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beer and hand it to me let's talk some true crime [Music] thank you [Music] it's heartbreaking that we're still here
four years later every year is the day's approaching I kind of dread it in agonizing anniversary for family and
friends of Elisa Sherman I stand here in a feel sick knowing that she was murdered
over here it's horrible it's it's terrible but for her you know I you we get up and we come for her to East
12th and Hamilton Avenue in downtown Cleveland where they've gathered each March 24th since that tragic Day in 2013
when the loving mother and Cleveland Clinic nurse was brutally stabbed 11 times in broad daylight as she headed to
meet her divorce attorney the unidentified Killer caught on this grainy surveillance video that best
friend Jan Nash has repeatedly studied it's so distressing to look at it I keep looking at it thinking who Could That Be
a fifty thousand dollar rewards being offered in the case Cleveland deputy chief Ed Tomba says this type of attack
says a lot a knife very personal you know nothing was taken so we know it wasn't a robbery she was down here for a
reason she was down here to see somebody so um you know it's very uh very personal police and prosecutors have
never stopped searching for the suspect then last year in a bizarre twist elise's divorce attorney Gregory Moore
was indicted and pled not guilty to several charges including tampering with evidence and obstructing official
business it's being reviewed looked at and I cannot really give any other further comment with regards to the
status but rest assured that case has not gone unnoticed in this office giving Elisa's loved ones especially her
children Jen and Jason Sherman Reason for Hope This is the first year we've had actually nice weather it's beautiful
so maybe it's a sign that this will be the year that we get Justice foreign [Music]
people came to the Memorial Chapel in Cleveland Heights for Eliza Sherman's funeral services which took place on
March 28 2013 just four days after she was killed in downtown Cleveland Ohio the large Chapel was full that day it
was so full that they had filled the Overflow rooms as well elise's children this is Josh Jennifer Jason and Jeremy
they sat nearby her Pine casket in an offset family visitation room the children's significant others were there
they were present that day as well as well as elise's Three Brothers Sanford Elisa's husband of 31 years stayed to
himself while he was present at the service and in the room with the rest of his family he stood quietly in the back
of the room separated from them all many of the family members assisted with the
eulogy Jason spoke of his mother Eliza and how much she loved him and how much love she gave to Jason his siblings and
her parents saying all she wanted was for them to be happy and she did everything in her power every day to be
sure of that uh another family member asked the question why do bad things happen to
good people and adding that there is no good answer to that but one thing's for sure Eliza was good people but
unfortunately that wasn't enough to prevent her tragic and cruel death at what would be the
hands of a coward Jennifer elise's daughter spoke and her words may have been the most powerful
she called her mother the special gift of her life she said she could always count on her
mother and how glad she was to be Elisa's daughter and best friend before the end of the eulogies
as the family prepared to finish the service Josh elise's first born stood up it is my understanding that he was not
listed as a speaker that day Josh stepped to the podium and said quote I feel like I'm in a nightmare right now
I feel like I'm going to wake up and it's going to be a bad dream she was the best mother in the world
I wish I would have been closer with her this is not right and the way that she died is not right I'm sick of hearing
about these stories on the news no one knows who did it I'm going to say it right now my father had nothing to
[ __ ] do with this I'm saying it right now she was the best mother in the world
and if I find out who did this I will take care of them myself all right so a couple things to unravel
there right so he's he's making statements that this is not right but his father had nothing
to do with it so again we have the father at the service but he's kind of keeping this distance which
you know if he had nothing to do with it then you know you got to feel bad for the guy because you know this is uh his
wife you know his best friend for a long time they they had many kids together they built a life together and even
though it was coming to an end you know he's in a situation where he is at at this funeral but everybody knows that
their relationship was over their relationship was over and I think you know we have to hone in on this what
Josh is saying is that not only was the relationship over but it's being reported at this point that he could be
his father Sanford could be a suspect in the death of his mother right and you know he's obviously very
frustrated of course when we lose people that we love there are there are just an
array of feelings and emotions that we have to go through and one of them certainly is always anger whether the
person was murdered or or accidentally killed or something that you knew was going to happen terminally sick there is
anger that comes with that in a murder situation of course large amounts of anger huge amounts of
anger right and then to top that off you have a loved one that that is probably helping you grieve
through this situation that is being accused of having committed that murder or being
involved in that murder right so I certainly get his anger the thing that I struggle with here though captain and I
know that there was some there could be some trouble between Samford and some of
his children as well and I know that they were going through a separation and I don't know what kind
of person Sanford is I don't know what kind of individual they are he is you know especially when it comes when you
