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Morsel of Murder - Tracy Grist Trial from April 20th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So Gina, Yes, I understand that you have a morsel
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  Speaker 1: of murder.
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  Speaker 2: I do. Indeed, it was brought to my attention that
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  Speaker 2: I have been neglecting this a local trial.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sorry. You've been getting a text every day?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Which one?
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  Speaker 3: So this is the Tracy Grist trial. It's in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm sure this person is wondering why I
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  Speaker 2: have not been addressing it.
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  Speaker 1: Why do I not even know that name?
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  Speaker 2: Well you might remember this. Yeah, I guess I have
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  Speaker 2: done this story before. When when the crime happened? I
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  Speaker 2: just haven't been talking about the trial. I appa, I've
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  Speaker 2: dropped the murder ball.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So what's the crime?
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  Speaker 3: So that the crime is you'll remember, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't wife, uh, trying to get divorced from husband? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: husband is in California. Wife has come home to Utah
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  Speaker 2: to live with her mother.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming back to me now.
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  Speaker 2: And they decided they would lure husband to Utah and
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  Speaker 2: then and then kill him.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the what's the wife's suspected the murderer's.
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  Speaker 3: Name, Well, the murder, the murder troun now is the
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  Speaker 3: wife's mother.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the mother Tracy grists, So let me let
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  Speaker 2: me read this to you, all right. Catherine Ristelli wiped
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  Speaker 2: tears from her eyes as she testified Tuesday against her mother,
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  Speaker 2: bringing handcuffed hands into view of jurors who will decide
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  Speaker 2: her mother's fate. Okay, After listening to a phone call
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  Speaker 2: she had with her estranged husband to lure him to
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  Speaker 2: drive to Utah, she said her voice faltered because she
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  Speaker 2: realized what she was doing, planning his murder.
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  Speaker 3: I just realized that she felt conflicted.
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  Speaker 2: On the day of the killing, after her mom and
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  Speaker 2: brother returned from getting sushi and planning the death, because
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  Speaker 2: that's where you go plan a murderer is over sushi.
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  Speaker 1: Get a little out of Mommy clears the mind.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine said she looked her mom in the eyes from
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  Speaker 2: the top of the stairs and says, Mom, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do this anymore, and her mother responded, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Gina quickly, you say, she's
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  Speaker 1: doing this testimony well, handcuffed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's She's in trouble too.
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  Speaker 1: She's also being all right.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine and her brother, Kevin Ellis are both in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go for murdering Rostelli's husband and conspiring to
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  Speaker 2: murder him with her brother and mother. Now their mother,
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  Speaker 2: sixty year old Tracy Grist, who's previously been referred to
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  Speaker 2: by prosecutors as the mastermind, is on trial for the
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  Speaker 2: next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Let's that's that. Now that's really a mom, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I will help you. Listen, if you want
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  Speaker 1: your husband dad, I'm gonna help you plan.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, and this has come out in the trial
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  Speaker 2: where Catherine said, you know, you're having trouble with your
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  Speaker 2: husband and you call your mom and you're like, we're
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  Speaker 2: just we're fighting so much.
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  Speaker 3: I just wish she were dead, you know how you say,
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  Speaker 3: he's kind of off.
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  Speaker 2: And mom went, oh, you know, we can do that,
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  Speaker 2: and then her and then her going, well, she said.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine initially said she understand texts.
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  Speaker 1: That's just talk. Catherine is the wife. The wife, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's them's name?
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  Speaker 2: So Catherine the wife said she initially understood the text
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  Speaker 2: with her. Mama's just talking. You know, we were just
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know how you talk. It didn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 2: She she She then began to discover that, oh maybe
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  Speaker 2: mom is really serious about.
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  Speaker 1: This she's watching enough true crime shows that she thinks
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  Speaker 1: she can get away with it.
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  Speaker 2: So she called the husband and said, I need you
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  Speaker 2: to come to Utah. I'm ready to make up with you.
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  Speaker 3: Come pick me up at my mom's house.
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  Speaker 2: And she also said, and you know, mom never locks
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  Speaker 2: the door, so just walk in.
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  Speaker 3: So just come on in.
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  Speaker 2: And they also had placed a tracking device like an
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  Speaker 2: air tag on his car so they could know when
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  Speaker 2: he was approach.
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  Speaker 1: So is she now is she trying to throw She's
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  Speaker 1: trying to throw her mother under the bus and get.
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  Speaker 3: I mean kind of I guess that.
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  Speaker 2: What. Yeah, I may have said I I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: kill him, but I didn't think she.
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  Speaker 3: Really go through with it.
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  Speaker 1: Were they gonna say it was a home invasion.
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  Speaker 3: Like he was mad and came in and it was
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  Speaker 3: self defense?
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  Speaker 1: So who? So her brother was involved to him?
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  Speaker 3: Her brother's the one that pulled the he was.
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  Speaker 1: The trigger man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there he's waiting there in the house, poor old
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  Speaker 1: mister what's his name?
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  Speaker 3: And he just he just walks in.
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  Speaker 1: And he shot him. Yeah, And do we know anything
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  Speaker 1: about the deceased husband? Like what what was his I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know much about him. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if he was you know, we know he not a
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  Speaker 2: great dude.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder what sort of a you know, he
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  Speaker 1: had a profession.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: So the brother is also going to be on trial.
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  Speaker 2: He's in prison right now. So that the brother. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: wife and brother are already in prison. This is the
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  Speaker 2: third trial.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the wife is so they just bring they brought
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  Speaker 1: her out of prison.
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  Speaker 3: To testify against mom.
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  Speaker 1: Ah huh.
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  Speaker 3: So that's uh, and so that's going on right now.
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  Speaker 2: So now that I've brought it once again to your attention,
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  Speaker 2: I will follow that.
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  Speaker 1: Try and keep on top of that way. It's very important. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's that we know the outcome of that.
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  Speaker 3: It's well, and it's local, and.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if anybody else is going to get charged.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 3: There were other people that knew about it, knew about it.
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  Speaker 1: Or because yeah, because so the mom Tracy, did she
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  Speaker 1: have a husband, I don't know, huh. I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: he knew about it and were their.
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  Speaker 2: Kids involved, yes, because that was part of the So,
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  Speaker 2: so the mom gave the kids melatonin, oh to kind
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  Speaker 2: of like I want you sleepy when your dad gets here.
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  Speaker 2: So she she's trying to put it off, like I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't really want this to happen, but Mom did it.
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  Speaker 3: She she was complicit.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so the kids are staying with grandma and and
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  Speaker 1: and uh and the the killer wife is also living there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I see she's gone home to mom and brought the
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  Speaker 1: kids with her. Oh, I wonder what now, I wonder
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  Speaker 1: what happens with the kids.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, most of your family's in prison.
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  Speaker 3: What happens I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I guess they they put you in the
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  Speaker 1: in the orphanage in the system. Go to the orphanage
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  Speaker 1: unless there are some some relatives or perhaps that are
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  Speaker 1: you know, an aunt or an uncle or something.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the dad's family or I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to find out some more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need even more details. We'll stay on top
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  Speaker 1: of this as much as we have to. Yes, as
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  Speaker 1: you brought it up. Now I'm more.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're curious.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm more and more curious about it, sort of
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Kind not really never heard anymore report from the murder deak.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a little bit curious.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see what I can find, all right,