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29. Severing Bonds: Inside the Alofa Time Case

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Dani and Stephanie serve up another unsettling episode, this week about the grim and twisted story of Alofa Time, a man whose approach to relationship problems led to hideous violence and tragic accidents. From strangling and decapitating his estranged wife Theresa to causing a fatal car crash while under the influence, Alofa's actions are recounted with the blend of true crime intrigue and commentary you're here for. Join us for an episode that unearths the shocking chain of events and courtroom drama in Boise, Idaho. Grab a drink and brace yourself for a tale of broken marriages and broken lives.

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Stephanie:

Welcome back to the Lethal Library, where the drinks are strong, but the decisions of our killers are not.

Dani:

Danny,

Stephanie:

what

Dani:

do you got for us today? Today's story is about a Lofa team A, and I'm telling you, I'm, it's spelled like the clock, TIME, time clock. Uh. So if I accidentally do that, my apologies. Uh, it's Team A, a man who somehow thought the best way to work out relationship issues was with threats, violence, and eventually unthinkable brutality. After marrying Theresa T, there I go. After marrying Theresa team a. I apologize. Divorcing her six months later and then re reuniting for some reason. Will never understand this love story. Took a nose dive straight into whore spoiler. If your idea of resolving conflict includes a K bar knife and a suicide note, you're not a romantic. You're just a walking felony. Yeah.

Stephanie:

Um, red flags, were literally shooting across the sky like fireworks for that.

Dani:

So grab your drink and buckle up because this story starts with a bad marriage and ends with multiple lives, shattered, severed, and sentenced. A Alofa and Theresa Time were married in March, 2004. The couple had been together for about four and a half years before they got married. But just after a few months, they were divorced in October of 2004. Yeah,

Stephanie:

six months is extremely fast. Just'cause you know how long the process of both marriage and divorces. So,

Dani:

yikes. The couple ended up getting back together, but they did not remarry. And we've seen this, you know, people that have done this. I, I

Stephanie:

do know people who have done this.

Dani:

My parents. On March 19th, 2006, Alofa Time was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery. He had thrown Theresa on the bed and tried to choke her. Just five days later, Theresa asked the judge to terminate the no contact order that prohibited Time from talking or meeting with Theresa. We need to work things out. And that's hard to do with a no contact order was written in a request to the judge. I just

Stephanie:

gotta pop in here. I know you guys have heard us say it several times, but I don't think it can ever be said enough, especially if someone chokes you. This doesn't discount any other forms of domestic violence, whether it be physical or emotional. That's all still incredibly relevant and. Please get out. But if someone is choking or attempting to strangle you, your odds of the next incident being your death are increased. I don't even know what the statistic is. It's probably very, very high. It is incredibly high. So that is not even, I can't even call it a red flag that is literally a red firework trying to blast in in your face, and I know. It is not easy to leave. As we can see, she wanted reasons to cut the no contact, make it work. But please, if this ev this type of thing ever happens to you know how serious that implication is and how likely it is that you could also become a statistic. You may not, and if you don't, that's wonderful, but it's. The risk with it has been documented.

Dani:

Absolutely. But the judge did do something. Really? He, yeah. Theresa was required to attend domestic violence and safety planning courses at the Valley Crisis Center in Nampa before he would lift the no contact order. So to help inform, right? Correct. Theresa attended five classes and then the judge approved her request. So he did, he, it wasn't like, oh, nevermind, she doesn't want it. He's like, no. He tried to do his due diligence. Yeah, he did. Do I, I feel like, hey, you need to go take these classes. And that was good on him. Um, but Times still has a court date for choking Theresa on July 25th of that year because the state will take it. So it's not, yeah, it's the woman. It's not over versus the man. Right. It's the state versus the man. It's, it's not. Over at six 30 in the morning on June 15th, 2006, a Boise police officer was driving on Franklin Road to help another officer Meridian with an accident. The officer was driving about six to eight car lengths behind Time's. 2001 Dodge Ram. As he got closer to Time. Time drove across the center lane and straight into the path of a Nissan Sentra. What the two vehicles collided.

Stephanie:

Oh, a big truck versus a Nissan Sentra.

Dani:

Yeah. Not good. The Nissan was smashed and the truck had flipped over but had landed back on its wheels. It was a stunt truck like it. Mm-hmm. Like flipped over all the way. The officer ran over to the Nissan to find 36-year-old Samantha Murphy and her 4-year-old daughter Jalen dead. Oh fuck. Samantha's 8-year-old daughter Sydney was alive and crying for help in the backseat of the crumpled car. A witness to the accident came over and the officer asked them to help Sidney while he checked on the other vehicle involved in the accident. The officer approached the truck and seen the occupant. Was conscious, which you don't when you're seeing mm-hmm. That kind of a traumatic accident, you

Stephanie:

don't assume like, no, no.

