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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

The murders of Rick and Gail Brink | Ep 223

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

National, Halloween, Truecrime, Married, True Crime, Wife, Couple, History, Husband, Documentary, Coffee, Crime, Murder, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Skip the banter: 00:07:45 (give or take a minute depending on ads)

Newlyweds Rick and Gail Brink were murdered in their home just days before Thanksgiving, with no clear suspect in sight. Twenty-five years later, a strange comment from Gail’s brother shifted everything. Allison tells us the rest of this story that hinges on a terrible secret kept for decades.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison.

0:08.1

And my name's Mike excitedly waving to the camera. Hello, Allison. How's it going? Good. How are you?

0:12.8

I'm afraid when I wave my chicken flab under my arm will just be like, well, that's because you're chubby, and that's okay. I still love you.

0:20.2

Yeah, you're a chubby little girl and you're my wife.

0:22.6

So that's okay.

0:23.3

I'm just kidding, folks.

0:24.1

I'm just kidding.

0:24.7

She's beautiful. I love her no matter what. You know, there's a lot of people who have absolutely no idea what we look like. Right. So you can head on over to YouTube if you wanted to do that and check us out. you're not going to see a whole lot as far as Mike is concerned. That's me. Allison, she's cute. So enjoy.

0:38.7

Well, thank you, Mike. So what's me. Allison, she's cute.

0:38.0

So enjoy.

0:38.9

Well, thank you, Mike.

0:39.7

So what's up with you?

0:40.8

What's new? Well, you gave me one minute to talk about this topic because oftentimes before the show, we say, well, what are you going to talk about this week? And I come up with something super boring and you're like, don't talk about it too long because it's kind of boring. I'm like, okay, I'll try to keep it under a minute.

0:52.5

So here we go.

0:53.5

I've been recently jogging more because I'm trying to get a better heart, a more stronger heart, better V-O-2 max is what the metric is called that I'm trying to follow. And yeah, I'm jogging two days a week. Zone 2 cardio, if you guys have ever heard of that. It's, I hate jogging. I freaking hate running.

1:11.6

And I, this zone 2 cardio is like easier. It's, it's almost too easy. You're like, how the hell is this helping me at all? But it absolutely is. So I don't know. I'm going to try it out. And I ran today, did some like four by four, no region things. I don't know. it's just whatever it says to try to raise your V-O-2 max.

1:27.3

And I'm feeling really good about myself.

1:29.4

So it's one week in.

1:30.2

So who knows?

1:30.8

Check on me in 20 weeks. region things. I don't know. It's just whatever it says to try to raise your V-O-2 max. And I'm

1:28.2

feeling really good about myself. So it's one weekend. So who knows? Check on me in 20 weeks. Yeah, you just have to stick with it because at this point in time where we are in our lives, we're 46 years old. We just want to be healthy, age well, that sort of thing. I'm not wearing some little yellow polka dot bikini or anything like that.

1:44.0

You could and you're pretty cute.

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