The Church Lady Murder: Imaginary Love Triangle Ends in Tragedy
Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén
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4.7 • 30.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever wish you had a magic mirror that could give you all the answers? |
| 0:12.3 | In the tale of Snow White, an evil queen learns from her magic mirror that she's not the fairest one of all. |
| 0:19.1 | Her stepdaughter, Snow White is, thus planting the rotten seed |
| 0:24.0 | of envy that festers inside the queen for years. But life isn't easy for Snow White. After the queen |
| 0:31.8 | runs her out of town, Snow White has no family to turn to. She basically becomes a live-in maid |
| 0:37.1 | to seven small coal miners. |
| 0:39.3 | She's just living life, trying to make the best of the situation. |
| 0:43.4 | But the queen can't see any of that. |
| 0:45.8 | She sees only a threat. |
| 0:48.3 | And jealousy, unchecked, unchallenge, turns turns her into a poison apple murderer. |
| 0:56.4 | All because an enchanted piece of home decor told the queen, someone else is better than you. |
| 1:05.3 | They say jealousy is a disease, but maybe it's really a symptom of misguided insecurity, of misunderstanding each other, |
| 1:16.3 | and of forgetting that we all struggle, even if we hide it. In today's story, one woman's |
| 1:25.4 | jealousy clouds her perception until she can only see red. |
| 1:30.9 | I'm Harvey Guillen, the time is less important than the setting, because it takes |
| 2:02.9 | place in a town where life moves more slowly, where the people are less interested in fads and trends, |
| 2:11.2 | where picture-perfect homes overlook rolling hills and deep forest. It's such an idealic place that Lassie, the Heroic TV dog, was actually invented here. |
| 2:22.0 | Yep, she was based on a real-life dog named Toots. |
| 2:26.8 | What I'm saying is Springfield Township, Pennsylvania is the epitome of small-town America. |
| 2:42.0 | And there, along a two-lane country road, an old church opens its doors to the cold air. Trinity, Evangelical, Lutheran has stood for over 250 years. |
| 2:48.0 | It's older than the United States. |
| 2:50.0 | And all that time, it served a loyal congregation, |
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