Crime of the Truest Kind

Introducing: Open Investigation - the eight-part podcast series about missing Lawrence, Massachusetts boy, Andy Puglisi

July 17, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 993 KB

Send a message to the show Coming September 2024, the eight-part investigative podcast that picks up where the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Have You Seen Andy?, leaves off. Hosted by Melanie Perkins McLaughlin, whose decades-long investigation about her missing childhood friend, Andy Puglisi, who went missing in 1976 from the public pool in Lawrence, Massachusetts, includes hundreds of interviews, multiple searches, and many unanswered questions. Open Investigation Podcast Support the...

EP 68 | Massachusetts Cold Cases with Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe's Cold Case Files (Live from Faces Brewing, Malden 6/20/2024)

July 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

Send a message to the show In this bonus episode, recorded live at Faces Brewing Co. in Malden, Mass, we explore local cold cases. With journalist Emily Sweeney, we uncover the intricate details behind some of the state's most perplexing unsolved crimes. We mark the anniversary of Debra Melo's mysterious disappearance. The case of 30-year-old Taunton mother who went missing in 2000 continues to pose questions about the people closest to her. We call for the public's involvement to keep he...

EP 67 | Dark Wave: Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919

June 29, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB

Send a message to the show Late Release! Coming in hot with the history on this one with the Corpse Flower, The Tot Finder, a Nine-Alarm Fire, and The Wizard of Oz/Darkside of The Moon, The Beaneaters, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The Molassacre. A Molasstrophe. That's what happens when 2 million gallons of molasses explodes onto the narrow streets of the North End, in a bizarre and unbelievable story of Boston's dark wave of history. On January 15, 1919, a 26 million pound da...

EP 67 | Molassacre, The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Boston, Massachusetts

June 29, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB

Send a message to the show Late Release! Coming in hot with the history on this one with the Corpse Flower, The Tot Finder, a Nine-Alarm Fire, and The Wizard of Oz/Darkside of The Moon, The Beaneaters, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The Molassacre. A Molasstrophe. That's what happens when 2 million gallons of molasses explodes onto the narrow streets of the North End, in a bizarre and unbelievable story of Boston's dark wave of history. On January 15, 1919, a 26 million pound da...

EP 66 | Fifty-Year-Old Cold Case Is Solved & A History Of Murder, Bedford, Massachusetts

June 14, 2024 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Send a message to the show EP 66 | Fifty-Year-Old Cold Case Is Solved & A History Of Murder, Bedford, Massachusetts Five murders in as many decades. How does a seemingly tranquil town like Bedford, Massachusetts, become the backdrop for some of the most chilling crimes in New England history? Travel back in time as we recount this small town's dark past. In 1970, Emily Morris, a woman suffering from debilitating pain, was killed by her own husband for what he called a mercy killing. Th...

EP 66 | A Fifty-Year-Old Cold Case Is Solved & The Dark History Of Murder in Bedford, Massachusetts

June 14, 2024 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Send a message to the show EP 66 | A Fifty-Year-Old Cold Case Is Solved & The Dark History Of Murder in Bedford, Massachusetts Five murders in as many decades. How does a seemingly tranquil town like Bedford, Massachusetts, become the backdrop for some of the most chilling crimes in New England history? Travel back in time as we recount this small town's dark past. In 1970, Emily Morris, a woman suffering from debilitating pain, was killed by her own husband for what he called a mercy ki...

EP 65 | Brace For Impact: Juvenile Lifers, Parole Hearings, & The Families' New Fight

May 28, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB

Send a message to the show EP 65 | Brace For Impact: Juvenile Lifers, Parole Hearings, & The Families' New Fight Massachusetts families of murdered loved ones are now faced with the prospect of their killers being released. Explore how landmark rulings Miller vs. Alabama and Diatchenko vs The Commonwealth have reshaped juvenile sentencing and removed every promise made to families that their juvenile killer would be behind bars for life. The families of Amy Carnevale, Shaun Ouillette, Jan...

