Cousins on Crime

When a small town is rocked by a string of sexual assaults, it would take the brutal murder of Retha Stratton to finally catch the most deviant kind of criminal.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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Sources:
THE SHOCKING TALE OF RETHA STRATTON, Her Life Taken by a Friend. At Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Ft. Worth

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/murder-under-the-friday-night-lights-investigation-discovery-atve-us/the-cheerleader-murder

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/convict-to-return-to-prison-for-jailhouse-romance/285-342720631

https://crimesandconsequences.com/wesley-wayne-miller/

Susan Woods was picking up the pieces after filing for divorce from her husband when her life came to an end. The small town of Stephenville, Texas had the obvious suspect in their sights, but the real killer was hiding in plain sight all along.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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OUR MERCH STORE CLOSES AUGUST 30TH! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

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Sources:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/susan-woods-stephenville-murder-hidden-killer/

Adam Hilaire was a vibrant father who adored his 5-year-old daughter and was finally ready to get back into the dating scene. Little did he know that the nice young lady he would soon meet wasn't nice at all and he was walking right into a trap.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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OUR MERCH STORE CLOSES AUGUST 30TH! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

Thank you to our sponsor, She's Birdie. To learn more and get your very own Birdie personal safety alarm at https://www.shesbirdie.com/ today! Use code COUSINS15 for 10% off.

Sources:
https://kerseyfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/41177/Adam-Hilarie/obituary.html

https://people.com/crime/adam-hilaries-family-speaks-after-he-is-killed-in-alleged-online-dating-robbery/

https://www.theledger.com/story/news/crime/2020/03/12/central-figure-testifies-in-2016-plentyoffish-murder-in-polk/984169007/

https://art19.com/shows/i-met-my-murderer-online

https://www.courttv.com/news/closing-arguments-dating-app-murder-trial/

We have a special treat this week. We interviewed our cousin (yes...there are more cousins on crime), Taylor Newby, on all things 911! Her 7 year career as a 911 dispatcher is nothing short of amazing and we're so proud of her.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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WE HAVE MERCH UNTIL THE END OF THE SUMMER! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

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Scott and Cherrylle Dell fell in love and married young; settling down in Killaloe, Ontario, Canada. The marriage held on for over two decades, but the events that followed their estrangement, became a tangled web of lies, betrayal, and murder.

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WE HAVE MERCH UNTIL THE END OF THE SUMMER! We are celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

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Sources:
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/archival-how-sex-lies-and-antifreeze-convicted-the-angel-of-death-cherrylle-dell

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/dells-daughter-tells-of-weird-conversation/article4169567/
Strip & Kill: The True Crime Story of Cherrylle Dell
https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dell-cherrylle.htm

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/no-early-parole-for-convicted-killer-cherrylle-dell#:~:text=Article%20content,white%20wine%20laced%20with%20antifreeze.

A beautiful and caring newlywed is found shot to death in her Los Angeles home in 1986. When the husband is cleared as a suspect, it would take decades of grueling investigative work before the detectives had the killer in their grasp.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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WE HAVE MERCH UNTIL THE END OF THE SUMMER! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

Thank you to our sponsor, She's Birdie. To learn more and get your very own Birdie personal safety alarm at https://www.shesbirdie.com/ today! Use code COUSINS15 for 10% off.

Sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-lazarus-file/308499/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52954546/sherri-rae-ruetten

https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lazarus-stephanie.htm

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/remembering-sherri-rasmussen-73889349705

Sydney West had recently relocated back to her home state of California to attend college at UC Berkeley in 2020. After deciding to put her studies on hold for another year, she went to the Golden Gate Bridge one evening and seemingly vanished into the fog.

Anyone with information regarding Sydney's whereabouts is asked to contact private investigator Scott Dudek at (925) 705-8328 or [email protected]. You can also contact the San Francisco Police Department Tip Line at 415-575-4444.

A heart-felt Thank You to Sydney's family for giving us permission to use some of her beautiful music in this episode.

Please visit https://findsydneywest.com/ to learn more about the disappearance of Sydney West.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

Sources:
https://findsydneywest.com/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/golden-gate-bridge-suicide-barriers-going-up-after-1500-deaths/
https://people.com/crime/family-missing-student-baffled-footage-shows-vanishing-into-fog-near-golden-gate-bridge/
https://disappearedblog.com/sydney-west/

Missy Avila was a popular, vibrant teen with the world at her fingertips. But everything would change when she learned that the friends she surrounded herself with, may not have been friends at all.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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WE HAVE MERCH! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

Thank you to our sponsor, She's Birdie. To learn more and get your very own Birdie personal safety alarm at https://www.shesbirdie.com/ today! Use code COUSINS15 for 10% off.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michele_Avila

https://6abc.com/murder-money-missy-avila-karen-severson/384970/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-murdered-best-friend---6077933

https://www.dailynews.com/2012/12/10/last-woman-convicted-in-missy-avila-murder-released-from-prison-on-monday/

https://ripeace.wordpress.com/tag/laura-doyle/

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-1_06-cv-01863/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-1_06-cv-01863-2.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpIfg2Nk1k

The cousins are taking some time off this week to regroup but we'll be back with a brand new episode next week! We wanted to drop into your feed to remind you that we have merch! Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours with FREE shipping today!

The railway system in London was growing rapidly back in 1864. The upper class were utilizing trains for business and pleasure, but one summer night would terrorize the entire community when the first railway murder halted life as they knew it.

Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast
Email: [email protected]
Theme Music by AleXZavesa

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WE HAVE MERCH! Cousins on Crime is celebrating our one year birthday and we would love for you to continuing to support our show by sporting some C on C gear. Visit https://cousins-on-crime.myspreadshop.com/ to get yours today!

Thank you to our sponsor, She's Birdie. To learn more and get your very own Birdie personal safety alarm at https://www.shesbirdie.com/ today! Use code COUSINS15 for 10% off.

Sources:
https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/crime-history/first-railway-murder/

https://www.mernick.org.uk/thhol/murdernl.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1864/08/28/archives/the-murder-on-the-north-london-railway.html
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38655074
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/muller-franz.htm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279102/Thomas-Briggs-murder-train-Franz-Muller-gripped-Victorian-Britain.html

https://diplomacy.state.gov/stories/the-trent-affair-diplomacy-britain-and-the-american-civil-war/#:~:text=Britain%20Declares%20Neutrality%20in%20the%20U.S.%20Civil%20War&text=He%20came%20one%20day%20after,in%20the%20U.S.%20Civil%20War.
http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/Franz_muller.htm
https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/127/TrialsB_M9015_Map_Case.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8rESfjFnEk