The Betrayer: Tanya Nelson

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tanya Nelson believed everything her fortuneteller, Ha Jade Smith, told her—until Tanya’s life spiraled out of control, and Ha couldn’t seem to help her. With that, Tanya decided that someone was going to have to pay for the wreckage that was her life. Someone was going to have to die. *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter and get a cool postcard. Support Crimibox on Kickstarter. Get 25% off your Care/of order by heading to takecareof.com and using code CRIMINALBROADS. And check out the new Nevertheless She Existed podcast!*** Sources: “Police Seek Pair Seen Leaving the Home of Two Slain O.C. Women,” Los Angeles Times, 03 May 2005 “Seeking Clues in Shadowy World; Trying to solve killings of a fortuneteller and her daughter in Little Saigon, police ask for help understanding ethnic nuances,” Los Angeles Times, 05 May 2005 “Charges Filed in O.C. Double Slaying; North Carolina woman is being held in the slayings of fortuneteller and her daughter in Westminster. A man will be extradited, police say,” Los Angeles Times, 04 June 2005 “Man said to have confessed to slayings,” The Orange County Register, 12 April 2006 “Woman enticed accomplice into murder plot, prosecutor says,” The Orange County Register, 14 January 2010 “Witness testifies bad ‘fortune’ led to murders,” The Orange County Register, 1 February 2010 “Prosecutor: Fortune-teller, daughter killed over prediction,” The Orange County Register, 10 February 2010 “Sister of slain fortune teller breaks down,” The Orange County Register, 24 February 2010 “Sister of murderer pleads for mercy,” The Orange County Register, 25 February 2010 “Woman sentenced to death in fortune teller slayings,” The Orange County Register, 23 April 2010 “Tanya Nelson Irks Judge Frank F. Fasel, Who Sends Double-Killer to Death Row,” OC Weekly, 26 April 2010 Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer “Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License “Spirit’s Cradle ft. Leah Song,” by saQi, licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and used with permission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do? If it's a crime then I'm guilty
0:10.1	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty, guilty of love in you.
0:21.0	Hello friends, welcome to episode 31 of Criminal Broads a true crime in history
0:26.2	podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law. I'm your host Tori Telfer
0:31.4	true crime writer and
0:34.2	officionato of summer farmers markets,
0:36.8	despite the fact that every time I enter one,
0:40.6	I leave a poorer woman.
0:43.0	You guys, oh my goodness, thank you,
0:47.0	thank you so much for listening to the last episode on the Nazi Killers. I loved hearing your feedback and
0:56.7	hearing that the episode also made you want to stand up on your chair and
1:02.0	scream and joy. I got a lot of messages and notes from people
1:08.2	saying that the episode made them cry. I believe the phrase ugly cry was used at least once. I kid you not when I
1:16.6	got those notes I would often start tearing up myself. I feel like I was such a raw ball of emotions after doing those two
1:25.0	World War II episodes back to back. So hearing that you were also a raw
1:29.8	ball of emotions made my raw emotions retriggered and so know that I was crying in
1:37.4	solidarity along with you. It was also a funny feeling to be like oh I'm so glad the episode made you cry but I'm
1:45.2	sorry that the episode made you cry anyway it was it was really great hearing
1:50.0	your feedback I'm really glad you liked it you may be happy to note that we are sort of back in our classic true crime world for this episode.
1:58.8	That being said, don't worry, this is not a boring case, this is a a very odd case I doubt many of you will have heard of it
2:05.9	you know I like to do my more obscure cases um more often than not
2:11.6	but once I started getting into this, I was just like, what? She did what? Her reasoning was what? So, um, I hope you enjoy it. We are going to a very, very distant time and place in this episode. We are going to the early 2000s in Orange County, California.
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