The Yoga Teacher Who Shot Her Ex-Husbands Girlfriend - November 25 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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November 25th: Chelsea Cook Kills (2018) Divorce can be incredibly difficult. So can watching your former partner move on. On November 25th 2018 a woman struggling to move past her divorce took matters into her own hands. https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6/29/21306903/utah-teacher-who-killed-ex-husbands-new-girlfriend-front-kids-prison-chelsea-cook-murder-christmas/, https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-woman-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-ex-husbands-girlfriend-in-front-of-children, https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/30/former-utah-teacher-will/, https://people.com/crime/teacher-lured-ex-husband-away-from-house-before-killing-new-girlfriend-in-front-of-twin-daughters/, , https://www.ksl.com/article/46720551/teacher-admits-killing-ex-husbands-new-girlfriend-in-front-of-kidshttps://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/jealous-mum-shoots-ex-husbands-22687527, https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/former-teacher-accused-of-murder-appears-before-judge/, https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/yoga-teacher-shoots-ex-husbands-new-girlfriend-in-front-of-twin-, https://people.com/crime/teacher-allegedly-lured-ex-husband-away-from-home-before-shooting-his-girlfriend/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	T'was the holidays at Starbucks red aprons tied up, warm wishes and names written on festive red cups.
0:08.7	The chocolatey mousse latte is here to cozy things up, topped with mokker cream moose for a finishing touch.
0:16.1	Two lattes in hand, one for you and one for me, because together truly is the best place to be.
0:24.3	The holidays are served now at Starbucks, subject to availability while stocks lost.
0:30.4	There were two more murders 15 miles away.
0:32.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:36.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:38.5	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:42.3	A cop of murder.
0:45.0	Divorce can be incredibly difficult, so can watching your former partner move on.
0:51.2	On November 25th, 2018, a woman struggling to move past her divorce took matters into
0:58.0	her own hands. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your
1:05.1	day with a morning cup of murder. In January of 2018, Chelsea Watros Cook, a health and yoga teacher at a local school in
1:15.1	West Jordan, Utah, and her then-husband, Travis Cook, decided to go their separate ways.
1:22.1	At the time of their divorce, the pair had three-year-old twin girls, who they planned on
1:27.2	co-parenting to the best of their abilities.
1:30.5	Chelsea, however, wasn't handling the upheaval very well, and things only got worse when her ex-husband started dating again.
1:40.6	Travis had met 26-year-old bank teller Lisa Valate Williams, and at the time of our story,
1:47.6	the pair had been dating for about six months.
1:51.1	Described as gentle, loving, and incredibly generous, Lisa fell for Travis and absolutely
1:58.4	adored his twin daughters.
2:01.2	What she didn't love was how this new relationship created discourse between her and her new
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