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Episode 118: Amy Fitzgerald Part 2 Justice Erased from 2022-02-16T00:39:40
Greg Fitzgerald checked all the eraser killer boxes, including making sure life without parole didn’t really mean life without parole. The second part of the story about the tragic end to the...
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Episode 117: Amy Fitzgerald, another eraser killer victim from 2022-02-05T03:44:01
There’s a certain kind of killer and Amy Fitzgerald was the victim of one of them. Maybe not as famous as some of the others — Scott Peterson, Chris Watts, Charles Stuart, Mark Hacking,...
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Episode 116.1 Maine’s first murder of 2022 and more from 2022-01-27T02:20:13
Hey! It’s a special bonus episode. We had so much stuff for Episode 116 that we had to leave some out, but still wanted you to hear it. We talk about Maine’s first murder of 2022, the a...
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Episode 116: Montreal Massacre and its legacy of pain from 2022-01-19T23:01
Marc LePine tried to make a “political point” by shooting up a university in Montreal in 1989, killing 14 women. The legacy of the Montreal Massacre could have gone a long way to changi...
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Episode 115: The Happy Face Killer’s unhappy story from 2022-01-05T02:35:47
Sister Liz is our guest storyteller, bringing another troubling tale from the great northwest.
We also discuss the merits of “The Thomas Crown Affair” (the 1968 version) versu...
Episode 114: Ted Conrad 52 years on the run from 2021-12-16T02:36:46
On his 20th birthday, July 10, 1969, Ted Conrad walked out of the Clevebank bank where he worked with $215,000 in a paper bag. For 52 years he eluded the FBI and U.S. Marshal Service in what’...
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Episode 113: Dottie Milliken, Pam Webb murders still unsolved from 2021-11-30T19:09:03
Happy fifth anniversary! To celebrate, we have a jam-packed episode.
Dottie Milliken and Pamela Webb were both young women with promising lives who were murdered in Maine, cases that have...
Episode 112: The Station Fire revisited, who IS to blame? from 2021-11-16T02:01:45
We revisit The Station nightclub fire, which we covered in Episode 72, after the TV show “48 Hours” airs an episode that claims to nail down who was responsible for the 2003 blaze that ...
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Episode 111: Claudine Longet, Spider Sabich & the celebrity shooting that transfixed America from 2021-11-01T23:27:38
Singer and dancer Claudine Longet and skier Spider Sabich were the “it” celebrity couple of the early 70s. When a gun Longet was holding in their Aspen, Colorado, home went off, killing...
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Episode 110: James Dailey vs. the Florida Killing Machine from 2021-10-20T00:12:54
There was no evidence – none – against James Dailey in the May 1985 murder of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio. Then child rapist and convicted con man Paul Skalnik made a deal with Florida pr...
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Episode 109: Cathy Moulton, 50 years and still missing from 2021-10-04T17:27:03
Cathy Moulton had just turned 16 and was looking forward to going to a dance in September 1971 in her home city of Portland, Maine. She never made it. Five decades later, she is still missing. It&#...
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Episode 108: Joyce McLain and the long confession from 2021-09-22T01:01:56
After Joyce McLain was murdered while she was out for a run in East Millinocket, Maine, in August 1980, the investigation took awhile, but it seemed seemed like cops might’ve finally had thei...
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Episode 107: The Cowden family massacre and more Oregon injustice from 2021-09-08T18:29:35
Our very special guest, sister Liz, joins us to discuss some unsolved Oregon campsite cases, including the 1974 murders of the Cowden family, as well as the 1977 attack, by pickup truck and hatchet...
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Episode 106: Finding justice for Dawn Leighton from 2021-08-27T05:11:59
Dawn Leighton loved her dogs, her new house, and was kind and friendly – a loving sister, daughter and friend. Unfortunately she was also another Maine victim of a senseless murder by a man w...
