Serialously with Annie Elise
243: Barbaric Fiji Honeymoon Murder, Josef Fritzl Release, Diddy Wins Lawsuit & Doctor Kills 10 Patients
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Today’s episode dives into everything happening this week in true crime with @_annieelise. From new cases to updates on existing ones and more. Links referenced in this episode: Honeymoon Murder in Fiji Affluent Wife Lures Her Bahamas Boyfriend To Hire a Hitman to Murder Her Husband? | Lindsay Shiver Join our True Crime Club for access to BTS, Bonus Content, Our Private Group Chat, Giveaways and More! Shop Our True Crime Merch Follow the podcast on: IG, Facebook and TikTok For Business Inquiries: [email protected] About Annie Today’s Sponsors: Acorns – Head to https://acorns.com/ae to start saving and investing in your future today! Honeylove – Visit https://honeylove.com/ae to save 20% off sitewide. Episode Sources: CBS News People.com Sky News The Guardian LAD Bible NY Post NY Times Variety News 5 WBIR 10
Chapter 1: Who is Annie Elise and what is today's podcast about?
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. I am outside of my normal studio today. I am recording in Big Bear, California, actually, because I didn't realize that it's ski week, which means my son has the week off school. So we decided come up here. Let's you know, there's a little bit of snow left from the storm from last week.
We're going to attempt to go skiing today and it'll be their first time taking lessons. So fingers crossed that all goes according to plan. But if you're watching the YouTube version of this, then you see that I'm not in my normal set.
But anyway, today we are going over headline highlights and there is so much to talk about today because it is an episode that is full of not only new cases, but also a lot of updates in existing cases. I'll start off by just giving you like a little sneak preview.
But one of these cases is about a doctor who allegedly murdered 10 of his patients, but then tried to cover up every single individual murder by setting a fire to their residence. It's very complicated, very confusing, but we're going to get into that. But honestly, like serial killer, right? We also are going to talk about an update in the infamous case of Joseph Fritzl.
Now, some people call him Josef. It's Joseph Fritzl. He was the guy you probably are familiar... There was a movie based off him. He locked his daughter in a basement for over two decades, had multiple children with her. There was a movie made off of this case. It was called Girl in the Basement. And he actually might be getting released from prison. It is unbelievable.
So we're going to talk about that case too. Another case that we have talked about briefly, but don't worry, I'll give you the recap.
is Lindsay Shiver it looks like she is going to possibly be released and have given another chance on bail even though in my opinion she screwed up her last chance so badly because they told her not to go on a press tour she went on Good Morning America out of all things so then she was thrown right back in jail in the Bahamas but now it looks like she might be released soon
There also has been an update in the Diddy and Jay-Z of it all. Particularly, not only has one of the lawsuits been dropped and dismissed, but there is a new lawsuit for $100 million. But it's not what you think. So we're going to go over that too. We'll talk a little bit about the Megan Boswell trial because I know I've been talking about that on the last couple of episodes.
She is who I deem Casey Anthony 2.0. She has officially been found guilty. She's been sentenced. So we'll touch on that a bit. And then we're going to talk about this case about a man who was convicted of killing his fiance in Fiji while the two of them were on their honeymoon. I touched on this, I believe it was like a year ago.
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Chapter 2: What is the case of the doctor accused of killing 10 patients?
Way more details have come out, and this is so bizarre to me, and I don't want to get ahead of myself, but they go on this extravagant, beautiful honeymoon in Fiji. He not only allegedly murders her, but then he tries to flee in the most ass-backwards way I've ever heard of. So we're going to jump right in to all of it.
Let's start with this doctor who allegedly has killed 10 people and then tried to cover his tracks by setting fire to all of the residences. So this case actually sounds like it's right out of an episode of Criminal Minds or, I don't know, NCIS or any one of those shows because it truly is wild. But a German doctor who works in Berlin has now been charged with killing 10 of his patients.
And in half of those cases, like I said, he allegedly tried to start fires to cover up the murders. So this doctor, whose identity hasn't yet been released, first got charged back in August. And this was because the police suspected him of killing four elderly patients. All of them were between 72 and 94 years of age, which we talked about elderly crime before on here, and it just
It never ceases to amaze me because like what kind of sick person are you to then be like in a position of power like a doctor or a trusted official and then you prey on some of the most vulnerable people. It's just sick. So this doctor, he was 40 years old and he was also a part of a nursing care team.
