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In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the disturbing case of Jean-Claude Romand, the French man who spent nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor and researcher connected to the World Health Organization.

His wife believed him. His children believed him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believed him. But there was no real medical career, no WHO job, and no normal workday. When Romand left home “for work,” he often spent his days in cafes, libraries, parking lots, service stations, and airport hotels, waiting until it was time to come home and continue the lie.

When that false life finally started to collapse, Romand did not confess. He killed his wife, his two children, his parents, and tried to kill another woman who had trusted him.

This episode looks at identity, shame, family annihilation, deception, status, and the psychology of a person who seemed to find exposure more unbearable than destruction. The central question: did Jean-Claude Romand kill because he could not live without the lie, or because he could not live with the people closest to him seeing the truth?

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In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the devastating case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. There was never any question that Andrea committed the act. The question was whether she was legally sane when she did it.

This case forces a difficult conversation about postpartum psychosis, religious delusions, criminal responsibility, and how the legal system should respond when severe mental illness and unimaginable harm collide.

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Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy’s case is one of the most disturbing we’ve covered.

It is about a teenage girl convincing her boyfriend to kill himself. But not just that. According to what Michelle later told a friend, when Conrad got scared and tried to back out, she told him to get back in.

This episode looks at the texts, the pressure, the promise, and the messages Michelle sent to friends before Conrad was even dead. The central question: was this just encouragement, or was it intervention against the part of him that was still trying to live?

This episode discusses suicide and coercive text messages. Listener discretion is advised.

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