True Crime Vault: Burning Bed

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True Crime

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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They were a young couple living the good life in Palo Alto, California. She, a beautiful, ambitious, real estate agent and he, the fun-loving owner of a local hookah lounge. In this story, a tumultuous 2-year romance leads to fiery passion and then murder. How did the relationship become so volatile, and who is responsible for the death? What follows is a shocking tale of love gone awry, and a history of domestic violence that lay just below the surface. Originally Aired 03/25/11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Deborah Roberts. Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault.
0:05.0	Each week we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.
0:11.0	You broke her teeth, he broke her bones.
0:13.0	Poisons that you could use that would be undetectable.
0:17.0	Oh my goodness, what have you done?
0:21.0	Take a listen. listen. Coming up.
0:25.0	They were hungry for success.
0:30.0	A roller coaster couple spinning out of control.
0:33.2	Their ups and downs all on record in their own voices.
0:41.2	He flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold tigger.
0:47.0	Until an explosive relationship, don't ever threaten me again or I will seek ultimate justice.
0:53.0	Ended in a fiery death for one of them.
0:57.0	But which?
0:58.0	We have a party.
1:00.0	We have a party, Stanley Budge.
1:02.0	So what finally lived the match,
1:05.0	and whose body was on the burning bed?
1:08.0	Nobody had to tell me.
1:09.0	I knew it was my child.
1:18.6	I'm John Kignones. Most couples have fights now and then, but the high voltage couple you're about to meet, Jennifer Skipski and Paul Zumat took fighting to a whole new level, but did it lead
1:27.4	to murder?
1:28.7	As Jim Avila first reported in 2011, they left a trail of angry texts and vicious phone messages until one of them
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