The Untold Story- Murder of Crystal Turner & Kylen Schulte

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This episode revisits the 2021 homicide of newlyweds Crystal Turner (38) and Kylen Schulte (24), who were found shot near their van campsite in the La Sal Mountains. Initially, a “creepy camper” had alarmed them days prior. Investigation focused on Adam Pinkusiewicz - a former coworker exhibiting violent, racist, and paranoid behavior. He matched sightings and video of a Yaris driving away post-shooting, and autopsy bullets pointed to a Glock 9mm with rare red‑tipped ammunition. He died by suicide in Iowa in September 2021, leaving notes and a confession to his partner, revealing tragic details known only to investigators...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Housewives of True Crime. I'm Tabitha, your True Crime Housewife, and I'm bringing you real crimes, real twists, and searching for real justice every week.
0:14.3	I've got a brand new disco biscuit riding shotgun, sometimes a fan, sometimes a friend, but someone always fabulous.
0:22.2	So grab whatever you're drinking these days, press play, and let's talk crime in the
0:27.6	carpool line.
0:28.7	Clink, clink.
0:29.2	Talk a crime.
0:30.8	Talk a crime with a carpal line.
0:33.1	How to buy to touch you cry.
0:35.9	Talking crime with a couple of war. How to buy to of true crime. Welcome, Housewives of true crime. Welcome to Monday. Hopefully you guys all had a fantastic weekend. I haven't done so yet, but I can tell you I picked up my kids from camp
0:58.3	and dropped one off to a Christian camp in Texas, which, by the way, is what I wanted to start
1:09.1	this podcast off with right now, because we learned as a 4th of July, we had a real devastating flash flood in Texas.
1:18.9	You probably have heard about it.
1:20.5	And it took the lives of many people, you guys, so many people and a whole entire youth church camp full of girls. And so
1:33.3	that is totally devastating. And it was one of those things where you just didn't even think it was
1:40.4	real, right? I remember waking up and hearing a little bit about it. There wasn't much,
1:45.8	even in Texas, there wasn't a lot of news about it at first, but slowly we started hearing about it
1:52.7	and seeing more pictures and then came text messages that I got that I didn't know anybody
2:00.2	directly there, but I did know friends of friends
2:03.9	and people that have lost their little girls. I don't know them personally, but my friends do.
2:11.0	And so that is truly heartbreaking. If you listen to Patreon last week, you will know that I had a friend there at that camp
2:20.2	a couple weeks ago.
2:22.3	And she's been going there for years and years and years.
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