The Student's Verdict Emily Hodge

On 4th March 1989, Shirley Gibbs Russell went missing from her officers’ quarters in Quantico, Virginia. She was a Captain in the US Marine Corps. She has never been seen since. A 26 step plan to commit the perfect murder would point officers in the direction of Shirley’s killer. This would be the first case in US history where a person was convicted in a federal court of first-degree murder without a body, a crime scene or a weapon.

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Resources:
http://www.missingveterans.com/1989/shirley-gibbs-russell/#:~:text=Shirley%20Gibbs%20Russell%2C%20a%20Captain,Base%20on%20March%204%2C%201989.&text=Foul%20play%20is%20suspected%20in,murder%20of%20Shirley%20Russell%20Gibbs.
https://charleyproject.org/case/shirley-gibbs-russell
https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2013/10/schuylkill_county_native_conti.html
https://apnews.com/article/742c3dee2d2f6704c0df16b6fdf080d9
http://paoddities.blogspot.com/2020/02/marine-corps-murder-sensational-trial.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/971/1098/72087/

Maria de los Angeles Veron was a 23 year old woman living in the Tucuman Province in the northwest of Argentina. On the 3rd April 2002 she left her mother’s home to attend a hospital appointment when, according to witnesses, she was kidnapped by a group of people who dragged her into a red car. Evidence would later suggest these were human traffickers whose aim was to force her into a life of prostitution. In today’s episode we will look at one mother’s crusade to save her daughter.

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Resources:

https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-trafficking-in-persons-report/argentina/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Marita_Ver%C3%B3n
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-26950479
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20705751
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25429736
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25150428
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/01/03/inenglish/1388761518_070066.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susana_Trimarco
http://www.tipheroes.org/sara-susana-del-valle-trimarco-de-veron/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Argentina#:~:text=Some%2064%25%20of%20court%20cases,male%2C%20and%204%25%20transgender.

Mother of two, Larissa Schuster, was going through a bitter divorce from her husband, Timothy Schuster. She’d told friends that she wanted her soon to be ex-husband dead and that she could do it and get away with it. So when Timothy went missing without a trace, Larissa quickly became the prime suspect in his disappearance. When police questioned one of Larissa’s co-worker’s the truth began to spill out and officials were shocked and horrified. The media would go on to call her The Acid Lady.

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Resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa_Schuster
https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/schuster-larissa.htm
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1557281.html

In February 2006, 8 men applied to take part in a three day clinical trial for a new experimental drug, called TGN1412. It was hoped that this drug would revolutionise the treatment of Leukaemia and some autoimmune diseases. The drug had passed the animal trials and so next was the first human trial. One volunteer later recalled how the doctor “activated the needle - injected me - then I began to feel cold” and this was just the start. Doctors would later describe what followed as “a mystery”. Medical staff had no way of predicting how severe the situation was going to get as these volunteers were left fighting for their lives. Episode 19 ‘The Deadly Drug Trial is out at 7pm on Monday 14th December.

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Resources:
https://youtu.be/a9_sX93RHOk - ‘Drug Trial Goes Terribly Wrong: Emergency At The Hospital’ - Real Stories
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9226-uk-drug-trial-disaster-the-official-report/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2894972/elephant-man-drug-trial-victims-disfigured/
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-drug-trial-bbc-examines-what-went-wrong-in-the-infamous-elephant-men-case_uk_58ac3bd1e4b07028b703c926?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD_4FqcGgZhcCtMCzi86Ew1RpnAvHyuRi1_eCieRdIhpfLizPbhT-3nnp1NDCARMR4F9hbdJfWtR_PA8UNzi0ypyJM2cGb5-mfsLB1pwbqS-dAIpYQm3zIGJevTT2LZQWDdaOQ0eE83tEWCmtjd0B2REuwhRUQi83xfuAlfYKr2-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35766627
https://www.newscientist.com/term/cytokine-storm/
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/cytokine-storm

Asha Jaquilla Degree went missing from the home she shared with her parents and her brother when she was just 9 years old. Witnesses reported seeing the little girl walking along the highway in the rain. Without realising at the time, these witnesses were the last people to see Asha. 2020 marks 20 years since Asha’s disappearance, her family still believe that their little girl is out there, somewhere.

If you have any information in the case of Asha Degree please contact the FBI Charlotte Field Office on 704-672-6100

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Resources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Asha_Degree
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/20th-anniversary-of-asha-degree-disappearance-021420
https://www.dailyarmy.com/stories/the-story-behind-asha-degrees-disappearance-and-new-details-from-the-case/
https://youtu.be/Y-9FtGTRWnk
https://www.shelbystar.com/news/20201116/inmate-says-he-knows-what-happened-to-asha-degree?template=ampart

Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence and torture

70 year old Edna Phillips lived a quiet and secluded life with her white terrier Chum on the Penywaun estate in South Wales. Unfortunately, this estate had become increasingly dangerous as unemployment rates rose leading to higher levels of crime. Miss Phillips herself became the target of abuse after she complained about a family on the estate. She was verbally abused, rubbish was dumped in her garden, she had stones thrown at her and faeces were smeared on her house. Despite all of this evidence to support her request to be moved off the estate, the council failed to do so. The abuse would peak on the 16th July 1992 when Miss Phillips was attacked in her own home, she was tortured and murdered in the most brutal and vicious ways.

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Resources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Edna_Phillips
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tina-molloy-aberdare-murder-inquest-16982279
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/brutal-killing-pensioner-two-teenage-15209482
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/despair-and-death-on-an-estate-without-hope-peter-dunn-looks-at-the-background-to-the-brutal-murder-1496695.html
‘THE MOB IS LOOKING FOR REVENGE’ 18th March 1993, Irish Independent
British Newspaper Archives
‘THE END COLUMN’ 12th March 1993, Virginia Heath, Evening Sentinel (Opinions Page)
British Newspaper Archive
‘SHE WOULDN’T HAVE HURT A FLY, SAYS PAL’ 9th March 1993, The Journal
British Newspaper Archives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3479709.stm