Serialously with Annie Elise
255: Evil Couple Adopts 5 Black Siblings To Be Personal Slaves, BFF Murder Plot, Teenage Murder on the Playground and Sherri Papini is Back
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the headline highlights in true crime this week?
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. And you know what time it is, you know what day it is. It's Thursday, so that means headline highlights. We have got so much to talk about this week and what's going on right now in the true crime world.
I'm talking new cases, updates in cases, Sherry Papini, which is a name I never thought I was going to say again. I mean, we just have a lot to discuss, and there is one case that has been at, like, the forefront of my mind that I not only can't escape, but I can't stop thinking about because it just makes me enraged.
Like, if you could see my face right now for the audio listeners, I know you can on YouTube. It just makes me so mad, and it's the case of this couple who adopted five black siblings and then literally died.
Chapter 2: Who are the evil couple accused of adopting children for slavery?
turned these siblings into their own personal slaves it is so despicable and so vile they had cameras in the shed they deprived them of like any basic human needs and so i don't know why i've seen a little bit out there about this couple and exposing them
but I felt the need to come on here and like really call attention to what they did because it is some of the more gruesome house of horror type situations that I personally have ever heard of. So we're going to talk about that case because there is a lot to go over, but I want to warn you it's definitely not an easy one to hear. We also were going to talk about a nurse in Utah who
plotted her best friend of five years death, but it didn't really end up how she thought it was going to. It didn't quite land where she thought it would. We're also going to talk about that manhunt that was ongoing in California for who law enforcement declared and deemed as the California Black Widow. She's the one who had already served prison time for killing her previous husband.
Then she got married to a woman, a fire captain, and then she ended up dead. She was on the run for several weeks. She's now been found, and so we're going to talk about all of that. We also are going to talk about a teenage girl who died at the hands of her own classmate, which, like, unfortunately, all these other cases, that case is also gruesome.
We're going to talk about Sherry Papini because that lunatic is back in the news, and I didn't think I'd ever be talking about her again, but here I am. And there's a couple other cases I want to talk to you about. I also did drop a one-hour-long deep dive into all of the news of what's been going on in the Idaho 4 case. You know, the brutal quadruple murder that took place in Moscow, Idaho.
Because over the past few weeks, there's been a lot of information that has come out. It started with the 911 call, the transcripts, and the text messages from that morning. But now... As more time has gone on, we also are finding out more about his Amazon history, his Amazon perch history, him being Brian Koberger.
We also are learning about the text message and social media activity of the roommates the morning of the murder before they called 911. Their Snapchat activity, Instagram activity, things like that. Some messages before
back and forth between the two of them not only from the early morning hours when the murder was taking place or shortly after it took place but then more around eight in the morning before the 911 call was made we of course are going to talk about the now infamous selfie that i'm sure so many of you have seen on your feeds at some point or another over the last week but it's a selfie that brian coberger took of himself in front of a bathroom which seems to not have a shower curtain
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Chapter 3: What is the bizarre murder plot involving a Utah nurse?
Many find that interesting because when they searched his apartment, a shower curtain was missing. And in this selfie, he is giving a thumbs up, smiling for the camera, and it was taken at 10.31 a.m. So, about, what, six hours after the murders. Now, the reason that this selfie is now being brought into question, of course, a selfie doesn't prove somebody's guilt, but...
The reason they're bringing that in as evidence and they want to bring it into trial is because one of the surviving roommates, Dylan, she, remember, came face-to-face with the intruder and all she could use to describe what this person looked like was their bushy eyebrows. Since then, it appears in some new hearings and court footage and photos that Brian looks more well-groomed, well-kept.
However, in this selfie picture that he took...
six hours after the murders he does in my opinion have very bushy eyebrows so the reason they want to bring that in as evidence is to say look this was right after the murders happened this was the state of his eyebrows this is what she can use as like the identifying marker not that that's ever you know 100% rock solid or conclusive but that's the whole reason that the picture is being talked about and entered in
So anyway, my point in saying that is I did a one-hour deep dive, like dissecting all of the new details, the Snapchats, the social media activity, the purchases, all of that, and also included a lot of the interview from Kaylee Gonzalez's own father, Steve. He has been very outspoken about this.
He's also been very outspoken about the public and how they have been dragging these roommates through hell the past few years. So we break it all down, talk about all of it. So it's in the feed. It's not only on YouTube, but it's also in the feed here on the podcast. It's like one episode or two episodes back. You can go listen. And gosh, sorry, I know this intro, guys, is so, so long.
You're like, get to it, Annie. Like, shut up. We don't care. But I just want to also mention that Monday we dropped probably the most unhinged episode that I have done to date. And the reason I say that is because I don't even know how to explain it without you guys seeing it or hearing it.
But it's like, this man, I couldn't help but, like, laugh out of secondhand embarrassment at this criminal and what he was trying to get away with. And... If you haven't listened to it yet, do yourself a favor and not only listen to the full episode, but go on my social media right now. You can go on Instagram, TikTok, wherever. It's at underscore Annie Elise.
And look at the clip that I posted because that is a clip of one of his interviews. And it gives you just like a little snacky preview of what this loser creep was up to. And so I basically drag him to hell in the episode and expose all of his stuff. But it's like unbelievable.
