First Watch: Teacher’s Secret Letters & Ex-Wife Convicted of Beheading

It started with whispers in a detention center: a teacher lingering too long by a seventeen-year-old’s door, and ended with investigators pulling nearly two hundred explicit letters from his cell, including a written play-by-play of abuse and a chilling request to kill her husband. At trial, the truth spilled out in her own handwriting, yet she escaped a solicitation of murder conviction. When a blueprint for violence is written in ink, why isn’t it treated like a threat? Then, Katie watches an investigation play out in Las Vegas, where a mother opened her basement door to a nightmare: her son dead, his body soaked in chemicals, and his head missing. Detectives quickly focused on the ex-wife who’d slept under the same roof that night, but the evidence that followed led somewhere stranger: a stunning revelation about who she’d secretly married years earlier. What began as a hunt for a killer unraveled into a tangled family triangle that no one in that courtroom saw coming. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Crime House Daily to never miss a case! For Ad-free listening and early access to episodes, subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. Crime House Daily is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals Clues, Crime House Daily, Killer Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow me on Social Instagram: @Crimehouse | @crimehouse247 TikTok: @Crimehouse | @crimehouse247 Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia YouTube: @crimehousedaily Crime House Daily is hosted by Katie Ring Instagram: @the.self.defense.girl TikTok: @the.self.defense.girl Episode Sponsor: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/CRIMEHOUSE . Promo Code CRIMEHOUSE To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices