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Joyce Pelzer | SistasWhoKill

·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

Joyce is described standing over Shondell with a knife in the night.

1. Sistas Who Kill centers on Joyce Pelzer, Shondell McLeod, and Rosalyn Lewis in a case about control, cheating, and a disappearance. 2. Maram and Tez host the episode, and their framing matters because they connect the case to the show’s warning that a first incident can lead to a second one. 3. The episode asks how Joyce’s relationships with Shondell and Rosalyn became the core of a missing-person investigation. 4. Joyce Marie Pelzer is described as having a temper, and the hosts say she had been with Shondell before moving on to Rosalyn. 5. Shondell Emmett McLeod is introduced as a Guyana-born woman raised by a single mother and later working as a cook at Nurse Care Bucket. 6. Rosalyn Lewis is described as a New Orleans-born woman who worked in healthcare, earned a medical coding and billing certificate, and came from a large surrogate family. 7. Shondell’s relationship with Joyce is described as abusive, controlling, and emotionally manipulative, with Joyce checking where she was and demanding updates. 8. Joyce is also said to have cheated on Shondell with Rosalyn while still living with Shondell in LaThonia. 9. After the breakup in 2011, Joyce allegedly stalked Shondell, sent repeated text messages, and later entered her house with a knife. 10. Shondell called the police, got a temporary protective order, and a warrant was issued after the knife incident. 11. Joyce later returned and removed furniture, seasonings, pictures, and even toilet seats from Shondell’s house. 12. The hosts say Shondell was talking to a married delivery driver who left his work boots outside her house to make Joyce think he was there. 13. On Sunday, September 25, 2011, Shondell filled her gas tank on surveillance footage and then never reported to work. 14. That same day she failed to appear at her mother’s Sunday dinner, and her co-worker Ms. Sherry Marshall said she did not call out the way she usually did. 15. Detective Henry Guest interviewed Shondell’s mother, who named Joyce Pelzer as the ex-girlfriend with the abusive history. 16. Joyce told police she was with Rosalyn, but Rosalyn said Joyce played hooky on the next day, which conflicted with Joyce’s work story. 17. Cell phone records showed calls between Joyce and Rosalyn from two different locations, which undercut both alibis. 18. A search of Shondell’s apartment found no clear struggle, but investigators recovered a man’s watch, shot glasses, cigarettes, and later found Shondell’s damaged car in southeast Atlanta. 19. The episode keeps a tense, conversational pace, with the hosts mixing case facts, personal reactions, and side commentary about the relationships involved. 20. Listeners who like relationship-driven true crime with alibi disputes will likely stay engaged, while people who want a fast procedural may skip it.

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A blunt, talky true-crime listen with easy chemistry and just enough mess to feel alive.

Joyce Pelzer comes across as a loose, conversational true-crime listen. The hosts keep things moving with banter and fast reactions, and the case never feels wrapped in tidy scripting.

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Press play if you want a case told in conversational chunks, with hosts cutting in as they react, joke, and judge plainly.

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