The Wrong Way Home: Tina Faelz
True Crime Brewery
Tiegrabber Podcasts
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Please enjoy this re-release of a premium episode from 2023! Tina Faelz was not having a good freshman year in high school. She was not doing well academically and was being bullied by some “Mean Girls.” Her home life was no picnic either. Her parents were divorced when she was a toddler and her mother […]
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| 0:00.0 | True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real-life crimes. |
| 0:14.0 | Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted |
| 0:19.0 | as medical advice or treatment. |
| 0:21.5 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome to True Crime Brewery, Tie Grabbers. I'm Jill. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Dick. |
| 0:35.3 | Tina Fails was not having a good freshman year in her high school. |
| 0:39.9 | She wasn't doing well academically, and she was being bullied by some of the mean girls at her school. |
| 0:45.7 | Her home life really wasn't a picnic either. |
| 0:48.3 | Her parents had divorced when she was a toddler, and her mother liked to party a bit too much. |
| 0:55.8 | But, you know, Tina really loved her little brother, who she cared for like a second mom. She was so young, just 14 years old, |
| 1:02.1 | and she had so much potential in life. Join us at the quiet end for the wrong way home. |
| 1:08.4 | When Tina's blood-covered body was found in a ditch near the path where she |
| 1:12.9 | walked home from school, the community of Pleasanton, California, was shocked. The police had several |
| 1:19.5 | suspects right away, but with no physical evidence, the case went cold. In fact, it was nearly |
| 1:25.7 | 30 years after her murder when DNA analysis identified one of Tina's |
| 1:30.8 | high school classmates as her killer, but no one was really surprised by this. What have we got for a |
| 1:37.2 | beer? Well, we wanted a nice California beer, and I picked one from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, |
| 1:45.9 | which is in Chico, California. |
| 1:48.9 | It's torpedo Extra IPA. |
| 1:52.0 | Now, Sierra Nevada is one of my favorite breweries. |
| 1:55.6 | It's probably had close to 100 different beers from them. |
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