The murder of Sierra LaMar | Ep 245
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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When 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared on her way to school in Morgan Hill, California, investigators were left piecing together a case from scattered evidence and an unusually short timeline. This episode follows the investigation, the trial, and the later court decision that reopened difficult questions years after the conviction. Allison tells the story carefully, including the details that still leave Sierra’s family without closure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's |
| 0:07.5 | Allison. And my name's Mike. Hello, Mike. Hey, Allison. Jennifer, how are you? Oh, crap. How are you? Michael |
| 0:12.9 | Leonard. Just left out our middle names. That's not good. We left him out. You didn't leave him out. |
| 0:18.3 | You just put them out there. Brought him out there is what I'm trying to there. Who gives a flying hoot? What our friggin' middle names are? With all this in and out interaction, I have yet to make a joke about that sort of thing. So we're already like 10 to 15 seconds into the show. So I'm holding off. What would you be making a joke about? In and out motions. What do you think? Why are you making in and out motions? You just said in and out, in and out or something. I don't recall saying that. |
| 0:40.7 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:40.9 | Every, every male listener listening to this is thinking what I'm thinking, but that's all right. So how's my beautiful wife? Oh, pretty good. Happy Mother's Day to all you mommy's out there. Hey, congratulations. Well done. You better take good care of me today. Yeah. Wait. Oh, my God. I'm putting it out on a silver platter for him to just pick this up. She's putting out. She's putting in, out. And yeah, she's, uh, yeah, she's, she's a good lady. I think you're, maybe we should take a little break here for like 30 seconds. We're not going to take a break for 30 seconds. We're just going to continue on. don't touch me. So yes, I hope you ladies are being pampered today because us mothers, it's a very thankless job. You know, we do and we do. And oftentimes we don't get thank yous back. I always think back to the Bill Burr, stand-up comedy, Bill Burr, B-I-L-L-B-U-R-R. And he's like, oh, yeah, you know, it's, it's like politically correct to say the women do so much and stay-at-home moms do so much. He's like, really? Are you doing a lot? Are you? Is it a lot to put in some laundry and watch some television and vacuum? Watch some TV and put in some laundry. That's what stay-at-home moms are doing. He's like, is it a lot to make a dinner every once in a while and clean up some counters? Oh, I'm sorry. He's like, I think it's a little bit more high pressure to have billions |
| 1:47.1 | of dollars like in charge and everything. And he just makes a joke. I don't agree. Okay. I'm not saying I agree. I just think it's kind of funny. That's all. Well, I've never been a stay at home mom because I worked full time when I had our children. |
| 1:59.1 | They were in daycare. |
| 2:00.2 | And I have no judgment either way. |
| 2:02.5 | But I will tell you on the days that I was home with the kids or whatever, it's a lot of work when they're little. Yeah, it is a lot. You know, because they need everything from you and it's not like you're at work and you could be like, oh, I'm going to clock out for lunch now now i'm going to go sit and read a book or eat my lunch or whatever it could be a 24-7 job the little ones of babies |
| 2:24.0 | especially oh man that's a lot of work so i watch shows where i'm watching the valley and i think |
| 2:29.1 | they have like four under four it's like oh god love them because that's tough yeah Yeah. Well, happy Mother's Day, you mothers out there. Enough about you guys, more about me. I am wearing a shirt if you're watching on YouTube here. It's got skulls and all sorts of colorful little things coming out of the skull. And I bought it for my first EDM concert, which is like electronic dance music, techno type stuff. I think we talked about it in our last episode. |
| 2:51.5 | Right, right. |
| 2:51.9 | I'm just catching everybody up. So I bought it, but it didn't arrive in time for the stinking show. Even though stupid Amazon told me I'd have it by Friday, it didn't even come to like late Saturday. So this is not even the first time this has happened. It came about an hour after you left. Did it? I was like, oh, that hurts. |
| 3:07.4 | It does. |
| 3:07.8 | And so we ended up having to buy a shirt like Dick's sporting goods or something. |
| 3:11.0 | It was a cool. It came about an hour after you left. I was like, oh, that hurts. It does. |
| 3:07.8 | And so we ended up having to buy a shirt like Dick's sporting goods or something. It was a cool shirt. It was cool. Not as cool as this. Yeah. And it was also like 45 bucks. I was like, this is sick. I'm like, I can't believe we're spending $45 on a flipping t-shirt. I think it was 50 with tax. Yeah, it was like a Nike shirt and everything. |
| 3:24.6 | But that, I mean, come on. |
| 3:26.0 | And then you were saying that our girlfriends at the concert on a flipping t-shirt. I think it was 50 with tax. Yeah, it was like a Nike shirt and everything. |
| 3:43.2 | But that, I mean, come on. And then you were saying that our girlfriends at the concert had gotten a cocktail. And I was like, what were they? Like 20 bucks. And Mike's like 30. Yeah. They said they got like vodka and a soda and cranberry. And you said it wasn't even a big cup. Tiny, like smaller than your coffee cup. I'm talking like, I don't know, like those little cocktail glasses. Can somebody please tell me, all right, what do you think? Two shots of vodka, one into each? Let's assume too. All right, let's just say too. So you're paying $30 for two shots of vodka and about six ounces of club soda, maybe a splash of cram. |
| 3:58.4 | I mean, I don't even know about that much. Like, it's like, because it's such a small cup and there's ice in there. So it's just like, yeah, they were just paying 30 bucks. And one of our friends, she's like, I'm glad you agree with me. It's crazy. I'm like, it's only crazy if people stop doing it. It's not crazy. It's insane. |
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