When police were called to the scene of shooting at the Castillion Apartments in Los Angeles on April 20, 1968, they assumed the victim, twenty-two-year-old Cheryl Perveler, had been shot in a robbery gone wrong. However, when they began looking into her personal life, they soon realized Cheryl’s killer could have been much closer to home.In most cases of individual murders, detectives always look at the spouse first, and in this case, there was a lot to look at. Cheryl had recently married Paul Perveler, a former Los Angeles Police officer with a checkered past and an obvious obsession with wealth and power. Yet the more they investigated Paul Perveler, the more detectives began to suspect they didn’t have just one murder on their hands, and it was starting to look like Cheryl’s death was the culmination of a larger and far more shocking conspiracy than anyone had expected. Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesBraxton, Greg. 1982. "Woman asks public to keep killer ex-husband jailed." Los Angeles Times, September 19: 529.Bugliosi, Vincent, and Ken Hurwitz. 2004. Till Death Do Us Part: A True Murder Mystery. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company.2017. A Crime to Remember. Performed by Christine Connor and Elise Graves.Eintoss, Ron. 1969. "Death penalty asked in insurance murders." Los Angeles Times, February 25: 26.—. 1969. "Jury asks death for Perveler, life in prison for girlfriend." Los Angeles Times, February 26: 29.El Sereno Star. 1966. "Gun victim found in house fire." El Sereno Star, December 15: 1.Farr, Bill. 1986. "Ex-officer in prison for killing fails in parole bid." Los Angeles Times, August 30: 2.Haynes, Roy, and Dial Torgerson. 1968. "Murder charges filed against pair in double indemnity case." Los Angeles Times, May 3: 3.Los Angeles Times. 1968. "Ex-officer, woman ask seperate trials." Los Angeles Times, November 15: 41.Newton, Tom, and Dial Torgerson. 1968. "Ex-policeman, woman accused of killing mates for insuarance." Los Angeles Times, May 2: 1.The Register. 1969. "First degree murder asked in mates case." The Register (Santa Ana, CA), February 5: 15.United Press International. 1969. "Dual murder case goes to jury soon." Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, February 12: 11.Valley Times. 1968. "Transcript says alleged killer told of slaying." Valley Times, May 21:See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What happened to Cheryl Pervaler?
You can see clearly now the lash is gone.
Is she?
Hold on.
Oh, it wasn't even, it's on my fingernail now. It was like a little tiny piece of hair. The tiniest little piece. Sorry, everybody. That was really bothering me. So let's get into it. That was like OG. Like, just trailing off.
Would you trail off?
It really was. Leave it in. Let's get on with it, though. We've got a story to talk about today. I found this case really interesting, and I think you will, too. I'm excited. This is unfortunately a murder. It is the murder of Cheryl Purvaler, but lots of moving pieces in this case.
Hmm.
And it starts a little before midnight on April 20th, 1968. A man named John Miller and his wife got home to the Castilian Apartments in Burbank, California, parked their car. They were just going to walk, you know, from the car inside, finish their night.
But as they were walking to their apartment, they noticed their neighbor, 22-year-old Cheryl Prevaler, sitting in her car with the engine running and the headlights still on. So they were like, what's going on with her over there?
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Chapter 2: Who were the key people in Cheryl's life?
That's suspicious.
They said interesting. Now, there were things about Marlon and Christina's relationship that also struck investigators as particularly odd. For one thing, they had been married for a number of years, but they got divorced and then remarried just a few months before the fire. Oh. Yeah.
And just as interesting, two months before Marlon was killed, Christina had taken out a life insurance policy in his name in the amount of $75,000. Wow.
You know? Damn. Damn.
Damn.
Like, wow.
Yeah. Yeah, just damn. Just damn. Wow. Okay. So a quick check of Christina's background revealed that she and Paul Prevaler just so happened to have been working together at the same insurance company at the time. Oh, no. Yeah.
I see where this is going.
Yeah. Paul and Christina's workplace behavior led many of their coworkers to assume that they were carrying on a spicy affair.
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