This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough

tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.

In this week's episode of Murder in the Rain, we have a special feature from our Patreon

series Welcome to, where we delve into a case from the hometown of one of our Patreon listeners.

Love, a powerful emotion capable of inspiring boundless devotion, took a deadly turn in the summer of 2003.

Sandy Razo, a bartender from Pinellas Park, Florida, fell victim to the dark side of love when she was brutally murdered in her own home.

Join us as we dive into Sandy's story and how love, obsession, devotion and control ultimately took her life.

In this very special Patreon episode, we're getting back to basics, we're boarding the Murder in the Rain Express and heading to another one of our Patreon members' hometowns to dig up a case.

This week we're visiting Stephanie in Pinellas Park, Florida.

Now I've been to Florida several times, most of which have been with Alicia, but I can honestly say I've never heard of Pinellas Park.

So I was really excited to do a little bit of research and learn about a new place I might want to visit.

Pinellas Park is smack dab in the middle of Pinellas County, which sits on the central western coastline of Florida and is directly to the west of Tampa.

The entire county is a peninsula, in fact it's 280 square miles.

So if you want to visualize that, on the west side of the peninsula of the state of Florida is another smaller peninsula that jets out and houses the cities of St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Clearwater and Largo.

The east of that is the Bay of Tampa and the east of that is Tampa.

It's a cool little geographic area with lots of bridges, no squirrel bridges, but it's cool just the same. I think we might need to go.

In 1911, the city of Pinellas Park was founded by a Philadelphia publisher named F.A. Davis and it was incorporated in October of 1914.

Davis actually created a company called the Florida Association and he began creating model farms all over Pinellas Park to sell.

Most of these farms grew sugar cane. He also built a landmark named Colony House, which was designed to lend rich folks a place to stay for social gatherings, as well as a place to do business.

Today the population is just over 53,000 people and if you Google, I don't know, what is Pinellas Park known for?

It would return, quote, popular equestrian facilities and events. So horse shows, arenas and barns.

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