The Snake Farm Murder: Ben and Lynlee Renick
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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A gruesome murder at a snake farm reveals deadly secrets and lies.
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| 1:19.5 | All right, Jesse, last week was a pretty tragic story. |
| 1:22.4 | What do you have this time around? |
| 1:23.9 | A gruesome murder at a snake farm reveals deadly secrets and lies. This is the |
| 1:30.1 | snake, snake, snake, snake, son. I'm Andy Cassette. And I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about snakes, fakes, and |
| 2:08.4 | love gone fatally wrong, or for my home alone enthusiasts, what I really wanted to go with was |
| 2:14.3 | snakes, snakes, I don't know, no snakes, but I didn't know if people would get that |
| 2:18.7 | reference. Yeah, I do not, but I'm sure people will. Let us know. You can find Love Murder on |
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