The most certain thing about life is its uncertainty. We plan our days, think ahead of time, dot all the i’s, and cross all the t’s, but life has its own plans. It has the unpredictable nature of hitting you when you are least expecting it or blessing you when you lose all hope. This is life, capricious and surprising.
One thing that is more unpredictable than life is the people. When we watch or read the news, it becomes more and more challenging to trust the people around us. These are the very people who can pleasantly surprise you and be positive or disgustingly shock you too. All we can hope for is to surround ourselves with people who fall in the former category. However, when we hear stories from the latter category, we tend to get appalled. After all, there is not much we can do about it except be cautious.
Murder With My Husband is a true crime podcast by a wife who loves it and a husband who hates it. Payton Moreland is a fan of true crime. She has spent her childhood watching crime shows and has grown up on these. On the contrary, her husband, Garrett Moreland, stays away from crime as far as possible and doesn’t like indulging in such vicious crimes. When they got married, they came to a consensus; starting a true crime podcast.
In Murder With My Husband, Payton takes us through a crime they uncover in a particular episode, while Garrett serves as her audience, giving his feedback and input in the middle and interjecting with questions where clarity is needed. With this dynamic, they actually answer all questions the audience or listeners might have while listening to the podcast, so the end result is a complete understanding of the full account of the crime. This works well for the couple as well as the listeners too.
The podcast has shared some of the creepiest true crimes in history, highlighting how gruesome people can get. Most of the time, the perpetrator is someone close to the victim, someone, from the family or friends, and you are shocked to see how brutal someone can be to commit a crime of such magnitude.
Their recent podcast of The Manson Family will indeed spook you out. The story is about Charles Manson, who established a cult from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. The group consisted of 100 people who lived in an unconventional setting, avidly using LSD hippie culture and communal living. Charles Manson called them The Family. He brainwashed these people to the point that, on his orders, four members of The Family went into a house and Cielo Drive to kill everybody as gruesomely as possible.
The Family killed five people at the house, including budding actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant and cruelly stabbed. They killed another man 51 times. By this heinous act, one can only imagine how brainwashed they must be to kill someone that brutally, including a pregnant woman. More surprising is the fact that Charles Manson was not even at the crime scene and waited at the ranch, where they all were staying. It’s hard to believe, yet it’s true.
The Hollywood Horror Story is another such crime where Blake Leibel, a comic book creator, graphic novelist, and screenwriter, viciously tortures and kills his fiancée and the mother of their daughter, Iana Kasian, in their apartment. The police found Iana in her bed, soaking in blood with a blanket covering her body to the chin. But the police didn’t even need to take the blanket off as her popping head was proof enough of her death. While Blake was in the same apartment, bruised and disheveled. The podcast gives off some horrific details of the condition in which Iana was found that speak volumes about the torment she must have borne in her final moments. This tells us how unstable people are in their heads, even when it’s someone as close as your partner whom you are living and sharing your life with.
Some of such other true crime stories that bring out the horrendous side of people can be heard in The Freeway Phantom Murders, Sarah Everard, Fisher Family Murders, Selena Quintanilla Murder, The Longo Family Murders, The River Valley Killer, etc.
Murder With My Husband is a mirror to society, Where it will be unfair to see everyone we meet with a jaundiced eye. It teaches us to beware of our surroundings and the people. If you suspect someone, don’t let it go but keep your guard up because you may never know who may shock you in the end. It helps people be cautious while dealing with others and keep their eyes open no matter how trusting the other person may seem.
Just to understand the importance and uncertainty of life a little better, it is recommended to listen to Murder With My Husband as it gives you new perspectives.
