Episode 202 - Inconsistent and Anger Inducing - UNSOLVED - Twisted and Uncorked

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Twisted Humans.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult or haunting.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you. I'm Alicia and
I'm Sierra and this is.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Twisted and Uncorked. Hello. Hello, this is episode two o
two and I am bringing a case to your attention
today that I believe is much needed. The more people
talking about this case, the better. Way. Back in episode

(00:35):
one eighty seven, I talked about the case of Crystal
McCrory Jones, whose family is actively pursuing a relook into
the alleged suicide, as they believe her death was a homicide.
In that episode, I named a few other women who
have died by what was first believed to be suicide,
but with further evidence, seems to likely be homicide, and

(00:58):
almost always at the hands of their previously violent spouse.
This is another one of those stories. But before we
get into this heart wrenching and fury inducing case, let's
hear some fun facts. What do you have for me?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I was just gonna say that I have a feeling
I'm gonna get mad now, so I'm glad that you
said it. But my fun fact is something that frequently
frustrates me, and that there's never enough hours in the
day to get all your shit done. Wow, the Earth's
rotation is changing speed. It's actually slowing down, which means,

(01:37):
on average, the length of a day increases by around
one point eight seconds every century.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Every century.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Wow, second, I'm gonna get a whole other two seconds. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
We just gotta live to be one hundred, No big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's still wild, though, Like that is crazy. Five hundred years,
what are their days going to look like?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, tell me explain again why.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's increasing, the Earth getting flowing down and slowing down.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, it's weird. That is weird. Interesting? What
is interasting? My fun fact? I actually just during this
the other day. Abercrombie and Fitch, the closing the clothing
store in the mall that assaults you with beachy teen boy.
Colone used to be an outdoor sporting goods store where

(02:33):
you could buy camping equipment and even guns. The leather
jacket worn by Amelia Earhart in her most famous photo
was likely from there. President Theodore Roosevelt would buy all
his camping gear from there, and the gun that Ernest
Hemingway used to leave this World was likely from Abercrombie
and Fitch. Obviously. They eventually underwent a rebranding, which happened

(02:58):
in about nineteen eighty eight when a company called Limited
bought the name and they started advertising West Coast model
clothing to teens and young adults.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And assaulting our senses.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
And assaulting our senses is.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
An assault in there. The store is dark, it is loud.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
And it hurts your nose, Like the smell is so
much it hurts.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I get stressed out when I go in there.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I don't even know if I've seen one in
any of the places I've lived in a really long time.
They'd probably do better if they were selling outdoor stuff
again where I live.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
True, true enough, especially when it's like melting heat over there.
Oh god, I just I have no depth perception with
a hat on, and I just like blunked my mic
my dad. Guys, sometimes we're just here to make all
sorts of aggressive noises. Sira is if you're watching this
on YouTube. In another setting, brother was sleepy today. So
she's in her daughter's egg.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm in a pod for the pod. Okay, it's a pod.
It hangs it really jealous, really awesome. There's actually a
little lights in here, but the batteries are dead and
she's not home right now, so there's no point in
putting new batteries in it. But it hangs and it's
like round. It's actually really cozy. I'm kind of hot.

(04:17):
I wish I had a fan blowing in here, but
otherwise it's really, you know, cozy, and I feel like
I'm in a pod.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do they make adult ones? I know this was pretty big. Yeah,
I know. Like no, I meant like Paths is like
space themed in this one's leopard brint.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah. The only other one I've seen has rainbow hearts
all over it, which is cute, but it's like, if
you know what I'm talking about, it's like it's like
rainbow hearts. I don't know that you see babies where.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's not it would feel like it's not a side.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, it's not. It's not a like pride kind of thing.
It's more like a I'm to your two years old
kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Unfortunately, I just need adult ones to be that much
of a cozy little space. I feel like that could
solve my reading chair problems because I refuse to pay
one thousand dollars for a nesting chair. It's simply not happening.
So I have alerts set on Facebook marketplace because people
buy them and then they're like regret because they're so

(05:24):
big and probably they never use them as much as
they think that they were going to. So they sell
them on Facebook marketplace. And there's two scenarios. One they're
not that much cheaper than a brand new one and
it isn't worth it, so I don't buy it, or
two it's super cheap. And then in the description they
say that it was their dog's bed and I'm like ew,

(05:46):
Like I plan to shampoo it anyway, but I'm like
that's gross. Like you can't get a smell of dog
out of its big dogs? Yeah, Like everything just still
smells like dog.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, these this I'm telling you, if you could get
over the pattern or put some stuff over I have
if you haven't noticed myne I know it's like a
canopy curtain on top of it because I was trying
to hide the pattern too, but it's all behind me,
so you know whatever. If you can get over the pattern,
it is really cozy. Bubba sleeps in his like it's

(06:22):
big enough for him to sleep in when.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You gave a tour the other day, he was like
bundled in there, like yeah, and I'm like, I need one.
It's pretty awesome, and I also need the beverage in
your hand. I didn't make it yet because I do
intend to go sit in the sun after this, so
I was going to bring mine with me, a virgin
one in a little to go cup, because I don't
want to get arrested for drinking at a park with children.

