You Have One (1) New Message: The Murders of Lynn Stellers and Ronnie King

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Obsession is one of humanity’s greatest boons… and curses. Obsession can fuel a scientist’s entire career in trying to solve a singular problem. An athlete’s obsession can pull them to physics bending heights, a politician’s obsession with a cause can push a world changing bill forward. People can be obsessed over all sorts of great and mundane things: books, trading cards, cars, art without any kind of harm… But when that obsession is about controlling or possessing another person? Things can take a sinister turn. In today’s story, 7 people’s lives are ruined by a single woman’s obsession.

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Sources:
Court papers: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ct-supreme-court/1131876.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ct-court-of-appeals/1456321.html
Courant.com: https://www.courant.com/1997/07/16/vermont-man-receives-30-year-sentence-for-manslaughter/
https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/middletown-double-murder-case-be-featured-crime-documentary
Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," episode "Recording Evil"

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0:00.0	Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:19.6	Obsession is one of humanity's greatest boons and curses.
0:23.6	Obsession can fuel a scientist's entire career, trying to solve a singular problem.
0:28.6	An athlete's obsession can pull them to physics-bending heights.
0:32.6	A politician's obsession with the cause can push a world-changing bill forward.
0:45.8	People can be obsessed over all sorts of great and mundane things, books, trading cards, cars, art, without any kind of harm.
0:52.4	But when that obsession is about controlling or possessing another person, things can take a sinister turn.
0:56.5	In today's story, seven people's lives are ruined by a single woman's obsession. This is, you have one new message, the murders of Lynn Stellar and Ronnie King.
1:18.5	So, campers, for this one, we're in Middletown, Connecticut, November 1st, 1993.
1:26.7	25-year-old Gina Cochie was just getting home from her housekeeping shift at the local ski resort and hotel just after 5 p.m. Immediately, she could tell something was wrong.
1:30.4	Her girlfriend, 43-year-old Lynn Stellar, and their 25-year-old roommate, Lynn's nephew, Ronnie King,
1:36.7	were supposed to be home by then, but the house was completely dark. She called out in the darkness,
1:42.3	expecting one of them to answer, but there was no reply.
1:46.1	As she felt her way into the dark house, she kept expecting Lynn or Ronnie to pop out and greet her, but no one did.
1:53.1	Finally, at the end of the hallway, in the doorway to the kitchen, she tripped over something soft, but solid, on the floor.
2:01.2	As she pawed at the wall to turn on the light,
2:03.8	she saw with a shock of horror that the floor and the walls were covered in blood,
2:08.5	and that the object she'd tripped over was in fact Lynn's prone body.
2:13.4	Lying next to Lynn was Ronnie.
2:16.0	Her first reaction was that it was the day after Halloween,
2:19.5	that surely this was some sort of unfunny prank pulled on her by her girlfriend and roommate
2:24.5	using discount fake blood or something, right? She yelled at him, get the hell up, what is wrong with you people?
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