True Blue Crime Investigates

In 1994, a 13 year old boy who had been labeled a troubled teen went missing after playing basketball in a park in San Antonio, TX. Three years later, police in Spain called US Officials and said a boy claiming to be the missing Nicholas Barclay had turned himself into Spanish Police. The twists and turns of the case made it one of the most memorable missing person cases in the last 30 years. List...

On St. Patrick's Day in 1990, two suspects dressed as Boston Police Officer gained access to the secure Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. They detained the two security guards and then in 81 minutes the stole 13 pieces of art that is valued today at over half a billion dollars. While the FBI came out in 2015 and said they believe they have identified the suspects, they said the men respon...

After a body is discovered in a cornfield outside St. Louis MO in 1999, detectives believe they have a homicide on their hands. But the case takes a strange turn when two pieces of paper, containing what could be a coded message, were found in the victim's pockets. Did the victim write something in code before he was murdered or it is someone else's code for some activity he was involved in before...

On Australia Day in 1966, three children were allowed to go unsupervised to a public beach to escape the summer heat in Adelaide, Australia. This was an accepted practice by most at the time as Australia was considered a safe country. When the children didn't return from the beach, Australia's largest crime mystery began and almost 60 years later there is still no answer to what happened to Jane,...

In 2013 the death of Kendrick Johnson at his high school fired up the rumor mill and before the facts were known, speculation about his death was front page news. Despite the facts indicating the death was a tragic accident, many hung onto the belief he was murdered. Listen along as we analyze the case and the facts and discuss the final findings of a case many believe was wrongfully investigated....

In 2009, a truck belonging to family of three was found in a clearing in a remote wilderness in Oklahoma and the family was nowhere to be found. After three years of speculation about what happened to the family, their bodies were found over three miles from the truck in the middle of the forest. Some people believe the family got lost and died due to exposure in the cold October evening air while...

After a woman and her dog discovered a human bone on the West Mesa outside Albuquerque, NM a massive search began and soon 11 bodies of missing women from the area were located in what is now known as the West Mesa Boneyard. A serial killer had been hunting sex workers during a two year period from 2003-2005. Why he stopped is unknown but there are several suspects included two strong candidates....

In 2008, deer hunters in rural Wisconsin came across the badly decomposed body of a young female in a creek on an abandoned farm. The homicide victim was unidentified for 13 years until forensic genealogy was used to give her back her identity. The young woman was believed to be the victim of a sex trafficking related homicide and investigators now are working to solve the murder. Listen along as...

In 1997 a woman attending a conference with her husband goes missing from Philadelphia during the middle of the day. Some people report seeing her around the city in the days after her disappearance but five months later her body is found in a remote area 600 miles away. Why she was in Asheville, NC is unknown to this day and while it was clear she was murdered, the motive and suspect has never be...

On September 29, 1982 in Chicago seven people died after ingesting Tylenol capsules that had been filled with Cyanide. An unknown suspect had taken bottles from the shelves and in the days before tamper proof seals, replaced regular capsules with the deadly poison. While one person was arrested for trying to extort the company that owned Tylenol, no suspect has ever been charged with this rare for...

In 1971 a man purchased a one way ticket with cash for a Northwest-Orient flight from Portland to Sea-Tac, shortly after take off he informed a flight attendant that he had a bomb and showed her a bomb like device in his briefcase. He demanded $200,000 in cash and 4 parachutes and was paid his ransom before jumping off the plane into a dark rainy night, never to be identified or seen again. Only a...

In December of 1991 four teenage girls were found murdered in the back of a frozen yogurt shop. A patrol officer had noticed a fire in the middle of the night and after firefighters extinguished the blaze, the bodies of the four girls were located. While several people have confessed to the crimes and two were put on trial and found guilty, their convictions were overturned and new evidence sugges...

In 2004 21 year old Maura Murray left her dorm room at UMass, withdrew all $280 left in her bank account, purchased some alcohol and drove to northern New Hampshire. Around 7 pm she lost control of her car and ended up in a snowbank. Witnesses offered help but she begged them not to call 911. Sometime in the 7 minutes a witness saw her and when the police arrived she vanished and has never been se...