About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "True Crime Time For October 9, 2026 | A Police Chief Candidate Accused of Rape, a Toddler's Overdose & a 20-Year-Old Cold Case" from Real Life Real Crime covers a bizarre situation in Elizabeth, Louisiana, where police chief candidate Chris Paul remains on the ballot—and is running unopposed—after being arrested on allegations that he raped two 13-year-old girls nearly 20 years ago. Paul has not been convicted and is presumed innocent. In the Family Matters segment, Georgia parents face second-degree murder charges after toxicology reportedly found kratom and nitrous oxide in their two-year-old daughter's system, a Florida woman is accused of knocking her boyfriend unconscious with a laptop during an argument, and a major break comes in the 2006 murders of Chynna Dickus and her 10-year-old stepson Blake, with Michael Jerome James indicted on two murder counts nearly 20 years after the killings.
The case behind the episode
Woody also looks back at October 9 in true-crime history, touching on Beltway-snigskytterne: Terrorangreb i Washington-området 2002, in which John Allen Muhammad and the then-17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and wounded three in random shootings across Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia between October 2 and October 22, 2002. Victims included James Martin, James Buchanan, Premkumar Walekar, Sarah Ramos, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, Pascal Charlot, Dean Harold Meyers, Kenneth Bridges, Linda Franklin and Conrad Johnson. The historical segment also references Aileen Wuornos and Jerry Sandusky.
Hosts and release
Woody Overton hosts Real Life Real Crime, a weekly true crime podcast in which he brings listeners into cases he has personally investigated. This episode, number 298, runs 41 minutes and was released on October 9, 2026, available on Apple Podcasts.