Dani:

The officer noticed several broken beer bottles littered. The scene

Stephanie:

that had been tossed around because it was tossed around a little flip.

Dani:

He asked Time to get out of the truck. Time was very excited and started talking about how he killed his girlfriend and that there was a severed head in his truck. Oh my God, I'm remembering this

Stephanie:

now. Ah, I remember this Now.

Dani:

The officer thought Time was delusional because of the accident. Fair?

Stephanie:

Yeah, because obvi, you would never, you'd be like, okay, excuse me. What concussed? Sure. Yep. Super concussed cussed

Dani:

Time who had blood on his shirt and hands pled for the officer on the scene to shoot him because he had just murdered his wife.

Stephanie:

Which would cause confusion.'cause you're like, what did you see your wife and you crashed into her? Like is that when you're first coming onto a scene, you don't know what the hell's going on. I'd be like, excuse me. Slow,

Dani:

slow, slow down. I imagine that a lot of that was go like, what is going on? The fuck are you talking about? Oh

Stephanie:

my

Dani:

God. Another officer arrived on the scene and followed a trail of blood left on the road. At the end of the trail, approximately 30 feet from the truck was a severed head on the side of the road.

Stephanie:

And to, to find that and it be true, that would even be so hard for me to even, like, I'm trying to put myself, I'd be like, and now we're finding no way, this can't be real, but

Dani:

also. Some thoughts to the O. The officers thought maybe it belonged to somebody involved in the accident, right?

Stephanie:

Because a violent wreck like that, the truck flipped, two people are dead. It's not unheard of to see that type of carnage in a wreck,

Dani:

especially a big Ram pickup versus a ra. Yeah. But after checking the victims thoroughly, they realized it didn't belong to anyone on the scene. Mm. Can you imagine those officers?

Stephanie:

Yeah.'cause I would never believe when they say he came out of the truck excited. First of all, you're like, this is such an a weird response. You must have hit your goddamn head, right? Mm-hmm. Like there's. You, you clearly, whatever you say it ha, it has got to be just nonsense.

Dani:

And then they have

Stephanie:

to process, oh wait. Oh shit, we di oh, and you do have blood on you and you're not bleeding. And now we found a head. That would be very tough for me to process or to even get on board of like, what if and realize like, oh shit. Chaotic.

Dani:

Oh my god. Team a age 50 was arrested at the scene when he was searched. The arresting officers found a suicide note in his wallet. It stated he had$300 set aside for his cremation and he wants his ashes spread over table rock. When they searched the truck, they found another lengthy suicide note that detailed why he killed Theresa. At the top of his note, he wrote motive and underlined it. The note indicated he was tired of his wife hitting him, calling him names and making fun of his manhood. Okay, police also located a 12 inch K bar knife at the scene.

Stephanie:

Oh, we've heard about a K bar knife recently. Haven't. Yeah. Yeah,

Dani:

we have. It's been coberg sheaths,

Stephanie:

Amazon. So look up ca to know what style of knife it is. Look it up. What's a K bar knife? It's,

Dani:

it's a large hunting yeah. Style knife. It's meant for gutting things. Yeah. Yeah. Police then went to the couple's home located in Nampa, where the officers discovered a gruesome scene. Theresa Time's body was found sitting up in the driver's seat of a car parked in the garage.

Stephanie:

That is unimaginable, like I'm imagining it, but I'm just like sitting up a body without a head.

Dani:

This

Stephanie:

is

Dani:

insane. Yeah, this was, this one's been on my list since day one. Um, but it's taken me this long to, and I can see why Theresa age 46 was born in Samoa, where she was raised and educated. She moved to California in the late seventies where she raised her three sons. In 2000, she moved to Idaho. Theresa was a support worker for a self-reliance team at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for over two and a half years. Theresa's family said how loving she was. She was very helpful and enjoyed entertaining. Her three sons were ages 11, 16, and 19 at the time of her murder. That is terrible. Their babies still.

Stephanie:

no, I fucking remember this now. But it's one of those ones where I was the age that I would just hear it secondhand on. I knew it was a huge deal'cause it was like a months long media thing that you hear every night. My, my parents listen to the news and stuff, but I never, it's pretty gruesome. Yeah.

