Sarm Heslop was a native of Southampton, England. The port city saw many people come and go so perhaps it was natural that Sarm pivoted from her initial career in aviation as a flight attendant to living and working on a luxury boat in St. John’s US Virgin Islands. 

That pivot would result in her disappearance. On the night of March 7, 2021, Sarm Heslop was 41 years old, living on a boat with a man she had known for seven months. She was two hundred feet from the St. John shoreline. By all accounts she was healthy. She was an experienced swimmer. And she was level-headed, according to family and friends.

She hasn’t been seen since that night.

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Imagine doing what your family and friends say are “all the right things” in life. You graduate college, get married and start a family and you have a job and a clear career path. Now, imagine that someone violently cuts your life short just because they felt like it. And for little more than $200 in cash.

I wish I could tell you this story is rooted in imagination, but sadly it isn’t. The reality for Jerry Colyer was terrifying on a seemingly normal Thursday night back in 2016 as he worked the nightshift front desk at the Econo Lodge Motel in Chesterfield County, Virginia. As of 2026, his murder still remains unsolved.

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When Jordie Hudson’s mother officially reported her missing on April 14, 2016, she had no way of knowing the horror of what her daughter, an accomplished artist, endured days earlier. On April 9th, a chance encounter after a night out at a local pub resulted in Jordie’s murder. The aftermath of her death is even more horrific, involving the US Marshals, the recovery of her body from a shallow grave and two reported lovers who would ultimately turn on each other in connection to the murder.

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For most people Sunday, September 16th, 2012 was a typical day. If anything, they may have been grateful for the warmer-than-average weather blanketing the area of Chesterfield, Virginia that year. But for 44-year-old Pareshkumar (Paresh) Patel, this Sunday marked the first of a series of truly terrifying events that would result in his kidnapping and heinous murder.

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On April 5th, 1986, Jeanne Ann Clery was brutally attacked and murdered in her dorm room at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A swift investigation determined the murderer was a fellow student. The aftermath of Jeanne’s murder lead her parents to create the Clery Center and become staunch advocates for campus safety. Their efforts set precedent and regulations for colleges and universities receiving federal funding that continues to present day.

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Welcome to the PREY TELL Podcast! I'm your host, Ashley Schef.

PREY TELL is a true crime podcast built on the conviction that the victim is the story. Not the predator. Every victim covered on this podcast was labeled prey by a world that failed them — reduced to a target, a file number, or a case that was easier to close than to pursue. 

This show returns victims to what they always were: human beings. Real people with names and histories that deserve to be told completely and without compromise. Each episode examines a case and hunts for the truth.

New episodes release every Wednesday. You can subscribe now and find the show across social platforms @PreyTellPodcast. I'll see you next week. 

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