You began to plant the seed in people's minds.

But I think in the process, you did create a media image of me

that's far beyond the reality of me.

And this craving, this awful, raging, eating feeling inside. I could feel it consuming my insides. It was overwhelming

me. Hello again and welcome to another episode of Serial Killing a podcast. My name is Alyssa Carroll.

I'm the researcher, editor, writer, educator, the whole thing. And we

mostly talk about murders, namely serial murders, but we also talk about all manner of true

crime at this point. So it was brought to my attention that we need an update on some major

cases going on in the courts right now and upcoming cases

that we will all be sitting at the edge of our seats over. Now, due to home improvement

projects that are finally over, I've not had the attention span to finish the podcast that I'd

been working on and writing up about a specific serial killer.

So I thought we could use an episode to sort of get back up to speed with where some major

cases are, dates, what have you, while I finish up the next one.

Sorry for the delay again, home improvement stuff.

So consider this a little pre-game warm up for some rather big cases coming up and one that's

actually already started.

So let's slow down, take a breath, and get acquainted with the what-nots and who's-its.

Let's start with Lori Vallow Daybell.

So this case is very, very personal to me, and you'll notice this one isn't quite as scripted as all the

other ones are for me. This one holds a special place to me because I have my own offspring,

first and foremost. And second of all, my heart really goes out to Colby, which is Lori's oldest

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