Dani:

earlier that morning around 5:30 AM Time had called his sister Rita and told her he had killed Theresa. His sister begged him not to kill himself and tried to call the police. Barita lived in California.

Stephanie:

So to get, especially at that time to be like, you need to transfer me to the Idaho

Dani:

like and. Uh, find a number like so fast, the panic. Rita lived in California, so she tried to reach out to another brother. Samati. He lived in Boise, so Rita thought he could notify the police. Yeah, way easier. but she couldn't reach him, so she ended up calling Sumits daughter. And if I'm saying that name wrong, I apologize. So the family knew something bad was terrible, and, and I think if. I had a sibling call me and say that they killed their sp I would probably have a hard time believing it. I probably think it was like a manic break. Yeah. And like, you know, and, and your, your siblings threatening to kill themselves. You know, like, wait, wait, wait. Time is charged with first degree murder for the death of Theresa and second degree murder for the death of Samantha and Jaylin, the pa, the people that he ran into. Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck? Samantha Murphy was 36. She was driving her girls to daycare the morning she died. That's just an average fucking day. Every day you're doing your routine. She was employed at Baird's dry cleaners in Boise and was just promoted to office manager.

Stephanie:

I think Baird's is very close to my work. That's so crazy.

Dani:

Yeah. And they're, they're pretty, uh, they might have multiple

Stephanie:

offices.

Dani:

Yeah, I do believe that. They're pretty, um.

Stephanie:

Well known like Yeah, they're like the dry cleaner of the area. Yeah,

Dani:

they have several locations here. Samantha was born in Jerome, Idaho, and later her family moved to the Spokane, Washington area and that's where she graduated from high school. She graduated from Spokane Community College. her three daughters were the joy of her life, and she was a wonderful mother. She had just recently relocated back to the Boise area about a year before with her two youngest girls, Sydney, age eight, and Jaylen age four. Her 16-year-old daughter Kaylee remained in the Spokane area. Fair. She's like, Uhuh, I'm not leaving high school. Right. I don't blame her. Yeah. A sixteen's a rough age to be picking up and starting over. Mm-hmm. A couple more years with your, with your friends. So yeah. You want that? Uh, Samantha enjoyed taking her girls to church and just recently had picked up crocheting and she had made some really cool things for her daughters and she picked it up really fast. So, and her girls were her world and little Jaylen loved to play in the water and ride her bike, and she loved Dorothy Explorer. She was full of laughter and fun. The picture I saw a picture of, of Samantha and Jaylen, and she was cutie patooty.

Stephanie:

And just knowing, like I'm on TikTok a lot, but I get a lot of those videos of like just the most ridiculous car crashes. And let me just tell you, car crashes are one of my only fears in life. I think that's why I'm such a diligent driver. Like I commute you and I commute a lot. Mm-hmm. And so we see, and I think that we, when you've done it for so many years, you know, to look out for, someone's gonna pull a bullshit move here. Like you know what to look for and just, this is one of those things that there is nothing that you could do to prevent it. No, there's nothing, there's no defensive driving that you could likely do when a Dodge Ram wants to veer into your shit. He was doing it

Dani:

on purpose. Yes,

Stephanie:

exactly.

Dani:

It was a suicide mission for him. And so

Stephanie:

it's, it's not one of those things where you're like, even if the light green check both sides, which is a great practice because some people run very, very, very red lights. This is not something that you would normally be looking for. And even if you were. Where the fuck would you go? So that's what pisses me off about this is this is just as we said, someone just doing their regular

Dani:

and in 2007 Franklin Road looked a lot different than it does now. It was almost, it was country.

Stephanie:

Yes.

Dani:

Where you're cruising 45, it's better than the freeway. There's

Stephanie:

nothing. Yeah.

Dani:

Better than the freeway. Actually, less risk. You think? You

Stephanie:

would think? Yeah, unless you've got a fucking psycho with his wife's head, ex-wife, whatever you fucking wanna call it in the trunk on a weird suicide mission where not only you can't just kill yourself, you gotta kill other people about it. I don't understand that. I think a lot of people have depression or whatever, and. But why would you ever hurt someone else? Why?

Dani:

It just baffles me a little. FYIT may have been charged in California 10 years previous for abusing a spouse in California. Some of these men, y'all

Stephanie:

don't like women at all. They just don't like women.

Dani:

So in June, Time pled not guilty for the murder of Theresa prosecutors said, okay, we're gonna seek the death penalty. Yeah, you wanna do that? Yeah,

Stephanie:

let's go. And how brazen is that? Yeah, I, you've essentially admitted it. What the fuck?