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Chapter 4: Who is the 'California Black Widow' and what are the recent developments?
She explained to them that Casey had terminal cancer, and again, she had signed that DNR. However, while they were at the scene, one of the paramedics saw a diabetic needle, which to them was a huge red flag almost immediately. So then when they saw that, they pretty much kind of just said, like, screw this. We're taking her to the hospital regardless of what you're saying.
Like, something is weird. Something weird is going on here, right? And sure enough, once Casey arrived, they noted that she had dangerously low blood sugar levels. According to NBC News, her blood sugar was at a 14, when even just 40 is considered dangerously low. The weird thing, though, is that Casey was not diabetic.
So the hospital tried doing everything that they possibly could do to save Casey. But sadly, she ended up dying three days later, at just 38 years old. Now, there were a lot of questions surrounding Casey's death, but the autopsy report would later emphasize just how suspicious all of it was.
It showed that Casey's cause of death was an overdose of promethazine, and it was also noted that the specifics were, quote, "...probable insulin or other drugs." So that in and of itself was huge, right? But it also showed that Casey had never even had cancer. In fact, she didn't have any medical conditions. She was completely healthy.
And on top of this autopsy report coming back with these, you know, bombshell findings that she had a clear medical history, no cancer, all of these things, it also came back saying there was absolutely no DNR on file anywhere. She never signed a DNR. It was all made up. So what the heck really happened here, right? Something was wrong.
Something wasn't right here because it's like here you have this healthy woman who died at 38 years old. Her best friend and nurse said she signed a DNR and also was a cancer patient. But come to find out, none of that is true. So they started investigating. And the investigators eventually recovered over 28,000 text messages between Megan and Casey.
And when they went through these text messages, what happened became very, very clear. Crystal clear, you could argue. Beginning in December of 2019, Megan, the best friend and the nurse, began convincing Casey that she was very, very sick. Now, I have no idea how Casey was convinced of this, but either way, she was.
And then the texts begin to show that Megan started telling Casey that she would help her die, help her along, help her transition due to this illness. Now, I will say, I saw a post on Casey's Facebook from back in 2020 where she was saying that she was going through chemo.
So I think there is a lot of backstory that maybe we don't quite know at this given moment, but I think that that's pretty severe and kind of crazy to convince not only a single person that they are affected with cancer, but maybe an entire medical team if she was in fact undergoing chemotherapy, unless she was doing some sort of, you know, private chemo with her best friend.
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Chapter 5: What happened in the tragic teenage murder on a playground?
I mean, can you imagine? Now, the reason that this story is back in the headlines now is because just recently on March 20th, 2025, Megan was arrested and charged with first-degree felony aggravated murder. She was also charged with third-degree felony obstruction of justice. And it's also worth mentioning that there was, in fact, no $1.5 million life insurance policy payout for Megan.
She, for whatever reason, thought she'd get the payout, but she didn't. So the entire five-year plot of hers, the scheming, the manipulating, the convincing of the illnesses, all that was for nothing. For nothing. And now she is being charged with murder. So adios, good riddance, you are scum.
Now let's move into this other case, and we had talked about it over here on Headline Highlights a few weeks ago, and it's who they're dubbing as the Black Widow of California, who has now been caught and arrested. So as a reminder, the California Fire Captain Becky was found fatally stabbed in her own home just weeks after fighting the huge wildfires here in California.
And the suspicions right away were toward her wife Yolanda, because she wasn't at the crime scene, and the investigators quickly assumed she had fled the country. Which seems like a pretty basic story, right? I mean, the wife gets mad for who knows what, kills her partner, then flees.
But the crazy thing about this case, especially this one in particular, is that this was now Yolanda's second spouse to have been brutally murdered in their own home. In fact, as I mentioned at the top of this episode, she had already served time in prison from 2004 to 2013 for her husband's year 2000 murder. There were no questions about whether or not she was guilty.
She literally had been found guilty and served time. Now, allegedly, and I say this allegedly because she hasn't been convicted, but allegedly... This next time around, she wanted to kill her spouse again. She decided to grab a knife, end her spouse's life so savagely, but she didn't want to go to jail this time. She didn't want to serve time.
So instead, she packed her bags and she fled 45 miles south and went to Mexico. And while the investigators were working with law enforcement officials in Mexico to find Yolanda, they discovered that the home security footage had actually caught Becky's entire murder. On this footage, you can see Yolanda chasing Becky outside on their porch at 8 p.m. the night of the murder on February 17th.
Becky was seen heard and screaming, Yolanda, please don't, I don't want to die. Then Becky was seen with blood all down her back, no doubt already suffering from at least one stab wound, and Yolanda was seen with blood on her arms, though we can assume it was more than likely not her blood. And Yolanda's only response, which was caught on camera, was, you should have thought of that before.
Can you imagine like how evil and callous you have to be for that to be your response? Your spouse is saying, please don't do this. Please don't do this. I don't want to die. And you just look at them and say, you should have thought of that before. I mean, it like sends a chill down my spine. So again, there were absolutely no doubts about who had killed Becky.
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