The Cheat Sheet: Tampering and Trails

Additional content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide.

This episode was originally published on The Murder Sheet's main feed on August 16, 2024.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover.

Today on the Cheat Sheet, we cover an ongoing cold cases where police now suspect the original story, two cold cases that almost led to accountability, and an ongoing case of a professor charged with killing his wife — where now questions remain about how his infant children died.

The Baltimore County Police Department’s Facebook post on the case: https://www.facebook.com/BaltCoPolice/posts/811222337867296?ref=embed_post

WMAR2 News’s 2022 coverage of the disappearance of Michelle Rust, which includes a statement from her husband Dwight Rust Jr.: https://www.wmar2news.com/marylandmysteries/missing-in-maryland-the-disappearance-of-michelle-rust-remains-unsolved-for-nearly-20-years

The Murder Sheet also relied upon reporting from the Baltimore Sun accessed through Newspapers.com.

Reporting from CBS News on the murder of Dana Ireland, the suicide of suspect Albert Lauro Jr., and the wrongful convictions of Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, Shawn Schweitzer, and Frank Pauline Jr.: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dana-ireland-murder-1991-hawaii-albert-lauro-dna-possible-suspect-dies-by-suicide/

KTAB’s coverage of the death of Billye Brown before he could go to trial for the murders of Susanna Flores Brown and Franchesca Antionette Martinez: https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/crime/suspect-arrested-in-cold-case-murders-of-abilene-mother-young-daughter-dies-before-trial/

Fox News’s coverage of the death of Billye Brown before he could go to trial for the murders of Susanna Flores Brown and Franchesca Antionette Martinez: https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-arrested-1982-cold-case-murders-mother-young-daughter-dies-before-trial

The Denver Post's article on the arrest of Nicholas Myklebust, the murder of Seorin Kim, and the deaths of Lesley Kim and Bear Myklebust: https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/02/nicholas-myklebust-murder-wife-baby-regis-professor/

An open letter to true crime creators about neurodivergence from Anissa Ljanta of Wild Brain: https://open.substack.com/pub/anissaljanta/p/open-letter-to-true-crime-podcasters?r=8l5o4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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