Dani:

I, yeah. But I do think that, um, uh, if I was a defendant, I would immediate, even though I knew, I was just like, you always do that. Sure. It's just a natural, like compulsory, let's go not guilty and let me figure out my life first. Yeah. In August, the autopsy report for Theresa came back. Time had strangled her before she was beheaded. Think, I mean, can you,

Stephanie:

yeah. Yeah. You don't want that to happen when you're alive, but once again, someone chokes you. It's a very personal thing. Absolutely. And so that's why it's a statistic. It is not a myth, it's not a fantasy. Statistically, run, get out. Please find a way out.

Dani:

Theresa also had stab wounds to her chest, but no other wounds to her body. I really feel like, and there's, there's gonna be a little bit more later in the story. I. I really feel like she came home and she like open, like she opened her car door and like,'cause there's no defense wounds. Yeah. There was no other wounds. It, he just stabbed her.

Stephanie:

That's fucking terrible, dude. I'm not saying it's, it is relevant at any point. It's not like they were justifiable. Right?

Dani:

It's not like they were fighting and this happened. No, like. Yeah, fucking awful. in December of 2006, Time pled guilty to first degree murder to avoid the death penalty. Oh. Which is good because it, which if

Stephanie:

you wrote a, here's my thing. Oh, here we go. I'm passionate about this. Mm-hmm. You wrote a suicide note. You were supposedly gonna kill yourself and kill two innocent people that have nothing to do with you and left another child motherless. But you don't want the death penalty. To me, it just doesn't compute. You want it to die so fucking bad. We know that prison isn't a cakewalk. It is not fun. I would not like prison. So what's the problem with the death penalty? Me personally, I would never do any of this, but I try to put myself and say to myself. What would lead me there? Why would I do it? What would be my mindset? And if it was me, why? If I was willing to kill myself, wrote two notes, I would be welcoming it. You're ready to go. Let's

Dani:

go then let's go. Give me some sheets, bro. Yo, is that too harsh? I'm sorry.

Stephanie:

Sorry. Let's get that firing squad set up. Find the fucking drugs, which we know Idaho took years and years to, to produce maybe some, to find, they had to find the black dog. Some, some. Somehow you find a will to live in prison, which is so weird to me. I don't think that's where I'd find my will to live of anywhere. Mm-hmm. But now, now we, we just we're willing to give up certain things because we want to live in prison. It will never make sense to me. I know that was a tangent. But I just, I can't like logically make the dots connect.

Dani:

And I would just like to say, thank you Harry, for fucking up our recording. that my dog. So you heard a

Stephanie:

small little dog? No, you didn't.

Dani:

No you didn't. We'll see. All right. In 2007, ADA County prosecutors and Times defense team work on a plea agreement for the murders of Samantha and Jaylin. Prosecutors dropped the two charges of second degree murder and recharged him with two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of aggravated DUI.

Stephanie:

I don't like that. I understand you have to give and take and everything, but truly that. If you're willing to drive into someone and you know, having a truck, who's gonna win in the fight. Right. You know who's gonna win?

Dani:

I know Who's gonna lose Yeah. On my vehicle that I personally drive every day. Yeah. Well, it's metal. Well, and do you fight? Do you fight with a semi? No. You're never going to win. Do you know that? It took me an hour and 15 minutes to get home yesterday. Fuck. Were you in that bullshit? I

Stephanie:

was. It took me longer. I didn't take the freeway yesterday because my thing Oh, because you,

Dani:

you use your maps. Yeah. I don't, I just get on. So I was on the connector and I get a phone call from Jared who never calls me. Oh. I was on the phone with my mother. I'm like, uh, I wasn't even quite on the connector actually. I better just pick up. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, Jared said a motorcycle. Oh my God. Hit the back of some type of a construction vehicle. I've heard that it was, Adam said it was a concrete truck. My mom said it was, but Adam saw the guy weaving in and out of traffic. Yes, yes, yes. I am so scared of motorcycle. And I was just saying yesterday morning before the accident. I had three different motorcycles weaving in and out on the freeway, and I'm like, you are going to die. You're gonna hurt yourself. And I'm very conscious, I'm very aware, but I can't be, when you're weaving in and out of me at 70, you at 70 miles, if you're going a

Stephanie:

hundred and everyone else is going 30 and you're passing people at that, you, you don't, people don't have time to accurately judge a lane change.

Dani:

No.

