There are some crimes that are just impossible to understand, not because the facts are unclear but because the darkness seems so out of place.
One December morning in 1991, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighteen-year-old Laurie Show never arrived at school. By the end of the day, a community that believed it knew its neighbors would be confronted with a crime so shocking, so deeply personal, that its effects have echoed for decades.
Let’s pour ourselves something dark and contemplative. You’ve entered True Crime Brewery and this is Cold Truth: The Murder of Laurie Show. What happened is not the story of a stranger lurking in the night. It is a story of jealousy, obsession, and a deadly chain of choices made by people who knew one another well. So tonight, as we settle in with a pint and pull back the curtain on one of Pennsylvania’s most haunting murder cases, we’ll explore the life of Laurie Show, the investigation that unraveled the truth, and the chilling question that lingers long after the verdicts were delivered: How does an ordinary young life become the center of such an extraordinary act of violence?
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Overkill by Lyn Riddle
A Teenage Murder Mystery, American Justice, E109, 2016. Retrieved 8/3/2026.
Timeline: The murder of Laurie Show, trials and appeals of co-conspirators Lisa Michelle Lambert, Tabitha Buck, and Lawrence Yunkin, Fox43, Keith Schweigert, 12/4/2019. Retrieved 8/1/2026.
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