True Crime Time For May 4, 2026 | FedEx Driver Death Penalty Trial, Kentucky Bank Murders & School Stabbing

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Cyndi Overton covers the emotional death penalty trial of the FedEx driver who murdered 7-year-old Athena Strand, a deadly Kentucky bank shooting, and a school stabbing in Washington state. 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 Monday. May the 4th be with you,
0:26.1	2026, and I am Cindy Overton. I want to thank you for joining us today. Thank you for listening to us every day and thank you for listening to us every day and thank you for listening to us every day, and thank you for all that you do to support us for the ticket sales and everything else.
0:47.5	I'm just going to start off this day with some gratitude.
0:52.3	So thank y'all so much.
0:54.6	And we look forward to seeing everybody at the live event on July 18th.
0:59.8	If you haven't purchased your tickets, go to tiny URL.com slash RLRC 2026.
1:08.8	And it will bring you to Southeastern Livingston Lifelong Learning Center, run by Crystal
1:16.6	Hardison. And if not, when you look at the show notes on each episode, right at the very
1:24.7	top is the link and also the link for our hotel block of rooms for the
1:32.6	weekend. Let's go way back to 1970. And on May 4th and 1970, four students were killed and nine wounded at a protest demonstration at Kent State University.
1:54.5	The National Guard was called into Kent State University in response to protests regarding the involvement of the United States in Vietnam.
2:04.4	3,000 people were in attendance at the anti-war demonstration that had been prohibited by the
2:10.9	university, which prompted the National Guard's response.
2:16.2	And that is this day in history.
2:24.7	I'm going to take us to Kentucky,
2:28.8	where a person was arrested and charged for killing
2:33.2	two bank employees in Kentucky, and authorities claim that the
2:41.1	teenage suspect led police on a 130 mile per hour chase before his capture.
2:49.6	The suspect has now been named as Brayland Weaver, and Weaver is 18 years old and charged
2:57.0	with armed bank robbery, use of a firearm in a crime of violence, and causing death with a
3:04.2	firearm in the course of the crime of violence.
3:08.2	According to the federal affidavit, Weaver was wearing a mask and entered the U.S.
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