(06:46):
But right now I am just drinking a very very
large protein iced coffee yeh, and water because I just
did two hours of sweating. Yeah, you're drinking tell us.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
So this episode pairs well sort of. You'll see why later.
It doesn't pair well with much of anything because it's
just so anger inducing. However, I gotta show you the
picture that I took of this drink because the picture
pairs well. Okay, it's a giant let me rephrase, the
episode pairs well with a giant margarita. Peach margarita from

(07:20):
Texas Roadhouse. Do you guys have Texas Roadhouse?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
No? Okay, chain, well maybe East yeah, Middle Canada does,
but we don't.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Texas Roadhouse has this peach margarita that is like the
size of my head, okay, And then they put little
shooters on top sometimes if you ask for them, it's huge.
It's delicious. I attempted a mocktail version, so I made
a peach margarita with peach lemonade Assaye Herbal Infusion tea

(07:51):
as my liquid, an actual peach that I blended honey
and lime and I just blended it up over ice.
And I have a a sugar wrim on my margarita.
I like sugar rims on margarita's. It's really good.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
If you do.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Choose to add booze. Tequila is the right one for
a margarita. But look at this photo that I took
of the drink. It looks angry. The drink is angry.
Isn't that awesome?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's so funny. It's that it was putting on a
show for you. You have to send me that, and
you have to send me the one that you took
of last week's.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I did, and I liked it. It's I sent it
from my person, my twisty Era to the Twisted and Uncorked.
I liked it the other day so that it would
alert you there it is you're like your dumb here
it is thumbs up the peach, I mean the raspberry thing, right.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, that's what I was like, because mine looked like
a crime scene. No one needed that.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'll like it again. It's not hard, it's weird.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh I got so distracted by your potatoes I found.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, we're good youvan it Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, that's perfect Sierra. Like I said, guys, it's much
better at making these drinks. I'm sure that with my
luck with blended drinks, I'm sure I'm going to make
that and it's not going to be the right consistency
as usual, So I.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Will I just put mine over ice. Mine's not even
like blended.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I feel like that's the easiest way to make margarita's.
But something about a blended margarita is the last I know.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
All Right, Well, enough happy talk. We are going to
get into some sad stuff after a quick break, all right.
We are going to start with the incident and work
our way back from there. On May twentieth, twenty fifteen,
Michael Calucci placed to call to nine one one to

(09:56):
request help for his wife, Sarah Lyn Calucci, who was
unresponsive outside their jewelry business. Potentially having attempted suicide. When
EMT's and police arrived, sarah Lynn's body was sort of
leaning or pressed up against the side of the building.
It was cold to the touch, and liver mortis had

(10:17):
already begun to set in. She had a black hose,
like a garden hose, and it was wrapped loosely around
her neck and also around a fence post. There's a
photo if you google it. It's not of her. It's
there's a blanket over her, but you can see how

(10:38):
loosely the hose is wrapped if you want to type
in Sarahlyn Calucci scene. Maybe I meant to bring it up,
but I hated looking at it while I was writing
my notes, so I left it out of my notes.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh see, that's upsetting.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Michael said he attempted to give her CPR, but was unsuccessful,
though he somehow gave himself a fat, bloody lip while
doing that. Also, when you give Smoothy's CPR, you have
to make sure they're flat on the ground to people, Okay,
make sure you do that. Thanks a few things he
did not mention, at least that at least one person

(11:19):
took mental notes of was that. He also had bruises
and scratches along his upper arms, peeling skin on the
inside of his wrist like when someone digs their fingernail
into you, and abrasions on his knuckles. Sealyn had a
black eye. The tip of one of her fingernails was
broken off and happened to be in the front seat

(11:40):
of Michael's car, and her sunglasses were in the vehicle
as well, broken with some pieces on the driver side
and others on the passenger side. She also had abrasions
on her knees and on the top of her foot.
Sealyn was wearing strappy sandals, and the same foot with
the abrasion happened to have her shoe dangling off, so

(12:05):
the shoe was no longer on her foot, but it
was still wrapped around her ankle by the straps, almost
like it was dragged right off of her. So how
did the couple get to this place anyway? Michael claimed
that he and Sarah were there. Sorry, He and Sarah
were with their attorney that day, I'll explain why later.

