Throuple Trouble: Aileen Seiden, Zach Abell and Christina Araujo
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
When a throuple’s road trip ends at a remote motel along Florida’s Forgotten Coast, jealousy, alcohol, and years of violence collide in a deadly climax. The tangled relationship between Aileen Seiden, Zach Abell, and Christina Araujo spirals toward a shocking murder in Room 15, leaving investigators to unravel what really happened that night.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Jesse, last week featured some murky May-December romances. |
| 0:04.5 | What's the story this time around? |
| 0:06.2 | When a Thruples road trip ends at a motel on Florida's forgotten coast, |
| 0:11.4 | jealousy, booze, and years of violence finally reach a fatal climax. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jessie. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about bold cheats, cold sheets, and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder on TikTok and Instagram, where we do our sneak peek of the weeks and little show recaps at Love Murder Pod, and then on Facebook by searching Love Murder Podcasts where Jesse keeps a thriving Facebook community going. |
| 1:10.2 | I don't know. I have to check in lately. I'm not sure if I've been super du community going. I don't know. |
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