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Episode 105: No justice for Laura Lee Howard from 2021-08-09T16:56:41
Laura Howard had gone through a messy divorce in her home state of Massachusetts, and thought Florida would be a great place to make a new start. Once in Fort Myers, she became known for her big he...
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Episode 104: What You’re Doing on Our Summer Vacation from 2021-07-19T03:18:31
We’re taking a break for a few weeks, but we want to make sure you have something to entertain you while we’re not around, so we have recommendations for our current top podcasts, TV sh...
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Episode 103: Frank Sandford, bound for heaven, prison or hell? from 2021-07-03T03:37:28
Frank Sandford was just another baseball-playing kid from a big rural Maine family until the spirit hit him when he was 16. Before Jonestown, before Scientology, Sandford’s self-styled religi...
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Episode 102: Gerald Goodale hot case, cold case part 1 from 2021-06-18T02:32:17
When Gerald Goodale was convicted of killing Geraldine Finn in 1989 in Waterville, Maine, there was something else hanging over his head. Finally, in 2021, it came back to bite him.
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Episode 101: Sherry York, twice a victim from 2021-06-03T22:45:41
The brutal attack by a stranger that Sherry York suffered one night in a Portland, Maine, parking lot was compounded by the narrative that followed: her attacker was a family man and firefighter, ...
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Episode 100: Singing a song of crime oh yeah from 2021-05-18T02:24:03
We celebrate 100 episodes by counting down our favorite songs about crime. What, you were expecting a party? Well, you’ve got one!
Episode 99: Inventing the imperfect murder from 2021-05-03T02:03:25
Every murderer makes mistakes, and it only takes a couple to mess the whole thing up. Inventor Todd Howley thought he was pretty smart, but he made more than a couple when he killed Paul Maasland, ...
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Episode 98: The stupid senseless death of Charlie Howard from 2021-04-12T02:28:17
When a friend asked Charlie Howard why he didn’t protect himself from harassment by acting “a little less gay,” he said told the friend he wasn’t going to be a participant i...
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Episode 97: Sarah Everard and reclaiming the night from 2021-03-29T02:30:01
Sarah Everard was walking home from a friend’s house in south London on the night of March 3. She never got there. What happened next reopened wounds festering in the UK, and around the world...
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Episode 96: Just who WAS Shaun Harrison? from 2021-03-16T03:34:18
For years, Shaun Harrison, a minister and youth counselor was the go-to guy for the Boston press when they needed quotes on gang violence, youth with guns and more. That is, until, he was arrested ...
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Episode 95 Justice for Johnetta Carr a long time coming from 2021-03-01T02:22:06
Johnetta Carr was 16 and going places, but the Louisville, Kentucky, police department had other plans for her. Looking to hang a murder charge on someone, they picked her and her friends, and thro...
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Episode 94: Who shot Sonny Grotton? from 2021-02-16T18:17:37
When Sonny Grotton returned to his Belfast, Maine, home on a cold Friday night in December after working all week in Rhode Island, someone shot him dead in his dooryard. His crime would go unsolved...
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Episode 93: The unfortunate wives of Dennis Larson from 2021-02-01T17:14:21
Kathy Frost was lonely and looking for someone to share her life with when she answered the classified ad from a man looking for a longterm relationship. Things happened fast, but it turns out the ...
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Episode 92: You can run to Maine, but you can’t hide from 2021-01-21T01:37:07
Two totally different men in different decades think they can escape Massachusetts rape charges by taking off for Maine. Maybe it takes one decade, or maybe it takes three, but they’re gonna ...
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Episode 91: The Murder of Jodi Parrack Part 2 from 2021-01-04T01:35:15
After seven years DNA from a man who tried to assault a 10-year-old girl matches that found on Jodi Parrack. And it’s not Ray McCann’s, who police have been after for seven years. So th...
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Episode 90: The Murder of Jodi Parrack Part 1 from 2020-12-22T02:29:06
Police said only a monster could have killed 11-year-old Jodi Parrack, and they were going to find him. In a relentless investigation that spanned seven years, they kept telling the public the tips...