(12:27):
And then after meeting their attorney, they went to dinner
and then Sarah Lynne wanted to go and visit the
grave of her late husband. Michael said he had driven
Sara Lyn to this warehouse where her body was found
right after so that she could use the restroom inside
while he waited in the car, but he says she

(12:47):
was pretty upset. So Sarah was previously married and had
a child with a man named Michael Vieira. They're both Michael,
so I'm just gonna call him Viea. In twenty seventeen,
Vieia was on a trip to Myrtle Beach with some
friends and attended to attend a motorcycle rally. While there,
he had a bad reaction to drug use. According to

(13:11):
his friends, he started to get violent and they weren't
sure what to do with him. They called Sarah Lynde
to ask if she knew of a way to calm
him down, but she told them to just let him
walk it off, so, according to them, that is what
they did. The Era would be found the next morning
on the roadway. He had on blue jeans and a belt,

(13:32):
but no shirt or shoes and only one sock. He
had cocaine and more than one thousand dollars on him,
along with a gold necklace still around his neck. He
had twenty six puncture wounds to the chest, a few
lacerating his heart and lungs, and the knife was found
laying right beside him. He had no defensive wounds and

(13:54):
there was no other evidence to conclude that someone had
done this to him. In fact, the police officially concluded
that this was an accidental suicide due to a bad
acid trip, based on Vieia testing positive for cocaine, cocaine
degradation product, marijuana metabolite, and LSD. His family claims otherwise

(14:18):
that maybe VIA's so called friends had more to do
with this than they let on, but it has never
been investigated further. Visiting VIA's grave was something that Sarah
Lyne did regularly, and she was good about keeping the
memory of Via alive for her daughter. But according to
Michael Calucci, her new husband, this was a very hard

(14:39):
time for Sara Lynn due to the past trauma, and
she had been upset about other unknown and never asked
about things lately. Michael said that he took Sara Lyn
to their jewelry warehouse where they worked they owned this
place together because she was picky about where she would
use the restroom. However, others in her life claimed that

(15:00):
she was not at all picky and would pop a
squad outside if she needed to, But that is just
one of many inconsistencies. Michael said that he parked and
Sara Lynne went in, and he stayed out in the car.
Sometimes his story suggests that he fell asleep. Sometimes it
suggests that he was looking down at his phone and

(15:21):
just not paying attention. Either way, even though the hose
could be seen from the vehicle, he did not notice
anything weird until about fifteen minutes later, according to his story,
when he got out to go and check on Sara
Lyne and he found her with the hose rapped around
her neck. The lead medic who arrived on the scene

(15:41):
took notes, and in his notes he wrote, quote no
point of anchoring for body weight, no evidence of an
actual drop, very low probability of suicide by hanging end quote.
But that day, that night, and for a while after,
nothing really happened here. The police took Michael in for questioning,

(16:04):
where he said, maybe she just tripped and fell into
the hose, if she didn't do it on purpose.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh okay, what is this the toilet incident all over again?
We don't just tripped and fell and fall into things
and hang ourselves or drown. Okay, people like this makes
me so mad.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
The officers must have glossed over all these inconsistencies and
just took Michael Calucci's word for it that sarah Lynn
must have killed herself. Just a few weeks before sarah
Lyne's death, Michael Calucci had formally adopted sarah Lynn's daughter,
so after she died, her daughter stayed with him. But

(16:43):
things were not the way they were before. Michael wasn't
seeing or even allowing sarah Lyne's daughter to see sarah
Lynn's parents, who were very heavily involved in their lives before,
and they already had a feeling that something wasn't right
with sarah Lyne's death, but this made the suspicion stronger,
and they asked if the newly elected sheriff in their

(17:05):
town would take another look. Thankfully, he agreed that a
suicide seemed suspicious, as both sarah Lynn and Michael had
defensive wounds, and so he asked the State Law Enforcement
Division aka SLED to reinvestigate this case. I don't even
remember if I mentioned earlier that this is in South Carolina.

(17:26):
I don't think I did South Carolina, Sorry, guys Or County.
So so it was because of Sled that A year later,
in twenty sixteen, it's been a year since her death,
Michael Calucci was finally arrested for the strangling murder of
Sarah Lynn. But it doesn't end there. We are just

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getting started. Michael Calucci was born Michael Antonio. His mother, however,
eventually married Evo Colucci, who became his stepfather. But Michael,
his mother and stepfather, did not change his name, and
he was never adopted either. Michael Calucci changed his own

(18:09):
last name to his stepfather's last name, Calucchi, at the
age of eighteen, when he was legally allowed to change
his name to whatever he wanted. Calucci is a name
that is very well known in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
It is likely that he changed his name because he
knew that he would get special treatment having a name
like this, seeing that his stepfather opened and owned the

(18:32):
Calucchi jewelry factory as well as a lot of real
estate in the area. Evil Calucci, his stepfather, was a
well known man and well known for being a good
and honest man who took care of the good people
in the area who came to him to make a purchase. Michael, however,
didn't get along with his stepfather, according to his stepsister.