talk about men you know some men are not overly affectionate some some men do not
show their affection for others even their children right uh in public some men are just not built that way I
do question and I and I personally and I know everybody behaves differently but in my personal opinion I find
samford's actions to be a little strange on the day of those services I understand that maybe he had some
issues with elise's family members I if the mother of my children whether I liked her or or didn't like her at all
right if the mother of my children were taken from their children in this manner
I could do nothing but open my arms and and hug them and hold them and talk to them and and and speak with them so I
you know I personally I find his his actions on this day this final goodbye to their mother their their wonderful
mother I find his actions a little off-putting to me well again he might just be
more of a Stoke individual and maybe it's you know by being the rock that you're sometimes it's just you know
maybe you can't hug people or be overly affectionate but if you can be the pillar to show that hey we'll be strong
and we'll get through this that's not a bad thing all right so let's give a little
background here on Elisa in the Sherman family because as it's plain to see there are things going on within her
home within the Sherman family and around them that are going to be Keys possibly keys to this case
Eliza was the daughter of two survivors of the Holocaust her parents actually met and fell in love in a displaced
person's Camp they moved to Cleveland Ohio in the early 1950s growing up Eliza was regarded as one of the prettiest
girls in the neighborhood Eliza attended Huron Road nursing school she also attended events with other
Jewish students at nearby at a nearby campus that's where she met a medical student named Samford he was a bigger
dude as we described yesterday described as a heavy set person and six feet tall
or taller with brown hair and brown eyes his parents were also Holocaust Survivors
Eliza and Sanford fell in love and they were married about two years later this is in November of 1982. by the early
1990s Elisa and Samford had begun to fill their four-bedroom home with children Sanford at this point Captain he was
running a very successful uh practice he was an ophthalmologist and Elisa stopped
working as a nurse once they started having children to raise the children right they would go on to have a total
of four uh Josh Jennifer Jason and Jeremy but the marriage certainly had its troubles Eliza's Brothers had nice
things to say about Samford but added he had two sides to him Samford was at times incredibly generous
to friends and family right Sanford was known to invest thousands of dollars in stocks and day trading
but he liked to boast about his wealth he he's also described as a tough and mean individual even with his own family
at times in 1999 the Sherman family of six they moved into a 4880 square foot five bedroom home
that's pretty big big home pretty yeah yeah that's very big very big home Jason I think my house is like 400 square feet
you could put the garage in a corner of that home Jason one of the sons recalled the how
the in-house fighting he experienced saying that he has memories of when he was three years old sitting on the
carpet in the family room and covering his ears when his parents were fighting the police were called to their house on
numerous occasions throughout his childhood he says because of himself or one of his siblings calling the cops
when the parents were fighting okay but there was no charges as far as like domestic violence or anything I don't
believe there was ever any charges uh but let's go let's go through some of this uh some of these squabbles here
okay in 2004 everything seemed to take a turn for the worst Samford was 49 at this time he unexpectedly retired from
his practice his very successful practice according to well according to court records and depositions Sanford's
office assistant had quit and moved out after working 18 years on the job rather
than hire a replacement and train them he decided to Simply close his practice Eliza
at this time well yeah I mean he he retired unexpectedly he was very successful he
certainly had the money to retire um so you know who knows who knows how fishy that actually is Eliza then
returned to work as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic in Beechwood meanwhile Sanford spent weeks at a time at their
summer home in Florida or sometimes in New York this again according to court records and depositions
the families disputes also continued there was a police report fire filed December 12 2004 stating that
nine-year-old Jeremy Sherman called 9-1-1 because he was frightened when a fight erupted between his parents
Sanford told police the argument started between him and Eliza over the prizes I guess they were playing holiday games
like family holiday games right and they had set aside prizes for the winners I don't understand the I have a full
understanding of the actual argument that erupted to the point where the sun nine-year-old son has to call the police
yeah um but but certain holidays just the best times right well I guess Josh said that the
the fight escalated when Jennifer joined in the argument Jennifer's his older sister she jumped
in and she took a side and it's obvious what side she took because she started swearing at her brothers as well as her
father at this point Jeremy said that Josh his uh his other brother threw a chair
so it's like uh WWE that Christmas party that's some game of Scrabble right there I'll tell you yeah
no I don't I don't know what game they were playing but they it was reported that they were playing games and it
turned into this this argument here now uh we said that Eliza had returned to work as a nurse
um less than a year later this is in October of 2005 another fight broke out this time uh it's again between Eliza
and Samford in a statement filed with the police Sanford reported that Eliza hit him and was beating the television
