176: Disappearance of Kyron Horman & a Suicide Helper

Published: June 2, 2021, 11:11 a.m.

Nadia Kajouji was having a rough time. It was her first year of college, and she was suffering from depression. Feeling isolated, Nadia turned to an online forum where she found people struggling with suicidal thoughts. It didn\u2019t take long for Nadia to make a new friend -- someone who understood what she was going through. The woman said her name was Cami. She was 31, a registered nurse, and living in Minneapolis. She claimed that she, too, was having suicidal thoughts. Then she suggested that she and Nadia make a suicide pact.\xa0\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about the disappearance of Kyron Horman. To this day, what happened to little Kyron Horman remains unknown. What we do know is that on June 4, 2010, his stepmom Terri dropped him off at Skyline Elementary School, just in time for the science fair. She took a photo of Kyron in front of his poster, and then she says she watched him walk down the hall to class. But no one ever saw him in class. And despite the photo, no one remembered seeing him at the science fair, either. It was as if he\u2019d vanished into thin air.\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 \u201cKiller Chatroom\u201d episode of Web of Lies\n\u201cUnmasking the Faribault, Minn., suicide nurse\u201d Grand Forks Herald\n\u201cInside the tragic death of Nadia Kajouji: A teen pushed to suicide by an online predator,\u201d by Patrick Gomez for People.com\n\n\u201cMan who aided Ont. teen\u2019s suicide gets year in jail,\u201d CBC\n\u201cFormer nurse helped instruct man on how to commit suicide, court rules,\u201d Associated Press\n\u201cWilliam Francis Melchert-Dinkel,\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cA Betrayal of Trust: Where is Kyron Horman?\u201d by Jenn Baxter, Medium\n\u201cKyron Horman, missing 10 years: A timeline\u201d by Lizzy Acker, The Oregonian\n\u201cKryron Richard Horman\u201d The Charley Project\n\u201cLandscaper wore wire, asked Terri Horman for $10,000 in murder-for-hire plot, sources say\u201d by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian\n\u201c10 Years Later: Case of Missing Boy Kyron Horman Featured in TV Special on Investigation Discovery\u201d by People Staff, People\n\u201cDisappearance of Kyron Horman: wikipedia.org\n\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0YOU\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\n
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