
Guilt by Matrimony
A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
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In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own home, brutally bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. The question was: Who did it?
Fewer than twelve hours after her body was found and without any evidence, police decided a married couple from Denver had killed her. Within a few days, they arrested and charged Nancy Styler, a friend of Pfister's who'd had a falling out with her after a business deal went sour, and Dr. Trey Styler, Nancy's disabled husband, who recently lost the family home, his medical practice, and any hope of a peaceful retirement for himself and his wife. Eleven days later, police also arrested and charged Kathy Carpenter, Pfister's underpaid and overworked personal assistant and closest friend.
Months later, Trey Styler, who was slowly losing his grip on reality as he battled with mental illness, confessed to the crime. Rampant speculation spread about whether he was involved at all, or if his confession was that of a man on his deathbed, because a medical condition appeared to have left him barely able to walk, much less carry out such a heinous crime.
In Guilt by Matrimony, Styler's widow, Nancy, reveals the answers to the biggest mysteries of this case and recounts the trauma of being falsely accused and imprisoned for a first-degree murder she had no knowledge of. And, in the only interview before his death, Trey gives his account of that fateful day.
New York Times bestselling author Daleen Berry covers this compelling story from the inside, following the Stylers from their fairy-tale life in Denver to the morning of their simultaneous arrest to Nancy's release from jail and her attempts to rebuild her shattered life. Filled with details from exclusive interviews, a close look at the botched small-town police work, and first-person accounts of what really happened, Guilt by Matrimony is the definitive look at a shocking murder that rocked Aspen.
©2015 Nancy Styler and Daleen Berry (P)2025 Scribd, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. “I did it and I don’t deny it,” she said when arrested shortly thereafter. “He ruined me and my daughter.”
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Story of a City
- By Suzanna on 04-29-25
By: Gary Krist
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The Volunteer
- The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate's Quest to Die with Dignity
- By: Gianna Toboni
- Narrated by: Gianna Toboni
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn’t cry foul or embark upon a protracted innocence campaign. He sought instead to expedite his execution—to hasten his inevitable death. He decided he would rather face his end swiftly than die slowly in solitary confinement. In volunteering for execution, Dozier may have been unusual. But in the tortuous events that led his death date to be scheduled and rescheduled, planned and then stayed, his time on death row was anything but.
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Outstanding story.
- By dom_a_j on 05-28-25
By: Gianna Toboni
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A Time for Truth
- My Father Jason and My Search for Justice and Healing
- By: Sarah Corbett Lynch
- Narrated by: Sarah Corbett Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On 2 August 2015, Irishman Jason Corbett was killed in his North Carolina home by his American wife Molly Martens and her father Tom. Sarah, Jason's eight-year-old daughter, and her brother Jack were also in the house that fateful night, asleep upstairs. Now eighteen years old, Sarah Corbett Lynch tells her story for the first time. She shares her earliest memories of her beloved dad and her life with him, Jack and Molly Martens in their home in North Carolina, and gives her account of the events leading up to the night that changed everything.
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Beautifully Told
- By KKEC Reads on 06-17-25
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Dark Traffic
- The Dangerous Intersection of Technology, Crime, Money, Sex, and Humanity
- By: Noel Thomas, Rob Suggs - contributor
- Narrated by: Noel Thomas
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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As co-founder and CEO of Dark Watch, author Noel Thomas has led United States law enforcement and the judicial system into the new battleground, where high-tech data analysis is changing how criminals are caught and prosecuted. Dark Traffic arrives on a new wave of media attention and actions at the federal, state, and local government levels, and informs listeners how they can play a role in identifying and helping stop trafficking that occurs in their own neighborhood. Noel’s story of how he became aware of the issue is proof.
By: Noel Thomas, and others
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The Man Nobody Killed
- Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
- By: Elon Green
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At twenty-five years old, Michael Stewart was a young Black aspiring artist, deejay, and model, looking to make a name for himself in the vibrant downtown art scene of the early 1980’s New York City. On September 15, 1983, he was brutally beaten by New York City Transit Authority police for allegedly tagging a 14th Street subway station wall. Witnesses reported officers beating him with Billy clubs and choking him with a nightstick. Stewart arrived at Bellevue Hospital hog-tied with no heartbeat and died after thirteen days in a coma.
By: Elon Green
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The Fifteen
- Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
- By: William Geroux
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
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A Great Read
- By John Hines on 06-16-25
By: William Geroux
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Night of the Grizzlies
- By: Jack Olsen
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Olsen's true account, traces the causes of the tragic night in August 1967 when two separate and unrelated campers, a distance apart, were savagely mangled and killed by enraged bears. The award-winning author of thirty-three books, Jack Olsen’s books have published in fifteen countries and eleven languages. Olsen's journalism earned the National Headliners Award, Chicago Newspaper Guild's Page One Award, commendations from Columbia and Indiana Universities, the Washington State Governor's Award, the Scripps-Howard Award and other honors.
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Thought provoking
- By JJ on 03-14-25
By: Jack Olsen
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The Devil’s Pact
- The Toolbox Killers’ Journey from Friendship to Murder
- By: Dr. Eleanor H. Cross
- Narrated by: Richard Mason's voice replica
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Now, in The Devil’s Pact, forensic expert Dr. Eleanor H. Cross exposes the terrifying journey of two men who went from prison buddies to one of the most feared predator duos in history. This audiobook is a descent into madness, piecing together their crimes, the haunting evidence, and the relentless pursuit of justice that finally put an end to their reign of terror.
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Inside the Deadly Bond of History’s Most Notorious
- By Anonymous User on 05-20-25
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A Silence of Mockingbirds
- True Crime Behind Karly's Law
- By: Karen Spears Zacharias
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A true recounting of the high-profile Oregon murder case that led to Karly's Law. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the story Ann Rule called "A Must Read." Reminiscent of Capote's In Cold Blood, the book has been written in the tradition of new journalism. The writer's proximity to the people involved make for unrelenting storytelling. As Karly's abuse escalates, the investigations unravel at a rapid-fire pace.
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After the Fall
- By: Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Audible Originals presents After the Fall, the incredible true story of the FBI’s groundbreaking investigation into the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The series also marks the 20th anniversary of the deadliest crime in modern US history.
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Excellent
- By Barry M. on 09-08-21
By: Peter McDonnell
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Passing Through a Prairie Country
- A Novel
- By: Dennis E. Staples
- Narrated by: Charlotte Flyte
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as "the sandman," he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and ambitions and also preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, a mid-twenties Ojibwe, seeks solace in the slot machine's siren song.
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Hollow Bones
- By: Erica Wright
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive Essa lives alone in her childhood home in the shadow of New Hope, which to her horror has been taken over by a new charismatic, unsettling pastor who continues the dangerous practice. So when the church burns down, she's glad—until she learns that two people died in the blaze, and her brother's the prime suspect.
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Loved this story
- By laura j bertrand on 04-22-25
By: Erica Wright
How unlikable everyone is in this situation
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