Murder Sheet

David Hennesy is a legendary figure in Indiana legal circles. A long time attorney, he has done criminal defense work for 40 years — and in that time, as you will hear, he estimates that he has won 100 murder cases. Perhaps that is part of the reason people have given him the nickname Mr Murder.  But now- after finishing one last case- he is leaving all that behind and retiring.&nbs...

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. Today, we'll be getting into a few new cases, namely the murders of Rachel Morin, Andre Smith, and Jared Bridegan. We'll also provide a few previews of what we're working on. WRTV’s coverage of the disappearance of Rachel Saloman: https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/impd-searc...

We tend to think of the assassinations of American Presidents as being quick and sudden affairs — such as when killers pulled the trigger on their weapons and took the lives of men like Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. But the death of President James Garfield was very different. We talked with Garfield biographer CW Goodyear about the horrible lingering death of this President — and also how...

We've all heard about the Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity — or NGRI — defense that is sometimes used in court- but what exactly does it mean? How common is this defense used? Would it be easy for a defendant to successfully fake a mental illness in order to employ this defense? To get answers, we spoke with someone who works in the field. We verified her experience but because she is still a...

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode of The Cheat Sheet, we will address the following topics: The disappearance of the Perez sisters, the disappearance of Katie Schneider, the murder of Ronli Ratliff, the Burger Chef murders, the Tylenol murders, an international child sex abuse sting, the Delphi...

In this episode we continue our conversation with Courtney Alwine, the Miami County Deputy Prosecutor who led the recently concluded case against Kegan Kline.  In our first part, we discussed how Courtney first got involved with the case and took the story up to when Kegan Kline decided to plead guilty to all charges. In this part, we pick up the story from there and start with the sentencing...

If you’ve followed our episodes on the Kegan Kline case, you will surely know how impressed we have been with the work of Miami County Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Alwine, who took over the prosecution earlier this year.  In court, she always spoke with an eloquent and intelligent controlled anger. There were moments during the sentencing hearing where she confronted and called out Kegan that w...

Correction: Ronli Ratliff's body was discovered beside a couch, not atop a couch. In the early morning hours of April 15, 2004, firefighters discovered a body of a young woman in a house in Indiana's Morgan County. That young woman was 24-year-old Ronli Ratliff. Investigators quickly determined that she had been the victim of a homicide, but no one has ever been charged with her murder. All these...

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation helped out in the earliest days of the Burger Chef murders. The 1978 quadruple homicide remains unsolved. In 2019, Kevin Greenlee requested documents pertaining to the case from the FBI. Recently, we finally received those. We'll be talking through some of the details we noticed in the files, in this episode and future installments of the show. Acces...

Last summer, a family in Muncie, Indiana underwent an unimaginable tragedy. We spoke with two people at the center of that story. They'll get into topics around loss, grief, and the devastating aftermath of violent crimes. Here's a link to Douglas Walker's article for The Star Press : https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/crime/2023/01/05/murder-defendants-reported-courtroom-comment-draws-prosec...

We recently covered the trial of Randy Small. A jury recently convicted him over murder after he shot and killed his neighbor Bob Adair in 2021. In this episode, we'll interview the case's lead investigator, Captain Brian Shrader of Brown County, Indiana. He'll talk about preparing for a murder trial, testifying before the jury, and getting cross-examined by Andy Baldwin. Send tips to murdersheet@...

Back in September 1990, Lisa Pruett, a sixteen year old resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, slipped out of her house for a late night rendezvous with her boyfriend. She never made it home. They found her body the next morning; she had been stabbed to death just about 30 feet from her boyfriend’s house.  A man named Kevin Young ended up being charged with the crime. But he was acquitted. Yet tha...

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. This episode contains discussion of the following cases: the Delphi murders, the University of Idaho murders, the Long Island Serial Killer, and the murder of Laurel Jean Mitchell. ABC on presentment: https://6abc.com/bryan-kohberger-update-news-alibi/13563498/ Fox News on Heue...

