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True Crime Time For September 8, 2026 | Children Trapped in a “Rolling Prison,” a Deadly Wrong-House Shooting & Justice for K-9 Apollo

Real Life Real Crime

Show Notes

Florida prosecutors say four children spent years trapped inside a semi-truck cab in what authorities call a “rolling prison,” allegedly subjected to sexual abuse, neglect and extreme confinement. Plus, Woody revisits the still-unsolved 1981 Mathis family murders, a Las Vegas domestic-violence attack leaves a mother and teenage daughter dead, and a Pennsylvania police officer is charged with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV at the wrong house. Also, a former Missouri K-9 handler is sentenced after K-9 Apollo dies from severe neglect, a Scottish man steals £50,000 from his vulnerable father, and a Louisiana judge orders surgical castration in a child-sex-crime case.

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