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He has been described by others as having a short
temper and being volatile, as well as starting or stirring
up up a lot of trouble for Evo and Michael's mother.
For some reason, though, Michael ended up with the jewelry
business in the end, after Evo decided to retire. Evo's
youngest son and Michael were meant to own and operate

(19:13):
the store together, but eventually Evo's son didn't want much
to do with it anymore, and so Michael bought him
out and kept it for himself. Then he opened a
second location as well as a warehouse when people could
come and sell gold. It's called the Gold Standard, which
he opened with Sarah Lynn, and that is where she
would eventually be found dead. But before we get there,

(19:35):
I have to mention that Michael actually lost the original
store that his stepfather, Evo gave him. Evo had to
come out of retirement to take it back because Michael
wasn't doing a very great job with it. Michael consistently
had money problems, according to others, including and especially around
the time that sarah Lynn died. It's hard to find

(19:56):
exact information on Michael and sarah Lynn's life before this
didn't happened because so much of the media is updated
new information that has been coming out lately. But it
seems that sarah Lynn and Michael met around two thousand
and nine, two years after her first husband passed away.
Sarah Lynn was described as being very loyal, sometimes to
a fault, though she also never backed down from her

(20:20):
opinion until she met Michael. She was vibrant and cared
about the way things looked. She took the time to
get dressed nice every day. She took the time to
make her home look nice. She took the time to
ensure her daughter looked perfectly presentable. Everything was just so.
Sarah Lynne seemed to be trying to take care of

(20:40):
herself and her daughter on her own in two thousand
and nine, and she was doing a great job of it. Meanwhile,
Michael was going through a divorce and a custody battle
for his own daughter, as well as getting into some
trouble for not paying the medical bills of his friend
that he was supposed to pay due to an hour
accident that Michael caused by rough housing with his friend,

(21:04):
specifically by putting that friend in a chokehold and slamming
him backwards, fracturing his leg. So and I get it
happened when they were in college, but exactly it happened
when they were in college, But like, come on, you're
fucking old enough to be paying medical bills. How about
you not fucking rough house? Like you're too old, you

(21:28):
too would.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Be rough I never just get the urged put my
friend in a choke hold. Maybe this is the difference
between men and women.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Maybe, But a mutual friend wanted to hook up Sarah
and Michael, and eventually they agreed to meet. Sarah Lynn
describes it as being love at first sight, but a
love based on only looks is bound to be a
struggling one. They got married, and Michael moved into Sarah
Lynne and her daughter's house with his daughter. Sarah Lyne's

(22:02):
daughter remembers her mom and Michael's fighting a lot. She
remember him. She remembers him being at the very least
verbally abusive to both her and her mom, but also
physically so to her mom. Sara Lyne's friends said that
eventually she stopped coming around, and it seemed to be
because of Michael. They all still loved her and would

(22:23):
gladly hang out with her and talk to her again,
but she didn't seem to want to anymore. Sara Lyne's
mom so that this marriage was taking a toll on her.
Sara Lynn did talk about being depressed and one time
said to her mother, through tears and a messy home,
that if it wasn't for her two girls, her daughter
and her stepdaughter, that she would hang herself in the garage.

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Her mother interjected with a well meaning don't say that,
and Sara Lynn walked it back. Of course, I don't
mean it. I'm just so stressed. I would never do
that to the girls, et cetera. But Sarah Lyne's mom
told this information to my her daughter's assumedly loving husband,
and told him to watch and to help her. This

(23:07):
was just two weeks before she died by hanging. When
Sarah Lynn died, she was being treated for ADHD, depression,
and anxiety. She also self medicated with both drugs and alcohol.
According to a few people who have talked about this
case online, it seemed Michael was probably partaking in much

(23:28):
more than a socially normal amount of drugs and alcohol
as well. But Sarah Lynne was the one who died
and whose body was autopsied. At the time of her death.
She was found to have a blood alcohol content of
zero point two three to eight, as well as having
cocaine and xanax in her system. Clearly she had been drinking,

(23:52):
but they had been at dinner. And I won't sit
here and say that, you know, I'm not going to
pretend that point two three eight isn't a really high
blood alcohol concentration.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'm gonna say, what is the legal limit again for driving?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Point zero eight?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay, that's what.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I was thinking of, But let me expet like triple,
I have a whole explanation. Okay, so for someone who
is self medicating with alcohol, for an alcoholic, it's really
not that crazy of a thought. And she wasn't driving, so.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Point oh eight, No, No, for sure. I was just
trying to think of, like what is legally intoxicated As.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
A preasure, point oh eight is the if you have
a point oh eight or higher, you legally cannot drive. However,
point oh eight for one hundred, I don't know how
much Sarah Lyn Wade. But for a one hundred and
fifty pounds woman is two to three quote unquote drinks.
A quote unquote drink is either five ounces of wine,

(24:53):
one beer, or one shot. That's that's what one drink is.
The Texas road House Peach Margarita contains three shots alone
if you don't have the one on top, So one
Texas Roadhouse margarita is already point drink is already point

