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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This week Erin tells us about the murder of Lauren Giddings, a Mercer Law graduate who was strangled and dismembered by her neighbor and classmate Stephen McDaniel in 2011, a crime for which McDaniel later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fi6ivv/sped_up_footage_from_the_interrogation_of_stephen/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/540762-mcdaniel-defense-motions-351-pages/

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This week Stacey tells us about Matrice Richardson, who disappeared after midnight release from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 and was found dead nearly a year later, with questions about law enforcement’s actions still unresolved.

Sources:

https://iamjasmyne.com/15-years-later-why-we-still-demand-justice-for-mitrice-richardson/

https://thelocalmalibu.com/new-revelations-and-lies-exposed-uncovering-the-cover-up-in-the-mitrice-richardson-case/

https://capitolweekly.net/mitrice-richardson-the-anatomy-of-a-murder-and-cover-up/

https://www.saytheirnames.online/mitrice-richardson

https://abc7.com/post/mitrice-richardson-abc7-special-malibu-missing-unsolved-la/11349737/

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This week Erin tells us about Elizabeth Olten, a 9-year-old girl from Missouri who was tragically murdered by her 15-year-old neighbor Alyssa Bustamante in 2009.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0XeAKIqqU (Alyssa’s interrogation / confession)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/elizabeth-olten

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

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This week, Stacey tells us about Heather Elvis, who vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on December 18, 2013, and whose disappearance led to the convictions of Sidney and Tammy Moorer for kidnapping, although Heather has never been found.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng95TQ01sJU

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

https://abcnews.go.com/US/south-carolina-love-triangle-womans-affair-married-man/story?id=76209188

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This week Erin tells us about Jennifer Teague, a Canadian teenager who disappeared while walking home in Ottawa in 2005, whose murder led to an intense community search, a high-profile police investigation, and ultimately the arrest and conviction of Kevin Davis.

Sources: 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qBApiNDoN8&t=1s

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This week Stacey tells us about Angie Dodge, an 18-year-old Idaho Falls woman who was raped and murdered in her apartment in 1996, a case that led to a wrongful conviction and was only solved 23 years later when the real killer was finally identified.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/u5IdEAokvl/idaho-falls-murder-of-angie-dodge

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/idaho-falls-will-pay-11-7-million-to-exoneree-coerced-into-false-confession-by-threat-of-the-death-penalty

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/idaho-falls-will-pay-11-7-million-to-exoneree-coerced-into-false-confession-by-threat-of-the-death-penalty

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/angie-dodge-murder.html

https://youtu.be/nHRsJqd8reM?si=lEceMp9VMTP82DN6

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This week Erin tells us about the abduction and murder of 17-year-old West Australian teenager Hayley Dodd in July 1999, and the eventual conviction and life imprisonment of Francis John Wark for the crime.

Sources:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3859852-Supreme-Court-Judgement-About-Trial-of-Francis/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9468501/Teenager-Hayley-Dodds-killing-solved-discovery-earring.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/mothers-persistence-helps-solve-hayley-dodd-disapperance/100058738

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/the-real-frank-wark-from-quiet-man-to-sadistic-rapist-ng-b88723389z

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-20/police-sarch-badgingarra-property-for-hayley-dodd-remains/100082668

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/francis-wark-guilty-of-hayley-dodd-manslaughter/100036704

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMmbqaYB08

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-13/wa-francis-wark-sentenced-to-jail-for-hayley-dodd-killing/100063940

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