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The Most Unbelievable Interrogations Ever Filmed

April 12, 2026·38 min·2 clips

Susan Monica claims she shot a man after finding him half-eaten alive by her pigs.

1. This episode covers three real police interrogations selected for bizarre, disturbing, or extreme behavior from suspects or witnesses. 2. No named hosts appear; the episode is narrated in a documentary style with direct audio from interrogation recordings and brief contextual narration. 3. The episode's premise is that interrogation rooms reveal people at their most unguarded, and the three cases shown each feature extreme moments of denial, confession, or erratic behavior that made them notable. 4. Case one: Susan Monica of Weimer, Oregon was investigated in 2014 after being caught using a food stamp card belonging to Robert Haney, a handyman who had been living on her rural property and had gone missing three months earlier. 5. When police found a human leg near her home, Susan was brought in for questioning and claimed she had found Robert being eaten alive by her pigs, shot him in the head with a rifle, and then left his body for the pigs to consume before disposing of the remains in bags. 6. Susan then revealed a second victim: 59-year-old Stephen D'Alessino, a handyman who had also worked on her property, whom she claimed had shot himself in the head five times with a .22 pistol during a dispute over stolen guns before also ending up in the pig pen. 7. During a polygraph examination, Susan made the results unreliable by moving, coughing, and talking, and the examiner confronted her with the statement: 'You're leaving stuff out, and you and I know it.' 8. Susan showed her greatest emotional distress not during questions about the murders but when told police intended to dig up her 20-acre property, asking whether she would receive $150,000 to restore it and insisting they not 'desecrate' her dog's grave. 9. When the interrogator offered to quit his job if no additional bodies were found, Susan demanded he sign a piece of paper to that effect, escalating the exchange into open hostility. 10. In 2015, Susan Monica was convicted of both murders and sentenced to two consecutive 25-year terms—a 50-year sentence with no parole. 11. Case two: Fifteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante of St. Martins, Missouri came to investigators' attention in 2009 when her diary was found following the disappearance of her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten. 12. Using backlighting, investigators recovered a diary entry Bustamante had scratched out in blue ink: 'I just fucking killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them. Now they're dead. It was amazing... I gotta go to church now, LOL.' 13. A grave-shaped hole had been found in the 60 acres of woods behind the Bustamante house; during interrogation, Alyssa eventually admitted she had dug it five days before the murder, establishing premeditation. 14. Alyssa's grandmother Karen was present in the interrogation room and had to be removed after an emotional breakdown when Alyssa began to confess. 15. Alyssa Bustamante was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life with a possibility of parole after 2039. 16. Case three: 22-year-old Russell Jones was arrested in Medford, Oregon in October 2017 in connection with the murder of Aaron Fryer, whose daughter Ellen and her boyfriend Gavin Curtis McFarlane had planned and carried out the killing with a baseball bat while Aaron slept. 17. Russell claimed to run a 'protection business' and said he had been hired to 'rescue' Ellen from her father, standing outside with a machete as backup while Gavin killed Aaron inside the house. 18. Left alone in the interrogation room for extended periods, Russell monologued the crime details aloud, played with the recording device, threatened police, made donut jokes, addressed imagined people, and described the murder plan as 'step by step, even a third grader could read how easy that was.' 19. True crime listeners who prefer compilation-format episodes with multiple cases, direct interrogation audio, and unusual behavior from suspects will find this episode immediately engaging. 20. Listeners who avoid content involving child victims or graphic descriptions of violence may find the second case particularly difficult.

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A grim interrogation story where denial, irritation, and self-incrimination keep colliding.

An interrogation drives the episode, with Susan answering questions after two men die and their bodies are fed to her pigs, one ending up in the pig pen.

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