And he allegedly killed these four elderly patients in June and July, then tried to set their apartment on fire to cover his tracks, which he didn't really have much success with that, clearly. But then in November, the investigators started to realize the extent of just who they were dealing with, because they connected him to four more patients' deaths.
And then, just last week, they connected him to another two. So they were able to connect him to all of those murders after going through all of the different patients' files and then cross-referencing their autopsy reports. And that's really when all of the puzzle pieces started to come together.
And it's not exactly said how he allegedly killed every single one of these patients, but from what the police have shared, it looks like he would give these patients some sort of like lethal mix of medication or drugs. I'm not sure if he would inject them with this dosage or give it to them in pill form or maybe even like
cough syrup form, but he would somehow give his patients this very deadly dose. Now one of the scariest and the saddest parts of this entire case is that he supposedly had no motive whatsoever for doing any of this. I mean, other than what the investigators are calling, quote, a literal lust for murder. But other than that, no motive.
Not that we ever see a huge motive in this because a lot of the times we see caretakers, hospital staff kind of, you know, inject the insulin in the IV bags or do these things, especially with elderly patients, and they don't have a motive. It's just more of like a power trip, right? They have the power to play God and do these things.
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Chapter 3: Why is the release of Josef Fritzl controversial?
But I swear, every time I'm driving up and down the street, whether it's my neighborhood or a neighborhood I'm not familiar with, or even on vacation, like right now, literally in the mountains, I had this thought yesterday. And I drive past these houses. I'm like, I wonder out of all of these houses, how many of them have somebody held against their will?
And I don't know if that's, again, just my sick mind because I'm also the kind of person where if I'm in a mall or like a concert, I also think to myself, I wonder how many people attending this have killed somebody. I wonder how many people are pedophiles. Like my mind just goes there, which that can't mean I'm well.
But anyway, this is one that has haunted me forever, for decades, because it is one of the more barbaric and gruesome ones. So get ready to just be disgusted. Now, for those of you who haven't heard of this case, let me give you a little bit of a breakdown, okay? Because Joseph Fritzl was a man who basically held his, not even basically, he did.
He held his daughter, Elizabeth, captive in a cellar that he built beneath his home, beneath their home, their family home, and he held her there for years. While she was being held captive in that cellar, he repeatedly raped her, he fathered seven children of hers, and he had convinced everyone in her family and her friends that she had run away from home to join a cult.
Which, it is just so disgusting. This father kept his own daughter as his personal sex slave and kept her in that cellar for 24 years. Now there's also been some confusion and some talk over the years that a lot of this stemmed from control. that he was a very controlling father. He didn't like her dating. He didn't like her going out. He just wanted complete control, yet she would disobey a lot.
She wanted to live her life. She also fell in love and wanted to just be, you know, a typical teenage girl. And so because of that, one day he just over, not even overreacted, but it's like a fuse blew. And that's when he dragged her into his cellar of her family home beneath the home and held her there captive, fathering seven children for 24 years.
As I mentioned, there was even a movie that was based on this case called Girl in the Basement, and it came out back in 2021. So if you want, if you're curious, you should definitely watch it. Do your own research about this guy, and you will see just how truly disgusting and absolutely vile he is.
Now, how Elizabeth was finally able to manage escaping this 24 years of hell was because one of her daughters, who was a 19-year-old named Kirsten, she became super sick. So Joseph had put Kirsten in an ambulance so that she could go to the hospital, where the nurses and the doctors obviously became very concerned for just how bad this girl's condition was.
All the while, Joseph pretended to not even know her, saying that he found her, that he was just playing good citizen by bringing her to the hospital, but that he didn't even know her. So because of that, the hospital started broadcasting these messages, asking the missing mother to come forward to help this girl who's at the hospital.
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Chapter 4: What are the details of Lindsay Shiver's alleged murder plot?
But personally, my thoughts are this guy should never see the light of day again. I don't care if, first of all, 15 years is not enough in my opinion, but also I don't care how old you are and because of your age, you're not a danger to society because you're so weak. That doesn't matter.
The punishment for holding your own daughter captive for over two decades and for fathering children with her and instilling that trauma on her and everything she's had to endure and those kids have had to endure, that in my opinion equals you should be locked up for life. I don't care your age. I don't care how frail you are. It's not about you being a danger to society at this point.