in samford's car with one of those handheld massager things um in the same report Eliza told police
Samford routinely called her names threatened to leave her and withhold family finances from her right so she
got fed up with it she's blew up uh it sounds to me like there's multiple people in this house blowing up
on occasion so we clearly have two very intense people right two probably pretty
hard-headed people as well getting into it on a regular basis these squabbles between them are escalating to the point
where police are getting called and everyone knows yeah and everyone knows how much the police love showing up time
and time again to the same home and dealing with the same married couple right one thing I always wonder about
these situations Captain is like you know calling the police does that like set um
does that become a trending thing with inside the house like the okay so what I mean by that is the first time that the
police are called by the children or by the mom or dad right is that like a hard
threshold to cross and then the next time there's a fight that breaks out it's not so tough to cross that
threshold and then the next time it's a little easier to the point where almost it becomes a routine thing and you don't
need as much strife and you don't need as much anger and shouting and potential violence just
to call them uh I've never called the cops you know with the fight with the significant other yeah I've never had
the cops called to my house either so I've always wondered that just because you know when you hear a lot of these
stories it seems like at some point it becomes almost a routine thing right like oh you cross
the line well it's similar to uh and I don't know if other people's marriages were like
this or are like this but you know it's uh similar to when at least when you're first married you get an argument with
your spouse and you have these moments where you take your ring off like that's a thing like you know all now we're
arguing so much that I'm gonna I'm gonna take my ring off and place it on the counter so you know that the rings on
the counter I don't even know what that's about but uh but the point is is that yeah I think with a lot of these
arguments that we just keep escalating and then it becomes the norm so their Norm was we have Bigfoot well I'm sure
they had more fights than just the ones that were called by them oh yeah yeah I'm sure there were a lot of
smaller you know scaled arguments and and when we say fighting fighting's a weird thing because to me fighting can
mean arguing as well where you know I've said the word fight or fighting to people and they're like immediately
they're looking for a black eye on some black guy yeah oh my God you got in a fight you know but but where I'm from
people commonly say fighting could refer to just a verbal altercation it's bruised me with his words
[Laughter] I got a black eye of the heart no yeah so it and again when you have this many kids in your house and your
kids are getting involved and they're throwing things you know it might paint a darker picture of this couple than it
actually is well yeah and you know what's weird here is that that last fight in particular the one from October
2005. the thing that strikes me here is that okay so we have her words elise's words
are Samford routinely called her names threatened to leave her and withhold the FI the family's finances from her oh it
sounds like a little bit of a douche and I'm guessing that means withhold them from potentially the children as well
you'll see this often actually where you know husband goes to work he is the breadwinner for a while she's the
stay-at-home mom so then he keeps the finances in the dark a little bit like this is my money not your money or
that's the carrot to dangle in front of in front of them if something goes bad or you don't get your way yeah
um but what I think I'm seeing here go ahead and I'm not saying that all men do this but I've seen this in multiple
cases where I have a friend for example that might be a little too jealous and they have a kid
and they kind of really push the issue to you stay home and you take care of the
kid and it seems like this nice reward that they're giving there and then they're
treated like a second-class citizen right and they you're right uh I still remember this one argument between a
friend the wife wanted to take classes or something and he was like but you don't have any money for classes and I
always thought oh my God like she stays at home and takes care of your kids you're her money you should be giving
her money for these classes yeah and you don't need to approve of what class that's almost like okay bring bring it
to me and ask me for approval or I could decline it right it just should just be
well and obviously you know if your wife is spending money all willy-nilly then you know she's spending more than you
make then there's Locker in a box in the basement but Merry Christmas everybody oh man I can't
wait to read your holiday letter it's a colonel Christmas no but uh so I think you know it seems like maybe that he was
using these as ways to control her but then after he you know retired this is after he retired and he's here's the
thing he's going to New York he's going to Florida and he who knows how much money he's
spending and he's keeping that confidential because he'd I he I don't think he wants
somebody telling him what to do right well the other thing that I was getting at that I kind of see here especially
with that last argument where she's saying she he's swearing at her uh calling her names threatening to leave
her right okay so this is the vibe I get where and then then the report is she smacks him or hits him right and then
she takes his handheld massager which is a deadly deadly weapon especially if you
plug it in and turn it on she's she's beating the TV in his car according to Samford with this item
right right so what I'm seeing here is I'm seeing a horrible situation where we have this guy
basically bullying verbally bullying her right and at some point she's saying you