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Episode 89: Paul Dwyer and the Paris, Maine, murders from 2020-12-07T03:32:02
Paul Dwyer, of Paris, Maine, was 18 when he was found asleep in a car with Maine plates that didn’t belong to him, in Arlington, N.J., on an October day in 1937. Dwyer wasn’t alone in t...
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Episode 88: Sex, lies and the topless coffee shop Part 2 from 2020-11-23T02:57:26
The sordid tale of sex, lies, arson, toplessness and more in central Maine continues with the trial.
We also update Maura Murray (Episode 8) and the NNW rating is a duo stab at the doc &#...
Episode 87: Sex, lies and the topless coffee shop Part 1 from 2020-11-09T03:23:11
When a topless coffee shop — yup, exactly what it sounds like — opened in Vassalboro, Maine, in February 2009, it caused international titters. But four months later, when it burned down, things go...
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Episode 86: No justice for Helen Jewett from 2020-10-27T02:10:47
Helen Jewett was smart, attractive, savvy and ambitious. Unfortunately, it was the 1830s and, born Dorcas Doyon and raised as an orphan servant girl in Augusta, Maine, she didn’t have a lot o...
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Episode 85: Kathleen McLean, the surgeon and diagnosis murder from 2020-10-13T00:42:48
We’ve wicked had it with people looking at some accomplished white guy and saying “a guy like that wouldn’t kill his wife (or family).” No, this isn’t about Jeffrey Ma...
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Episode 84: Bianca Devins wasn’t murdered by the internet from 2020-09-29T01:38:17
It’s easy to blame the internet for teenager Bianca Devins’ murder in Utica, N.Y. in 2019. After all, like most kids her age, she was all over it — on social media, on gaming sites. Mee...
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Episode 83: The blood cold Walker family murders from 2020-09-14T01:26:48
On December 19, 1959, the Walker family — dad Cliff, mom Christine, 4-year-old Jimmy and 2-year-old Debbie — were found murdered in their remote Osprey, Florida, house. Some 61 years later, no one ...
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Episode 82: Mark Hoffman, forging murder from 2020-09-01T23:48:39
Mark Hoffman seemed like a nice guy, and as a collector of, and dealer in, historic documents, particularly those relating to the LDS church, he really had a knack for finding just the right pieces...
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Episode 81: From Yoga Twins to Ghislaine, we’ve got updates from 2020-08-17T16:10:33
That’s right, listeners! Time for one of our classic summer update episodes. We catch you up on the Yoga Twins, our Episode 1 stars, all the way through Ghislaine Maxwell, with lots in betwee...
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Episode 80: Susan Taraskiewicz, murdered by the glass ceiling from 2020-08-04T00:57:05
Susan Taraskiewicz was working at her dream job, one she had to fight to get, as ramp crew supervisor at Boston’s Logan Airport. But there were other people who weren’t so happy about i...
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Episode 79: Don’t mess with Maine State Trooper Vicki Gardner from 2020-07-20T13:37:05
When Steven Fortin attacked Maine State Trooper Vicki Gardner on a lonely stretch of Interstate 95, he couldn’t have known that it would lead him being convicted for the murder of Melissa Pad...
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Episode 78: Ghislaine Maxwell, why NOT New Hampshire? from 2020-07-09T01:32:36
Maybe the world is shocked that socialite predator fugitive Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire, but we’re not. Not even a little bit. The Granite State has a long history of real...
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Episode 77: Say her name – the police war on Black women from 2020-06-20T19:29:22
From Breonna Taylor to Atatiana Jefferson to Eleanor Bumpurs and more, the number of Black women killed by police is mind-blowing, particularly those killed in their own homes. It’s all for n...
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Episode 76: Norman Horton couldn’t help himself from 2020-06-07T01:16:42
It was the 1950s, Norman Horton was gay, couldn’t tell anyone, he lived in small-town upstate New York, wasn’t doing well his first year at college and his father wouldn’t get off...
