Till Death Do Us Part: Kelly Ecker and Scott Samson

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

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

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A bride sees many red flags in her relationship before walking down the aisle, but her fear of angering her fiancee would compel her to go through with the ceremony. Within hours, that decision would become fatal. #domestic violence #coercive control Resources: "Murder-Suicide claims Indiana doctor, nurse on wedding night, police say", by Janet DiGiamcomo for CNN, Oct.. 9, 2014. "Indiana Doctor Kills His Wife and Himself on Wedding Night" by Steve Helling for People.com, Oct. 8 2014. Court Records, US District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Trustgard Insurance vs. Old National Wealth Management, Filed 2/24/17. Links: The Council on Domestic Abuse, Terre Haute - www.codaterrehaute.org To be connected with domestic violence and intimate partner violence organizations and resources in the U.S. you can go to thehotline.org, in the UK at womensAID.org.uk, in Australia 1800respect.org.au, and for an international directory go to hotpeachpages.net. Relationship Red Flags: Does your partner: Yell, belittle or humiliate you? Constantly criticize you and put you down? Blame you for his/her own behavior? Keep you isolated from your family and friends? Control or limit your access to money, telephone access or a vehicle? Follow of constantly check up on where you are, who you are with or what you are doing? Destroy your belongings? Force you to be intimate? Threaten to harm you or him/herself if you leave? Prevent you from working or having a career or your own? If you or someone you know is involved in an abusive relationship, help is available. Please reach out to organizations like those listed above for help.Together with advocates that are trained to help, abuse victims can get help in putting together a plan for them and their children to leave a dangerous situation as safely as possible.

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.0	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	It is not intended for children.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon A.
0:17.0	Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:25.0	In this month series, I'm sharing cases of love gone wrong, soon after the couple says I do.
0:31.0	This time you'll hear about a tragic case of a bride who saw many red flags in her
0:36.1	relationship even before walking down the aisle. Her fear of angering her fiancee would compel her to go through with the ceremony.
0:45.0	But within hours, that decision would become fatal.
0:49.2	This is Chapter 3 of, Till Death Do Us Part, The Case of Kelly Ecker and Scott Sampson.
0:57.0	Kelly Ecker told her mother that she had never been lucky in love.
1:06.0	She'd had several relationships and had been married before, but each one had fizzled out or had been
1:12.2	bad match-ups from the start.
1:14.5	So at the age of 49, she was in no hurry to date again.
1:19.2	Her siblings, Sister Kathy and brothers Ron, Kevin, and Scott were all married, but for some reason
1:25.8	Kelly could never seem to make a relationship stick for the long run. Her mother Pat would say
1:31.2	that her daughter had self-esteem issues and just never felt like she was good enough.
1:37.0	As a result, Kelly would ultimately reject the men she was dating before they could reject her first. Just why Kelly thought this way
1:45.3	about herself was a mystery to those who knew her. Kelly was kind, generous,
1:50.3	beautiful, and accomplished. She'd received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing
1:55.0	and then continued on to earn a master's degree. She'd worked as a registered nurse
1:59.6	in the intensive care unit of Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana for several years,
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