Sword and Scale Nightmares - Where is Season 3?

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

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Okay, so the answer is yes. There will be a season three of Nightmares. In fact, we're about to start working on it. The thing is, we've been working on a few other projects first and we're about to introduce you to one of them. This is a show that we've been working on for the last year and it is debuting on March 3rd. It is a 10 part serialized true crime show. It's called This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me and it will be available on all tiers commercial free. If you're a plus member and if you want to just get it for free with ads, you can find it at Spotify or Apple. I know you don't have to do this, but it really does help us quite a bit when

you tell your friends about new shows like the one we're about to tell you about. So please don't be shy. Let others know. You can also help us out by leaving a kind review and good rating so that others could find it within the platform. Thanks once again, and I have the pleasure now to introduce you to This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me. On December 12, 2021, a 77-year-old woman was rushed to Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Missouri. Her name was Tina. Tina was a kind, generous, and smart woman.

Alongside her husband, she owned and operated a successful business. But what was most important to Tina was her family. Tina had four children, 14 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. This is Tina's granddaughter, Carly. December 12, 2021. It was a Sunday evening. It's all a blur.

My aunt, Ilsa, called me and she was very, very short and frantic and she just said, get to the hospital. All of Tina's children and grandchildren loved Tina dearly. And when they got the news that she was in the hospital, many of them immediately began making their way to see her. This included Tina's daughter, Ilsa. My mom's husband called me and told me that my mom was headed to the hospital.

And I went ahead and got in my vehicle and started driving to Hannibal. I didn't know what was going on. I was standing at the hospital waiting. And then they took me to the family waiting room, and then handed me her jewelry and said that it will be some time. Unfortunately, not all of Tina's loved ones could go to her because in December of 2021, the COVID pandemic had just started to wane.

On the way to the hospital, I talked to my mom. My mom actually had COVID at that time and was unable to come, which was awful. They wouldn't let her in the hospital. My mom basically said all she knew was that she had collapsed and that she was unresponsive and that they had taken her to the hospital. All we knew at that point was they were still working on her.

Tina's family waited for the hospital staff to give them more information about Tina's condition. And when a doctor came to see them, the news was all bad. The doctor came in and told us that there's really not much more that they could do for her and that we need to go say goodbye. That was the first time I had seen her when they told us that she wasn't going to make it and it was awful. She was hooked up to all these machines and she was breathing but she was only breathing because of the machine like stuck in her throat. Tina's family was devastated and they were caught off guard. As far as they knew, Tina was a

healthy woman. When she last spoke to her daughter Heidi the day before, Tina seemed completely fine. She was doing great though. She'd been to the doctor and the doctors all gave her a clean bill of health and she was doing great. She had called me the day before. I wanted to know what I wanted for Christmas. Tina's family gathered around the hospital bed to say their goodbyes. They found themselves in a situation that, unfortunately, many have experienced. Their oldest family member was dying. From the outside looking in, this likely seemed like a common occurrence. Tragic, yes, but common. Old people die every day and their loved ones have to say goodbye. That's just how life goes sometimes. Though this situation with Tina and

her family was anything but common. The doctor told the family that Tina was dying from heart failure, but they all knew better. They all knew that this wasn't a case where an elderly woman's life was simply coming to an end. They knew that Tina didn't just end up in a hospital bed. She was put there. I just remember sitting in the waiting room just not knowing what was going on. But also like there's no way that she's going to die. Like she just went through this terrible situation. Like there's no way that that's going to happen one after the other. And I just felt so bad for her because

she had survived this terrible tragedy and she can't even see it through. About a month before this tragic day at the hospital, Tina had been assaulted. And there's no word in the English language to describe just how horrific that assault was. Putting it mildly, what Tina experienced was beyond brutal and extremely cruel. What happened to her that night was something that doesn't happen in Adams County. That's a movie, your honor. That's something you watch on Halloween to scare you. That's not real life, but it was real life for Tina Lohman on November 9th, 2021.

Tina and her family were traumatized by what had happened to her. The depravity of what Tina endured was more than any of them could bear. This is Tina's oldest grandson, Joshua. She helped me, raised me. She was like my second mom. We had a very close bond. She would always tell me how much she loved me. She adored my four children. She made sure they were spoiled on every birthday and Christmas. She loved Christmas and she loved giving gifts. However,

as I watched the trial and learned the gruesome details, I became physically sick. How could you have done that to my grandma?" The evil that Tina saw and experienced was beyond comprehension, and her family knew why her heart was failing. Tina was dying because she was brutally assaulted. Tina was dying from a broken heart. The assault she endured was killing her. And Tina's family wanted the people responsible to pay. They wanted justice. Unfortunately, Tina's family would come to find that the justice they were seeking was

elusive. And the struggle to get it became a never-ending battle. I don't think anything can prepare you for what we went through. I think it's just still, we're still not even over it. I don't know if we ever will be. Many of you know, or at least you can imagine, the pain and the grief that comes with losing a parent or a grandparent It can be the most tragic thing that a family can experience This was the case for Tina's family, but for them things were much worse

they were saddled with the burden of fighting for justice and The fight became another tragedy all on its own. What you've just heard is an excerpt from our new 10-part True Crime serialized show called This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me. The show is available right now on Apple podcasts and Spotify. Please make sure to subscribe right now so that you get every episode. The series kicks off March 3rd if you want to get a version of it That's ad free head on over to sword and scale comm slash plus and sign up for any tier. Thanks Thank you.