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Episode 75: Louise’s Chaput’s short hike to death from 2020-05-04T21:19:33
Louise Chaput planned to spend a November long weekend hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. She’d barely gotten out of her car when she was dead, brutally murdered in the woods of...
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Episode 74: Homicide and the other Jack & Jackie from 2020-03-15T01:06:10
No one in their Maine town was very fond of Jack, but they liked his wife, Jackie, who owned a popular waterfront restaurant in the beautiful coastal town. Then Jack was killed. And Jackie did it&#...
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Episode 73: The Unsolved Murder of Michael Francke from 2020-02-03T00:39:24
Our special guest Dr. Elizabeth Milliken (aka sister Liz) explores one of Oregon’s enduring unsolved crimes.
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Episode 72: Cocoanut Grove and beyond, once burned… from 2020-01-02T23:37:34
On Nov. 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston killed 492 people. Those deaths were preventable. You’d think people would learn, right? But flash forward to Warwick, R.I., Febr...
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Episode 71: Third anniversary special with Maine murders & more from 2019-12-02T02:59:02
For our third anniversary episode we dip into the Maine well and come up with … well, you can probably guess.
Can you believe it’s been three years?
Episode 70: If she died in the tub, wave the red flag from 2019-10-20T01:41:32
Shele Danishefsky was fed up with her unemployed (except for those professional backgammon tournaments), abusive husband. Unfortunately, two days before she was going to make sure he didn’t g...
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Episode 69: Catching murder with honey from 2019-09-14T02:29:58
It could probably only happen in Maine: a couple beekeepers, a couple lobstermen, a family feud, a $6,000 load of honey, and someone ends up dead.
Was Leon Kelley’s murder in self d...
Episode 68: Serial killer Roy Melanson, say hello to DNA from 2019-08-15T01:16:10
It’s a little scary, isn’t it, how many guys would’ve gotten way with how many murders if DNA testing hadn’t come along. Roy Melanson is one of them.
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Episode 67: What’s the deal with all that stuff? from 2019-06-26T12:35:55
Updates, we have updates. Wondering about Todd Koehlhepp, Ayla, murders on the Appalachian Trail, Maine’s domestic violence murders, bad bad Uber drivers, little Frankie the dog, the romance ...
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Episode 66: The sad sad story of Constance Fisher from 2019-05-21T02:47:20
Constance Fisher, a young Waterville, Maine, mother, was found not guilty by reason of insanity after she killed her three children in 1954. Eventually she was well enough to go home to ...
Episode 65: Helen Bailey’s fatal final chapter from 2019-04-25T01:39:01
Helen Bailey was a successful author, but suffering from the sudden death of her husband. Then Ian Stewart came along, and thing started looking up. Until Helen, and her little dog Boris...
Episode 64: Bonny Lee Bakley’s long fatal con from 2019-04-08T01:56:52
In Part II of our loosely related celebrity slaying series, we look at the life and death of Bonny Lee Bakley, whose final of her many marriages, to actor Robert Blake, turned out to be ...
Episode 63: Death in the House of Brando from 2019-03-17T00:55:12
Our latest episode is Part 1 of a two-part look at two loosely connected celebrity homicides. In this one, we discuss the shooting death of Dag Drollet by Christian Brando, Marlon Brando...
Episode 62: Albert Cochran How many murders can you get away with? from 2019-02-18T21:10:40
Janet Baxter was killed on a cold November night in Maine in 1976 during a quick trip to the A&P to get some cold medicine. When her murder was finally solved 22 years later, the man...
Episode 61: What if everyone hated you, then you disappeared? from 2019-01-31T23:01:34
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of American Atheists, pissed a lot of people off. And when she, her son John and her grandaughter Robin disappeared from San Antonio, Texas, in 1995,...
Episode 60: The long road of an Oregon serial killer from 2019-01-13T23:36:10
Our special Oregon correspondent, our sister Liz, joins us once again, this time to talk about Oregon serial killer John Ackroyd, who fatally stalked Route 20 for decades. The topic is inspired by ...
