Hey guys and welcome.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring

myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

How are you?

I am doing well.

Surviving the month of April, which I think I may have mentioned before,

is the busiest month of the year. For me, I have like everybody I know and care about is got a

birthday in April. So it's just a very busy, busy month. The second year in a row, you've said it

that exact way, knowing it's good good and well my birthday's not in

april two years oh my gosh yeah i mean everyone's like one of those that i know and care about except

melissa thank you thank you children i mean gosh i guess they're chop liver too you can get in the

bin with them honestly Honestly, yeah.

It's me and them against the world, apparently. Yeah, so we just celebrated my husband's birthday this week and we've got all fun birthday activities planned for the weekend. So, yeah,

I'm just exhausted to tell you the truth, but we're making it.

Nice. My husband's birthday's been a couple weeks, and I've commissioned, like, not commissioned, but like we have a family member that's an artist and I'll have to send you. Once it's done, I'll post it because he doesn't know this yet. I'll post it, but it's the most ridiculous, amazing thing, and I'm so excited about it. Is this what I was seeing on the Instagram messages going back and forth?

I haven't looked at them, but I did see that you were, I could tell that's what you were talking about. Yes. It's so much fun. It's going to be great. So I'm not tired because I'm literally contributing nothing for that. There you go. That's the way to do it. Exactly. Yeah.

All right. So we'll get into the story for this week. As we all know, the world that we live in isn't always necessarily a safe place. If you listen to a lot of true crime, then you know that

danger can be lurking in the most unsuspecting places and that even those closest to us

can betray us in the most ultimate ways. We all do our best to avoid dangerous situations and we

have a reasonable expectation of safety in these average everyday lives that we have. So it makes it

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