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

Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well this week. How are you? I'm doing really good. Thank you. Life is going well. Yeah, I'm just kind of settled into my new normal.

Hey, the weather is great.

Yeah, the weather is beautiful.

Yes, I know.

That is one thing I have been so happy about because getting outside of your house is like a totally necessary thing these days.

And it's nice to have decent weather to do so.

And so, yeah.

I hope that's the same for everybody because if not,

we sound a little like church. I know. It's beautiful here. Sorry everyone else. Yeah, I know. I mean,

we have to look for the bright spots and whatever our situations are. So for us,

it's weather. Hopefully, even if it's not weather for you, then maybe there's something. I hope.

Wait, did you say it's weather? The weather? Oh, that we're, I thought you were like trying to say it's beautiful weather and instead you just landed on, it's weather. And I was like, well, I don't normally describe it that way, but you do you. This is 2020. We do what we want now. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, just business as usual around here. And, you know, just excited to be back in recording a new episode this week. And,

yeah, I don't really have a lot else to say. I almost never do. Nothing that is worth mentioning

anyway.

All right.

So we'll get right into it then.

So everybody has heard the general advice that you should just be nice to everybody that you meet because you really don't know what they're going through in life.

And this week's story is a very sobering reminder that even if things appear perfect for somebody,

they really could be living in a real

life nightmare. The story this week involves a person who is gender nonconforming and we want

to remain respectful. However, this case did take place 20 years ago. So we are going to refer to

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