Judges see a lot in their courtrooms, but when Joanna Simpson's estranged husband went on trial for her murder, even the judge couldn't hide his shock at what happened. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Welcome to crime lines.

Welcome to crime lines in this week's episode. I want to say that for any

patron or supercast supporter with a July birthday, listen through to the

end for your shoutout.

After getting some feedback and talking with other podcasters about how they handle things like

shoutouts and announcements for events and things like that, I decided that I'm going to start running any announcements events

I'm going to things like that at the beginning of the episode before the

content even starts.

And then during this portion, I won't have to do announcements.

So you're not going to hear me say, let's jump into it

and then have to listen to me chat about going to Denver or Boston or wherever the next

meet-ups going to be. And to do that to make space in what's called the

pre-roll for the announcements I'm going to take the birthday shout-outs and move them to the end, like other

podcasters do with their patron shout-outs. So that is just a format change and I don't want anyone to think I didn't get the birthdays done just because they don't hear them now just keep listening and we will get to them

So welcome to today's episode and what will hopefully be the last episode where you have to listen to two minutes of announcements

before we get into the case. With this episode I did use a number of

sources but I need to thank a UK-based listener named Laura.

She not only recommended the case, but took notes for me from a two-part documentary called The British Airways Killer.

It came out in February of 2024 and it is not available for viewing outside of the

UK or at least not in the US. I even had someone try to use a VPN to get

around it but it didn't work so a huge

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