(25:14):
oh eight. If she had three of those, there you go,
there's her blood alcohol of point two three eight.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
So Jesus, it's yeah. Them drinks are crazy.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I love a jumbo margarita because you get back and
you leave feeling a little warm and fuzzy afterwards. But
do I drive?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Do not drive after drinking a Peach margarita from Texas Roadhouse. Please?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Really, I don't drink and drive period. But yeah, no,
please don't do that. If you're gonna have a ladies
night at Texas Roadhouse, get your significant other or.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
To drive, yes, because it will already put you at
the legal.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Limit, already want to drink too many for you to
be able to drive? Yes? With one?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Uh so Also, the cocaine and Sarah Lyne's system doesn't
necessarily mean she took it that day. Cocaine will stay
in your system for five to fourteen days, and xanax
stays in your system for one to six days, So
we don't know. All we know is she had some drinks.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, that's all we know, because that would leave your
system within you know, twenty four.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Hours rough fully. Unfortunately, all of this information made it
easy to believe that Sarah Lynn died by suicide. Even
her friends when they heard the news, thought there may
have been a chance that she was just so stressed
that she decided to end it all. After all, she
was going through a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Including courts say a very little chance of oh yeah,
accidental hanging.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Listen, this is just this is just Michael Koluchi calling
everybody saying she killed herself, and they're like, oh, no
one has seen any reports yet because it wasn't investigated
until a year later. After all, she was going through
a lot, including a battle with her kid's school, which
is why she was at the attorney's office with Michael
that day. Both her daughter and her stepdaughter were being

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kicked out of their private school due to failure to
make payments, and this seemed to be large failure. It
took a few months minimum of non payment for them
to decide the kids were not allowed back on the property. However,
Saralyne's mom knew her words in frustration were not a
death wish. Her saying she was going to hang herself

(27:31):
in the garage, that was just frustration, And once her
friends learned the details of her death, they also knew
that there was no way in hell Sarah Lynn would
take her life like that. If she was going to
leave this realm, it would have been a beautiful tribute.
She'd be in a beautiful last place, not the back

(27:51):
of a warehouse. She'd do it in a manner that
left her glowing and presentable. Not hang herself with a
garden hose, and she would one hundred hours and he.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Was one hanging themselves with a garden hose at ground level. Yeah, Like,
you are very short, and I saw the photo of
that fence, so you wouldn't be able to hang yourself
from there? Yeah alone, definitely regular sized lady. Yeah, Like,
what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And even the States medical experts said that the hose
did not cause those marks.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I'm shocked.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
She had been strangled, but likely with something smaller like
the necklace that was still around her neck and so
on the coroner's report, her cause of death is listed
as as asphyxia by neck compression and the manner of
death is undetermined. Right before she died, sarah Lynn had
also discovered that her home, the one that was hers

(28:44):
that Michael had moved into, was going into foreclosure as well.
Based on statements found from others and from text messages
between Sarahlyn and Michael, it seems that he was the
one in charge of these big financial payments. She sent
him message after message of anger about how he's screwed

(29:05):
up and she's gonna have to fix his mistakes and
he has issues and he can't keep his money, and
how she wanted a divorce because she is tired of
all of his screw ups. All of this, to me
points to a motive. Hello, are we actually better detectives?
I don't, I mean every time every time, Like, yes,

(29:28):
you guys can't see, you.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Don't have eyes. But just the setting alone that it's
not physically possible for somebody to hang themselves like that.
Stupid people like to come to the conclusion with their
own narrative of whatever makes the most sense or works
out the best for him, and this guy sounds like trouble.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
So, like I said, it wasn't investigated until a year later,
and the officers at first took Michael's word for it
that it was probably just a suicide. That Calucci name
gave Michael some connections in the area. It seems people
trusted him. Even though the EMTs on the scene remember
seeing Michael with defensive wounds, there's no lasting evidence to

(30:14):
prove what those wounds looked like. And even though he
was arrested and charged with murder in twenty sixteen, a
year later, a year after the death, he was almost
immediately released on bond, which was only set at one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, meaning if he had a
bail bondsman, it only costed him fifteen thousand dollars to

(30:34):
get out on house arrest, and a well connected guy
like Michael Calucci, even with his money problems, could easily
find fifteen or even one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
if not from a friend, then from his mother who
he was living with. On house arrest and even then,
he didn't see a trial until twenty eighteen. Twenty seventeen

(30:55):
had some significance though. Michael is living with his mom
and his stepdad, with his daughter and Sarah Lynn's daughter
that he had adopted. His stepdad is getting older and
sicker with dementia. We know from Evo Calucci's birth daughter
that he and Michael never got along, and Evo is
trying to work at the jewelry store that he created

(31:16):
and built up since first moving to the area way
back in nineteen seventy five that Michael fucked up. On
April fourteenth, twenty seventeen, police responded to the report of
shots fired at Evo Calucci's jewelry store. When they arrived
around four pm, eighty year old Evo had his hands
up and was ready to be arrested, admitting that he

(31:37):
was the shooter. The victim was Doris Calucci, Evo's wife,
Michael's mother. According to the security cameras, Evo and Doris
were having a heated argument before he grabbed a gun,
walked up behind her back, and shot her point blank
in the back of the head. I don't want to
speak ill of people who don't deserve it, but I
will admit that my speculation went a little wild this one.

