Murder: True Crime Stories
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MYSTERY: The Disappearance of Maura Murray
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On Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy digs into history's most notorious murders like you've never heard them before, going beyond the crime scene to find the real story…and the lives it upended. Case closed or not, every case leaves you understanding exactly why it needed to be told. Join us Tuesdays, Thursdays for a deep dive into one murder, and Fridays for the unsolved cases that still haunt us today.Murder: True Crime Stories is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to @crimehousestudios on YouTube and follow us @crimehouse on Instagram.
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- MYSTERY: The Disappearance of Maura Murray · 55 min · Episode 240On February 9th, 2004, Maura Murray emailed her professors at UMass Amherst to say there had been a death in her family. There hadn't been. She withdrew cash, packed her car, and…
- SOLVED: Jennifer & Abby Blagg Pt. 2 · 46 min · Episode 239In November 2001, Jennifer Blagg and her six-year-old daughter Abby vanished from their home in Grand Junction, Colorado, leaving only blood in the master bedroom. Seven months…
- SOLVED: Jennifer & Abby Blagg Pt. 1 · 45 min · Episode 238On November 13, 2001, Mike Blagg called 911 from his Grand Junction, Colorado home to report his wife Jennifer and six-year-old daughter Abby missing, and blood soaked into…
- Mother Knows Murder Extra: Emmy winner Niecy Nash and daughter Dia La Ren Talk Murder · 15 minMost nights, Niecy Nash and her daughter, Dia, end up in bed talking true crime, and now they’re inviting you in.If you love Murder: True Crime Stories, you are going to love…
- MYSTERY: Diane Schuler & the Taconic Parkway Crash · 49 min · Episode 237On July 26, 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong way down the Taconic State Parkway with five children in her minivan, killing eight people including herself and four…
- UNSOLVED: Cindy James, Pt. 2 · 48 min · Episode 236In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the two-week search for Cindy James and the autopsy that turned her case inside out. Her body was found on June…
- UNSOLVED: Cindy James, Pt. 1 · 54 min · Episode 235In 1982, Cindy James was running a Vancouver treatment center for preschoolers with serious emotional and behavioral problems, and the two psychiatrists on staff reported to her…
- MYSTERY: The Dexter Killer of Edmonton · 45 min · Episode 234In October 2008, a 38-year-old Edmonton man named Johnny Altinger told friends he had a date with a woman he met on a dating site. He never came home. Altinger had been lured to…
- UNSOLVED: Villisca Axe Murders Pt. 2 · 48 min · Episode 233In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the decades of suspects, theories and trials that never produced a conviction for the Villisca axe murders. The…
- UNSOLVED: Villisca Axe Murders Pt. 1 · 41 min · Episode 232On the evening of June 9th, 1912, Josiah and Sarah Moore walked their four children home from a Children's Day program at the Presbyterian church in Villisca, Iowa. Two young…
- HAUNTED TAKEOVER: The First 48: Brothers Down · 42 minBeware...for Halloween, Carter Roy is haunting this feed with an episode of another show he hosts, The First 48.Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime…
- MYSTERY: Cropsey of Staten Island · 45 min · Episode 231For Staten Island kids in the 1970s and '80s, the boogeyman had a name: Cropsey, a madman said to live in the tunnels beneath Willowbrook State School and take any child who…
- SOLVED: Dorothea Puente Pt. 2 · 37 min · Episode 230In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the excavation of Dorothea Puente's garden and the murder trial that came out of it. Detectives recovered seven…
- SOLVED: Dorothea Puente Pt. 1 · 43 min · Episode 229Through the 1980s, a landlady named Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house at 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California. Her tenants were the people nobody else would take: the…
- MYSTERY: Charles Sobhraj: The Bikini Killer · 48 min · Episode 228In the mid-1970s, young Western travelers on the overland hippie trail through Southeast Asia began turning up drugged, robbed and murdered, several left on beaches in Thailand…
- UNSOLVED: Casino Heir: Ted Binion Pt. 2 · 43 min · Episode 227In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the two Las Vegas murder trials that reached opposite verdicts on how Ted Binion died. In March 1999, the Clark…
- UNSOLVED: Casino Heir: Ted Binion Pt. 1 · 46 min · Episode 226Ted Binion was 21 when he took over the casino floor at Binion's Horseshoe, the no-limits gambling hall his father Benny built in Las Vegas, and he ran it for 30 years. By March…
- MYSTERY: The Murders of Barry and Honey Sherman · 48 min · Episode 225Barry Sherman had built Apotex into one of the largest generic drug companies in the world, and his wife Honey was among the most prominent philanthropists in Canada. On December…
- SOLVED: Lynette Dawson Pt. 2 · 42 min · Episode 224In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the four-decade fight to prove that Lynette Dawson had been murdered. The day after Lynette vanished, Chris…
- SOLVED: Lynette Dawson Pt. 1 · 38 min · Episode 223In January 1982, 33-year-old Lynette Dawson vanished from Bayview, on Sydney's northern beaches, and it would take 40 years to prove she had been murdered. A nurse and the mother…
- MYSTERY: The Rod Ferrell “Vampire Clan” Murders featuring Connor Tomlinson from What the Fact · 52 min · Episode 222In 1996, 16-year-old Rod Ferrell led a group of teenagers in Kentucky who called themselves a vampire clan, immersing themselves in role-playing games, rituals, and a shared…
- SOLVED: Carrie Daugherty, Pt. 2 · 38 min · Episode 221In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the long and winding legal battle over the murder of Carrie Daugherty. Micah Johnson claimed he was insane at the…
- SOLVED: Carrie Daugherty, Pt. 1 · 40 min · Episode 220In 2008, 24-year-old Knoxville server Carrie Daugherty was ambushed and killed outside her Tennessee home, a sudden act of violence that shattered the people who loved her…