EP 64 | What Happened at 34 Fairview Rd In Canton? John O'Keefe Murder Trial Week Two Review with Dubs the True Crime Bloodhound

May 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MB

Send a message to the show A few things to remember: John O’Keefe is dead. His family hasn’t been able to properly mourn (nor has Karen Read) and this is a horrible place for a family to be. There are kids involved. John O’Keefe was the guardian and main caregiver to his niece and nephew that in no way asked for or deserved to be at the center of this nightmare. There is a lot of scrutiny surrounding the John O'Keefe murder trial. Karen Read is not a stupid woman. She's a member of the f...

EP 63 | The John O'Keefe Murder Trial, Canton, Massachusetts with Dubs the True Crime Bloodhound

May 03, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Send a message to the show Episode 63 is a walk through the frenzy that is called "The Canton Cover-up" by some, others see it as a national spectacle. Canton, the small town 20 miles outside Boston, is no stranger to tragedy. Over three decades ago, sweet, trusting 14-year-old Shawn Ouillette was lured into the woods, beaten, and left for dead. His 14-year-old schoolmate and eventual killer said no one would miss him. He wanted to know what it felt like to kill. That was 1986. Shawn is s...

EP 62 | Justice For Beth Brodie, Crime of the Hometown Kind, Groveland, Massachusetts with Beth's brother, Sean Aylward

April 12, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB

Send a message to the show Case Update: Beth Brodie's story. Beth's killer is up for parole in May. CALL TO ACTION below.... I first shared Beth's story in the spring of 2021 in episode 16. I am from the small town of Groveland, Massachusetts, Beth and I went to the same school, walked those same halls. What happened to her stayed with me. I think of her every time I drive through my old hometown, about her family, and how they had to drive by the house where she took her last breath on...

[REPLAY] EP 17| Beth Brodie, Crime of the Hometown Kind, Groveland, Massachusetts, with Beth's brother, Sean Aylward (from May 5, 2021)

April 09, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB

Send a message to the show Revisiting the story of Beth Brodie, Crime of the Hometown Kind, Groveland, Massachusetts, with Beth's brother, Sean Aylward. First released on May 5, 2021. Sean, Beth's brother, and I plan a follow-up to get the status of her case this week. Expect episode 62 soon. Her killer is up for parole! CALL TO ACTION below.... I first shared her story in the spring of 2021. I am from the small town of Groveland, Massachusetts, went to the same schools as Beth did, ...

EP 61 | The Mysterious Disappearance of Attiin R. Shaw, Washburn, Maine with Brandie of Evaporate The Missing

March 29, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

Send a message to the show For the record, her name is Attiin (pronounced AhTeen) Rachmawati Shaw. Uncover the unsettling case of Attiin Rachmawati Shaw, missing from Washburn, Maine. Dive into the mysteries and complexities in Episode 61. This is a make good on our promise to cover Attiin's case after we first spoke about her at the live show on March 7 at Off Cabot in Beverly. I didn't know much about her case but we are peeling that all back now. I will work on a follow up to this cas...

EP 61 | The Mysterious Disappearance of Attiin Shaw, Washburn, Maine with Brandie of Evaporate The Missing

March 29, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

For the record, her name is Attiin (pronounced AhTeen) Rachmawati Shaw. Uncover the unsettling case of Attiin Rachmawati Shaw, missing from Washburn, Maine. Dive into the mysteries and complexities in Episode 61. This is a make good on our promise to cover Attiin's case after we first spoke about her at the live show on March 7 at Off Cabot in Beverly. I didn't know much about her case but we are peeling that all back now. I will work on a follow up to this case as I gather more about thi...

