He Wrote a 26-Step "Recipe for Murder" — Then His Wife Vanished

She was a Marine Corps captain, days from finalizing her divorce and already approved for promotion. He was a disgraced former officer with nothing left to lose. When Captain Shirley Russell vanished from Quantico in March 1989, investigators faced a case with no body, no weapon, and no witnesses.

What they found instead was a computer file: a chillingly methodical 26-step "recipe for murder," written by her own husband.

This episode traces the disappearance that became the first federal murder trial in American history without a recovered body — and the circumstantial case that still convicted him.

Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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