Stephanie:

So if you're, anyways, it's just, oh my God. But

Dani:

that was back to the big versus small, like. Unfortunately, you're not going to win the guy, the guy lived,

Stephanie:

thank God. Because usually you don't, most er, you know those tiktoks where it's like ER people or doctors? What would you do? Things I would never do. Ride a motor. Motorcycle. Yeah. I don't care if you've got your helmet and all the gear. He's like, if I could tell you the amount of times where someone's head comes to me in a helmet and is in perfect condition, but it's attached from the body.

Dani:

Yeah. It doesn't

Stephanie:

matter. Yeah.

Dani:

So it was deliberate and I, but I also, you're going to, there's gonna be some more in this story while they're just like, let's get this done. And so if there's some satisfaction,

Stephanie:

sometimes you have to settle. Yeah, no, I get it. And I understand why this happens. It's just, it makes, it's not fair. I, I feel like words matter and. What you're charged for matters. And this was not vehicular manslaughter.

Dani:

I cannot wait for you to hear what the judge has to say. Oh, judge, tell me. So during an arraignment hearing for the new charges, prosecutors said that Time was under the influence of phentermine when he slammed his pickup into Samantha and her kids.

Stephanie:

Now I gotta turn the table over because any. Any millennial knows what phentermine is. Gen X probably knows too. extremely popular weight loss drug. Little bit kraish, I'm not gonna lie. I tried it, it helped me lose weight of a little bit, kraish, a little bit, a sprinkle of messiness. Sure. Are you, you're

Dani:

very thirsty.

Stephanie:

You're very thirsty and, and I think it does have a propensity for abuse. Sure. That. I'm sure there's people that abuse it. Yeah, but that's the reason you plow your huge ass truck into a Nissan Sentra.

Dani:

Well, maybe well Time admitted to taking an excessive amount. Probably. Listen, listen how excessive. And all those beer bottles. He was probably trying to,

Stephanie:

he's clean, kill himself.

Dani:

Clean, which I don't know how much French you mean you'd have to take to kill yourself? I probably really a lot. But then he was drinking beer, obviously. I mean, I'm assuming those beer bottles were and decided to kill other people about it. That's

Stephanie:

where most suicidal people, they already are very ashamed of the effects that it's gonna take on their families. Yep. And to, to kill other people in it unless they're in a cult or some type of religious sect or some type of, or a terrorist Weird political Yes. Like a political thing where they're like, this is a right. Wanna be mortar, righteous martyr. Mortar martyr. Sure. That, that, for the most part, suicidal people would never hurt another person.

Dani:

No. That's not their goal. No, they're no. Oh, when the judge asked him why he was pleading guilty, he said he didn't remember causing the accident, but agreed it was his fault.

Stephanie:

Convenient

Dani:

quote. I took my medication, drove my car, and got into an accident, took my medication as prescribed. I just wanna say I don't recall when, when this happened. Convenient. Sure. And Time bled guilty of those charges. I mean, that's,

Stephanie:

at least they get something. Sure. But I think that we all know, like even if you don't remember it, you were functioning and doing things to lead up to this. You had the foresight to write notes. You knew what your purpose was, so fuck off

Dani:

his sentencing hearing was held in March. He begs Samantha's family for forgiveness. Quote, I am consumed with grief. There are no words I can say. Your pain is embedded deep in my soul. I am deeply sorry. I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me. Fourth district Judge Debra Bale sentenced Time to 45 years in prison. The maximum sentences for all three charges,

Stephanie:

thank goodness.'cause sometimes you can get like three or four on a vehicular. Yeah.

Dani:

She told Time, he quote, forfeited all rights to be among free people. There is no point discussing rehabilitation when it comes, when, uh, a crime goes this far. Judge Bale said Time's crime stemmed from uncontrollable rage and she considered him guilty of murder, not manslaughter for killing Samantha and Jaylen. Thank you, judge. Go Judge. Bail. Geez. Yeah, that's why I was, I mean, they agreed on this and I know that there's reasons and just we're gonna continue, but I mean, the judge was like, this was. This was fucking murder. Yeah. Everyone knows it. Sure. You're fucking murderer. Nevermind your wife. Yeah. But these poor, innocent, uh, this poor, innocent mother and child

Stephanie:

that were just on the way to fucking daycare, dude. Ooh,

Dani:

Samantha's father, Lloyd Puckett told Time, quote, Mr. Time. I want you to look at these pictures. Every time I look at you, I feel my blood pressure go up. I can't help it, which is so. That's so real. Like imagine that happening to your best friend,

Stephanie:

sister, your mom.