EP 61 | The Many Mysteries Surrounding the Disappearance of Attiin Shaw, Washburn, Maine with Brandie of Evaporate The Missing

March 29, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

For the record, her name is Attiin (pronounced AhTeen) Rachmawati Shaw. Uncover the unsettling case of Attiin Rachmawati Shaw, missing from Washburn, Maine. Dive into the mysteries and complexities in Episode 61. This is a make good on our promise to cover Attiin's case after we first spoke about her at the live show on March 7 at Off Cabot in Beverly. I didn't know much about her case but we are peeling that all back now. I will work on a follow up to this case as I gather more about thi...

EP 60 | UNSOLVED New England Crime Cases with Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe (recorded live at Faces Brewing, Malden, Mass)

March 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB

Send a message to the show We mark the 60th episode of Crime of the Truest Kind with the Unsolved show recorded live at Faces Brewing in Malden. It's another long one! It's a live show afterall. UNSOLVED New England Crime Cases Recorded live on Thursday, February 15 at Faces Brewing, Malden With Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe Cold Case Files (subscribe here) We break down a number of New England cases, covered in Emily's reporting and on this podcast. Unsolved: The 1996 as of Marci...

EP 59 | Stranger Than Fiction: The Truth About The Crimes of Daniel LaPlante, Townsend, Massachusetts, with author Joe Turner

February 23, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

Send a message to the show This is the follow-up to the last two episodes. When I say "stranger than fiction" I mean it's so weird that you cannot make this shit up, yet lots of info shared online is just that, made up. He's the boy in the walls. That's part of the story. But what is the story? Like most cases I research for the show, it's never what it appears on the surface. There is always more to the story, more information to find, to dig into to tell the story properly. When I start...

Replay | EP 46 with Julie Murray, sister of Maura Murray & Advocating for Humanity in the True Crime Narrative

February 09, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Send a message to the show Today is the 20th anniversary of Maura Murray's disappearance. In July, I spoke with Julie Murray, Maura's sister and dedicated advocate for her sister and the Murray family. Think of Maura and the Murray family today. Julie launched a podcast this month - Media Pressure - about Maura and her case. It is recommended listening. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. This is about Massachusetts and New England crime, regional history, about the people, places, and things that hap...

Crime of the Truest Kind Live!

February 08, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute - 760 KB

Send a message to the show Two opportunities to attend a Crime of the Truest Kind live show this winter. Thursday, February 15 and Thursday, March 7 crimeofthetruestkind.com These are the only two live shows until the summer (or fall maybe). UNSOLVED New England Crime Cases on Feb 15 at Faces Brewing in Malden, Massachusetts, with guest Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe New England Crime Stories Live: Missing Persons and Advocacy in the true crime space March 7 at Off Cabot in Beverl...

EP 58 | The Pepperell Prequel & The True Story of The Bowen Family Nightmare, Pepperell, Massachusetts

February 07, 2024 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

Send a message to the show This is a bizarre case, not only for what happened to a Massachusetts family in the privacy of their home, but also how their story was reshaped and retold by urban legend and lore. This is the prequel: The Gustafson family story (EP 57) is far less known than that of the person responsible. That's part of the problem. Before Daniel LaPlante, a disturbed kid from Townsend, went on the run and was caught after a 24 hour manhunt, he was already the stuff of legend...

EP 57 | Gustafson Family & the Unsolved Mysteries of Judith Vieweg and Deborah Quimby, Townsend, Massachusetts (part one)

January 19, 2024 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

Crime of the Truest Kind is about New England crime stories and history. The Things that happen here. Crime is history and sometimes history is crime. This episode contains descriptions of violent crime against women and children. Listen with care. Episode 57📍Townsend, Massachusetts | On December 1, 1987, Andrew Gustafson lost his entire family, his wife, two children, and the baby they were expecting. He fought through unimaginable grief to find joy & purpose. We remember Priscilla, Abi...

