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In the early morning hours of Sat August 20th, 2016, Twenty-seven-year-old Derrick Dearman, entered the home where his twenty-four-year-old estranged girlfriend, Laneta Lester, was staying. It was Laneta's brother's home, situated approximately 30 miles outside Mobile, Alabama.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the Citronelle murders. Laneta had fled from Derrick because he was abusive. Her family turned Derrick away from the home when he showed up earlier. But Derrick was determined to get inside, and once he did, he committed multiple brutal murders against Laneta's family and then took her hostage.
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0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
0:05.8 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 365 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
0:44.0 | And this is Mike Morford. |
0:45.5 | Mr. Morford, how are you doing this week, buddy? |
0:48.2 | I'm doing good now, but I had a little rough week. I had some problems with the refrigerators, |
0:52.9 | breaking down, replacement came. That broke down. |
0:55.7 | So I've been scrambling to keep food cold. That's been my battle of it last week. Other than that, |
1:01.3 | I'm doing great. Yeah, that can be tough. I've had that happen. I had it once with a freezer, |
1:06.4 | like a deep freeze that was in my basement. That was a mess because you don't get in there all |
1:11.8 | the time so by the the time you figure out that the thing is no longer working oh that that was a |
1:19.8 | real mess but you know you kind of take for granted the refrigerator and then once it goes out |
1:26.3 | like you said it's a mad scramble to try to figure |
1:29.5 | out, okay, how do we keep all this stuff cold? There's a lot of money these days sitting in those |
1:35.4 | refrigerators. Yeah, it made me think back to the time before they had refrigerators, what they did |
1:40.2 | and how we take that technology for granted because it's such a a life hack to make things |
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2:06.0 | All right. Let's jump into this week's case and we're heading down to the southern United States, |
2:11.2 | to the state of Alabama, specifically the small town of Citronell. Citronell is located about 30 miles northwest of Mobile. |
2:20.7 | And though the population has increased over the years, |
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