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Episode 59: A Maine murder and manhunt from 2018-12-29T23:14:02
When Stephanie Ginn Gebo was found dead on her bedroom floor by her 13-year-old daughter in June 2015, her former boyfriend Robert Burton was already in the Maine w...
A very special 2018 Groovy Christmas episode from 2018-12-21T23:22:38
F-sake Rudolph, you freak, get the f@#%ing nose away from me.
In our annual holiday tradition, we’re merging our podcasts Groovy Tube and...
Episode 58: Part II Negative Nellies Watch Making a Murderer from 2018-12-09T02:42:19
We continue our in depth discussion, including our NNW rating, of both the Netflix documentary and the case it’s based on.
Episode 57: Part 1 Negative Nellies Watch Making a Murderer from 2018-11-18T03:02:52
The Negative Nellies watch and rate the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. Both seasons! And this may be hard to believe, but we have so much to say, we’re splitting it ...
Episode 56: When the Ouija board spells MURDER from 2018-11-02T01:56:44
Sometimes the whole thing’s just the Ouija board’s fault, as murders and other bad decisions from coast to coast and across the pond show.
Episode 55: How to murder your husband, she wrote from 2018-10-08T00:42:27
In 2011, romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy wrote a blog post on “How to murder your husband.” It turned out to be an unfortunate topic: her husband, Dan Brophy, was murd...
Episode 54: Albert Flick, never too old to be a killer from 2018-09-21T23:32:57
Albert Flick was convicted of killing his wife in 1979. After he got out of prison, he continued to assault women, a knife his weapon of choice. After his third conviction, Flick got a r...
Episode 53: The Hart family, not what they seemed from 2018-09-04T13:06:03
When two apparently loving moms and their six kids plunged off a California cliff to their deaths, the pattern of abuse and control that lead up to it made many wonder how the red flags ...
Episode 52: It’s Drega, and he’s got a gun from 2018-08-21T01:35:43
Carl Drega didn’t just have a beef with his northern New Hampshire town, he had a lot of beefs. He also had an AR-15 assault rifle and one August day in 1997 he decided to settle t...
Episode 51: Gary Gilmore, Let’s do it from 2018-08-02T03:07:06
We’re back! Talking about the killer who brought the death penalty back into fashion in 1976, and inspired a slogan for a giant shoe company. What made Gary Gilmore so special? Lis...
Episode 50: Think you can’t get scammed? So did I from 2018-07-07T02:57:22
For our very special 50th episode we get a little personal — one of is $1,300 poorer after she got scammed. We talk about what happened, how it happened and, geez, am I really THAT...
Episode 49: A true crime pulp murder from 2018-06-20T03:26:21
Our long national nightmare is over! That’s right, we finally have another episode up. When a model, her mother and their British gentleman boarder are murdered the night before E...
Episode 48: No justice for anyone in the Haysom murders from 2018-04-26T19:48:33
Love? Manipulation? Insanity? Whatever. One word that doesn’t apply in the thirty-three years since Derek and Nancy Haysom were murdered is justice. We discuss.
And our N...
Episode 47: Did Linda Dolloff go batty for love? from 2018-04-09T02:59:52
Jeff Dolloff wanted to find a woman to marry who loved his family’s land in Standish, Maine, as much as he did. And he found her. But did Linda Dolloff love it too much to give up ...
Episode 46: What happened to the Turpin family? from 2018-03-25T00:51:12
David and Louise Turpin are charged with multiple counts for allegedly abusing their 13 children over the past 30 years. What happened between the time the two became a couple — sh...
Episode 45: Brenda Spencer, the shooter who ‘didn’t like Mondays’ from 2018-03-07T18:59:27
The silicon chip inside her head had definitely switched to overload, but how she really felt about Mondays is still up for debate. We discuss the 1979 crime that spurred a song and a le...