- MYSTERY: The Blurred Suspect · 43 min · Episode 219In January 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse vanished from her condominium in Orlando, Florida, just days after returning from a vacation with her boyfriend. When she failed to…
- UNSOLVED: Julia Wallace 2 · 38 min · Episode 218In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the trial and turbulent legal aftermath of the murder of Julia Wallace. Convicted largely on circumstantial…
- UNSOLVED: Julia Wallace 1 · 37 min · Episode 217In January 1931, a mysterious phone call was left for insurance agent William Herbert Wallace at his chess club in Liverpool, England, summoning him to a meeting the following…
- MYSTERY: The Alligator Man of Elmendorf · 44 min · Episode 216In Prohibition-era Texas, Joe Ball ran a saloon in the small town of Elmendorf, where he kept a pit of live alligators out back as a grisly attraction for his customers. Charming…
- UNSOLVED: Sophie Toscan du Plantier 2 · 42 min · Episode 215In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the tangled, decades-long investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Suspicion quickly fell on…
- UNSOLVED: Sophie Toscan du Plantier 1 · 45 min · Episode 214In December 1996, French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier traveled alone to her remote holiday home on the windswept Mizen Head peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, a…
- MYSTERY: Ireland’s Scissor Sisters · 41 min · Episode 213In 2005, a dismembered body began turning up in pieces along a canal in Dublin, Ireland, in a case so gruesome it gripped the entire country. The victim was Farah Swaleh Noor…
- SOLVED: An Oscar-Worthy Murder Pt. 2 · 34 min · Episode 212In the days after two of his acquaintances went missing in Costa Mesa, California, Dan Wozniak played the part of the grieving friend to perfection, comforting others while…
- SOLVED: An Oscar-Worthy Murder Pt. 1 · 36 min · Episode 211Dan Wozniak was a charming, talented actor in Southern California with big dreams and a wedding on the horizon, but his finances were falling apart and his taste for the…
- MYSTERY: Doctor Death · 42 min · Episode 210Michael Swango was a charming, ambitious young doctor who seemed destined for a successful medical career when he began his residency in Ohio in the early 1980s. But wherever he…
- UNSOLVED: The Hinterkaifeck Murders 2 · 45 min · Episode 209In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the century-long investigation into the Hinterkaifeck murders, one of the most baffling cold cases in European…
- UNSOLVED: The Hinterkaifeck Murders 1 · 44 min · Episode 208In 1922, six members of the same family were found murdered on their isolated farmstead in the Bavarian countryside, killed one by one with a pickaxe. In the days before their…
- MYSTERY: The Submarine Murder · 44 min · Episode 207In August 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall boarded a homemade submarine in Copenhagen to interview its inventor, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen, for a story. It was supposed…
- SOLVED: Jeff German 2 · 38 min · Episode 206In September 2022, veteran Las Vegas journalist Jeff German was found stabbed to death outside his home, killed in a brutal attack just days before he was set to receive records…
- SOLVED: Jeff German 1 · 36 min · Episode 205For nearly 45 years, Jeff German was one of the most respected investigative journalists in Las Vegas, exposing organized crime, political corruption, and the people who thought…
- MYSTERY: Dating Game Killer · 40 min · Episode 204In the late 1970s, a charming amateur photographer named Rodney Alcala appeared on the popular TV show The Dating Game, flashing a quick smile and winning a date with the…
- SOLVED: The Colonial Parkway Murders 2 · 44 min · Episode 203In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the decades-long hunt for the killer behind the Colonial Parkway Murders. For years, the four cases went nowhere…
- SOLVED: The Colonial Parkway Murders 1 · 41 min · Episode 202Between 1986 and 1989, four young couples were murdered or vanished along the same 23-mile stretch of road in Virginia known as the Colonial Parkway. A scenic route through the…
- MYSTERY: TalHotBlond · 53 min · Episode 201In 2005, 46-year-old Thomas Montgomery logged onto an online gaming site, pretended to be an 18-year-old Marine, and fell into an intense romance with a young woman who called…
- SOLVED: The Model Student Murderer Pt. 2 · 48 min · Episode 200By 2010, Jennifer Pan's carefully constructed lies were collapsing around her. Her parents had discovered the truth about her fabricated life, pulled her out of her relationship…
- SOLVED: The Model Student Murderer Pt. 1 · 39 min · Episode 199From the outside, Jennifer Pan was the perfect daughter. She brought home straight A's, won swimming trophies and piano awards, and seemed destined for a career in medicine…
- MYSTERY: Serial Killer Grandparents · 40 min · Episode 198In rural Missouri, Ray and Faye Copeland looked like any other elderly farming couple, churchgoing, weathered, and unremarkable to the neighbors who waved at them from the road…
- UNSOLVED: The Galapagos Affair 2 · 54 min · Episode 197By the spring of 1934, the small colony of European settlers on the Galapagos island of Floreana was tearing itself apart. A relentless drought had withered the crops, the…
- UNSOLVED: The Galapagos Affair 1 · 43 min · Episode 196In 1929, a German doctor named Friedrich Ritter and his partner, Dore Strauch, sailed to the uninhabited island of Floreana in the Galapagos to escape what they believed was the…
- MYSTERY: JonBenét Ramsey · 52 min · Episode 195On the morning of December 26th, 1996, 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A long…
- UNSOLVED: The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard 2 · 48 min · Episode 194In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the investigation, trial, and decades-long legal battle that came to define the murder of Marilyn Sheppard…
- UNSOLVED: The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard 1 · 41 min · Episode 193On the morning of July 4th, 1954, 31-year-old Marilyn Sheppard was found beaten to death in her lakeside home in Bay Village, Ohio. On the morning of July 4th, 1954, 31-year-old…
