True Crime Time For September 11, 2025 | From 9/11 to Now: Stories of Loss, Crime, and Resilience
Real Life Real Crime
Real Life Real Crime Productions
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, the hosts reflect on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, sharing personal stories and the impact it had on their lives. They discuss the mysterious case of Michelle Vanek, a woman who vanished during a hike and was recently found after nearly 20 years. The conversation shifts to shocking child neglect cases, including a six-year-old girl found locked away for years. They also cover a disturbing domestic abuse case leading to a long prison sentence, recent murder cases, and the ongoing issues of drug trafficking and cartel violence. The episode concludes with a light-hearted note on bizarre criminal cases and the nature of crime in society.
Chapters
00:00 Remembering 9/11: A Personal Reflection
04:39 The Mysterious Case of Michelle Vanek
12:53 Shocking Child Neglect Cases
19:08 The Horrors of Domestic Abuse
25:14 Murder and Justice: Recent Cases
30:48 The Dark Side of Drug Trafficking
36:31 Bizarre Criminal Cases and Their Consequences
9/11, true crime, Michelle Vanek, child neglect, domestic abuse, drug trafficking, murder cases, justice, crime stories, personal reflections
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome this episode of true crime time for Thursday, September |
| 0:20.1 | 11, 2025, and I'm Woody Overton. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Cindy Overton. |
| 0:25.0 | Back at it again in the settle. |
| 0:28.5 | And, of course, goes without saying today, 24th. |
| 0:35.2 | Don't start crying before we can start. |
| 0:37.2 | I know. It hits me hard. It does me before we even start. I know. |
| 0:38.1 | It hits me hard. |
| 0:39.6 | It does me too. |
| 0:40.5 | I know. |
| 0:41.9 | And many other people. |
| 0:44.5 | It's the 24th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks across the United States, which changed the world forever, no doubt about it. |
| 0:55.8 | So we can talk about it real quick and get it out of the way so we can get on some true crime time. |
| 1:00.7 | And I was in uniform patrol at the time, about to be a detective, and I had worked the night shift, and I was living all the way across the parish. |
| 1:13.8 | We had to take her units into the one place to this one auto shop that did all our service. |
| 1:20.8 | And I had to go get the old change. |
| 1:22.3 | You had to stay on top of your shit, right? |
| 1:25.1 | So I got off at 6 o'clock driving in. |
| 1:29.5 | It's about a 40-minute drive across the parish from the south where I was to the north-west end to Perry's shop. |
| 1:40.1 | And on the way, I was listening to Kidcratic in the morning, and I heard them. |
| 1:43.5 | They cut it and they said, oh, there's a tragedy. |
| 1:46.5 | A plane just hit the World Trade Center. |
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