(32:00):
At first, my thoughts were, did Michael learn abusive tendencies
towards women from his stepfather? Did Michael experience abuse himself
and that was all he knew? I don't know, but
I do know what Evo Clucci's daughter said about him,
granted it's biased, and that was that Evo was a
wonderful man. So then my speculation went to, did this

(32:20):
sick man living with his abusive step son learn those
abusive tendencies from Michael. Evo was an adult, sure, but
he was an adult with dementia, so it's possible that
he was mimicking behaviors he was seeing in his own
house even at this age. It seems the investigators thought
this was the case. Evo was charged with the murder

(32:42):
and denied bond at first, but the charges were eventually
dropped due to his sickness, and although he did have
to sell his business, the murder charge was expunged from
his record before he passed away. He was not deemed
a fault. Now is this because of the Colucci name connections?
Who knows, But it's not like his name was cleared

(33:02):
from the media, the charges are still all over people
talk pretty harshly about this man who is supposed to
be innocent until proven guilty and literally had the charges dropped.
So it's really tricky. After Doris had died and Evo
had dementia, Michael had to move out and sarah Lynn's
daughter was placed into the custody of sarah Lyn's parents,

(33:22):
who had been fighting for it. Finally they got their
granddaughter back. Michael went to trial in twenty eighteen. But
boy was that a shit show. You can watch the
whole thing on court TV, and fucking shit, don't if
you don't want to get angrier, don't fucking watch it. Okay,
I am telling you it's bad you and your court

(33:43):
TV lately. Ooh, listen Michael's fucking lawyer. He put the
hose around his own neck and pulled it until he
almost turned blue. He put the necklace around his neck
and snapped it in half.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Was like, how could he.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Choke her with this necklace?

Speaker 1 (34:02):
He would break? Oh, that is so tacky.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
He put his own wife in the same dress Saralyne
was wearing on the day she died.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Took a video of her outside the warehouse with the hosts.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I have no words disgusting.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
The prosecution team's job is to prove the intent of
the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, and I just told
you all the terrible things the defendants team did. I
don't know if the prosecution team was in Calucci's pocket somehow,
or if they were just fucking stupid, but surely they
were not on the side of the victim. At least

(34:42):
the lead prosecutor. This bitch, I mean, this woman told
the jury over and over that Sarah Lynn had a
drinking problem and a drug problem and was depressed, which
is fine to tell the truth, but like humanize her
a little. The jury needs to know that she was
a person who wanted to and deserve to live. She

(35:03):
literally said in her closing argument that Sarah Lynn was mean,
but she didn't deserve to die.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
What the fuck she's mean? Yeah, dolive him.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
If you personally think she was mean, your job is
to tell the jury that mean is just an opinion.
And we don't have Sarah Lyne's side of the story
anymore because she's not fucking here. How hard is that anyway? So,
the first trial, unfortunately ended in a mistrial, and the
lead prosecutor seemed not to care. In the years since,
Michael has still been on house arrest, being allowed to

(35:37):
leave only for work, taking care of his daughter, grocery
shopping and whatnot. They don't, they're not actually, he's not
on house arrest. He has a monitor that tracks his location.
That's it. They don't give a shit where he goes.
It doesn't beat like on that one show movie that
we talked about that one time. I can't think of
the name of now, what is it called Disturbia or

(35:58):
something with Shilah. Yeah, it doesn't blink when he goes outside.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I was like, there's been many movies that we've talked about.
We do.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
We just talk a lot a lot of movies. But
I always whenever I think of house arrest, I'm like, oh,
when you go outside, no, such a good No, it
does not fucking beep at all. They just aren't. They
Basically they're just making sure you're not going out of
the country. Okay, that's all. If they're even paying attention.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, and the more money and resources you have, the
less attention they pay.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Exactly. He also was not even staying out of trouble.
He had money problems. While on house arrest, he was
evicted from at least one home. He was thought to
have been a suspect in a vandalism case of Sarah
Lynde's old house, and in twenty nineteen, his at the
time girlfriend accused him of domestic abuse. She said, get this,

(36:53):
he picked her up and slammed her backwards, breaking her arm,
kind of like the same thing he did to his
college friend way back in. But since she was a
drug and alcohol user, the police didn't put much belief
into it. Oh, her story changed. She's probably lying, Michael Colin.
She's retrial was finally set for this year, June twenty

(37:14):
twenty five, with a new lead prosecutor, thank goodness. However,
some of the very first people that the defense asked
to speak with so the judge could make a decision
on where to go from here were sarah Lyn's mom
and that lead prosecutor from the first trial. Sarah Lyne's
mom told the judge when asked about sarah Lynn, saying
that she would just hang herself right there in the

(37:35):
garage that day, which to me was very obvious hy
obviously hyperbole. And she also mentioned that she told Michael
this information about Sara Lynn, which again to me, is
motive for him. He knows that she said this to
her mom, so if he kills her and makes it
look like a hanging, then maybe her mom will believe
it and back him up that she just wanted to

(37:56):
hang herself. But this conversation never came up in the
first trial well. In fact, it seemed like the lead
prosecutor then purposefully left this detail out. She was questioned
about that on the stand in front of the judge,
where she made a fool of herself, was disrespectful and
looked like an immature amateur. She actually said this time

(38:18):
that if she knew that information existed, then that would
be a huge problem for this case, which again it's
not if you follow my line of thought. Even if
you think it shows she may have wanted to kill herself,
you as a prosecutor have a job to use all
your resources to humanize this victim. And like I said,
it could show that Michael knew exactly how to get

