223: Threatening Messages & an Airplane Pooper

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Being the head of security for a televangelist can be pretty scary… apparently. In late 2008, Chris Coleman received a threatening email. The writer was upset with his boss, Joyce Meyer. They wrote that if Joyce didn’t stop preaching the “bullshit,” they would kill Chris. If not Chris, they might kill his wife, Sheri and their sons Garett and Gavin. Chris had no idea who could have sent the message. Like, literally no idea. And he was the head of security.

Then Kristin tells us about Gerard Finneran, who boarded a flight from Buenos Aires to New York City, eager to knock back some drinks. He drank several, then got up to serve himself even more. The flight attendants informed him that passengers weren’t allowed to serve themselves drinks. (Duh.) Later, they cut Gerard off. He didn’t take it well.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Boorish biz flier rode no class,” by Linda Stasi for the Daily News
“Passenger accused of defecating on airliner pleads guilty to making a threat,” by Larry Neumeister for the Associated Press
“United Airlines Flight 976,” entry on Wikipedia
Gerard Finneran’s obituary

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The Writing on the Wall” episode 48 Hours
“A Family Erased: The Chris Coleman Story” by Jeanette Cooperman, St Louis Magazine
“The Conflicted Christian” by AJ Wiseman, Medium
“Shocking messages: An Illinois man’s secret life ended in the 2009 murder of his family” by Kevin S. Held, Fox2 News
“People v. Coleman” findlaw.com
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