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Red Collar

The Google Murder

Red Collar

audiochuck

True Crime

4.46.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When cellist Janine Sutphin's body was found floating in a lake, police wondered what secrets her husband Robert Petrick was hiding in the basement. They were about to find out that the mild-mannered computer expert was living a double life that included polyamorous Wiccan relationships, love scams and millions of dollars in fraud…and that was just the beginning. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/ .

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0:00.0

On January 22, 2003, in Durham, North Carolina, a 51-year-old man named Robert Petrick called

0:09.3

the police.

0:10.9

He said that the night before his 57-year-old wife, Janine, who was a cellist with a

0:15.4

Durham Symphony Orchestra, had left for rehearsal and never come home.

0:20.4

He wanted to report her missing.

0:23.2

Police went to the parking garage where Janine parked her 1999 Mazda.

0:28.5

They found the gold Mazda in the parking garage across the Symphony.

0:32.7

Janine's keys and cello and her personal items were inside, and there were no signs of

0:37.6

a struggle or a robbery.

0:39.9

The outside of the car looked completely normal, too.

0:43.5

Police looked closer.

0:45.1

There were no blood stains or anything else that would indicate foul play.

0:49.5

And there was the fact that her stuff, including a cello that was worth thousands of dollars,

0:54.6

were left inside the car totally undisturbed.

0:58.2

They interviewed the other members of the orchestra.

1:01.3

No one saw anything strange in the parking garage that night.

1:04.8

Actually, no one had seen Janine show up at practice at all.

1:09.3

They took a closer look into her life.

1:11.9

On the surface, Janine appeared to be a creature of habit.

1:15.3

Friends and family said that she was thoughtful and reliable, and there was no reason for anyone

1:20.3

to want to hurt her.

1:21.9

She had a great relationship with her three sons who lived out of state and seemed to have

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