PART TWO: The Conspiracy to Murder Her Mother with Charlie Wolf (formerly known as Tylar Witt)PART TWO: The Conspiracy to Murder Her Mother with Charlie Wolf (formerly known as Tylar Witt)
Chasing Heroine: Addiction Recovery Podcast
Jeannine talks with Charlie Wolf as she continues the story of killing her mother at 14, years in prison, and the hard work that led to parole and a life focused on recovery. The conversation also touches on love, a partner’s relapse and death, and how Charlie stays sober while living with grief and responsibility.
1:51:05•10 Sept 2026
From Teen Killer to Recovery Mentor: Charlie Wolf’s Story Continues
Episode Overview
- Radical honesty about past harm can feel more frightening than detox, but it’s essential for real change.
- Group work and self‑help programmes can help unpack codependency, trauma and thinking patterns that fuel addiction and violence.
- Parole for lifers demands deep accountability, clear insight and concrete relapse‑prevention planning for every risk factor.
- Maintaining sobriety while a partner relapses requires firm boundaries and a willingness to protect your own recovery first.
- Living amends means holding both the harm you caused and the harm you survived, and choosing daily actions that honour both truths.
“From the time I went to my first CODA group, I was addicted to recovery. I was addicted to rehabilitation because I wanted to figure out how I became the person that I was.”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction? This conversation with Charlie Wolf (formerly Tylar Witt) pulls you straight into the messy, confronting reality of teenage addiction, violent crime, prison life and long‑term recovery. Host Jeannine Coulter talks with Charlie as she continues the story from part one: the failed suicide pact, arrest at 14, being tried as an adult, and taking a plea deal for second‑degree murder in the killing of her mother.
Charlie describes the moment she chose honesty over self‑protection, recalling, “Telling the truth for the first time… I had a worse reaction to that than I did kicking drugs.” From there, the episode shifts into how a traumatised teenager slowly becomes a woman obsessed with change. You’ll hear about years in juvenile custody and adult prison, the terror of her first board denial, and the intense self‑examination required to earn parole.
Charlie talks about discovering codependency, throwing herself into self‑help groups, writing her own group curricula, and learning to see “character defects” as survival tools she had to gently replace. The conversation isn’t just about crime and punishment; it’s about grief, relationships and relapse in early freedom. Charlie shares candidly about marrying a man in recovery, setting boundaries when his addiction spiralled, and surviving his eventual overdose death without picking up a drink or drug.
Jeannine keeps it real, asking the questions many people in recovery quietly hold: How do you live with what you’ve done? How do you forgive without forgetting? And what does genuine amends look like when you can never put something right? If you’re wrestling with shame, big mistakes, or loving someone who keeps relapsing, this raw, thoughtful story might give you language for your own.
What parts of Charlie’s journey feel uncomfortably familiar—and what parts show you what might be possible next?
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