Dani:

I, but he was so controlled in saying that because I've been like, yeah, motherfucker. But I would and maybe had to

Stephanie:

have the bailiff escort. Sure.

Dani:

Classy Mr. Puckett. And I love that last name by the way. Mm-hmm. Just'cause Yeah. I love that last name. Um, Lloyd stated that he forgave him for his crimes, even though their family is still mourning the loss of his daughter and granddaughter. Quote, Jaylen was the sweetest thing. You have taken her from me. This is so good. Lloyd said Time was lucky he was going to prison for life because he had time to possibly pay for his sins on earth instead of in hell quote, don't blow it. Ooh.

Stephanie:

I love that. You know what? That's probably one of the best little, like, made a

Dani:

good Lloyd fucking arguments. You could

Stephanie:

have

Dani:

Samantha's stepmother. Marcy asked why Time didn't pick a, a telephone pole or dump truck if he wanted to kill himself. Inanimate object. Sure. She also spoke of Sydney, who is now being raised by her grandparents. It's

Stephanie:

a tiny baby.

Dani:

Marcy says Sydney is played by nightmares and continues to be devastated by the loss of her mother and sister at eight. Can you not poor? I will say this, I did do a little research on her. Uh, she, I think she was 18. she was doing very well. She was a rodeo queen and very involved with her horses and stuff. I mean, I'm not saying that this wasn't a horrible thing, but for her to overcome that and be successful Yeah. As a child. Yeah. Yeah. Kudos, kudos, Sydnee. I can't imagine no. Rita Time's sister told the court that she and her family were praying for Samantha and Jaylin and the rest of the victim's family every day. She said that they appreciated that Puckett. The Puckett's had forgiven her brother. The love that I'm just after the hearing was over, both families exchanged, tearful, embraces in the hallway of the court. Because it has messed up all the families. Yeah. And for them to, it was very sweet that, um, that they were like able to reach Yeah. And not hate and

Stephanie:

understanding, not

Dani:

hate each other. And because yeah. That's all they had, you know? Mm-hmm.

Stephanie:

Ugh.

Dani:

A few days later, Time was back in court this time for the sentencing, for the first degree murder, plea of Theresa. Theresa's son, Abraham t Lily, sorry, age 17 said, I miss her every day, and I wish her life didn't have to end in such a brutal way. This awful man has taken one of the most precious gifts in our lives. This was his stepdad. His stepdad. Oh, so you think about the, so it's someone that he probably tried to welcome and. Yeah, they probably, so let's just say four and a half year. Like he probably have known him since he was like 10 or 11. And you maybe

Stephanie:

had some apprehensions at first, but he's part of your life now. Yeah. And knowing that they were in court and stuff, he had probably seen some shit. Oh, absolutely. Even if it wasn't super serious shit, he had seen some shit and then knowing that he escalated it. Ooh, it makes me so mad. But as

Dani:

a 17-year-old, a young man to go in there and sound just was very put together. Mm-hmm. Because me, at any age be like, you sound of a bitch. All you can say is fuck you, and fuck you and fuck. Like truly way to have these people have class. Yeah, a lot of class and dignity, so, and it's so much

Stephanie:

to be in a court because public speaking is like the number one big fear. Right, right. And then add in the emotion of it being regarding your loved one that you lost. To be able to talk. Ooh, it's getting me a little, Ooh,

Dani:

no, they're very, I mean, they held themselves very well and the just, they're very classy.'cause at 17 I would've said they did it at 30. I would've said it. I mean, I just, no. So, gosh, what gracious people seriously, Theresa's sister Roberta testified that the family has decided to forgive. Quote, we cannot live with broken hearts in time. We have to accept these things happen to us. And with tears falling down her face, she stated, quote, I want him to tell us why. Why did you do this to my sister? I

Stephanie:

fair a hundred percent because completely unnecessary. What could lead you, especially knowing how. You completely

Dani:

ridiculous. It ended, you fucking choked her, first of all. So if he was trying to get outta court, murder is not the way to do that.'cause he still had that court date. And then

Stephanie:

to decapitate someone. Mm-hmm. You know, they always say like, stabbing is a more personal thing than like a shooting or anything. Decap. I strangling, I feel bad even talking about it. But like decapitating someone.

