Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present
Woman Charged With Killing Both Ex Husbands On Same Day!
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey there, folks. As we speak, a woman is sitting in jail in Florida, accused of killing not one, but two ex-husbands on the same day. And with that, welcome to this episode. Amy and TJ presents Rogue. You brought this case to my attention.
Chapter 2: What shocking crime did Susan Avalon commit on the same day?
And look, we follow a lot of true crime. I hadn't quite seen one like this.
I've never seen one like this. We've seen women. I mean, women killers are rarer, so to speak. But going on a killing spree is one thing, and we've seen that. But to kill two people in one day and have them both be your ex-husbands, never seen that before.
Well, it was hours before.
Hours between, and when you hear how police, well, they didn't even piece it together. She basically... thought they already knew, and squealed on herself. It's kind of crazy how this all went down.
That moment was crazy. If that moment had been in a movie, you would laugh. That's a moment that you would actually laugh at what that scene and how it played out that we're going to get into. But the woman's name is Susan Erica Avalanche, 51 years old. And Robes, this happened in December that... Police got the call to one shooting and ended up finding somebody else.
So she goes to, well, she's accused of, I should say this first and foremost. She's accused of going and shooting one ex-husband. And this is the ex-husband who then kind of gives them a heads up when they ask, hey, you know anybody who would do this to you? He said, possibly my ex.
It was his dying words.
Yes, because he made it to the hospital and was alive and was hanging on for a little while.
Yeah, he was shot in the stomach. That is incredibly painful. I believe he was shot twice in the stomach. But before he died, he was able to point investigators Towards his ex-wife, he wasn't even totally sure. And we'll tell you why. So the investigation began around 3 p.m. on December 17th. And this was in Florida. Police responded to calls of shots fired.
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Chapter 3: How did police discover the second murder linked to Avalon?
And yes, there had been issues and all of that that usually happens with divorces. But to have that much time go by and then to suddenly snap and kill not one, but both of your ex-husbands and not think you aren't going to be directly implicated is brutal. but police say this was planned, this was premeditated, and she did it with intent.
It wasn't carefully planned. I mean, actually, Robes, you're usually not going to get away with killing once, but you're the first person that's going to be the suspect, right? Two dead? I mean, what was going on? There was a break of some kind because she didn't do this expecting to get away with it.
You can't think that she was, and yet she was cleaning her car. So she was trying to get rid of evidence. She was trying to cover up her crime. So I would say by those actions, she was hoping that she'd get away with it. She wasn't thinking it through because yes, the first person you're going to look at is an ex or a scorned lover or someone who had a romantic relationship.
We know this is either about money or it's about passion. And this looks like it might've been about both.
That's usually the two things they tell you, right? But this one, look, when it comes to divorces, when it comes to kids, when it comes to money, there is a lot of people will tell you as hot and emotional as they've ever been in their lives and as close as they've gotten to hating someone in their lives is having to go through a divorce. And so she's got two.
And Rose, this is a situation where she, if I have it right, is owing them...
Money. Correct. So this is what the sheriff said in terms of motive, because any time you cover especially a bizarre case like this, everyone wants to know why. And so here is what the sheriff had to say. He said Avalon had been in child custody fights with both ex-husbands. Aha, right there. That's the passion.
Because look, you can hate your ex or you can have a very difficult divorce, but usually when kids are involved, you can... And it's tenfold. I mean, money is one thing, but kids are a whole other thing. That's part of you. That's a piece of you. So if you're fighting for custody with your ex, yeah, emotions are running high. So she had been in child custody fights with both ex-husbands.
She had owed child support to at least one ex. And this is what the sheriff said that really stuck with me. He said, and now five children are facing life without their fathers. And it seems as though they didn't really have their mother in their life to begin with. So they lost the one steady parental figure they had. And she did it because she was angry.
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Chapter 4: What were the circumstances surrounding the murders of Avalon's ex-husbands?
The type of money that you kill for is not the type of money you kill over. So it had to be. Who knows? And we're going to find out so much more. But it's such a bizarre story, Robes, that I will forever. There's no way you could think you would get away with murdering two people on the same day that you used to be married.
Very true, right? And I also keep thinking about, look, you can't get into the state of mind of somebody who's willing and capable of doing what police say she was. But to imagine that her 15-year-old daughter was upstairs when she was posing as that Food delivery driver. Now, her 15-year-old daughter then had to be interviewed by police. She didn't see the shooting, but she heard the gunfire.
And she looked out the window, and she is the one who gave police the description of what the shooter was wearing and the car she was driving. And it's interesting because you would think a child would know their mother's own vehicle.
But that wasn't the initial... She didn't necessarily say that, which speaks to perhaps their relationship or how close they were not if she didn't know that that was her mother's car. You would know your mom's car if it was pulling up. And you would think the ex-husband would know the ex-wife's car if it was pulling up.
So clearly, there was an estrangement there where she could have posed as a food delivery driver and they didn't necessarily know. In fact, he was even telling police, I think... It was my ex-wife. He didn't even know for sure. So that's really fascinating. But you pointed out the amount of money.
When we come back, we're going to talk about just how much child support that Avalon owed her ex-husband. And we're going to get into what her current boyfriend told police and the official charges she is now facing.
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Chapter 5: What disguise did Susan Avalon use during the shootings?
Welcome back to Amy and TJ Presents. We are presenting one of the more bizarre murder cases that we have ever seen in our journalism careers. I can't remember a story where a woman chose, planned, and executed her plan to kill both of her ex-husbands in the same day. But that is exactly what 51-year-old Susan Erica Avalon is accused of doing. And she had moved on.
She had a boyfriend, a live-in boyfriend, who then had to obviously speak to police when she was arrested. And he told detectives that the day before... This all happened. So she, according to police, committed these crimes on December 17th. So December 16th, he said she made a very uncharacteristic remark that he remembered that stayed with him and he didn't quite know what she meant.
But she said, I love you in case something happens to me.
That's not what you want to hear from your significant other on the way out the door.
If I came up and said that to you before I was leaving, what would you think?
Where are you going and what's up?
And what are you about to go do? And who are you going to see?
Don't usually wear all black like that.
Actually, it was a gray hoodie, but yes. No, but who knows? So he remembered that. He told Belize that. And this is the other really... shocking part of it. And I know that there's no amount of money that would justify what she did. But when you think about the fact that this woman was divorced from her first ex-husband for 11 years, she owed, according to police, $4,000 in unpaid child support.
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Chapter 6: What evidence did police find that led to Avalon's arrest?
Sweetheart, obviously you would say to your significant other, what in the world are you doing? Maybe he knew something was up. Okay, there you go.
He said, she didn't explicitly tell me what happened.
Explicitly. Okay. He suspected. We'll see what happens. This is just an awful one. It's an intriguing one. It's a fascinating one. And we wait to possibly get some answers for exactly why she did this. But yeah, just wanted to hop on and tell you about here. We will continue to follow it here. on Amy and TJ Presents. We always appreciate you spending some time with us.
But for now, and for my dear Amy Robach, I'm TJ Holmes, and we will talk to you all soon.