Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my friend Melissa.

Aw, thank you.

That seemed genuine and sincere.

I appreciate that.

I just, it's been a long day.

I don't have it in me to be snarky with you this evening.

I will keep that in mind and I'll let you know if you do.

We are so happy to be back.

It's been a crazy whirlwind couple of weeks with the holidays and with our last episode

of having Josh Mankowitz on.

And we are really excited, at least I am, to just be back kind of in our regular groove and having

a regular case that we're going to do just like normal for us and we love the josh minkowitz episode

well we we loved it but we will never listen to it again because i get such extreme anxiety

even thinking about that day very hard on the nerves yeah very very hard on the nerves. Yeah, very, very hard on the nerves.

So I'll maybe never recover from that episode.

Maybe not. I don't know. Yeah. As long as I don't listen to it again, I think I can just put it behind me. And that's just a thing that we did now. Yeah, it's a thing we did. It's a memory. Okay. But if you haven't listened to it, listen to it, because it was a lot of, we got a lot of good feedback on it, which was nice. Yeah. We did. So thank you guys. So we have our mugs to go to Addy, our winner from our Hardy Boys versus Dateline episode with Josh. And it's super cute. Can't wait to get it out for you. And we got that through our website, our threadless site. Momsomrider.threadless.com. We have updated our logo to include the word podcast, guys. So you're no longer in a cult. Now we officially have the word podcast as part of the design. And it looks really great. So if you want to check that out, monsormurder.threadlist.com,

we would appreciate that. And we are looking forward to this new episode. Mandy, hit me with it.

All right. But don't hit me. So today's story begins in a small, quiet town with a population of

about 9,000, Grimes, Iowa. It was the early summer of 2014, and Angie Verhuehue was in her mid-20s, working as a

schoolteacher.

She was totally smitten with her fiancé of eight months, Justin Michael, who was 30 years old

and employed by Wells Fargo as an operations analyst.

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