know what you're I'm going to teach my kids and this is the wrong way to teach them but she's going to teach the kids
that it's not okay for a husband to bully verbally bully well this my gut feeling is that
you know he's he's hiding transactions because he's spending money on possibly other women
and I think these actions her actions beating stuff you know beating up a car beating up the TV
these are intense actions to me this is somebody that found out information that
maybe he uh is uh going outside the marriage intense unless she too is an intense person as described as some of
her her family members saying that they were both intense people no no no I think they had some intense
disagreements and things going on underneath the surface that maybe maybe some of the children were aware of maybe
they weren't right but we got a 49 year old that retired it seems like he's going through a little bit of a midlife
crisis and he's spending weeks at a time in New York or Florida you're going to try to tell me that he's not trying to
get some he's not trying to Free Willy [Music] all right cheers mates happy holidays to
everybody happy holidays at this point Captain we have Jennifer Sherman she's the only daughter of Samford and Elisa
Sherman and she's going to start distancing herself from her father she's furious at him for how he is treating
her mother and how he handled himself throughout the divorce proceedings and further fractured their family well
not the proceedings but the the talks right because they're well yeah towards the yeah you're right I I misspoke there
and what I meant to say is and I think this is what her thoughts are as well is that this
eventually there would be you know a separation it was imminent it was going to happen right and I think
that this was a long time coming and I think that she's saying she's disappointed in him for how he handled
himself during the course of that portion of their relationship as it was tapering off and how she believed that
his actions were fracturing their immediate family yeah but also too when when it's time to go hey it's time to
get a divorce right there are some couples that actually can agree upon things and it doesn't have to
be this drag out fight normally once you get lawyers involved then your lawyer is
going to fight for stuff that maybe you don't even want so the best thing you can do is
if you're both level-headed that you can sit down and and come up with some kind
of agreement but once you get those lawyers involved and and again yeah I understand that the daughter is taking
the mom's side I get that but some of this stuff you know divorce becomes a business
transaction as well so his lawyer might have been saying look you need to do these things to protect yourself because
you don't want to have to go to Walmart and be a greeter or something yeah and as far as you know 2011 as far
as the Sherman family is concerned it described by many close to them as disintegrating
what a horrible word to have describe your family a family of six and the older Sherman family children as we had
said they would they were starting to choose sides Josh distance himself from his mother taking his father's side
Jennifer as stated pulled away from Samford siding with her mother and in January it was January of 2011 when
Eliza wrote an email this was to the then principle of where Jeremy was a sophomore in high school
she requested that Jeremy be allowed a pass fail grade for one of his classes rather than let his underperformance
affect his grade point average her email stressed that his academic struggles were due to the family problems within
the household in the email she stated that she had been battling and struggling with a very controlling
hurtful spouse for many years she wrote it looks like divorce is imminent it took me a long time to reach this point
try to avoid it at all costs but seeing how my oldest son turned into a reincarnate of his father
I realize I have to free Jeremy from this environment nobody knows about the steps I need to take
so Elisa filed for divorce in June of 2011 of that same year according to the cuyahogacounty court documents and this
is when she hired Joe Stafford of Stafford and Stafford at the advice of a longtime friend old staffer and Stafford
Stafford all those guys Stafford and Stafford is regarded as one of Northeast Ohio's busiest law firms dealing with
family law it's because they have such a clever name Stafford built a reputation
for handling complex high-profile divorce cases the day after he received divorce papers
from Eliza Samford filed for divorce as well Eliza moved into the bedroom downstairs in the downstairs portion of
their home neither Elisa nor Sanford wanted to leave the home out of fear of the
Court's um seeing as that one of them had vacated the property right police reported visiting the home six
times that year in 2011 one police report from July reveals an argument between Eliza and Samford and Josh
another from that same month shows Josh called 9-1-1 because he was convinced hang on to your your seat Captain okay
Josh called 9-1-1 because he was convinced Eliza stole losing lottery tickets and collectible coins out of his
bedroom according to one of elise's Brothers losing lottery tickets yeah okay and according to one of elise's
Brothers Josh by that point had basically disowned his mother okay let me let me if there's any children
listening there should not be any because this this is an adult show yeah welcome to Adult Swim
um the thing here is if you're a child I love this he called the police because his mother stole losing lottery tickets
and collectible coins from his bedroom let me clue you in here kids first of all that's not your bedroom that's her
bedroom right and second of all everything within the confines of those four walls those are hers too right
everything if your parent takes something from your pant pocket your room your basement your garage wherever
that is theirs it's not yours you can't steal from your children unless they're unless they're up unless they're 18.