EP 57 | Gustafson Family & the Unsolved Mysteries of Judith Vieweg and Deborah Quimby, Townsend, Massachusetts

January 19, 2024 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

Send a message to the show Crime of the Truest Kind is about New England crime stories and history. The Things that happen here. Crime is history and sometimes history is crime. This episode contains descriptions of violent crime against women and children. Listen with care. Episode 57📍Townsend, Massachusetts | On December 1, 1987, Andrew Gustafson lost his entire family, his wife, two children, and the baby they were expecting. He fought through unimaginable grief to find joy & purpose...

EP 56 | Where Is Debra Melo (part two) & Deadly Massachusetts Domestic Violence Cases

January 05, 2024 19:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB

Send a message to the show Is Debra Melo in Taunton? So many of you are interested in Debra's story. Debra Melo is missing. This year marks 24 years that she disappeared. This is an important story to tell. She did not just leave. There was no reason to walk away from her family, her daughter, her son. This is part two of Debra’s story, with Steve Demoura, Debra's brother-in-law and dedicated advocate to get justice for Debra and her family. In this episode I talk about domestic violenc...

EP 55 | The Suspicious Disappearance of Debra Melo, Taunton, Massachusetts (part one)

December 29, 2023 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MB

Send a message to the show With Steve Demoura, Debra's brother-in-law and dedicated advocate to get justice for Debra and her family. In June 2000, Debra Melo was a young mother trying to navigate the end of the only relationship she knew. She'd gotten married at 16, had two kids, and found that life was very different by age 30. She was making her way out and finally taking steps to get away from the person who'd been suffocating her for so long, a controlling and domineering man. But sh...

EP 54 | The Lasting Legacy Of The Coconut Grove Fire, Boston, Massachusetts

December 12, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MB

Send a message to the show Crime is history and sometimes history is crime. One single event changed the course of history. In 1942, the world was in the throes of the Second World War. The Great Depression created a kind of desperation Americans hadn’t seen and men and boys were shipping out by the droves. Two historic events intersected on Saturday, November 28, 1942, Holy Cross and Boston College played before 41,000 college football fans at Fenway Park. Underdogs Holy Cross destroyed a...

The Lasting Legacy Of The Coconut Grove Fire, Boston, Massachusetts

December 12, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MB

Crime is history and sometimes history is crime. One single event changed the course of history. In 1942, the world was in the throes of the Second World War. The Great Depression created a kind of desperation Americans hadn’t seen and men and boys were shipping out by the droves. Two historic events intersected on Saturday, November 28, 1942, Holy Cross and Boston College played before 41,000 college football fans at Fenway Park. Underdogs Holy Cross destroyed any hopes of The Eagles going...

EP 53 | Rita Hester & The Murder That Started A Movement, Allston, Massachusetts

November 17, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MB

Send a message to the show Chanelle Pickett and Rita Hester were murdered three years apart. Chantelle in 1995 in Watertown, Mass, and Rita Hester in 1998 in Allston. Both were brutal crimes. Neither of them got justice. The attitudes and the language around gay and transgender lifestyles were very different back then. How the media covered violence against transgender people was cruel, if they covered them all. As a result of the mistreatment they got even in death, their deaths were instr...

EP 52 | I Heart Lewiston, Maine with Bernadette from Murderific true crime podcast

November 06, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB

Send a message to the show [Bonus] This episode is about gun violence, mental health, mass murder, a terrorized community, and trauma. Listen with care. In episode 52, we go to Lewiston, Maine where a local man known to the community opened fire on two businesses in the largest mass casualty event in Maine’s history that left 18 dead, 13 injured and an entire region at a loss. In the second part of this episode, I speak to Bernadette, host of the Murderfic podcast, who lives in the area of...

EP 51 | Breanne Pennington, Migdalia Perez, Kathleen Daneault, Patricia Joyce & The Dark History of Murder In Gardner, Massachusetts

November 03, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

Send a message to the show +Episode 51: Breanne Pennington, Migdalia Perez, Kathleen Daneault, Patricia Joyce & The Dark History of Murder In Gardner, Massachusetts This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode deals with gun violence, mental health, murder-suicide, stalking, terrorized communities, domestic violence, sexual ...

