The Ties That Bind: The Crimes of Shelly Knotek - Part 2

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This is part 2 of a 2-part- episode. As we continue the story, Shelly and Dave Knotek have isolated themselves, their three daughters, nephew, and a boarder, Kathy Loreno, in their Ramond, Washington home. The torture and abuse Kathy endured would come to a shocking conclusion in July of 1994. Resources: If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/knotek-michelle.htm https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/876416/shelly-knotek-abuse-daughters-serial-killer/ https://casetext.com/case/state-v-knotek Snapped: Season 10, Episode 19 Couple Held in Woman’s 1994 Disappearance https://apnews.com/article/1ba1a2ceca7d8bbbc82506c3b1b488b5

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	This episode contains explicit language. It is not intended for children.
0:11.5	Listen or discretion is advised. Thank you're for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:25.3	This is part two of a two-part episode that began last week, so if you have not yet
0:30.3	listened to episode 238, you'll want to start there to get the first half of the story
0:35.8	in this series we're looking at cases where a narcissistic head of a household rule so
0:40.0	completely over their family members that they create a cult-like unit.
0:44.8	Within this type of dysfunctional home, the head of household rules by fear, abuse, and brainwashing,
0:50.6	eroding any freedom or autonomy for their children or partners.
0:54.0	In this case, Shelly Notech extended her control not just to her husband and daughters,
0:59.0	but also to a young relative and a friend who was invited to live in her home. Both would also suffer torture and
1:05.2	abuse at her hands, but her friend Kathy Loreno would become the main target. As we continue the story,
1:12.0	Shelly and Dave Notech isolate their family even further from the outside world, and the abuse continues unchecked.
1:18.5	No one had any idea what was happening behind the walls of a nondescript farmhouse in Raymond Washington.
1:24.4	When events finally did come to light, it was almost too horrible to be believed.
1:30.0	This is part two of The Ties that Bind, the Crimes and Dave Noeck purchased a white farmhouse on Monaghan
1:49.4	on Mahon-Landing Road in Raymond Washington. Even though it was over a hundred years old and needed work,
1:54.0	She only chose it because it provided privacy from the outside world. When they first moved in
1:58.8	she instructed her daughter Sammy to walk around the property to determine what passers-by could see from the road.
2:04.8	Privacy is very important to our family, Shelly told her.
2:08.8	Shelly had become the all-powerful cruel queen in her little kingdom consisting of her
2:13.8	subservient husband Dave Notech, homeless 17-year-old nephew Shane Watson, and her
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