911 Calls Podcast

🚨⚠️THIS IS PART 02 OF A SPECIAL 2-PART EPISODE 🚨⚠️

2 hours. The 2 hours before the shooting changed everything.

In this two-part episode, Op examines the 2023 shooting inside Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old first grader brought a handgun to school and shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in her classroom.

But the shooting was only the beginning of the story.

What followed pulled investigators, prosecutors, school administrators, and the child’s family into separate legal battles over how the gun became accessible, what adults knew beforehand, and whether warnings inside the school were ignored. Those questions eventually moved from classrooms and police reports into criminal court and a civil trial.

When the person who pulls the trigger is only six years old, where does responsibility actually begin? And how does this end?

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THIS IS PART 01 OF A SPECIAL 2-PART EPISODE

2 hours. The 2 hours before the shooting changed everything.

In this two-part episode, Op examines the 2023 shooting inside Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old first grader brought a handgun to school and shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in her classroom.

But the shooting was only the beginning of the story.

What followed pulled investigators, prosecutors, school administrators, and the child’s family into separate legal battles over how the gun became accessible, what adults knew beforehand, and whether warnings inside the school were ignored. Those questions eventually moved from classrooms and police reports into criminal court and a civil trial.

When the person who pulls the trigger is only six years old, where does responsibility actually begin? And how does this end?

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🚨⚠️Soak up Lasterday News episode "Runaway Jet" before this bonus content. It'll make a LOT more sense. ⚠️🚨

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On this misfit episode of Lasterday News...

Op examines the extraordinary case of Marine Corps Colonel Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo and an F-35B flight over South Carolina that suddenly became anything but routine.

Descending through bad weather toward Joint Base Charleston, Del Pizzo encountered a rapid series of cockpit failures that left critical displays and communications unreliable. Seconds mattered. He made the decision every fighter pilot hopes never to make—and soon found himself descending beneath a parachute into a stranger’s backyard.

But his 911 call introduced a considerably stranger problem.

Del Pizzo was on the ground.

His jet wasn’t.

How does one of the most sophisticated aircraft ever built simply keep going without its pilot—and where exactly does it go?

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🚨⚠️Make sure to gobble up episode 223 before soaking in the circus of this interrogation⚠️🚨

In his remastered interrogation, two investigators get Brianna Roush and Nicholas Lee to lay it all out on how, where, and how-in-the-fricken-heck their two young children could have possibly consumed fentanyl.

There are lies, darn lies, and statistics in this one.

Can you tell their lies from the truth?

Enjoy?

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Op examines the case of Brianna Roush and Nicholas Lee, whose two young children became critically ill after being exposed to fentanyl inside the family’s Circleville, Ohio, apartment.

One child survived. Their 20-month-old son did not.

As police began working backward from the hospital, the focus quickly shifted to what had been happening inside the home—and how something capable of killing in such a tiny amount had come within reach of two children. The answers would force investigators to look closely at the environment Roush and Lee had created around their family.

When danger becomes part of everyday life, how long before the people least able to understand it pay the price?

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Make sure to catch the uncut interrogation bonus episode after gobbling this episode up. I uploaded it before this episode, so go back in time to find it 😎

Op examines the 2009 death of Jeremy Simko, who was found shot in his bed inside the rural Ohio home he shared with his wife, Julene.

Julene’s frantic 911 call described an intruder, unexplained noises in the house, and the desperate discovery of her husband. But the Simkos lived behind layers of security, with dogs positioned around the property and firearms close at hand. The scene presented investigators with a basic problem: if someone had entered that house, how had they done it without leaving a clearer path behind them?

Years would pass before authorities believed they finally understood what happened inside the Simko home that morning.

When a house is built to keep danger out, what happens when the danger is already inside?

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🚨⚠️Make sure to catch Episode 222 before you soak in this circus of an interrogation ⚠️🚨

In this remastered interrogation, detectives sit down with Julene Simko YEARS after the death of her husband.

Every question tightens the noose. Every response brings inevitability closer.

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🚨⚠️Before you gobble this episode up, make sure to catch the bonus episode of The Guessnicity Podcast where Luther and I cover the cases from these uncut bodycam videos. ⚠️🚨

These are the full, uncut videos, compiled together for your viewing pleasure. We only covered snippets of them on the actual episode.

Enjoy?

I was privileged to be invited by Luther on the latest episode of The Guessnicity Podcast (Luther brings the case, YOU guess the race 🤣😂).

It was a fun ride through three crazy cases of people acting out, being creepy, and wreaking havoc in gyms.

Did I guess all of the perps' ethnicities before the big reveal? Watch/listen to find out!

And, make sure to add Guessnicity to your favorites wherever you listen to podcasts!

Also, check out the bonus episode right after this, which contains all three uncut body-cam videos from the cases we cover in the episode. Each one is a unique blend of... crazy!