Episode 44: Killer nurse Charlie Cullen, 16 years, nine hospitals, hundreds of deaths from 2018-02-26T01:58:09
From 1987 to 2003 nurse Charlie Cullen worked at nine hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He wasn’t particularly smart or sneaky, he wasn’t a master criminal. But he ki...
Episode 43: Who left Ashley Ouellette in the middle of the road? from 2018-02-05T04:16:26
On February 10, 1999, at about 4 a.m., the body of Ashley Ouellette, 15, was found on the center line of the Pine Point Road in Scarborough, Maine. She’d been neatly placed there a...
Episode 42: The Gardner Heist, solved or not so much? from 2018-01-21T23:57:56
In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers talked their way into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the two guards on duty ...
Episode 41: Murder at Not So Pleasant Point from 2018-01-06T04:06:37
On a November Sunday in 1965, the extended Francis family’s home was invaded by five hunters from Massachusetts. By the end of the day, one member of the family would be dead.
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A Very Special Christmas Episode: Crime & Stuff goes Groovy from 2017-12-26T01:52:40
What’s the true meaning of Christmas? No, really, what is it? In this very special Christmas episode, in partnership with our sister podcast, Groovy Tube, we find out through That ...
Episode 40: Killed in their own backyards from 2017-12-05T04:35:56
One of them went outside to shoo hunters away from her property as her year-old twins played in the house; another was removing a log that blocked his family’s camp road, anxious f...
Episode 39: The Maine Crime Writers at Crime Bake from 2017-11-22T16:27:42
Something different this episode! We interviewed four Maine Crime Writers at the annual New England Crime Bake mystery writers conference.
Writers Dick Cass, Brenda Buchanan, B...
Episode 38: Nichole Cable, teen angst, Facebook and murder from 2017-11-10T02:09:51
Nichole Cable, 15, told her mother she was going down to the end of their street in a small Maine town to “get some smokes” from an acquaintance. It was the last conversation...
Episode 37: Kim Wall’s fatal final story from 2017-10-25T02:27:29
Swedish journalist Kim Wall was doing what she did best when she climbed aboard Denmark inventor Peter Madsen’s homemade submarine August 10: chasing a great story.
But W...
Episode 36: Murder on the Appalachian Trail from 2017-10-10T00:55:32
More than 2,100 miles, 14 states and, since 1974, 11 murders. The Appalachian Trail is a pretty safe place to be, unless you run into the wrong crazed killer. All of the 11 people who we...
Episode 35: Carol Jenkins, the murder a town wanted to forget from 2017-09-24T15:42:45
Carol Jenkins was 21 and on the first day on the job selling encyclopedias when she made the mistake of agreeing to go to Martinsville, Indiana. She didn’t make it out of town aliv...
Episode 34: Son of Sam, the terror of New York City from 2017-09-16T17:57:49
In the summer of 1977, New York City was terrorized by a killer who shot his victims at close range, eventually killing six people and wounding seven. He was eventually called the Son of...
Episode 33: Was Conrad Roy texted to death? from 2017-08-29T00:51:27
The relationship between Massachusetts teens Conrad Roy and Michelle Carter was one that only could have happened in the 21st century. They lived less than an hour from each other, but r...
Episode 32: Malaga Island, Maine’s secret shame from 2017-08-19T15:19:35
In 1912, the state of Maine bought Malaga Island and evicted its mixed-race residents, placing eight of them — an entire family — in the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded and casting t...
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Bonus Episode 2: What we’re doing on our summer vacation from 2017-07-16T14:41:36
Soooo… it’s been 31 episodes. And it’s July in Maine. And we have day jobs (kind of). So we’re taking a break for a few weeks from Crime & Stuff. But that doe...
Episode 31: The Connecticut Valley Serial Killer from 2017-07-09T18:01:58
In the ongoing Maine case of Anthony Sanborn, the man who served 27 years for a 1989 murder he may not have committed, the most recent twist is that a profiler has linke...
