Sometimes where a crime took place leads you to answer why the crime happened in the first place.

Hi, I'm Sloane Glass, host of the new True Crime Podcast, American Homicide.

In this series, we'll examine some of the country's most infamous and mysterious murders and

learn how the location of the crime becomes a character in the story.

Listen to American Homicide on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts. or wherever you get your podcast.

As a little girl you don't say,

oh my gosh, I can't wait to grow up and marry a guy who cheats on me and makes me feel like the only way I can

leave is if I'm going to be homeless and in a ditch. I'm Andrei Gunning and this is betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything.

Larena is a Midwestern mom who's never met a stranger.

When she meets someone, she wants to really connect.

If you want to sit there and talk about the blue sky and the green grass,

please go find somebody else because I don't have time for that.

You want to tell me who you are and what you want to be? I'm all over that.

She came to the interview with an extra large ice coffee in hand and the energy level to match.

Caffeine, lots of caffeine, this is how I make it.

I have 11 children and I have four grandkids.

I'm busy.

11 children. four grandkids. I'm busy.

11 children.

She was 18 when she had her first and 40 when she had her last. In that time she didn't go two years without being pregnant.

How did she get here with 11 kids?

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