It's about retribution. It's about payback. It's about making sure that he is held accountable for what he did and what those horrific, vile actions were, right? It just doesn't make sense to me. How he only served 15 years or might only have served 15 years, I'll never know. I think he deserves to rot in prison forever.
Now, as if all of this wasn't crazy enough, Joseph is so insane that he fully believes that once he is released, he will be greeted with what he is calling fanfare. He legit thinks that people will be so incredibly happy to see that he is out, that he is walking free, and that he has a chance to finish his life outside of prison, which... No. No, bro. I think it is the complete opposite.
I think that his family, along with the majority of the public, are going to be outraged by this. Who wouldn't be? How is this guy, if he was just walking down the street, I mean, how do you justify that? How do you justify this man being released? I will keep an eye on it. I hope it doesn't go through, but... You know, we have seen crazier things happen, right?
Now let's talk about this other case because it's a case that we have talked about on this channel. There hasn't been a resolution yet, but it is a very wild one. So I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with it. But Lindsay Shiver, the former beauty queen who was accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband while they were on vacation, is set to return to the U.S. after being granted bail again.
So Lindsay is a former beauty queen, and she was married to an ex-NFL player named Robert Shiver. And safe to say, their marriage was on the outs, and they were almost completely estranged at this point, but they were technically still married. So in July of 2023, Lindsay was arrested for an alleged murder-for-hire plot against Robert.
While in the Bahamas, police ended up finding incriminating text messages between Lindsay and her alleged lover, Terrence Bethel, and also some text messages with the alleged hitman, Farron Newbold Jr. And in these text messages, they were apparently all three talking about this murder plan, how they were going to get away with it, concocting the whole plan.
And according to the police report at the time, Lindsay admitted to sending a text message that said, kill him with a photo of her husband attached to it. Now, all three of them pleaded not guilty to these charges. So then, in December of 2023, Lindsay was actually granted bail at $100,000, and Terrence was also granted bail.
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Chapter 5: What is the latest update on the Diddy and Jay-Z lawsuit?
and that the girl was only 13 years old at the time. I understand it's a big life event, allegedly, but also I think it certainly is possible that she doesn't remember all of the details exactly as they happened, not only because of the time that has passed, but her age, and again, the trauma and fight-or-flight mode that your body goes into to block that out and suppress those memories.
But what do I know? So Jay-Z's attorney further said that the case was dismissed without any settlement or any payment, and he called the allegations false and malicious. Jay-Z's company, Roc Nation, also issued a statement saying that this is a victory. He also said that this issue caused a lot of trauma for Jay-Z, his wife, and his children.
And I just read too that Jay-Z is actually suing the lawyer, Busby, the one who's been responsible and behind all of these lawsuits for all these Jane Doe's
and all these victims, that he is suing him for $100 million, claiming that this has not only created such distress for his family, but even has put his life in jeopardy because he claimed that when he went to the Lion King premiere for Blue Ivy's debut, that somebody apparently held him at gunpoint and was threatening his life. I hadn't heard of that. I'm not saying it's not true.
I just hadn't ever heard of that. I didn't see it in the news. It very well could have happened. I don't follow Lion King news or Premier News or Jay-Z news that much. But he's saying that because of this, he's suing for $100 million because not only, again, was there distress, but he put his life in jeopardy.
So this whole lawsuit being dropped definitely came as a bit of a shock to everybody, especially the fact that it got tossed out and the girl might not ever see justice now, if that was in fact true. But I will say that although Jay-Z's lawsuit got thrown out, Diddy is still facing dozens and dozens of lawsuits, some that do not seem to be going away anytime soon.
So with this case being thrown out, Diddy's lawyers are now trying to, of course, use that as leverage, saying, oh, well, yeah, all All the allegations against him are just based on lies just like this one, which I don't know. I'm of the mentality of where there's smoke, there's fire. I think there is a lot of suggested proof indicating that this Diddy thing goes way deep.
But of course, they're using this as like they're going to use anything they possibly can, right? And they're saying, just like this example, all these other ones are fabricated too. We want all these thrown out, but I highly doubt that's going to happen. In the meantime, Diddy has been locked up in Brooklyn since September 2024, and he's facing racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
He's been denied bail three times now, too, so he is definitely staying behind bars for now. Now, his trial is set for May 5, 2025, which I can't even believe that it is coming up that quickly. Yet we're not even gonna, we haven't seen Brian Koberger in court for years, right? I don't know. Not that they're the same, obviously, but like this is so fast.
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