164: The Tesco Bomber & a Sinister Minister

Published: March 10, 2021, 12:30 p.m.

John Purnell was having a pretty normal day at his job as head of security for Great Britain\u2019s biggest supermarket chain. Then he got a bizarre phone call from a local newscaster. The newscaster said they\u2019d found a troubling document in their photocopier. The document was an extortion letter, aimed at Tesco. In it, a person calling themselves \u201cSALLY,\u201d threatened to send bombs to Tesco customers. The bombs would get bigger, and deadlier, unless Tesco paid up.\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about Joe Musante, who was discovered dead in his pastor\u2019s office. Investigators determined Joe\u2019s death to be a suicide, but his sister, Rose, had questions. Hadn\u2019t her brother and his wife recently been seeing their minister, AB Schirmer for marital counseling? When investigators looked into AB\u2019s history, they discovered his wife had died tragically. And so had the one before her.\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\nThe documentary \u201cReal Crime: Supermarket Heist\u201d
\n\u201cForgive me, says baby food poisoner as he goes free,\u201d The Free Library.com
\n\u201cTesco blackmail \u2018bomber\u2019 jailed,\u201d BBC News\n\u201cInside the capture of Robert Dyer the supermarket blackmailer who threatened to bomb Tesco customers,\u201d by Jennifer Newton for The Sun\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cSinister Minister\u201d episode Accident Murder or Suicide\n\u201cDeath At The Parsonage\u201d episode 48 Hours\n\u201cDA Describes Prosecuting The \u2018Sinister Minister,\u2019 Who Had 2 Wives Die Under Mysterious Circumstances\u201d by Benjamin H. Smith, oxygen.com\n\n\u201cFormer Lebanon pastor A.B. Schirmer sentenced in first wife's death\u201d by Barbara Miller, Penn Live\n\u201cPorn-addict pastor killed two wives and managed to make them look like accidents for years\u201d by Akshay Pai, meaww.com\n\n\xa0\nYOU\u2019RE STILL READING? My, my, my, you skeezy scunch! You must be hungry for more! We\u2019d offer you some sausage brunch, but that gets messy. So how about you head over to our Patreon instead? (patreon.com/lgtcpodcast). At the $5 level, you\u2019ll get 19+ full length bonus episodes, plus access to our 90\u2019s style chat room! \xa0