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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Whitney Cerak and Laura Van Ryn (insane twist of fate) | Ep 194

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

National, Halloween, Truecrime, Married, True Crime, Wife, Couple, History, Husband, Documentary, Coffee, Crime, Murder, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Skip the banter: 00:05:18 (this can change depending on ads, but it's a good guess)

Summary: Two Michigan families, strangers to each other, are forever linked by a devastating accident in 2006. When a truck crashes into a Taylor University van, the Cerak and Van Ryn families face unimaginable loss and hope. This episode dives into a story of grief, faith, and a twist so profound it defies belief. Don’t miss this one. Seriously. You’ll be thinking about it for days.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's

0:07.5

Allison. And my name is Mike. Hello, Mike. Hey, Allison. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing? Good. You look cute in your

0:14.0

glasses. Your purple lavender top. You just got a good little thing going. Well, you are very sweet. Thank you so much.

0:19.7

My contacts are coming to the end of their month and I can feel it.

0:23.4

There's another, what, 50 bucks out the window?

0:25.7

No, Mike.

0:26.3

I've already got them.

0:27.6

It lasts me six months each box.

0:29.5

Oh, okay.

0:30.0

So simmer, simmer.

0:31.4

I'll get better.

0:32.3

They're there.

0:32.9

If you're new to our show, we welcome you with open arms. And we want to say, you know, we, we banter a little

0:38.7

bit in the beginning to kind of warm things up. We're at our little coffee shop here, our little

0:42.2

Pa and Ma coffee shop on Pa. And I'm Ma. Yeah. So we're just an independent podcast. Just a couple

0:47.4

of kids trying to make it in this world. We're a couple of old hags. Yeah, I mean, we're a little older than kids, but we're happy to be your mom, and pa, or whatever you need us to be, and maybe your buddy while you're doing whatever you're

0:57.3

doing all day long. So we thank you for coming by and giving us a shot here.

1:00.3

We'll keep you company doing whatever it is you're doing right now.

1:03.5

Yeah, and Allison tells me a new story every week that I haven't heard because I don't listen to true crime at all. And I really have no idea unless like I'll, I'll name like all the murderers that I know. It's like, now I was going to say Al Bundy,

1:13.8

but it's Ted Bundy. It wasn't even a joke. I was like Al Bundy. I mean, Ted Bundy. And then we

1:20.6

got like Dahmer and I think. Do you know Dommer's first name? Jeffrey. Jeffrey Dahmer. And like, that's like kind of my thing. That's what we're done.

1:28.8

I think I probably could name a few more. There's like the clown guy, Gacy. Yeah, of course,

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