they're older and providing for themselves but that's not technically true I mean because you could you could
buy something at love of some value I was just watching freak Freaks and Geeks he bought that drum set
and his dad just sold it and he wanted money for it because he bought it with his own money but don't you think Josh
is being silly here calling 9-1-1 not on his mother I'm just right well because it's I get what you're saying it's it's
not every I kind of made it in every situation right kind of thing this world isn't black and white there's some gray
Colonel there's a little gray but it's not in Josh's bedroom on a stack of losing lottery tickets he's
wrong to talk about what's in his bedroom but please don't call 9-1-1 on your mother well but this is again this
is the this is the family standard yeah you're right see that's what I was getting at maybe they've broken that
threshold to the point where it's like you just gotta tell somebody you got to tell on somebody the cops have actual
things they need to do so anytime you wonder why oh hey why didn't they uh why didn't they solve this crime over here
or solve this murder well it's because it's [ __ ] like this right because you got some [ __ ] kid that lives in this
giant house going my Mom stole my losing lottery tickets well first of all why do
you have lottery tickets to begin with and why would you keep losing lottery tickets
are you just that much of a loser like hey man these are winners to me well by the end of 2011 I guess Samford
this seems a bit strange to me at this point he's seeking help from friends to persuade to try to persuade Eliza to
settle the divorce um how's that strange to you I guess it's not strange it I only say that
because it seems like there's so much angst between the two of them going into this that it that for someone to have a
level head and and come out with this we should just settle this thing we should
just sit down like adults and agree on things I'm not seeing that type of behavior leading up to this well but
what he might be trying to get he might not be saying hey I want her to agree to everything I want
or we should just sit down and talk to this he might say my lawyer has talked to her lawyer her lawyer has talked to
mine multiple times wherever we're at right now let's just settle this and and like I said before it's because
of the lawyers you get the lawyer involved the more times you call them the more money they charge you
you get a little retainer right retainer once that money runs out real quick and
then they just start charging you an arm and a leg and I don't care what it cost
and hey no that's how they get paid right and so it could be oh he has some collectible car that you don't even like
well let's just argue about it because there's going to be a couple more phone calls so maybe that's what he was trying
to go hey we're wasting money we're wasting money that our family has created and we're wasting money that could be
used children's college funds or on your next house on my next house or wasting money on lawyer fees maybe
that's what it was well your way of thinking makes a lot of sense because it's about that same time that that
Sanford's requesting that the court put a restraining order on all joint bank accounts attached to Elisa's name
including those that she held with her mother uh with with Jason and with her daughter
Jennifer Eliza grew concerned about this though because she believed it direct it
directly influenced their children's Financial stability in January of 2012 Eliza sent herself an
email at two in the morning rambling and expressing her fears she wrote I am really afraid he is going to have me
killed Eliza put a deadbolt on her bedroom door and locked herself in her room each
night in an email to her attorney Elisa wrote I told you from the beginning I needed
your help to bring a bully down I need to teach my sons that is not it is not okay to threaten and terrorize women
even if I come out broke it will be worth it to give them this life lesson right assuming that they're
going to get the lesson that's the that's the thing sometimes people go I'm going to do this and I'll go broke
proving this point if they're not if they don't receive the message then you wasted your damn time yeah
because you could Flash Forward 20 years and that same kid that you were trying to teach a lesson is saying
well if she would have just let it go she couldn't just let it go right and now we're all broke right or she's broke
yeah right and see what you did you know now you need those losing lottery tickets right to bail yourself to double
triple check them in case there's a a free entry or a two dollar winner hey look you won you won being a loser well
uh in March of 2012 Stafford's law license was suspended for one year after the Ohio Supreme Court
Stafford or Stafford I don't I'm uncertain as to which Stafford we're talking about for one staff or two yeah
but this was after the Ohio Supreme Court found that he had violated six of the state's rules of professional
conduct for judges and attorneys in his absence yeah Eliza's case was given over to
Stafford's senior associate and this is Gregory Moore but we still don't know which Stafford
but this Captain was not a good thing for Eliza she told her brother Edward that the new attorney Gregory Moore he
