Loving Landis: Episode 8

Loving Landis

Content Warnings:
murder, suicide, self harm, eating disorders, predatory behavior

Wendy and Steph discuss an email with the attachment Virginia.docx sent to the object of Landis’s obsession over a year before he killed her ex-boyfriend and then himself. The email, with redactions and changes to protect the innocent, is on our website. It is recommended reading for full context, however, the same content warnings still apply.

Loving Landis: Episode 7

Loving Landis



Content Warnings: murder, suicide

Landis’s self-described descent into “madness” is unveiled through emails dating back to 2010-2012.

This was an era before #MeToo and before measures in American society began being taken to increase suicide awareness and prevention while reducing the stigma of discussing suicide.

Steph, a published essayist with a master’s in non-fiction writing, helps analyze and educate.

Loving Landis: Episode 6

Loving Landis



Content Warnings: murder and suicide

It’s a well-known fact that some of the best writers include personal details of their life. However, most writers are tactful and subtle… Landis Allen Casner was not.

Wendy brings in Steph Jurusz, a published essayist with a master’s in non-fiction writing, to analyze Landis’s fiction writings. Together, they uncover facts relating to the murder-suicide that occurred on May 21st, 2012 in Tempe, Arizona.

Loving Landis: Episode 5

Loving Landis

Host: Wendy Fink
Guest: Steph Jurusz
Content Warning: Chris Fink
Sting: “Yessum” by Jingle Punks
Editor: Wendy Fink

Content Warnings: murder and suicide

Could anything in Landis Casner’s childhood, teen, and young adult years have helped us predict the eventual murder-suicide on May 21st, 2012?

Wendy brings in Steph Jurusz, a published essayist with a master’s in non-fiction writing, to analyze the final half of Wendy’s interview with the murderer’s mother as told to us in Episode 4 of Loving Landis.

Loving Landis: Episode 4

Loving Landis

Content Warnings: murder, suicide

Synopsis:
Southern and McClintock in Tempe, Arizona.
A murder-suicide allegedly over a love triangle.

What type of monster shows up at a guy’s apartment, rings the doorbell, and then kills him on sight before killing himself?

The answer might surprise you.

Format:
This episode goes into the second half of the interview with the murderer’s mother after Wendy details how she first met him.

Loving Landis: Episode 3

Loving Landis

Host: Wendy Fink
Guests: Steph Jurusz, Bre Stangel
Content Warning: Chris Fink
Sting: “Yessum” by Jingle Punks
Editor: Wendy Fink

Content Warning: murder and suicide.

Could anything in Landis Casner’s childhood have helped us predict the eventual murder-suicide on May 21st, 2012?

Loving Landis: Episode 2

Loving Landis

Notes:
Content warnings include both murder and suicide.

Format:
This episode features a sound effects re-enactment with a news piece, and an interview with the murderer’s mother.

Synopsis:
Southern and McClintock in Tempe, Arizona.
A murder-suicide allegedly over a love triangle.