In 1982, seven people died in Chicago after taking Tylenol capsules injected with potassium cyanide. An investigation into the seemingly random poisonings carried on for decades. No one was ever convicted of the Tylenol murders. But many in law enforcement believed that they had a decent circumstantial case against James Lewis. A longtime con man, Lewis was convicted of attempting to extort Johnso...

On July 27, 2023, Kegan Kline was sentenced to 40 years in prison for a variety of offenses, most of which were linked to child sexual abuse materials. On July 29, 2023, we got the opportunity to talk with him and got his thoughts on the sentencing, Delphi and more. He actually did not have much to say about the Delphi case and continues to maintain that he played no role in the murders of Abby an...

On July 27, 2023, Kegan Kline received his sentence for the 25 counts he pled guilty to earlier this year. Prosecutors Courtney Alwine and Jennifer Keifer presented testimony from Christopher Cecil and David Vido of the Indiana State Police as well as Cathy Knight from the Miami County probation office. The witnesses presented horrifying details of the nature of Kline's crimes. After hearing the t...

We got curious to see what Andy Baldwin, one of Richard Allen's defense attorneys, is like in court so we decided to attend the opening days of the most recent murder trial he worked on. In this case, the state is represented by Brown County, Indiana prosecutor Ted Adams- who used to work with Baldwin in criminal defense. Baldwin represents Randy Small, a man accused of murdering a neighbor in a p...

Michael Koryta isn't just a crime author. Starting in high school, he began working for a private investigator. Later on, he turned to journalism, reporting on different Indiana crimes. Now, he's a bestselling crime author. His latest book An Honest Man deals with topics like "island justice," long-repressed secrets, and the meaning of staying honest while mired in a web of deceit. It's all about...

In Indiana's Brown County, Randy Small is on trial for the murder of Bob Adair. The state says it's a case of brutal, cold-blooded murder. The defense argues that Small was acting in self-defense. The decision will come down to Small's peers sitting on the jury. In this episode, we will discuss observing county prosecutor Ted Adams and defense attorney Andy Baldwin make opening statements in the c...

For years, the Long Island Serial Killer remained nameless and faceless. But that may change. On July 14, 2023, police arrested Rex Heuermann for the murders of three sex workers. In this episode, we'll delve into the initial information coming out about the case against Heuermann. A Fox News report we cited from Audrey Conklin and Michael Ruiz: https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-rex-heuermann-suspect...

We got curious to see what Andy Baldwin, one of Richard Allen's defense attorneys, is like in court so we decided to attend the opening days of the most recent murder trial he worked on. In this case, the state is represented by Brown County, Indiana prosecutor Ted Adams- who used to work with Baldwin in criminal defense. Baldwin represents Randy Small, a man accused of murdering a neighbor in a p...

In 2010, a woman named Rebecca Cassidy disappeared in Shelbyville, Indiana. In 2014, police found her remains buried on her boyfriend Scott Schuck's property. Schuck was charged with murder, but that was just the beginning. In this episode, The Murder Sheet will recap the latest court happenings in this case, defense attorney Andy Baldwin's role in defending his client, and the various twists and...

There have been several major developments in the case against Bryan Kohberger. Prosecutors now seek to pursue the death penalty in this brutal quadruple homicide, and we've learned a lot more information about the DNA evidence in the case. Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com. The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC . -------------------------------------------------------------------...

In the summer of 2017, Margaret "Peggy" Thornton Lammers took some time to relax at her family's "river house," in Deltaville, an idyllic community in Virginia's Middlesex County. The home sat right on the banks of the Piankatank River, and should have been a place of rest for the beloved 61-year-old mother-of-three adult children. After all, she had just spent quite a while traveling between her...

Sarah Weinman is an award-winning writer and editor who has spent years covering crime, the true crime genre, and crime fiction. She's recently edited an anthology Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of reckoning. It's a collection that asks tough questions about our understanding of crime, and efforts to document crimes in both traditional outlets and new media. In this episode, The Mur...