This podcast details true crime cases.

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

It is not intended for children.

Listener discretion is advised.

Thank you for joining me for season five of Once Upon a Crime.

This month kicks off a new season as well as a new series.

We're headed into our fifth year of producing weekly episodes for you

and I'm so grateful that you've added Once Upon a Crime to your podcast playlist.

If you are a new listener, I welcome you to our 170th episode.

And if you've been a listener for a while, I thank you for your ongoing support.

We've just begun the month of June and that means wedding season.

You know, no matter what's happening in the world,

people will always continue to fall in love and want to get married.

Weddings are filled with romance, hope, and bright plans for the future.

After all the work in planning that goes into that special day,

a honeymoon trip often follows to kick off the new couple's life together in wedded bliss.

But as a follower of true crime, you know that marriages that begin with so much promise

can sometimes go very wrong.

In the cases I will present to you this month,

newlywed bliss ends in tragedy and violence,

even before the wedding cake has time to grow stale or the bouquet begins to wilt.

In this series, you'll hear four cases of newlyweds whose lives were cut short,

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