Murder and Mimosas Podcast
A true crime podcast with a focus on lesser known crimes and the background of those who commit these heinous acts. Each case is told with a bit of southern sass, but with tons of in depth research and respect for those lost. Join this mom and daughter duo as they sip their mimosas while diving into tragic cases. New episodes every Saturday, just in time for brunch (and a mimosa of your own)!
Murder and Mimosas Podcast
Mother's Murder: A Daughter's Fight for Justice
Gunshots echo through a quiet Sedona night in July 1993, forever changing the lives of two young sisters. Ten-year-old Nikki goes to bed after hugging her mother goodnight, unaware it would be their final embrace. Hours later, she wakes to police flashlights in her face, the beginning of a three-decade nightmare seeking justice for her murdered mother.
Stephanie Wasilishan was a 32-year-old pastry chef and mother of two who had finally made the decision to leave her abusive relationship with boyfriend Russell Peterson. After a lengthy phone call with her ex-partner making plans to move out, Stephanie was shot in the neck and killed. What followed was a series of bewildering decisions by law enforcement that allowed a killer to walk free despite overwhelming evidence.
The story unfolds like a true crime nightmare - a suspicious 911 call where Russell can't decide who shot Stephanie, a three-year-old witness repeatedly telling police "Poppy killed Mommy," forensic evidence showing Stephanie couldn't have shot herself, and Russell's own admission of staging the crime scene before calling for help. Even the medical examiner ruled it a homicide. Yet inexplicably, the case was never brought before a grand jury.
Most heartbreaking is what happened afterward - Russell separating the sisters, convincing the younger daughter her mother committed suicide, and a family fractured by tragedy and injustice. Years later, his second wife revealed shocking confessions he made about that night, yet still no justice came.
Today, Nikki refuses to let her mother's story fade into obscurity. Through social media and relentless advocacy, she fights to reopen the case that robbed her of her mother and her childhood. Her courage reminds us that behind every unsolved case is a family still searching for answers, still hoping that truth will eventually prevail against time and indifference.
Follow Nikki's fight for justice through the links in our show notes and share her story. Sometimes all it takes is getting the right information to the right person to finally bring three decades of injustice to an end.
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Speaker 3:Welcome to Murder and Mimosas a true crime podcast brought to you by a mother and daughter duo.
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Speaker 3:Welcome back, I'm Shannon.
Speaker 2:And I'm Danica.
Speaker 3:And today we're going to tell you the tragic story of Stephanie Wasilishan and her daughter's fight for justice. So Danica does most of our correspondence. So if you get a message or if you message us, it's probably Danica does most of our correspondence. So if you get a message or if you message us, it's probably Danica that you're talking to. And this case is the same. She talked to Nikki on TikTok and if you have a lot of true crime feeds you've probably come across one of her TikToks. That starts out Hi, I'm Nikki. I'm the daughter of a murdered woman. So Nikki is trying to bring attention to her mother's case and ask us about covering it. And Danica forwarded me an email and I didn't even know what it was about. But I opened it and it's 176 pages of police reports as well as the autopsy, and the first thing y'all read on the first page is the word homicide. And I'm not thinking much about it until I find out more about the case and we'll get into that. So let me set the scene for you. Like Danica likes to say, it's July 8, 1993.
Speaker 3:Stephanie gets home from work about 5 30 that night. She has two daughters, 10-year-old Nikki and 3-year-old Christina. Stephanie works as a pastry chef at the only Italian restaurant in Sedona, arizona. At the time. She works there with her live-in boyfriend of six years, russell Peterson. When Stephanie gets home, she's not in the best mood. She's 32, and her life isn't really going like she had planned. She calls her sister to vent about life and the relationship she's sick of. She tells people that Russell is abusive, both emotionally and physically. Something else that many people reported when interviewed about is he pees on himself and the house.
Speaker 2:On the house. What?
Speaker 3:Like he misses the toilet, to my understanding, just wherever. And stephanie was a neat freak and this is something that she mentioned to several people, so it it seemed odd. I didn't really get the whole gist of it, but that is something she complained about.
Speaker 2:I would complain about a grown man. I don't care if he just missed the toilet. You're grown. You had plenty of time to figure out AIM.
