Nanette Krentel: Murder Beneath the Bayou Smoke
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What happened on the day Nanette Krentel was found?
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Nanette Krentl had just retired and was living her dream life in a beautiful home on 100 acres of Louisiana Bayou with her husband, a local fire chief, when one day her house burned to the ground with Nanette inside.
At first, it looked like a tragic house fire, but evidence quickly said otherwise. Today, we are sifting through the ashes and all of the clues amongst them to figure out what actually happened to Nanette Krentl.
Hi guys, welcome to Clues, where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore the key evidence behind some of the most gripping true crime cases. I'm Kayla Moore, and I'll be the one digging deeper into the timelines, the backstories, and the court files released for these cases. And I'm your internet detective, Morgan Absher. I'm the one diving into anything I can find online to find those lesser known details and see what is or isn't adding up. And don't forget to share your thoughts on social. Want ad-free listening and early access? Subscribe to CrimeHouse Plus on Apple Podcasts. And make sure to go back and listen to all of our previous episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let's dive into Nanette Krentl's case and the clues that defined it.
Can I shout out a comment we got on our last video? Oh, literally, I was watching. Yes, I have one too. I'm wondering if it's the same one. Okay, I saw someone say something like, oh, thank God you guys posted. I was getting the clues blues. Oh.
Isn't that the cutest?
That was really cute.
I saw that. But I also saw someone that posted on our last episode that Bierenbaum was their doctor. Oh. Yeah.
Oh, my. I missed that. Wait, what did they say? I literally just got chills. Yeah. Whoa. What did they say about him? So I did I did a case on Heart Starts Pounding where I talked about a dentist and someone said because it was the dentist that poisoned his wife. It was horrible. In Denver or Colorado somewhere. The Colorado dentist and a listener reached out and said he was my dentist. He seemed super like typical guy, but he got really mean when he pulled out one of my teeth, was like really aggressive with it. And she's like, I felt like something was weird about him after that.
So this is coming from Prof. Watiu, and they said, Dr. Birnbaum was my doctor. I guess he was hiding out pretty successfully during that time. After he was in prison, he was actually released to perform surgery on a friend of mine who was his patient because she needed an extremely difficult facial reconstruction after an accident. I remember him as a caring doctor, but really intense. His dedication saved my friend's life, but also he is still this guy too. Wow.
You know what that reminds me of? Real quick. I just saw a video on TikTok that was this woman. She's getting arrested, but she's a hairdresser and she's bleaching a woman's hair. And she tells the cops, you can't arrest me just now. I have to go wash the bleach out of my client's hair. And the cops are like, no, no, no, we have to arrest you. And this woman stands her ground and she's like,
What evidence suggests Nanette's death was not accidental?
Give me 30 minutes to wash this woman's hair out and then I will come to jail. You can take me. Literally. What? And I was like, oh, I wonder because obviously it was going to damage that woman's hair.
Oh, you would over process and then it literally would fall out.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened on the day Nanette Krentel was found?
0:01–3:57
2
What evidence suggests Nanette's death was not accidental?
3:57–7:09
3
How did the investigation into Nanette's murder unfold?
7:09–11:23
4
What were the details of Nanette's background and life?
11:23–19:24
5
What were the findings from Nanette's autopsy?
19:24–24:03
6
What clues indicate a potential cover-up in Nanette's case?
24:03–28:08
7
How did family dynamics play a role in the investigation?
28:08–34:42
8
What unresolved questions remain about Nanette's murder?
34:42–1:05:58
Speakers
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