Episode 30: Kyron Horman, little boy still lost from 2017-07-01T05:17:10
On June 4, 2010, Kyron Horman’s stepmother took him to school in Portland, Oregon. There was a science fair that morning and Kyron, 7, was excited about his tree frog exhibit. His ...
Episode 29: Annie Dookhan, wicked bad chemistry from 2017-06-23T01:00:34
Annie Dookhan, a chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory in Boston, was loved by prosecutors — she was a whiz, testing more drug evidence than everyone else in the lab, and she always got them...
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Episode 28: The mysterious death and life of Joyce Carol Vincent from 2017-06-14T15:04:55
Joyce Carol Vincent was pretty, bubbly, smart and talented. She also didn’t talk about her past and had parts of her life even those closest to her knew nothing ab...
Episode 27: You might remember Phil Hartman’s murder from 2017-06-07T00:30:51
You might remember Phil Hartman from Saturday Live, where in the 1980s he was uproariously funny as Frankenstein in the ongoing Frankenstein, Tarzan and Tonto bit, or as the Unfrozen Cav...
Episode 26: Blanche Kimball, the cold case chewing gum murder from 2017-05-30T20:44:14
When Blanche Kimball was stabbed to death in her home in Augusta, Maine, in 1976, police were stymied. She’d been stabbed 44 times and left to die, only found by police after neigh...
Episode 25: Phil Spector, murderous wall of crazy from 2017-05-24T16:08:55
So, what do you do with a musical genius who loves guns and scares the hell out of people?
Well, since he’s rich, more famous than famous and influential, nothing.
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Episode 24: The Fitbit & the woodchipper, two murders that made investigative history from 2017-05-16T19:23:21
In April, Richard Dabate was arrested on charges he murdered his wife in December 2015. The evidence against Dabate is a cyber-crumb track of electronic device information, the biggest ones provide...
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Bonus Episode 1: Logan Marr, Anthony Sanborn updates from 2017-05-12T01:29:23
Updates on Logan Marr (episode 18) and Anthony Sanborn (episode 22).
Find out how Logan Marr’s sister, Bailey, turned out. Some good news for a change.
On the o...
Episode 23: Frances Schreuder, keeping murder in the family from 2017-05-10T18:55:11
Frances Schreuder wanted desperately to be a member of high society, but she just didn’t have enough money to bankroll it. So she did what a lot of women would do — got her t...
Episode 22: Anthony Sanborn, murder, injustice and disposable lives from 2017-05-03T02:04:47
When 16-year-old Jessica Briggs was found dead under the Maine State Pier in Portland in May 1989 — stabbed, beaten and eviscerated — police quickly narrowed their focu...
Episode 21: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing from 2017-04-26T14:54:51
Today’s quiz: After 9/11, what was the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil? You know, the one that killed more people than any other? That’s right, Oklahoma City. Don’t...
Episode 20: The tragic story of Bruce McKay and Liko Kenney from 2017-04-17T15:35:48
Ah, bucolic small-town life, where everything is wonderful. NOT. More like, where everything can be a real cluster f***. Take Franconia, New Hampshire, in 2007 for instance. Mix in a mes...
Episode 19: Maine Crime Writers Noir at the Bar from 2017-04-09T16:19:59
In a VERY SPECIAL episode, we feature the April 2 Noir at the Bar event, in which a dozen members of the Maine Crime Writers blog and some guest speakers...
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Episode 18: Logan Marr, the little girl who never had a chance from 2017-04-04T21:37:02
Logan Marr was too young to understand why the state of Maine kept taking her away from her mother. Her mother, Christy Baker, didn’t really understand either. Bak...
Episode 17: Martha Moxley, the murder case that just won’t go away from 2017-03-26T21:30:41
Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death, then stabbed through the neck with the broken end of a golf club when she was 15. If it had happened in 2015, an arrest probably w...
Episode 16: A Tale of Two Rockefellers from 2017-03-21T14:48:43
It was the best of times, then the worst of times, for two con men — and their marks — as they separately traveled America using one of the country’s most famous and po...