Speaker 3:Sit down and pee if you can't do it. I don't know. So to my understanding, just wherever and Stephanie was an eat freak and this is something that she mentioned to several people. Like I said, and after venting to her sister, she calls Craig Daly and he is her 10-year-old father or her 10-year-old daughter's father?
Speaker 2:I was like her 10-year-old father, that math ain't mathed. So that's Nikki's father.
Speaker 3:Yes, so Craig and Stephanie had Nikki together and then Russell Peterson swept her off her feet. He wanted to have children and a family and all the things Nikki wanted, and she left Preg for him.
Speaker 2:Oh, one of those. The grass is always greener. On the other side thing, it sounds like.
Speaker 3:Right. The relationship she had with Nikki's father wasn't great. He had put her in the hospital before, when they were together, because he had beat her.
Speaker 2:Does Stephanie have abuse in her own childhood? It seems like the normal pattern in a child that did like, who experienced abuse or saw abuse in her own home and then continues to choose abusive men in her future?
Speaker 3:yeah, right, she does. Her father, dodd, and her mother remarried. Her mother and her stepfather were abusive. Now, this is something Nikki found out while starting her quest for justice. But her stepfather was sexually abusing her and she was forced to give birth to a child in 1977 and give it up for adoption, and it's not known if this was even a boy or a girl, and this is a child that Nikki has been looking for because she's told she's got a sibling out there, right? So, yeah, that was something she found out later.
Speaker 3:So back to the phone call with Craig that night. She calls and the two talk for 107 minutes that night, which was highly unusual. Minutes that night, which was highly unusual. According to Craig, stephanie had wanted to get back together many times, but he usually had a girlfriend when she was talking about getting back together and, of course, like she has a live-in boyfriend. At the time, though, he didn't have a girlfriend and the two of them made plans to get back together. Stephanie was going to move in with him and you know, take her daughter and the daughter she had with Russell. Her mood changed that night and she called her sister back, and her sister says she could definitely tell there was a big change in her mood, but Stephanie didn't tell her that mood change was because she was going to move in with Craig, because her sister did not like Craig at all.
Speaker 2:I mean, it seems like she probably wouldn't if he was abusive and had put her sister in the hospital. So it seems fair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not going to support that relationship either, but Nikki recalls around 11 o'clock that night she was having to go to bed. She says she remembers it was summer, so it's late for a child's bedtime, but not late like summer standards. Her mother asked if she completed some chore. That Nikki can't even remember now, but she remembers that she lied about it and was really proud of herself for getting away with that lie at the time.
Speaker 2:Kids are so funny. I know.
Speaker 3:So she walks up behind her mother who is on the couch, and hugs her from behind and kisses her on the neck and heads off to bed.
Speaker 2:I love how she hugs her from behind, probably so she can't see her face to tell that it was a lie, because kids are very good at telling a lie, but not being able to hide it on their face. So I wonder if that's part of the reason that she hugged her from behind, because that sounds like something I would do if I just lied, like okay, can't let her see me, I'm so close to freedom, I'm going Right.
Speaker 3:So Russell gets home about 11.15 that night. He says he brought home a bottle of wine for the two of them to share, but Stephanie tells him to take a shower because he stinks. And I've worked at a restaurant. Yeah, you have all those smells on you from the restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I've only worked fast food, but I always smelled like fast food.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you smell, it just reeks on you and especially if they both work there.
Speaker 2:It's not food she wants to smell.
Speaker 3:She's tired of smelling it, so Stephanie had a few drinks that night before they shared the bottle of wine. He says that Stephanie mentioned she spoke to Craig for two and a half hours before he got home, and the police see this as a major red flag and they're like wow, didn't that upset you at all? And in most interviews he says this wasn't a big deal all. And in most interviews he says this wasn't a big deal, but he does always seem to bring it up in the amount of time that she was on the phone with him. And he says Stephanie just wanted to get a rise out of him. She loved to do things, and he said that he was too calm and collective to let this bother him. Though.
Speaker 2:Okay, so she tells him about this really long phone call. Did she tell him her plans to leave? I mean, if she did and this doesn't bother him though? Okay, so she tells him about this really long phone call. Did she tell him her plans to leave? I mean, if she did, and this doesn't bother him? He was way more going on than just being calm, cool and collected or whatever he said.
