The Cheat Sheet: Tampering and Trails

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Additional content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide.

This episode was originally published on The Murder Sheet's main feed on August 16, 2024.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover.

Today on the Cheat Sheet, we cover an ongoing cold cases where police now suspect the original story, two cold cases that almost led to accountability, and an ongoing case of a professor charged with killing his wife — where now questions remain about how his infant children died.

The Baltimore County Police Department’s Facebook post on the case: https://www.facebook.com/BaltCoPolice/posts/811222337867296?ref=embed_post

WMAR2 News’s 2022 coverage of the disappearance of Michelle Rust, which includes a statement from her husband Dwight Rust Jr.: https://www.wmar2news.com/marylandmysteries/missing-in-maryland-the-disappearance-of-michelle-rust-remains-unsolved-for-nearly-20-years

The Murder Sheet also relied upon reporting from the Baltimore Sun accessed through Newspapers.com.

Reporting from CBS News on the murder of Dana Ireland, the suicide of suspect Albert Lauro Jr., and the wrongful convictions of Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, Shawn Schweitzer, and Frank Pauline Jr.: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dana-ireland-murder-1991-hawaii-albert-lauro-dna-possible-suspect-dies-by-suicide/

KTAB’s coverage of the death of Billye Brown before he could go to trial for the murders of Susanna Flores Brown and Franchesca Antionette Martinez: https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/crime/suspect-arrested-in-cold-case-murders-of-abilene-mother-young-daughter-dies-before-trial/

Fox News’s coverage of the death of Billye Brown before he could go to trial for the murders of Susanna Flores Brown and Franchesca Antionette Martinez: https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-arrested-1982-cold-case-murders-mother-young-daughter-dies-before-trial

The Denver Post's article on the arrest of Nicholas Myklebust, the murder of Seorin Kim, and the deaths of Lesley Kim and Bear Myklebust: https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/02/nicholas-myklebust-murder-wife-baby-regis-professor/

An open letter to true crime creators about neurodivergence from Anissa Ljanta of Wild Brain: https://open.substack.com/pub/anissaljanta/p/open-letter-to-true-crime-podcasters?r=8l5o4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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0:00.0	Content warning this episode contains discussion of sexual assault domestic violence and
0:05.2	murder is in particularly the murder of a child. So today we're going to talk about four cases,
0:11.9	one out of Baltimore, Maryland area, I should say, one from the big island in Hawaii,
0:19.4	one out of Texas and another out of Denver, Colorado, I should say that actually interestingly
0:24.5	enough, three of four of these cases are about long unsolved criminal cases, one of which
0:32.2	is unresolved and the other two have frankly unsatisfying
0:36.9	resolutions, but at least there are some answers now.
0:39.4	My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist.
0:42.4	And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm a journalist.
0:42.6	And I'm Kevin Greenley. I'm an attorney.
0:45.1	And this is the Murder Sheet.
0:46.9	We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting,
0:50.3	interviews, and deep dives into murder cases.
0:53.0	We're at the murder sheet.
0:55.0	And this is the cheat sheet, tampering and trails. I'm going to be. Oh, And then. So this first case comes out of Maryland and it was a listener suggestion as well and my
1:50.1	sources were the Baltimore County Police Department's Facebook page, the Baltimore Sun
1:55.4	access through newspapers.com, and W.Marr to News. So this concerns a 24 year old woman named Michelle Rust. On the morning of July 20th,
2:11.0	2002 she was getting ready for her three-year-old son's birthday party. She
2:15.1	needed balloons. She wanted to get a flower for her husband, Dwight Rust Jr's grandmother
2:21.9	at Walmart since she shared a birthday with her son.
2:24.9	That's all according to the Baltimore son.
2:27.2	And so she left the house around 930 a.m. that day.
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