Episode 15: Stalking, from Saldana to Grimmie, it’s not funny from 2017-03-14T19:27:02
Everyone makes stalking jokes. Everyone. But from the time it first came into modern public perception as a thing, to the recent murder of singer Christina Grimmie, and for millions of r...
Episode 14: Going Postal, the shootings that coined the phrase from 2017-03-07T17:41:54
We don’t mail it in when we discuss the spate of US Postal Service-related shootings over a 20-year period that spurred the phrase “going postal,” particularly one in E...
Episode 13: Chandra Levy, it’s over when they say it’s over from 2017-02-28T00:23:44
Nearly 16 years after Washington intern Chandra Levy disappeared and nearly 15 after her remains were found in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., police are no closer ...
Episode 12: Uber crime, taking a ride with danger from 2017-02-13T16:50:17
From drunken assaults to sex trafficking to an Uber app in which Satan told the driver to kill, the ride-share business has had plenty of crime during its short life. Drivers, pass...
Episode 11: New Hampshire cold case serial killer revealed from 2017-02-05T15:43:13
One of New Hampshire’s longest-standing mysteries — the discovery of the remains of a woman and three children in Bear Brook State Park — was solved (kind of) when a yo...
Episode 10: Jonestown, it’s about more than the Kool-Aid from 2017-01-30T22:38:10
What seemed like a good thing for people on the margins when it started out turned into one of the most horrific tragedies of the late 20th century, thanks to a narcissistic megalomaniac who had ju...
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Episode 9: Special Women’s March Episode, Time for a Traffic Study America! from 2017-01-22T14:40:02
A special road trip episode as we talk in the car ride home from Washington DC about the Women’s March and other stuff. Fun fun fun with one million others! What’s the deal w...
Episode 8: Maura Murray and stuff from 2017-01-16T00:54:47
What happens when the details of a tragedy become the foundation of internet legend? We discuss the Massachusetts nursing student’s disappearance on a dark New Hampshire road as t...
Episode 7: Maine’s murderers and the women who loved them from 2017-01-09T22:16:49
Maine has one of the lowest murder rates in the country. For the past couple of decades, there have been between 20 to 25 homicides a year in the state. In 2016, there were 16.
Yet, the t...
Episode 6: JonBenet Ramsey documentary wars from 2017-01-01T14:07:58
It’s been 20 years since the body of JonBenet Ramsey was found in the basement of her parents’ Boulder, Colorado home. She’d been bludgeoned to death and strangled. The case has, ...
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Episode 5: Not-so-merry Christmases from 2016-12-24T22:40:32
On Christmas 27 years ago in California, a woman on her way home from looking at the Christmas lights was abducted, brutally raped and nearly killed, saved by her own bravery and smarts. It took ne...
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Episode 4: Sarah Cheiker’s long strange trip from 2016-12-18T06:46:22
Sarah Cheiker happily lived most of her 80-plus years in her Los Angeles bungalow. That changed when three drifters befriended her. In 2008 she disappeared, turning up 3,000 miles away in Maine fou...
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Episode 3: Ayla Reynolds, still missing after five years from 2016-12-11T05:35:45
On the morning of December 17, 2011, Justin DiPietro called the Waterville, Maine, police to report his 20-month-old daughter, Ayla Reynolds, missing. That was the spark to what ev...
Episode 2: NOT a good boy, the story of SC serial killer Todd Kohlhepp from 2016-12-02T23:08:20
Todd Kohlhepp, charged with killing seven people in South Carolina, is not a good boy. No matter what his mother says.
Kohlhepp, a popular and successful realtor, was arrested ...
Episode 1: Twisted Sisters, a tale of yoga and death from 2016-11-25T04:57:07
Ann and Alison Dadow were as close as two sisters could be. Or closer. They did everything together. They changed their names together, to Anastasia and Alexandria Duval. They taught yoga together,...
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