Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,

whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?

I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.

Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.

Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl.

Listing discretion is advised. Hey y'all. It's KJ here and I'm back. I've got a great episode for you today. What is going on? If you are watching me right now podcast, you'll see I have this ridiculous contraption on my thumb because I hurt my finger. I hurt my finger. And it's not a cool, it's not a cool injury either. You would think I'd love to give you something awesome, but they said it was a texting thumb as unsexy as that is. I'm like, for real, I text so much and I message so much that I've injured my thumb. So don't y'all tell me, I don't answer y'all's messages because it's true. I've got the texting thumb to

prove it. So ridiculous. All right. But anyway, I hope you're doing well. I hope your thumbs are

just moving fluidly because mine sucks. But I'm going to ask you to come with me today to California,

California, and we're going to be in the

Lakewood, north of Long Beach area. And this is where Bruce and Jana Kochlitch built their dream home.

Jana was born on January 1, 1960, and in her family, she was an only child. But that was a

perfect thing for their family because she was

her parents' absolute pride and joy. And as a young adult, her dream, as she grew up,

was that she wanted to go to law school. She had been talking about this basically her whole

life, that that is where she wanted to go and she wanted to be a lawyer. But that all changed when she met the love of her life, Bruce. And when they met and they decided

that they wanted to get married and start their family, she abandoned those plans of becoming a

lawyer. And she decided, you know what? Let's do something different. I want to be with you and I want us to build

this empire together. And so Bruce had dreams that he wanted to build a real estate business.

And he knew in his heart of hearts that Jana was the one. She was the one that could help him

to succeed because she had what he lacked. Because Jana, she really enjoyed being in the background. She liked doing

the computer work and the paperwork and all of that, while Bruce was really more of the personality

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