S21 Ep134: Trust Betrayed: How A Predatory Principal Gained Trust and Left A Trail of Harm w/ Susan E. Williams

True Crime Tuesday presents Trust Betrayed: How A Predatory Principal Gained Trust and Left A Trail of Harm w/ Journalist/Instructor/Author Susan E. Williams!

A healthy twelve-year-old dies inside his principal’s remote cabin. The school board allows that principal to return to the classroom.

This was the reality faced by Jeremy Bell’s family and friends. From the beginning, they questioned the claim that Jeremy had simply died of a heart attack. Their search for answers met resistance, delay, and silence.

Years later, a new sheriff and a new team of investigators reopened the case. They discovered that nearly a gallon of chloroform had been shipped to Edgar Friedrichs Jr., Jeremy’s elementary school principal, and paid for from his personal bank account. Investigators also recovered a vial of Jeremy’s blood and the bloodstained, vomit-soaked sheets from the cabin. But the evidence had remained unrefrigerated for fifty-two months. Could it still reveal what happened that night?

Reporter Susan E. Williams covered the case from the day Jeremy’s death first made headlines. In this disturbing account, she examines the unanswered questions, institutional failures, and evidence that may have waited too long to tell its story.

On Today's Show, we talk to Susan about what made Edgar Friedrichs such a sneaky pedophile and why he was so hard to catch! Susan also tells us about the life of our victim, Jeremy Bell, and why he was picked to be the latest victim of Edgar Friedrichs.

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