(38:39):
away with this murder by making it look like a suicide.
But since even the previous lead prosecutor had no faith
in the investigation or was possibly even withholding evidence. This
judge threw the case out before the jury even heard it.
It is such a hard situation to view because I
completely agree with the judge throw it out. I wholeheartedly

(39:01):
believe that everyone deserves a fair trial, even this man, who,
in my opinion, is not a good human. But fucking
prosecutors these days are really failing. It is stressing me
out to be watching the trial lately. As of right now,
the charges were dropped. However, the new prosecutor, with this
new information about sarah Lynn telling her mom she wanted

(39:23):
to hang herself, is allowed to charge Michael again and
take him back to court. And I hope they do.
I hope so much that people keep fighting to get
justice for Sarah Lynn more Calucci. She deserves it. I
watched an interview that Michael Calucci gave to a news
channel after the judge throughout the case, and I will

(39:45):
admit that he almost got me. He almost made me
believe that he was a good man who missed his
wife and his wife's daughter. And then I listened to
an interview that sarah Lynn's daughter Bishop gave on a
podcast called Cup of Justice, and I realized that that
man is likely an expert liar, and that's probably what
drove sarah Lynn to the state she was in with

(40:06):
her ADHD depression and anxiety, with her self medicating with
her eventual enoughness, enough of him, enough of the path
he was taking her life down, enough of feeling like
she didn't want to be there, enough dealing with his bullshit.
She wasn't someone who was done with life. She was
someone who was done with him. And it seems to

(40:28):
me that he just couldn't have that. And if after
a fair trial, a jury still believes that Michael is innocent,
then so be it. But we need to keep fighting
for the fairness of the victim's trial too, because she's
not here to say that her lawyers are doing a
bad job and she's not getting a fair fight out
of this prosecution team. And this is why I brought

(40:51):
you this case of Sarahlyn Moreclucci. It stresses me out.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I mean, it stresses me out too, And you are right,
there is this pattern of like poor investigations and trials
happening like it's it seems to be getting worse with time,
not better, exactly, Like I understand that.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
It's it's so hard because I feel like some people,
some innocent people, are fighting so hard for the justice
system to let them have a fair trial. And I
get that.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
I don't want innocent people in jail, But fighting for
innocent people who are suspects is not equal to not
fighting for victims anymore. We can't do one or the other.
We have to do both.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
We have to do both.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's it's so hard.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
I hate it so that you hear about that disgusting,
disrespectful behavior, and it makes you just that much more angry.
Just because you have connections does not mean that you
should be free of facing consequences for doing something horrible. Like, yeah,
I'm sorry. You cannot convince me that she was not

(42:14):
murdered like that. I don't.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
There's no sense.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
There's no evidence to me that points to anything else.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, even if even if it wasn't him, which it
sounds like it was fucking him. Even if it wasn't him,
she was definitely murdered. Okay. She has defensive ones, like
if he was like, oh ooh, someone else, I would
believe that more than believing she did this herself. She
did not do this herself. It was not a fucking accident.

(42:43):
Somebody killed this woman, whether it was him, whether he
hired somebody, or whether it was some random person trying
to rob their jewelry warehouse. Somebody killed this woman, and
nobody fucking cares.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Like, what the hell?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
This is ridiculous, It's not right, that's not right.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
That makes my heart really sad. So thank you for
bringing it to everyone's attention, because, yeah, more people do
need to talk about cases like this.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah. I heard too much about this. I watched trial clips,
like what the fuck is happening? Yeah, and I just
had to share my anger.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I think I think all of us are feeling anger.
And like her friend said, like that just goes against
who she was as a person exactly. Even if her
intent was to end her own life, it would be
in a glamorous way, like they.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Like, it was not like that.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Also, even if okay, here's my biggest thing, even if
she was hanging herself, even if she was actively doing it,
he was literally sitting in the car in front of her.
He didn't stop her.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, Like, look either way either way, dude accomplished crime. Yeah,
and somebody dying. Yeah, Well I hope we get more
updates and I hope it moves in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yeah, it's very fresh. Literally June, I don't even know,
fourteenth or June something teenth or early June is when
the judge was like, sorry, there's withhal the prosecution team
withheld evidence, so drop charges. You can bring it back

(44:31):
if you want to, you know, redo this entire fucking thing.
So she died in fucking twenty fifteen. It's been ten years.
Someone's got to do something.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
That's unbelievable to me. It is and really sad because
she was like still a parent and like a business
owner and a friend and a daughter, and like, yeah,
that's just not right. I will also say that I've
noticed and winding Kevin's TV show, watching that there's been
a lot of pop culture about the injustices within our system,