EP 50 | Lizzi Marriot: A Life So Bright, Dover, New Hampshire

October 20, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB

Send a message to the show This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about the things that happen here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode is about sexuality, consent, sexual violence, murder, and defending a loved one’s privacy in death. Listen with care. Episode 50, Lizzi Marriott: A Life So Bright, Dover, New Hampshire Lizzi Marriott would have celebrated her 30th birthday on June 10 ...

EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi (part two of the Tiffany Moore Murder)

October 06, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MB

Send a message to the show #roxbury #massachusetts #truecrime #wrongfulconviction #massachusettstruecrime EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi Part two of the Tiffany Moore murder case. In August 1988, Tiffany Moore was shot three times in what police would call a rival gang turf war on Humboldt Ave in Roxbury. The streets were not safe, Tiffany's own mother sent her away to keep her from the violence that was taking over their neighborhood, only for it ...

EP 48 | Darlene Tiffany Moore, Roxbury, Massachusetts: Murder on H-Block (part one)

September 23, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

Send a message to the show Season Three. In episode 48, we head to the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury where, in the summer of 1988, the murder of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in the area known as the H-Block (named for the streets: Humboldt, Homestead, Harold, Harrishof, and Holworthy) had a major impact on the city. She was an innocent girl with a life full of promise and just two days away from returning to her new hometown of Greenville, South Carolina to begin 7th grade. It was not...

Promo: Crime of the Truest Kind show promo for download and sharing

September 05, 2023 19:00 - 1 minute - 850 KB

Send a message to the show Crime of the Truest Kind Season 3 in September. New show promo for download and sharing with other podcasts. Catch up on the first two seasons of Crime of the Truest Kind wherever you listen and be sure to subscribe so you get them as soon as they land. Visit crimeofthetruestkind.com and follow @crimeofthetruestkind. Thank you for listening. Email: [email protected] Facebook | i heart true crime facebook group | Twitter X | Instagram Support t...

Season 3 Coming In September | Trailer for Crime of the Truest Kind, Massachusetts & New England crime stories

August 18, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.1 MB

Send a message to the show Crime of the Truest Kind, a true crime podcast centered on Massachusetts and New England crime stories - the things that happened here - with Boston radio host, Anngelle Wood (WFNX, WBCN, WZLX). New episodes coming September 2023. I am headed to True Crime Podcast Festival in Austin next week (Aug 25-27). Season three in September and with it comes Crime of the Truest Kind's Advocacy In Action. What does that mean? Actively supporting New England families wh...

Season 3 Coming In September | Promo: Crime of the Truest Kind, Massachusetts & New England crime stories

August 18, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.1 MB

Crime of the Truest Kind, a true crime podcast centered on Massachusetts and New England crime stories - the things that happened here - with Boston radio host, Anngelle Wood (WFNX, WBCN, WZLX). New episodes coming September 2023. I am headed to True Crime Podcast Festival in Austin next week (Aug 25-27). Season three in September and with it comes Crime of the Truest Kind's Advocacy In Action. What does that mean? Actively supporting New England families who’ve been affected by crime ...

EP 47 | Holly Piirainen Cold Case Mystery, Sturbridge, Massachusetts - 30 years later, with journalist Rich Price

August 05, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

Thirty years ago today, 10-year-old Holly Piirainen was enjoying a lazy summer day with her family at their vacation cottage in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. What should have been an innocent visit with a litter of puppies nearby turned into a decades-long nightmare for her family. Holly disappeared. The only trace of her was one red sneaker. She would be found two and a half months later in the nearby town of Brimfield, in the next county over. As we revisit the details of Holly's case, ...

