True Crime Time For February 7. 2026 | Violence, Fraud, Child Abuse & Cold Case Justice

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🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of True Crime Time For, Cyndi Overton covers a wide range of crime stories spanning historical events, recent acts of violence, financial fraud, and deeply disturbing cases of child abuse. The episode emphasizes how crime impacts communities and why public awareness and engagement remain essential to justice. The discussion includes unprovoked violence in public spaces, large-scale embezzlement and fraud schemes, domestic violence cases, and the resolution of a decades-old cold case. Throughout the episode, Cyndi highlights the role of law enforcement accountability, community involvement, and education in preventing future crimes. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/RLRC for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out Essilor® Stellest® Lenses: https://www.essilor.com * Check out Greenlight and use my code greenlight.com/rlrc for a great deal: https://greenlight.com * Check out Hers and use my code forhers.com/rlrc for a great deal: https://www.forhers.com * Check out Mood and use my code RLRC for a great deal: https://mood.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com * Check out Ruggable and use my code RLRC for a great deal: https://ruggable.com * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/rlrc for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/real-life-real-crime/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime Time for Saturday, February 7th, 2026th, and I am Cindy Overton.
0:25.8	And since Woody recorded his birthday episode by himself, I am going to take the time to tell him,
0:34.1	happy birthday. And I know he had a great day because it already happened. So I want to start off today by thanking
0:43.9	everybody for liking, listening, and sharing the podcast. It really means a lot. We are just so grateful for it. We're grateful for all of you lifers.
0:57.5	Please do not forget to go into the app. I have been creating for each episode, fun little quizzes
1:05.6	and polls that you can earn points with and then use your points. I actually have a poll about possible different
1:14.1	ways for you to use your points that I can implement in the app. So go check that out. And we have a
1:24.5	bunch of lifers in there that, you know, treat it as the community that it is,
1:29.8	and they share their daily life or they make their own post about what's going on.
1:36.3	In the app, you have immediate connection with Woody or myself.
1:40.7	You, you know, directly can message us or just create a post and we immediately respond
1:51.8	or someone tags us so that we see it if we didn't see it yet.
1:56.6	But with that being said, we're going to start with this day in history.
2:04.4	And so on February 7th of 1983, the ongoing harassment of Mary Gillespie escalated.
2:13.5	Gillespie was picking up her kids when she saw an obscene sign about her daughter and attempted to remove it.
2:22.4	Gillespie noticed a box with a loaded gun rigged to go off.
2:26.5	The gun was owned by Paul Freshore.
2:30.1	Fresher?
2:30.8	Freshore.
2:32.3	Gillespie's brother-in-law,
2:37.5	who was tried and convicted of attempted murder.
2:40.8	Before this, Gillespie and her husband, Ron,
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