INSOMNIA STREAM： NINJAS EDITION

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The stream recounts the 1985 murders of Gerald and Vera Woodman, English Jewish immigrants who had built a Los Angeles plastics firm, Manchester Products. After years of alleged profit-skimming, gambling, and family conflict, their sons Stewart and Neil—who had also taken company money—hired Steve Homick, a former LAPD officer later tied to Las Vegas enforcement work, along with Homick’s brother Bob and others. On Yom Kippur 1985 the killers, one dressed in black “ninja” clothing that drew contemporary press attention, shot the couple in the parking garage of their Brentwood condominium; investigators cited a life-insurance policy on Vera, efforts to stop Gerald’s competing business, bolt-cutter evidence, travel and phone records, casino footage, and cooperating witness Michael Dominguez. Stewart Woodman later gave a lengthy confession; the sons and Bob Homick received life sentences, while Steve Homick was sentenced to death and died in prison in 2014 without being executed.

The episode then plays a Dave Ramsey segment in which a caller who had spent more than half a million dollars on her daughters’ education says she no longer wants to leave them an inheritance because they have become “socialists.” Ramsey replies that children are not entitled to an estate, calls socialists parasites, and says his own trust withholds management of family money from heirs who are not “walking with God”; co-host John Delony urges her to specify the behaviors that concern her and to discuss them directly. Host Devon Stack treats the Woodman case as an illustration of intergenerational greed and offers only limited agreement with Ramsey, arguing that withholding inheritance is sometimes defensible but is more often an excuse used by older parents.

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