This week Erin tells us about Lawrence Strempel, a Houston-area teen who in the early 1970s confessed to killing two young brothers, served roughly two years in a juvenile facility, and was then released at age 18.

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https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1967462/m1/1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/15fonsz/lawrence_strempel_who_was_responsible_for_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/1jiel39/the_mutilation_murders_of_ronald_and_kenneth/

https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588#memory-466546

https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lawrence-a-strempel-jr-birth-1958/104771588

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This week Stacey tells us about Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer turned drug dealer who was sentenced to life for the 2016 kidnapping and murder of four men and who briefly shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein.

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wbznewsradio.iheart.com

courtlistener.com

dea.gov/press-releases

eviemagazine.com/

justice.gov/epstein/files/

justice.gov/epstein/files/

justice.gov/epstein/files/

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justice.gov/usao-sdny/

yahoo.com/news/

yahoo.com/news/

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This week Erin tells us about serial killer Robert Garrow, who in 1973 abducted, raped, and murdered multiple victims in upstate New York, leading to a massive Adirondack manhunt and a landmark legal-ethics case over his attorneys keeping the locations of two victims’ bodies secret.

Sources:

https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/garrow-robert.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Bodies_Case

https://www.adirondacklife.com/2024/07/24/summer-of-garrow/

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This week, Stacey tells us about Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who traveled to upstate New York to meet a woman named Precious he met online, only to be kidnapped, brutally tortured for weeks, and ultimately killed by a group of seven alleged attackers.

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sam-nordquist-killing-room-22-rcna194129

https://glaad.org/grief-and-fond-remembrances-for-slain-transgender-man-sam-nordquist/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/18844-sam-nordquist

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This week Erin tells us about Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor who was murdered in 2014 in a conspiracy involving his former in-laws and hired hitmen.

Sources:

Dan Markel - Wikipedia

Donna Adelson sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating 2014 murder of ex-son-in-law, FSU professor Daniel Markel - CBS Miami

A law professor was stalked and killed by hit men. His former mother-in-law is now on trial | CNN

Dan Markel News Updates pg 1 of 9 | Court TV

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this week Stacey tells us about the death of Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower found dead by suicide in his San Francisco apartment in November 2024 after publicly condemning the company’s data practices, a ruling contested by his family who remain convinced foul play was involved.

Sources:

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/suchir-balajis-mother-new-charge-as-sam-altman-calls-openai-whistleblowers-death-suicide-9278849

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/openai-whistleblower-autopsy-report-released-20168839.php

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-autopsy-suicide-registered-gun-2025-2

https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/30/suchir-balaji-openai-whistleblower-parents-lawsuit

https://blackheritageradio.com/whistleblower-suchir-balaji-parents-claim-new-toxicology-report-proof-was-shot-dead/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balajis-parents-claim-he-was-shot-twice-in-the-head-first-autopsy-missed-second-wound/articleshow/120100833.cms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUntLOBfyY&t=1526s

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This week Erin tells us about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who in 2011 carried out a bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting at a youth camp on Utøya Island, killing 77 people before being sentenced to 21 years in prison for terrorism and mass murder.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

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This week Stacey tells us about how, in October 2006, University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted while walking home, sexually assaulted, and murdered by Brian Rooney, whose DNA linked him to the crime, resulting in his conviction and life sentence without parole.

Sources:

https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/vtlib/Documents/2008-470.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/15/slain-nva-student-loved-outdoors-friends-recall/22eb6086-7d33-4965-b713-b96b6ca2601c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michelle_Gardner-Quinn

https://vtcynic.com/news/michelle-gardner-quinn-case-closed

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vt-cops-have-suspect-but-no-charges/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-links-suspect-to-slain-vt-student/

https://www.truecrimene.com/episodes/b7gsh9r65svsaipky6gcm8734f2gb0

https://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2006/oct/16/friends-remember-murdered-arlington-student/

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