Blood and Water: The Husband

Stephanie Ramos· Host0:00

This is Deborah Roberts, here with another weekly episode of our latest true crime series from ABC and ABC Audio, Blood and Water. Remember, you can get new episodes early by following Blood and Water on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you're listening right now. Here's the next episode of Blood and Water. At a crime scene, blood can tell a story. When Lauren Prieur was briefly allowed back into her parents' house on Drummond Avenue to collect some of her things while the investigation continued, the blood she saw offered a terrifying account of her mother's last moments.

Lauren Prieur· Guest0:43

She was running for her life.

Stephanie Ramos· Host0:45

Mm.

Lauren Prieur· Guest0:46

My parents had a long hallway between the front door and our kitchen. There was blood all over the hallway.

Stephanie Ramos· Host0:53

It looked like Leslie Prieur had struggled against an attacker all across the ground floor, until she couldn't.

Lauren Prieur· Guest1:01

They know she was killed by the front door. There was like this, like, her, the back of her head was smashed against the wall, and then there was, like, blood stains down the wall. I think she was just trying to escape.

Stephanie Ramos· Host1:15

When investigators started trying to piece together what had happened, they too followed the blood. They sprayed a chemical called luminol all over the house. It glows blue when it comes into contact with even