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Mar 2024
1h 10m

Liquid Death

Reach Freaks
About this episode

35-year-old Ellie Mizon Tran was an immigrant from Vietnam who came to America in search of a new life and better opportunities. While establishing herself in the states, working two jobs at different nail salons in Virginia Beach, Ellie had endured one failed marriage. However, her second husband would turn out to be far worse than the first. On Valentine’s Day of 2017, the surveillance cameras Ellie Tran had just installed for the sole purpose of protecting herself against 29-year-old Joseph Merlino, captured video of a man running up from behind her in her driveway, while holding a syringe…

Written by Michael Dunphy Jr., Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway. Special thanks to Sheriff Rocky Holcomb and Kathy Hieatt of the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office. 

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