Speaker 3:So he only mentions one time that she had said that and still he says they didn't argue over that. When things went sideways was when they began to talk about his upcoming trip to Ithaca, new York. He was leaving on Saturday and Russell was a chef at the restaurant they worked at and he applied for a two-week training course at Cornell University. He felt Stephanie was jealous of his success as a chef and resented him for it. He felt Stephanie was jealous of his success as a chef and resented him for it. He also said they fought often because she said he always put work before his family. So the training wasn't cheap either. It was costing $4,000. And Stephanie had been saving money to take the girls to Walt Disney that summer. But Russell needed this money for the trip. Now in all the police reports I've read he always implies she was upset because she felt she should have been accepted too and she was jealous of him. One officer asked did she apply? And he goes no.
Speaker 2:You know, I just feel like if she's so jealous of him and really wanted to go that she probably would have applied too. I'm thinking she's so jealous of him and really wanted to go that she probably would have applied too. I'm thinking she's probably I don't know a little mad that money she saved up you're spending.
Speaker 3:Right, that's my thinking too, but that is not his. He claims the conversation gets heated about this, but he doesn't let her push his buttons. She gets up from the couch, walks to the bedroom and returns with a .44 Magnum and says quote, russell, I'm going to shoot you. End quote. She shoots at him while he's on the couch and misses. Then walks back into the bedroom. He says he sat there for a minute getting over the shock of being shot at. Then walks into the bedroom and wrestles the gun from her. Then she is shot. And let's stop here and listen to the 911 call.
Speaker 2:Before we listen to that. This sounds like the most anticlimactic of it. I'm going to shoot you, miss. Oh man, I miss, all right, I'm leaving 911,.
Speaker 1:What's your emergency? I need help. What kind of help, sir? Uh, there has been a very bad accident when, at At 530 Coffin Park Drive. It's the owner. Uh-huh, okay, how many vehicles? No, there's no vehicles. Me and my wife we were in an argument and she hurt. She turned very bad. I need help. Okay, what's wrong with her? She's been shot.
Speaker 4:She was shot.
Speaker 1:Yes, who shot her? We were, I don't know. You don't know who shot her. I might have she might have shot herself. Okay, how old is she? She's 20. She's 31 years old, 32. 32?.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:And where is she at right now? She's in our bedroom, okay, are you at 5? No, the Arizona. Okay, is that a house? Or is that a company? It's a house, okay.
Speaker 3:And is she?
Speaker 1:conscious. Uh no, she's unconscious. Yes, is she breathing?
Speaker 3:Uh.
Speaker 1:Stay on the line. I'm going to connect the PD to you and I'm going to get the paramex going okay, she needs help. What is your name? My? Name is Russell Peterson, Do you know how to do CPR Um?
Speaker 3:no, I don't.
Speaker 1:Okay, stay on the line with me, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:So we just listened to a portion of it and it's on Nikki's TikTok. If you want to listen to the whole thing, which you definitely should, but it's about eight minutes long.
Speaker 2:I have so many questions and comments right now. I mean so many, so let's hear them First of all, the most, like I said before, anticlimactic event before the 9-1-1 call, she supposedly shoots at him and then it doesn't work and she just walks to the bedroom after not hitting him and he gets up and goes after her rather than, I don't know, calling the police is what I would do if someone tried to shoot at me. You have someone you know open fire on you and then you run after that person who just shot at you and he they still have the gun. Right, it's like that. I'm not running after that person. I have no weapon. He's a chef, not a navy seal. I mean this is just odd. Mean she shoots at him and misses, and then what? Let me put this gun up and I'll just try again some other day. It doesn't, it's not working for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree with you and I also have another theory, but I want to hear the rest of what you have to say.
Speaker 2:Well, let's talk about the 911 call. Let's break that down for a minute. He calls and the entire time he acts like this is an emergency, not emergency at all. Right, yeah, there's been an accident. The dispatcher clearly thinks that he means a vehicle accident, like because if someone had been shot you would probably be I don't know a lot more concerned You'd be lead with that also yeah you know he's saying hurry, but I'm just saying the words and the tone aren't matching.
Speaker 2:I'm not getting any hurry up vibes from him. And then the fact that he doesn't want to admit to shooting her very glaringly obvious. Plus, the dude doesn't know her age.