was often late for meetings and he was unresponsive to text messages and emails within the first six months Moore filed
several continuances on elise's case pushing back the divorce proceedings because he was allegedly unprepared to
appear in court yeah I guess during this time Eliza interviewed at least two other attorneys
two other lawyers to take her case but apparently her case was too far along so no one could take the case and
unfortunately it sounds like Eliza was short on funds by this time as well you know she's already given a substantial
amount of money to this Stafford and Stafford to take on her case with it being a high profile you know a law firm
that's considered to taking on high profile cases I'm guessing that was not a cheap retainer fee oh well not only
the retainer fee but they could charge you you know 150 bucks an hour or they charge you every time you call them I
mean you call your your lawyer two or three times they're like hey that's extra 1500 what what and he didn't even
do anything this goes for other forms of contractors as well um you know but some of them will bill
you 50 you know every for every 15 minutes of a phone call right um there there was a company you know
when I I talked about many times that I've worked in property management for years There Was An Architect that we
worked with all the time and this guy he was a super nice guy but of course he should be super nice because he was
getting paid like you wouldn't believe because if you called him with a question or you sent him an email
regardless if it took him two minutes or ten minutes he would Bill our company for 15 minutes of time
for a simple email well I I build people now and this guy well he's built by the
quarter hour and then he would often schedule meeting after meeting after meeting like unnecessary meetings so he
could charge you for it oh man he kept showing up I'm sure we we were we might have been his only client he was so
smart with how he was working these uh these bills but by March of 2013 according to the court records right Joe
judge Rosemary gold ordered that no more that is a name ordered no more continuances be granted in elise's case
and that the trial would begin on March 26th so just two days before their day in court Gregory Moore elise's attorney
sent Elisa a text message requesting that she meet him at his office downtown to discuss final preparations for their
case on her way there Elisa spoke with her best friend on the phone elise's friend said that Elisa sounded
very optimistic yeah but she was anxious so optimistic but anxious and then of course we know that shortly after this
phone call Elisa was killed that evening just two days before the court appearance
but for checking out our series on this strange crime and I'll tell you what Captain we are going to get into some
suspects here very soon it's gonna get even stranger yeah and there's a lot going on here so we hope that you will
continue to to join us here in the garage and until episode three or Stanford and Stanford be good be kind
and don't litter [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause]

The Murder of Aliza Sherman /// Part 2 /// 168

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Cleveland, Ohio - Sunday, March 24, 2013- Aliza Sherman a 53 year old mother of four stepped out into the cold to run some errands. She promised her youngest sons she would not be gone very long and she would return home with dinner. Hours and hours went by. Jeremy tried calling his mother's cell but she did not answer. Then he called his older sister Jennifer. Jeremy explained to Jennifer that their mother had been gone too long and he could not reach her. Jennifer tried many times to get her mother on the phone to no avail. Jennifer decided to take the search to the streets and look for her mother. Before she could locate Aliza the Cleveland Police Department notified Jennifer that they would like to speak with the Sherman family. It was then that detectives notified the family that Aliza Sherman had been killed in downtown Cleveland in broad daylight.

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Brief Summary

Elisa Sherman was murdered in 2013, with ongoing investigations and family turmoil complicating the case.

Key points

Elisa Sherman's Tragic Murder. Elisa Sherman was brutally murdered in broad daylight, leaving her family devastated.
Josh's Heartfelt Eulogy. At his mother's funeral, Josh expressed his deep sorrow and anger over her death.
Family Struggles and Tensions. The Sherman family faced numerous conflicts, including police involvement during arguments.
Teaching Respect. Eliza vows to teach her children that bullying is unacceptable, despite her own struggles.
Suspicion of Infidelity. Speculation arises about the husband's potential infidelity and its impact on the marriage.
Divorce Dynamics. The complexities of divorce are discussed, highlighting how it can become a business transaction.

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Episode quotes

This is the first year we've had actually nice weather...maybe it's a sign.

Hope for justice in Elisa's case

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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