(45:06):
which is good, like that, it's good that they're recognizing
that and you know, hopefully painting a picture of reality.
Watching The Rookie, it's really good. If no one's watched it,
it's got Nathan Fillian in it. He's been a billion
things The Rookie.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
I might have seen that already.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
You probably have. He's like, he's like the there's like
a forty something and he enters the police fields after
like his wife gets a divorce. He and his wife
get a divorce, and he like changes.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I'm thinking of one that's like twenty No, it's a.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Really good show. You need to watch it. Lucy Chen
is my favorite character. I can Yeah, Okay, No, I
haven't seen a really good show. Okay, I think you
and Jesse are thinking of every other episode makes me cry.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
I only know I can and find it because one
of the guys in it is the guy from the
show Superstore who's in a wheelchair. Fucking love that guy,
so I'll just find him. Colton done see what he's
played in the recruit There we go one of those words.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
So close though, Yeah, oh, I'll have to I'll definitely
have to watch that that. I like him too, Yeah,
and I like I like mystery shows like that. But anyway,
I'm glad to see that pop culture is moving in
the right direction. Yes, and you and Jesse have to watch.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
That show and report back, Yeah, definitely will.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Do you have anything exciting to talk about other than
a mamma's bathing sun incident? Yesterday? Like, did you guys
have that your outfits were so cute?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
What did you see? I didn't take any pictures.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
No, just like the shirt that you oh yeah, yeah,
and take picture you took a star.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Shirt and yeah, I forgot about that. It was like,
we didn't take any pictures. How are you seeing us?

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Thank you? Yeah, it was fun.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
It was a lot of fun. They did fireworks and whatnot.
The fireworks I don't know if they pissed off the
aliens or what, but caused my tonightis to flare up
all fucking night and I was up till two o'clock
in the morning. It sucked. I've had two cups of
coffee and a soda today so far, trying to be
a human.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah. And the ironic part is is that it's meant
to celebrate freedom and like, yeah, your services and stuff
like that, and then it's like people that have tonightus
suffer in the way that they celebrated. And I'm sure
you're not the only person that has TONIGHTUS that has
served for the same reason. So that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Yeah, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
And you didn't even drink, I'm sure. So of course,
on top of that, you feel because you're overtired.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I am. I actually though discovered this can be my
something Happy a Kava drink. So apparently in Florida they
have Kava bars. It is an entire bar that has
zero alcohol only Cova drinks, And I got a Kava
Seltzer zero percent alcohol, just Kava Fountain. Was really good.

(48:20):
And then I also tried a THHC drink, which I
was like, I'm scared. It was only two milligrams. Okay,
it's very tiny bit.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
But I tried it. It was I felt good. You know,
I'm sure you just at that point just felt like
kind of loosey goosey. Yeah, a little more out of
your head that stoned. Yeah, that's very well good. My
something Happy actually just popped up while you were telling
me your story because I have our YouTube channel a
little bit, and I not one, but two people that

(48:50):
know the victim of a story that I covered commented
nice things, and that makes my head very happy. It
was the episode you didn't get to be a part
of Unforre fortunately, was when you had to take Sissy
to the hospital. Oh, the one on Justin Rutterer's disappearance.
So he was fourteen and he there's a lot of theories,

(49:10):
one of which she was either murdered, trafficked, or runaway,
and of course it's not runaway. It never is runaway.
He neighbors run away. But his nanny commented and said,
I was Justin's nanny when he was growing up, and
you ladies have done a great job of recapping the
case in a respectful way. Thank you, and God bless

(49:31):
with a bunch of little hearts. And the other one
is a family friend who spent many weekends with him
and his siblings growing up, and his grandma, who is
like family to me, shared this podcast and it has
been the biggest and she has been the biggest advocate
of trying to find answers that she deserves. So I'm like,
that's cool. His grandma heard this and thought it was

(49:54):
good enough to share, So that means so so much
to me, you know, Like we've talked about it's import
and to tell these stories respectfully. So if we ever
don't do that, call us out in a nice way.
But that's always our goal. But Sierra and I get
comments like this pretty like often now, and it's a

(50:14):
really good feeling to know that it is, you know,
even though these people are still in the process of
healing and trying to. Like when people disappear there, I
feel like there is no healing, like yeah, because you're
always living in this so much unknown. Yeah, but uh,
it's good to know that, you know, at least we're
doing a good job. So thank you. And if you
liked this episode, if you like any of our episodes,

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that's how podcast algorithms work. So yes, and we will
see you guys next week. For my episode, I think
I'm going old creepy history. Oh, I think I think

(51:02):
we're gonna talk about some gross stuff from the past
sincere is listening in. Yeah, not gross, but just like
creepy things that we used to do as humans, like
just like you'll see, you'll see. I think you'll like it.
But I needed a little bit of distance from recent crimes,
just the mental health.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
I agree, but I had to say last like here
it is, I'm probably gonna get spooky from here on out.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
No, we will still be covering a variety of content
for you guys. We're just not scripteding it anymore. We're
not putting ourselves in a little box. We're gonna cover
what we want. So hopefully that's okay with you guys.
But it'll still be the same type of content. Yeah,
maybe just adding in some more stuff, but like history
has always fascinated me. So I will see you for

(51:52):
that and I think you guys will enjoy it, and
in the meantime.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Keep it twisted.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
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(52:19):
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