Dani:

And then putting her head in his

Stephanie:

truck and just tossing it in there and writing some notes. Listen, I don't, I don't know how much phentermine

Dani:

even, even if we're, let's go Walter White blue, our meth headss don't do this shit. The way

Stephanie:

the meth don. They don't do this. So, and they're on that pure crystal. So what the fuck is the problem here? Like,

Dani:

this is a brutal one. Stuff I told you. I mean, this is, I, I told stuff earlier, like this is the first, I mean, I've, I've gotten emotional about other ones. This is the first one. Like I had tears running down my face and I told Danny, like,

Stephanie:

I remember hearing about this case'cause I was younger when this happened. And it was all over the headlines.'cause it's a very salacious story. I mean, it is a decapitated head coming out of a, a truck bed, it sounds like made up too crazy to be true. Right? Like, not even fit for movies. Right. So I remember hearing about this, like, you know, you're a kid. Yeah. Par parents are watching the news. Anyway, but it was a big deal and now I'm like, oh, this is the, this is the shit that happened.

Dani:

Team A stated during his hearing. It's not easy to sit here today because I was a part of your family, and yet I caused the pain that brought you here. I have no words to express how sorry I am. He also apologized to his own family for the shame and pain he brought to them a. They are so is yes, Theresa's family, but also he drug his family. They seem very close, by the way. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they're in there and, good. You should feel fucking shame you Dick.

Stephanie:

And I'm like, why didn't you feel shame before? Because it feels like in a lot of these cases, if the suspect. Would have felt shame for choking his wife or remote remorse, or even just embarrassment because some of these folks act like they don't know. People can see them like, bring back embarrassment. Bring back a little bit of shame.

Dani:

Fuck yeah. Prosecutor Victoria Bond. She sounds like a villain. I love it.

Stephanie:

Yeah.

Dani:

Prosecutor Victoria Vaughn said Team A had made a conscious decision to kill Theresa. Clearly. He purchased the knife and wrote letters before the attack. Oh, Vaughn said quote, he waited for her that night. Neighbors say he sat on the tailgate of his truck singing that night like he was intoxicated. So it

Stephanie:

wasn't even an argument, which wouldn't excuse it. I know we all know this wasn't a heat of the moment, like arguing over money or whatever. As you know, most relationships do to wait for someone when there isn't a trigger. And someone that's your partner. And is he the father of any of these kids?

Dani:

No.

Stephanie:

Okay. So he's a stepdad, but anyway, he's been a father figure. Yep. To sit and wait. Yep. For someone to like come home after work. That's what he did. To do that extreme of an act. No, never out, please. Mm-hmm. Please just never be in society again because that is so toxic. Can you imagine, ah, where you just think, oh, our relationship because we've been in toxic relationships and you think, man, this whole week we haven't even fought. And I don't know if that's the case, but imagine that it was, she pulls into

Dani:

the her

Stephanie:

driveway. I haven't got the shit beat outta me recently. Well, I told the judge to drop the restraining order. We are working on it. We've talked and some of these narcissists. We've talked about a plan. They've admitted to this, this, and that. Everything's going good. It's a random Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever the fuck day it is, and someone is waiting for you with that intention. That is supposed to be your partner. Disgusting.

Dani:

You ready to get more disgusted? Oh my God, I'm not, but let's go Pathologist, Dr. Joseph Kranz testified. That Theresa was alive when she was cut twice with a knife in the upper chest. The cuts were deep enough to leave abrasions from the knife handle.

Stephanie:

Okay. I don't, I don't even know what to say to that except just to be appalled.

Dani:

She also suffered an internal blunt force trauma wound on the back of her head as she struggled in her car. She was trying to get out of her car.

Stephanie:

Yeah, you're kind of in a compromised area, like I'm trying to imagine this and especially I think we all are in like. Routine mode, pull into the driveway, grab purse, blah, blah, blah. And she probably saw him sitting there and then, then someone attacks you that you're like, of course this person can't be attacking me. We're not even fighting.

Dani:

Fighting. They probably have been having their issues, you know? And she pulls up and she's like, great, he's fucking here. Probably

Stephanie:

intoxicated. Great. Took a few too many phentermine and alcohol. Who the fuck is getting. Obliterated on phentermine. What a loser.

Dani:

Her official cause of death was strangulation and the knife wounds to her chest,

Stephanie:

and so everything else was just extra like how

Dani:

she ping to me. She was barely alive when Time cut her off her head.

Stephanie:

I wanna fucking

Dani:

windmill this bitch like. He's a big boy too. He's a big samo boy. I think he's Simone.

