Her Brand New Home Held a Deadly Secret | The Sue Weaver Case

August 21, 2026

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Her Brand New Home Held a Deadly Secret | The Sue Weaver Case

On August 27, 2001, a FedEx driver pulled up to a home on Palm Lake Circle in Dr. Phillips, Florida, and heard a smoke alarm. He knocked, found the door unlocked, and saw flames inside. Firefighters arrived within minutes. When they walked through the house afterward, they found a body on the bed — nude, hands tied behind the back, feet bound, face covered with a towel. The victim was Kathy Sue Weaver, a 52-year-old woman who had just bought the home as her dream house. The fire had been set deliberately. The question was who had done it, and why.

A Life Built on Her Own Terms

Sue Weaver grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri, the youngest of three children in a close-knit family that ran Weaver Overhead Door Company, one of the oldest family-owned garage door businesses in the country. After earning an MBA from the University of Kansas, she spent 22 years in banking before deciding to follow her creative instincts. In 1994, at age 45, she quit her corporate job, moved to Florida with her boyfriend Mike Chandler, and founded Embroidery Concept Incorporated — a custom embroidery digitizing company. Her work was good enough to land clients like Disney, Universal, and Warner Brothers.

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1 Timestamped Outline: The Sue Weaver Case
2 (01:00) **Sue Weaver's Dream Life & Background** - Introduction to Sue as a successful, driven woman who built her career and finally bought her dream home in Florida
3 (10:23) **The Breakup with Mike Chandler** - Sue discovers Mike is cheating and decides to leave him and start fresh on her own
4 (12:51) **Sue's New Home and Routine** - Description of her beautiful property on Palm Lake Circle and her happy, settled life
5 (15:43) **The Fire Discovered** - A FedEx driver notices smoke and a smoke alarm at Sue's home around 12:30 PM on August 27, 2001
6 (20:30) **The Body Discovered** - Firefighters find a victim on the burned bed, tied up and gagged
7 (21:52) **Evidence of Murder** - Investigators find Sue's ID, a 9-volt battery, and missing smoke detector batteries

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The Sue Weaver case is one of the most unsettling true crime stories to come out of Orlando, Florida, in the early 2000's, and IT CAN happen to almost anyone. Cathy Sue Weaver had finally built the life she'd always wanted. A successful career behind her, a business of her own, and a beautiful new home in sunny Florida where she was ready to start the next chapter. By every measure, she'd made it.

One simple decision she made would prove fatal. I dive into what really happened inside Sue's home and why the people who loved her have to fight so hard for answers!

In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we trace the full Sue Weaver case: who she was, the life she'd built, and the chilling truth that would go on to change the way an entire industry protects people like her.

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