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True Crime Brewery

Victim on Trial: Elana Steinberg

True Crime Brewery

Tiegrabber Podcasts

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Elana Steinberg’s husband, Steve Steinberg, was a well-liked restaurant manager with a gambling problem. Elana struggled to keep their finances afloat, but it wasn’t easy. Then, on an otherwise normal night in 1981, Elana was stabbed 26 times in their bed. Steve called 911 and told the dispatcher that two bearded men had robbed them […]

Transcript

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0:00.0

True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes. Medical information is opinion

0:15.9

based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.

0:21.6

Listener discretion is advised.

0:23.2

Welcome to True Crime Brewery.

0:31.2

I'm Jill.

0:32.2

And I'm Dick. And I'm Dick.

0:33.7

Alana Steinberg's husband, Steve Steinberg,

0:37.4

was a well-liked restaurant manager

0:40.0

who had a gambling problem.

0:41.8

Alana struggled to keep their finances afloat.

0:45.3

But it wasn't easy.

0:46.9

Then on an otherwise normal night, back in 1981,

0:51.1

Alana was stabbed 26 times in their bed.

0:55.0

Steve called 911, and he told the dispatcher that two bearded men had robbed them

1:01.0

and killed his wife.

1:02.8

Join us at the quiet end for victim on trial,

1:06.4

Alana Steinberg.

1:08.4

It wasn't long after Alana's murder

1:10.3

when Steve confessed that he had actually killed her.

1:13.0

Put on trial for murder, Steve's defense was temporary insanity.

1:18.0

Yeah, he'd killed his wife, he said, but he'd done it well sleepwalking.

1:22.0

And Alana had led him to it with her nagging and

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