EP 47 | Holly Piirainen Cold Case Mystery 30 Years Later, Sturbridge, Massachusetts with journalist Rich Price

August 05, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

Send a message to the show Thirty years ago today, 10-year-old Holly Piirainen was enjoying a lazy summer day with her family at their vacation cottage in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. What should have been an innocent visit with a litter of puppies nearby turned into a decades-long nightmare for her family. Holly disappeared. The only trace of her was one red sneaker. She would be found two and a half months later in the nearby town of Brimfield, in the next county over. As we revisit th...

EP 46 | Truest Kind Headlines, Humanizing The Women of Gilgo Beach + Elijah Lewis, Merrrimack, NH Case Update

July 21, 2023 19:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MB

Send a message to the show Truest Kind Headlines: Alissa Turney, Nancy Hanson of Newton, Mass, Elijah Lewis, Merrimack, NH case update, Humanizing the Women of Gilgo Beach - two of whom are from New England - Shannan Gilbert, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman (Scarborough, Maine), Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes (Norwalk, Connecticut), Valerie Mack, and Jessica Taylor - PLUS the status of unknown and unsolved missing person and murder cases in Massachusetts. Gilgo Beach: I am t...

EP 45 | Maura Murray Is Still Missing with Julie Murray on Engaging with Empathy with Families of the Missing & Murdered

July 07, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Send a message to the show This is about Massachusetts and New England crime, regional history, about the people, places, and things that happen here. Maura Murray is still missing. She was last seen on February 9, 2004 on a snowy back road in Haverhill, New Hampshire. Her story is a crime classic, a greatest hit in the gold catalog. I say that because of the nature of Maura’s case and the myths and mystery surrounding her disappearance, she has become like a character in a work of fictio...

EP 44 | What Happened To Andy Puglisi? Lawrence, Mass & The Suspects In His Disappearance (part two)

June 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB

Send a message to the show Part two of two in the still-unsolved disappearance of 10-year-old Lawrence, Massachusetts boy Andy Puglisi who simply vanished from his neighborhood in the summer of 1976. Please go back and listen to part one before beginning this episode. Police searched for just six days before calling it off. That was the beginning of a 40-plus year mystery fraught with suspicions, slow response, and missed opportunities. There were five known child predators at the pool th...

EP 43 | What Happened To Andy Puglisi? Lawrence, Massachusetts & Local History of Crimes Against Children (part one)

June 05, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

Send a message to the show What happened to Andy Puglisi? Part one. This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, yes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode is about murdered and missing children, one in particular, about child sexual abuse, the attitudes among the public at large in regard to this topic, and the part that the Catholic Church has played in the ser...

EP 43 | What Happened To Andy Puglisi? Lawrence, Massachusetts & A Local History of Crimes Against Children (part one)

May 31, 2023 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

What happened to Andy Puglisi? Part one. This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, yes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England. This episode is about murdered and missing children, one in particular, about child sexual abuse, the attitudes among the public at large in regard to this topic, and the part that the Catholic Church has played in the serial abuse of children. If th...

EP 42 | Chaos On The Streets of Boston with Dave Wedge, author and journalist, on the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing

May 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MB

Send a message to the show Monday, April 15, 2013 stands as the most chaotic time in Boston's modern history and was the beginning of a traumatic four-day manhunt that shutdown the city. Two home-made pressure cooker bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon twelve seconds apart, filled with enough nails and ball bearings to cause maximum damage. Three people were killed as a direct result of the explosions on Boylston Street that afternoon: 29-year-old restaurant manager, ...

EP41 | Solved & Identified: Three New England Cold Cases - Patricia Tucker (Granby, MA), Katherine Alston (Bedford, NH), and Rita Curran (Burlington, VT)

March 21, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

Send a message to the show This episode is a little different from the way I usually cover New England crime stories. I give you an update on three New England cases: two cold case murder victims were identified, and one cold case murder - the oldest unsolved murder in Vermont's history - was solved. Patricia Tucker, known since 1978 as "The Granby Girl" was found in that Massachusetts town, shot in the head. Her identity went unknown until now. Katherine Alston, The Girl on Kilton Road, fo...