Speaker 3:He doesn't seem to know much of anything right and calls her his wife and they're not married does.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's 20, 31, 32, I don't know. Pick a number, um, and then, yeah, who shot her? Well, we were. Well, I don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he knows, he just doesn't want to say he did it right so the police report lays out the bullet and and it went through the curtain by the couch. They also mentioned part of a gold necklace by the bedroom door and the rest of this necklace is entangled in her hair and I thinking what was the purpose of shooting at him and then walking back to the bedroom. That's when I began thinking of my dad's house. When he was shot he was sitting in a recliner and then, when he was shot at, he jumped up to run toward the bedroom for cover. So what if he was the one actually shooting? And then, like my dad, she took off for the bedroom for cover. I mean, that explains why part of her necklace is at the door, like he was trying to grab for her and it broke um, that story at least makes a whole lot more sense than russell.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna shoot you. Oh man, I miss, I'll be in the room chilling if you need me. I mean that story. I don't know who he thought was going to buy that, but it sounds fake.
Speaker 3:It was only GSR on her left hand, but like more of the palm of her hand, like a defensive, like pushing away from the gun. So that's the only place they found gunshot residue on her was on the left palm of her hand Was she left handed. No.
Speaker 2:Okay, what about GSR residue on his hands?
Speaker 3:I would also like to know the answer to that.
Speaker 2:Okay, wait, you're saying that he wasn't tested for.
Speaker 3:GSR Bingo. They didn't test him at all, okay.
Speaker 2:Benefit of the doubt. Where, like on her body, is she shot? Could it have looked like a self-inflicted gunshot?
Speaker 3:wound. So she was shot on the left side of her neck and the police find another officer with the same arm span as hers and they used the identical gun to try and stimulate the shooting and she could not pull the trigger from where her arm would have to be to get the same trajectory of the bullet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So there's no way that she came in and said I'm going to shoot you, but let me try with my left hand, and then head back to the bedroom. I mean, does he not understand that his whole story sounds so made up?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I'm jumping ahead a little bit. Let's go back to that night. So I'm not sure if you can hear a child on the 911 call. It's very hard to hear but I've listened to this several times and I know if you listen to it in its entirety you can. But Christina woke up when all this was going down. She's standing in the hall and she's saying Poppy killed, mommy and the police get there and they put three-year-old Christina in the patrol car. They come in shining a flashlight in Nikki's eyes and waking her up. I want to be Nikki who can sleep through two apparent gunshots.
Speaker 3:Okay, so people have asked Nikki about that and they had, like, converted the garage to her room and so she was kind of a little bit off, you know? Yeah, okay, you know, I, I don't know, I've seen you sleep through some things I have slept through a fire alarm, so I can't so much so, but I would.
Speaker 2:I get it. The garage is normally like a little yeah, it's a little further away, well that, and it's usually like thick concrete walls, like it would muffle a lot of the sound.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, so that makes more sense so they come in shining a flashlight in nikki's eyes. They tell her that her mom is at their aunt's and they need to go. As she passes through the living room she sees russell sitting on the couch, rocking back and forth, talking to the police, and she knows something is up. But she doesn't know what. She's placed in the patrol car and her sister is like in the backseat chirping Poppy killed mommy over and over. Nikki says she was so annoyed with her sister and told her to stop saying that she knew something was wrong, but she didn't think it was that. Then they place Russell in the back of the same patrol car that the girls are in. He's not handcuffed or anything.
Speaker 2:That's like a sick joke. He's on the 911 call saying well, trying not to actually say he killed her, and then he's put in the back of the cop car, completely free, next to his daughters. Well, one daughter, one stepdaughter, whose mother he just killed.
Speaker 3:Right and it gets sicker. So he's trying to hug Nikki and saying in her ear he wants to still be a family. He's so sorry about all of this.
Speaker 2:And at this point she doesn't even know her mom's dead right, because the police told her that her mom's at her aunt's house Right. She has no idea. And then you have this three-year-old saying Poppy called Mommy and they're going to put him in the back of the same car so that he is able to manipulate these young, impressionable children, to spin the narrative his way.
Speaker 3:Also yes, now, after she is shot. Although he is saying hurry in the most monotone voice ever on the 911 call, he didn't rush to her aid as soon as she got shot. So let's listen to this sound clip.
Speaker 2:Her view reveals, russell did not call 911 until after deciding where to place the gun. I didn't know what to do?