I

Stephanie:

would like to duct tape oars to my arms and windmill. The fuck.'cause I'm a short person. Sure. I would like to make up for that handicap. Um, I will train and practice for it because what in the fuck? I'd love to bitch slap a person with a full force. You become karate

Dani:

kid with oars. Let's

Stephanie:

do it. Could you imagine the force? Let's go. And it would just be vehicular. Manslaughter.'cause I could plead down. I'm in a vehicle. I'm on a boat. Oops, sorry. Oh, these fucking bitches. Oh, I had to giggle.'cause this is know it's joke fucking heavy. It's not joke. This is so heavy. It's not a joke, but

Dani:

fuck. I just don't You think this is like the heaviest episode that we've done? It's one

Stephanie:

of, yes. Yeah. And it's so personal and I think that it's because we know people been affected as well, where we're like,

Dani:

oh yes, domestic violence, this

Stephanie:

is why this shit happens, is because of these fucking. Broken men, like it is not all men, a hundred percent. I will say it a hundred times, but you gotta be a special type of fucked up man to do this. And this is, it's not even that rare is it is a

Dani:

thing. So he has 45 years under his belt, right? For Samantha and Jaylen. But he was also sentenced. This is in the plea agreement to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Good die rot bitch. And that's why the 45 years really wasn't,'cause it was, there's no appeals, there's no nothing good. So, and the judge knew that when she sentenced and the prosecutors knew that when they, when they pled everything down to that some of their

Stephanie:

rulings are symbolic

Dani:

and Right. They're just like. Let's say the heartache. Mm-hmm. Of the families. All the families. Truly, yes. Because we've seen these cases drag on decades. Literally decades. And it's like, no, just have him plead life and then he stuck in fucking jail forever.

Stephanie:

And I don't ever have to go to another court execute for

Dani:

20, 30 years anyway. Yeah. Oh, and wait. That doesn't never happen here. Even if they try, they fuck it up. So, um. Yeah. Fuck

Stephanie:

you Time.

Dani:

How? Absolutely

Stephanie:

disgusting.

Dani:

Well, he's and currently,

Stephanie:

uh, preach. I don't like you, but could you pay him a visit? Do you have any janitor duties in this area? I don't know. Got

Dani:

any erasers on you? Uh. Time is currently 69 years old and resides at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Boise, Idaho. Aw. And that folks was the tragic, twisted tail of a lofa Time. The man who turned kidding back with your ex into a multi felony disaster. Yeah. Honestly, if murder was his love language, we'd rather stick to texting red flags and sipping vodka.

Stephanie:

A hundred percent agree. And I am curious to know, especially since I was younger in this, or just, I mean, not paying attention to news media sources or updates, like no one had a smartphone that was giving them local updates, but I remember hearing. Because, I mean, it's such a salacious title of a severed head came out of the truck on a non-related offense of someone like they didn't get pulled over'cause they were in a high speed chase for murder. They got pulled over because they were part of a wreck and the like, their murder happened to get exposed in this. So I remember this, but I was so young and not in tune to this like thing. I am curious, like people around our area, you have to remember this case and if you have anything interesting to share or you knew anyone, let us know because now that I know the whole story, this is wild shit. This is, it's

Dani:

wilder than I could have imagined. And I am pretty sure, so I just wanna say, I did not say this in the beginning and I'm, so my sources for this story Yeah. Were the Idaho Statesmen. It all was from the statesmen and KTVB. So, uh, because you have a but, but I am pretty sure,'cause I tried to find it. Um, I'm pretty sure there's a dateline on this or 2020 I think, because it was, I couldn't find it.'cause I really, where do you

Stephanie:

get a headline like that? A severed head pops out of a truck bed on a different charge because I wanted to get

Dani:

more, uh. Yeah, I wanted to get more from the families and that's where you get a lot of those is when you get episodes of talk about Snap or Dateline or anything like that. But I couldn't find it. I mean, I didn't dig deep, but I know I have heard, I'm sure it probably has it. Maybe it was another podcast that I heard it on.'cause I am a junkie, literally shout out to y'all stories. But I didn't listen to any podcasts to do this. I mean, it was way back, but I, I tried to find like a dateline on it and I couldn't, but. So mine is all from newspapers.com. I just read papers. Um, so the next time you're three margaritas deep and thinking about unblocking your toxic X, maybe don't thumbs

Stephanie:

down, zero out of 10 stars. Don't do it. And you broke up for a reason

Dani:

instead. Pour yourself another vodka. We promise it's safer than any reunion alofa ever had and toast to lessons learned without needing a trial transcript. Ten

Stephanie:

four rubber ducky.

Dani:

Join us next week from our crimes, cocktails, and questionable life choices. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah.

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