In 2017, the CDC released a report that noted that more than half of female homicide victims in the United States were killed by intimate partners. While a lot of the focus of crime reporting, especially in the true crime community, might be on stranger kidnappings, or stranger murders these crimes often distract us from the truth that you are more likely to be harmed by someone you know and for at least half of those victims by someone they are married to, dating or are related to. We’ve certainly covered our fair share of stranger crimes but in this episode we discuss the horrifically violent murder of Idema Cerney by her husband Gus Cerney in 1932.