Speaker 3:I didn't want to be accused of murder or anything like that.
Speaker 2:I ducked the gun.
Speaker 3:I put it in the holster, I put it back in the cloth, I brought that down and I said no, I'm not stupid, it's happened.
Speaker 2:There's nothing you can do about it attempting to stage the crime scene. Then he's like oh wait, I'm gonna say she saw her like shot herself, so I actually need to take the gun back and lay it back down. No, that's dumb, let's just sit at heat like he's just, this is like a game. It's like a game of clue. Do I want to say she did it in the bedroom with the revolver, or should I put the revolver in the closet Like what?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I sure do not want him calling somebody. If I'm on the floor bleeding out, I need somebody that's going to, like you know, get somebody here fast. So we don't know what time she was shot, but we do know. At 1.36 that morning he called someone and spoke for about a minute, or, yeah, about a minute, and then at 1.40, he called 911. And then we don't know how long he was taking playing with this gun before he ever calls 911.
Speaker 2:Who do they? I mean I'm sure the phone records show who he called for that one minute.
Speaker 3:I don't know. They didn't say I would assume that they could find that out. So they get to the police station and they have them sitting in the hall and this is when Russell tells Nikki that her mother is dead Not her father, not her family, but Russell and they call a foster home that night to get the girls. Now I don't know why they didn't call Nikki's father to get her or why they didn't call family to get them, because they really needed somebody, but they went to a foster home that night. So they interview Christina that night and remember she's only three. They have two detectives in there and someone else whose name has been redacted. They ask her what happened tonight and she says her mommy died. They ask how? She says and many times she says my dad or my poppy shot her. They ask did she see this? Sometimes she says it was a bad dream. No-transcript.
Speaker 2:I don't know if legally they have to like, because you don't want any repercussions for them coming back.
Speaker 3:But if so, they weren't doing a very good job helping this little girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I didn't say they did a good job. Maybe the police were good enough to get someone there. That's all I'm saying yeah.
Speaker 3:So Nikki says she went to stay with her dad, but before the funeral, one day Russell took her and her sister on a jeep tour of the mountains, which she found odd, since they didn't do this kind of stuff at all. She says Russell kept telling her that he wanted to keep the family together and he wanted her to tell them that she wanted to live with him.
Speaker 2:Of course that helps him look like a good guy, if he does that Also at this point. I mean, where is Christina?
Speaker 3:So yeah, I mean absolutely, it does make him look like a good father if she wants to live with him, but Christina is back living with Russell at this time.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Christina's living with her dad and then Nikki's living with her dad?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the autopsy is done on July 9, 1993 at 3.20 pm. It says cause of death gunshot wound neck. Manner of death homicide. The medical examiner straight up calls this a homicide. Russell is interviewed the next day and several other times after and he changes his story. He heard the gun go off but he wasn't even in there. Stephanie committed suicide. The detectives say this isn't anything like you said before. You said there was a confrontation and then you two wrestled for the gun. He thinks that was just him. Wishing that he had wrestled for the gun is what he says.
Speaker 2:He wished he had wrestled for the gun. Did he wish he'd called 911 faster? Or that he maybe didn't play around with the gun while she's bleeding out, or that he I don't know tempted to cpr? Yeah there.
Speaker 3:Those were not things that he mentioned he wish he had done. He does say he will go under hypnosis. He'll take a polygraph test, he'll do whatever to clear this.
Speaker 2:I'll do anything that is not, you know, acceptable in the court of law as evidence, right, I'll do those things.
Speaker 3:But even those things he never actually did. So they take him to Yappia. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right. Yavapi County Attorney's Office twice they refused to take this to the grand jury because they said there was insufficient evidence.
Speaker 2:Okay, we've seen way less than this go to trial, but at least let the grand jury decide, Like that's kind of their whole thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So Nikki sees Christina in December that year for Christmas, and then her aunt takes Christina and herself and her cousin to Walt Disney World in July of 1994 to fulfill her mother's wish. Until the following year Nikki hadn't really got to talk to Christina and by the time they see each other meet up for Christmas, christina is saying Mommy killed herself. Nikki tells her grandmother and her aunt this and they confront Russell about this. And what does he do? He doesn't allow them to see Christina anymore. What about wanting to keep the?
