Woman dismembered w/ chain saw and stuffed in suitcases; ‘Judge Judy’ guest charged with kidnapping
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
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This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A 78-year-old man is charged with murder after his wife’s dismembered remains are found floating in several suitcases. Plus, a former “Judge Judy” guest is arrested after allegations he impersonated a police officer to kidnap a victim and keep her in a homemade cell.
Rich McHale joins host Ana Garcia.
Catch Ana in Lifetime’s “Beyond the Headlines,” the latest episode, “Surviving Abduction”
premieres Saturday, August 12 at 11am ET/PT.
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| 0:00.0 | A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some |
| 0:05.3 | strong language. It, therefore, may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who |
| 0:10.8 | may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast, covering high profile |
| 0:16.3 | and under-the-rate our cases from across the country every week. I'm your host Anna Garcia. |
| 0:21.1 | Our case is this week. What is it with people appearing on reality or game shows? And then, |
| 0:26.4 | getting arrested for horrible crimes like kidnapping or murder. On this podcast, we've covered |
| 0:31.6 | the arrests of two people on food shows, one person on a game show, and now someone who appeared |
| 0:36.8 | on the Judge Judy show. Now, when he went on the show, the man claimed to be the victim. |
| 0:42.6 | But now, the FBI says that he is suspected of kidnapping a woman and holding her prisoner and |
| 0:48.7 | chained in a homemade cell. But first, a husband is accused of chopping up his wife and then |
| 0:55.3 | putting her body parts into suitcases and even one of those cheesecake factory take-out totes. |
| 1:02.6 | So what possesses a man to do something like this, especially at the age of 78 when he should be |
| 1:07.6 | enjoying his retirement? Well, if prosecutors get their way, he will be spending the rest of his |
| 1:12.9 | golden years behind bars. We're recording this on Wednesday, August 9th of 2023. |
| 1:18.7 | Our guest today is Rich McCale, a former police investigator, an author, a friend of the show |
| 1:23.2 | from New Jersey. And Rich has recently been featured on a people magazine investigates episode |
| 1:29.4 | about a case that he has been working on literally for decades. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:34.4 | that as well a little later. Rich, welcome back. How are you? Hello, Anna. Great to see you. |
| 1:40.0 | Good to see you. Always good to see my friends from South Jersey. We've got some doosies and we've got, |
| 1:46.2 | we've got some some kidnapping abduction cases today, which really dovetail into the case that |
| 1:53.0 | you've been working on about a little boy that was abducted when he was 11 years old, a case that |
| 1:58.0 | you covered, that I covered as a reporter back in the day. So I think we've got a lot to talk |
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