-cheerleader-killed-lizbeth-medina-funeral-nebraska/285-f6b42941-7d23-4b86-8621-ef70884d6151
Coverage from CBS News on the murder of Lizbeth Medina: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lizbeth-medina-death-arrest-rafael-govea-romero-edna-texas-cheerleader/
Coverage from ABC13 on the Medina murder: https://abc13.com/edna-cheerleader-killed-lizbeth-medina-murdered-rafael-govea-romero-murder-investigation/14161791/
Newsweek’s coverage of the Medina murder: https://www.newsweek.com/rafael-romero-arrested-death-teenage-cheerleader-1851169
1011NewsNow’s coverage of the Medina murder: https://www.1011now.com/2023/12/10/suspect-arrested-murder-16-year-old-former-grand-island-girl/
Coverage from ABC13 on the Medina murder: https://abc13.com/edna-high-school-cheerleader-killed-lizbeth-medina-murder-rafael-govea-romero-arrested-mother-finds-teenage-daughter-dead/14166047/
The GoFundMe for Medina’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lizbeth-medina
KSAT's coverage of the murders of Savanah Soto, her unborn child, and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/12/27/what-we-know-about-the-case-of-savanah-soto-the-missing-pregnant-woman-found-dead-in-car-with-boyfriend/
CBS's reporting on the Soto-Guerra case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/savanah-nicole-soto-texas-pregnant-teen-death-family-speaks-out/
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the murder of children. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello everybody. I just want to say, I think we've been getting sappier and sappier as we get |
| 0:12.0 | nearer to 2024, but I want to thank you all again for listening. |
| 0:15.4 | I want to shout out this episode of the cheat sheet in particular because this is the first year that we |
| 0:20.4 | unrolled the cheat sheet concept, a opportunity for us to talk about a range of different cases in a shorter format at the end of every week. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the year we rolled it out, right Kevin? |
| 0:31.0 | Yes. Am I losing my mind completely? |
| 0:34.0 | It's been a long year, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:36.0 | Kevin's like, Anya, we've been doing the cheat sheet since the beginning, don't you remember? |
| 0:41.0 | So, um, this is our last cheat sheet of 2023 and we're just so glad you've |
| 0:46.2 | been enjoying it and let's get to it. In this episode we're going to be discussing two cases out of Texas, a case that we've covered |
| 0:55.1 | before out of Indiana, as well as a new case out of Australia and a case out of |
| 1:01.4 | Florida. So it sounds like quite a full plate. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, and all of the cases I believe that we're talking about |
| 1:09.0 | in it, you know, other than the one from Indiana that we've covered before |
| 1:12.0 | have been requested by |
| 1:12.8 | listeners. So so love to see everyone engaging with this and asking us to cover |
| 1:16.3 | different cases. So thank you. We appreciate you all. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a |
| 1:20.6 | journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney and this is the |
| 1:24.9 | murder sheet. We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews and |
| 1:30.1 | deep dives into murder cases. Where is the murder sheet? |
| 1:34.0 | And this is the cheat sheet, parades and poisonings. Thank you. I'm going to do. So, To start out with this is just a quick bulletin on a case that we've covered before and this of course is the unsolved murder of Ronley Ratliff. |
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