I Said God Damn! A True Crime Podcast

This week Erin tells us about Michelle Theer, a psychologist who manipulated her lover into murdering her Air Force captain husband as part of a deadly love triangle and insurance plot, then went on the run before being caught and sentenced to life in prison.

Sources:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/nc-court-of-appeals/1201672.html

https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/2311497/the-murder-of-capt-marty-theer/

https://cases.justia.com/north-carolina/court-of-appeals/051640-1.pdf

https://murderpedia.org/female.T/t/theer-michelle.htm

https://truecrimearchives.blog/air-force-reservist-michelle-theer-military-love-triangle-murder-conviction/

https://free-john-diamond.blogspot.com/

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This week Stacey tells us about Jean Luc Brunel, a French model scout and agent linked to Jeffrey Epstein who faced multiple sex-trafficking and sexual-assault allegations and died in a Paris jail in 2022 before his trial concluded.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/epsteins-french-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-prison/2507523

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/swduau

https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-charged-with-sex-crimes/a-55996337

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/17/jean-luc-brunel-jeffrey-epstein-models-sexual-assault

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/l5ss7m

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38075982/epstein-files-victim-accomplice-jean-luc-brunel-ghislaine-maxwell/

https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/unknown-epstein-victim-told-doj-of-accomplice-100x-worse-than-maxwell

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/21/jean-f21.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/19/modeling-agent-close-to-epstein-found-dead-in-french-jail.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/epstein-files-new-batch

https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-linked-modeling-agent-found-dead-in-jail-cell/a-60821124

https://www.corrections1.com//celebrity/articles/jeffrey-epstein-associate-jean-luc-brunel-found-dead-in-paris-jail-0xxvkAU4Psp8dqTc/

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This week Erin tells us about Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two wealthy and highly intelligent Chicago teens who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a disastrous attempt to commit the so‑called “perfect crime.”

Sources:

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

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/crimes/leopold/

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LeopoldStatement.pdf

https://homicide.northwestern.edu/docs_fk/homicide/5866/LoebStatement.pdf

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

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This week Stacey tells us about Mark Edward Middleton, an American businessman and lawyer from Little Rock who served as a special assistant and advisor to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later worked in his family’s HVAC business before his death in 2022.

Sources:

https://fism.tv/death-of-mark-middleton-clinton-advisor-linked-to-epstein-bizarrely-ruled-a-suicide/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Middleton_(businessman)

https://ruebelfuneralhome.com/obits/preview.php?id=3050&p=&search=

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

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2022/06/22/judge-seals-photos-of-mark-middleton-suicide

https://www.businessinsider.com/report-jeffrey-epstein-visited-white-house-under-bill-clinton-2019-7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy

https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/enforcement/audits/1996/Title_26/BillClintonPres1996Primary.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1999/May/213crm.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/11/14/a-bureaucrat-with-connections/2687a222-e535-48b8-a2eb-f1535e8dc20e/

https://www.congress.gov/105/crpt/hrpt829/CRPT-105hrpt829-vol2.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/106/crpt/hrpt1027/CRPT-106hrpt1027-vol1.pdf

https://www.usccr.gov/files/historical/1998/98-018.pdf

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/07/17/flashback-most-explosive-case-of-foreign-meddling-in-u-s-election-history-linked-to-clintons-the-democrats/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/11/05/90s-clinton-scandal-figure-barred-from-u-s-still-giving-money-to-clintons/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-11-16-mn-65315-story.html

https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/105th-congress/house-report/829/2

https://humanevents.com/2023/02/22/epstein-linked-clinton-adviser-allegedly-hanged-and-shot-himself

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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.

Sources:

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.

Sources:

nypost.com

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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/

justice.gov/epstein/files/

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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