Speaker 2:family together, or that, you know? Does he only say that when he wants to control things and make himself look better?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know that's my thinking, like the family doesn't matter now. So not only did Nikki lose her mother, but she lost her sister. Russell gets remarried and has another child, but this relationship won't last either. So when Christina is around 14, she runs away and moves in with her former stepmother, diane. When there, diane lets her reach out to Nikki, who is now in her early 20s, and the two meet up sometimes and they try to reconnect. Nikki gets to know Diane, since this is who her sister is living with now, and Diane tells her that Russell confessed a lot to her. He said he took a shower before he called 911 and did laundry and then he staged the crime scene.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, what? At that point I'm leaving the man because I'm not trying to be your next victim and I'm going to the police, which I'm assuming she didn't go even after, like they split up.
Speaker 3:No, she didn't do any of that and Nikki says she was a young 20-something and she had no idea what to do with this information. So she does nothing with it for years. She just sits on it, she's dealing with her life, her trauma, just everything going on. She's got so many things going on in her life that she doesn't even know what to do.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, we all have so much we go through in life and then she has you know this and she obviously has trauma behind that, possibly like suppressed memories, and you don't want this stuff playing out like in your head on repeat. You're young and you don't want this stuff playing out like in your head on repeat. You're young and you don't know what to do or if you even want to deal with it or with like the right next steps or who you should be telling this to. You know like it's a lot to try and figure out when you're just trying to figure out like how to live life as an adult when you're in your young, like early 20s, yeah, so I think that's exactly how she felt.
Speaker 3:And one day she decides she wants justice for her mother, she needs healing, she needs closure, and she starts reaching out to podcasts news station, whatever she can do, and this is how her TikTok came to be.
Speaker 2:So we've sat in on when Sarah Turney talked about her sister and wanting justice for her, and she was told to go to the media, you know, like to help keep the case alive and to get as much attention on it as possible, which sucks because you have to, like you know, deal with so much. You have to almost have a second job to get the story out there. You also have to retell the story in a lot of like places, like you know. We obviously don't mind talking about it, but some news stations like they want to interview you. You have to tell the story again, you know so. So, yeah, you're reliving it, you're constantly reliving it.
Speaker 2:It's a second job. That is all this work. It's emotionally draining, it's emotionally draining, it's mentally draining, and then you're hoping that the right person sees it and is actually able to help you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it just doesn't even seem fair because you're dealing with a loss but they're telling you like you've got to keep this in front of the media and you're probably sitting there wondering how am I supposed to do that? So, yeah, so yeah, it's a lot of work for Nikki. And Nikki took to TikTok and her aunt gets a letter that says this case is inactive. To sum it up, it says unless new evidence comes up, they aren't taking it upon themselves to seek any help. Not sure how it's going to come up.
Speaker 3:Also, stop mocking us and badmouthing our crappy job on social media. If you don't, this could rise to the level of harassment.
Speaker 2:Sounds like somebody got their panties in a wad when someone called them out for their I don't know very glaringly obvious lack of doing justice Right.
Speaker 3:So yeah, and we can post that letter, or Danica can. And Nikki has this on her TikTok. She has the letter on there if you want to go read it. She reads it in her own voice if you want to hear that. So this has not stopped her or even slowed her down.
Speaker 2:She did fuel on the fire. Yeah, Like all right, but I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 3:So her TikTok was taken down at one point and she said she just created a new one and there is a documentary in the works for the story, which I hope that happens, and I would say in any way, you can share this story, please do. Stephanie needs justice and so does her family. So you can go to her page and we can link it for you so you can help support her. Just anything you can think of to get this story out there and hopefully it gets in front of the right person eventually.
Speaker 2:They can do something. My best advice is something as small as sharing a TikTok of hers or a few TikToks of hers following her, because the more that you share, the more people will get in front of you know the algorithm and whatnot, and that can be a huge thing, because it takes one person who really has the information that could be the new information she needs for this case to go from inactive to active, and that could be because you shared one video that got in front of the right person. So, even something like that, it takes a couple seconds, it's free to just go on and share her stuff and it could really be a huge difference in getting justice for her, her sister, her mom, her mom's family. So we ask that you, please, please, do that, and the link to her TikTok will be in the show notes.
Speaker 3:We always recommend more bubbly and less OJ Cheers.
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