Hey guys and welcome.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast hosted by

myself Mandy and my dear friend, Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

Are you hosting this week?

It's not featured by you?

Oh, is that what I said?

You changed it up.

Threw me off my game. Oh, my gosh. I was just trying to see if you pay attention to me at all when I talk in the beginning. Apparently, I pay more attention to you than you pay attention to yourself. Apparently so. Mystery solved. So we're not going to talk about the weather this week, Mandy. we're going to get right into this story. We are. It is a really interesting story. It's very unique. And this is a

case that was suggested to us through our Facebook group, but by my friend Sarah, who has

suggested cases before from the lovely state of Maryland, where she lives. This is the story of a romantic weekend murder

mystery getaway turned real life murder in St. Michael's Maryland. So before we get into the story,

we're going to learn a little bit about St. Michael's Maryland in this week's segment of we Googled

this city. St. Michael's is a coastal town in Maryland, and as of the 2000 census, there were only around 1,100 residents with the average age of the town being 50 years old, which is really like my kind of people.

So St. Michael's was originally thought to be of as a shipbuilding town, but after the war of 1812, the oyster industry revived the sleepy town.

Very interesting facts.

But now they're going to get interesting.

So speaking of the War of 1812, the town actually had a really huge role in the War of 1812.

In 1813, so it's 1812 adjacent, there was a large British fleet that moved up the Chesapeake Bay and targeted St.

Michael's. So the residents of St. Michael's somehow got word about this attack and they decided to

try and trick these boats looking to harm them. So the town's people grabbed all their lanterns

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