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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

The murder of Zander Lyda

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Bleav + Allison and Mike

Married, Murder, Documentary, Society & Culture, History, Husband, Truecrime, Couple, Coffee, Wife, True Crime

4.6696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On a frigid January night in 2023, April Lyda’s quiet evening with her kids in Tulsa shattered with a scream that still haunts her. She rushed downstairs to find her 9-year-old son Zander bleeding on the couch, gasping, 'She stabbed me,' as chaos erupted in their apartment. Bodycam footage captured a frantic scene—April screaming, 'You better pray he lives!' Allison tells us the sad story of Zander Lyda.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison. And my name is Mike. Hello, Mike. Hey, Al. How are you, Bub? I'm doing pretty good. I haven't seen you much this week. So it's nice to be sitting next to you in the same room. I like how you're looking at me with confusion. Like, were you in the same week that I was in?

0:21.0

Well, I mean, I was here. Like, I slept in the bed every single day. Oh, there was a body in the

0:25.5

bed next to me. Yeah. And you could hear me snoring and everything, which probably makes you feel good.

0:29.6

I was definitely traveling a lot this week. But nice thing about my job, I don't have to go like like overnight anywhere usually for the most part every once in a while but uh for you like

0:37.8

people planning on murdering us out there it's always like you never really know what i'm doing

0:40.9

every day so it's kind of nice like it's kind of like we're moving and shaken you never know it's

0:43.9

not the same schedule every single day so good luck because i'm gonna be here yeah you're my night

0:47.7

in shining armor yeah yeah you want you want to mess with me You pick the wrong guy. Murderers. I'm telling you what. Although I don't know if we'd hear anyone come in because we have so many noise machines

0:56.8

and such. Oh, that's good to share with everybody. That's good. That's like really smart and like,

1:01.7

you know. I have no sense. What she means by that is there's lots of machine guns pointing at the

1:05.9

front door and every entry in the house. That's what it is. You really? I had to work today at Saturday.

1:12.1

My brain is fried.

1:13.7

So good luck, guys.

1:15.2

Yeah.

1:15.5

No, it's, yeah, we got, don't worry.

1:17.3

We got plenty of guns everywhere.

1:18.7

There's actually one right under this dog right now.

1:20.7

The sheet can turn into a gun.

1:22.0

But if you are new to the podcast, we are a husband and wife duo.

1:25.9

I tell the story.

1:27.4

Mike listens. He sits and he looks

1:29.7

pretty. Oh, I don't do a very good job of that. But you can find us on like YouTube or

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