EP40 | Lindsay Clancy of Duxbury, Mass & The Realities of Postpartum Psychosis

February 24, 2023 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MB

Send a message to the show In episode 40 (the second part I promised from the unreleased episode), I share the very emotional, complex, and disturbing case of the Clancy family of Duxbury, Massachusetts. This one definitely got to me. I do talk about self harm, mental illness, domestic violent and suicide and list resources below. In January, 32-year-old nurse and mother, Lindsay Clancy, is believed to have killed her three young children - Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months - while...

EP39 | Ana Walshe Is Still Missing, Cohasset, Massachusetts & "No Body Conviction" cases in New England

February 07, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB

Send a message to the show Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old working mother of three young boys is reported missing on January 4, 2023. But not by her husband, by her Washington, DC employer when they said she never returned to work after the New Year's holiday. A visit to her South Shore Massachusetts home in the coastal town of Cohasset sets off a string of events that leaves investigators highly suspicious of husband, Brian Walshe, and locals glued to the story. Ana was last seen in the early mo...

EP 38 | Murdered For Her Baby: Darlene Haynes, Worcester, Massachusetts

January 12, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MB

It was a case of fetal abduction, cruelty, and murder that made international news with gory headlines like "Fetus Snatcher" and "Womb Raider" in the Summer of 2009 involving two former neighbors of a Worcester, Massachusetts apartment building. One woman in her early twenties, the other in her mid-thirties, both pregnant, both struggling. Each seemed to lean on the promise of a new baby to offer a glimmer of hope in their relatively ordinary existence. Darlene Haynes was a 23-year-old mothe...

EP38 | Murdered For Her Baby: Darlene Haynes, Worcester, Massachusetts

January 12, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MB

Send a message to the show It was a case of fetal abduction, cruelty, and murder that made international news with gory headlines like "Fetus Snatcher" and "Womb Raider" in the Summer of 2009 involving two former neighbors of a Worcester, Massachusetts apartment building. One woman in her early twenties, the other in her mid-thirties, both pregnant, both struggling. Each seemed to lean on the promise of a new baby to offer a glimmer of hope in their relatively ordinary existence. Darlene Ha...

REPLAY: EP8 | The Malingerer, Wakefield, Massachusetts Mass Shooting (part two)

December 26, 2022 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

Send a message to the show Part two of two. In honor of the seven people who were killed on 12/26/2000 at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. I am reposting this two-part episode about that first aired on Dec 26 + Jan 6, 2020. They were some of my earliest episodes. The Edgewater workplace rampage remains the worst mass shooting in the state's history. Remembering those who were killed that day after Christmas in 2000 Jennifer Bragg Capobianco, 29, of Brighton Janice Hagerty...

REPLAY: EP7 | The Day After Christmas Mass Shooting, Wakefield, Mass (part one)

December 26, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Send a message to the show In honor of the seven people who were killed on 12/26/2000 at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. I am reposting this two-part episode about that first aired on Dec 26 + Jan 6, 2020. They were some of my first episodes. The Edgewater workplace rampage is the worst mass shooting in the state's history. Remembering those who were killed that day after Christmas in 2000 Jennifer Bragg Capobianco, 29, of Brighton Janice Hagerty, 46, of Stoneham Louis A....

EP37 | Elijah Lewis, Merrimack, NH & Unsolved Cases Of The Granite State

December 20, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MB

Send a message to the show In October of 2021, a five year old boy was reported missing in Merrimack, New Hampshire after he hadn't been seen for over a month. Any missing child is an emergency. Or should be. Except his mother, whose custody he had been in for just over a year, wasn't who reported him missing. Why was Elijah Lewis even living with his mother at the time? And why did she want him gone? This is a difficult story about violence against a child. I share information about oth...

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