True Crime Archives

St. Patricks Day 1981: While the rest of Bel Air Maryland was celebrating, a horrific crime was unfolding at 619 Ponderosa Drive. Marlene Hayes came home early because she wasn't feeling well. She never made it past her kitchen, 43 years later her killer - and her stolen jewelry- have never been found. In this episode we break down the leading theories: was it a burglary gone wrong or somethin...

On the heels of the three-part 100th episode, Steven and Hannah jump back to Genetic Genealogy as an investigative tool. Listen this week as they discuss the 1984 murder of 18-year-old Traci Hammerberg in Grafton Wisconsin. Great investigative crime scene work reserved DNA evidence that led investigators in 2019 to create a DNA profile that ultimately led to the suspect.     Thanks for listening t...

Hannah and Steve review the Netflix series I Just Killed My Dad, in a three-part True Criem Archives series caping it off with our 100th episode. Listen as we dissect how Netflix narrates the 3 June 2019 evening when 17-year-old Anthony Templet shot and killed hi father, Burt Templet, because of what he will say has been years of controlling abuse.  Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed...

Hannah and Steve review the Netflix series I Just Killed My Dad, in a three-part True Criem Archives series caping it off with our 100th episode. Listen as we dissect how Netflix narrates the 3 June 2019 evening when 17-year-old Anthony Templet shot and killed hi father, Burt Templet, because of what he will say has been years of controlling abuse.  Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed...

Hannah and Steve review the Netflix series I Just Killed My Dad, in a three-part True Criem Archives series caping it off with our 100th episode. Listen as we dissect how Netflix narrates the 3 June 2019 evening when 17-year-old Anthony Templet shot and killed hi father, Burt Templet, because of what he will say has been years of controlling abuse.   Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed...

This week Steven and Hannah discuss the 1999 cold case murder of Jenifer Watkins, who at the time was only 23 years old. Listen as they unfold another genetic genealogy investigation in the wake of the 2018 solving of the Golden State Killer. Detectives sought our phenotyping and ultimately tracked down the suspect who worked at the same hotel where Jenifer was found murdered.   Thanks for listeni...

This week, Steven and Hannah discuss the 1976 murder of Leslie Penrod Harris by the hands of a former Marine. No clues, the body was dumped next to a remote Marine Corp base in Orange County California. Thanks to advances in DNA and Genetic Genealogy, investigators zeros in on one suspect. Unfortunately, the suspect dies after having been arrested for the murder from COVID-19 and was never brought...

Listen for the update of Plympton’s trial. Steve and Hannah present this TCA short about the 1980 cold case murder of Barbara Mae Tucker in Gresham Oregon. A case with witnesses that simply chose not to get involved, the murder of a 19-year-old College student went cold. Finally, after 41 years through DNA and genetic genealogy, police arrest 58-year-old Robert Plympton. Thanks for listening this...

Steve and Hannah delve into the four-part Documentary serious of the 1985 murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom, by their daughter and estranged lover. This is a twist of betrayal, and whodunit, he said she said that reveals several ugly truths about the couple’s daughter and her German lover. Listen as Steve and Hannah spend time dissecting evidence as a celebration to how they began their podcast.  ...

Steve and Hannah delve into the four-part Documentary serious of the 1985 murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom, by their daughter and estranged lover. This is a twist of betrayal, and whodunit, he said she said that reveals several ugly truths about the couple’s daughter and her German lover. Listen as Steve and Hannah spend time dissecting evidence as a celebration to how they began their podcast.  ...

Steve and Hannah delve into the four-part Documentary serious of the 1985 murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom, by their daughter and estranged lover. This is a twist of betrayal, and whodunit, he said she said that reveals several ugly truths about the couple’s daughter and her German lover. Listen as Steve and Hannah spend time dissecting evidence as a celebration to how they began their podcast.  ...

Steve and Hannah delve into the four-part Documentary serious of the 1985 murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom, by their daughter and estranged lover. This is a twist of betrayal, and whodunit, he said she said that reveals several ugly truths about the couple’s daughter and her German lover. Listen as Steve and Hannah spend time dissecting evidence as a celebration to how they began their podcast.  ...

After a thought-provoking question about raising your children in a world with crime, Steve and Hannah have a lengthy discussion on the unsolved 1989 random murder of Cynthia Kirk in her own driveway. Her husband married three months later, did not fit the description of the murderer, but sits in the backdrop of suspicion. Unsolved despite a partial NC license plate and a great description, listen...

34 years ago, Wichita Kansas police collected evidence they never through would solve a case that went cold. Listen this week as Steve and Hannah discuss the brutal murder of 20-year-old Krista Martin as it lay dormant until advances in technology aided in the identification of the suspect. Though the killer died in a 1999 car crash, investigators tracked down family members after genetic genealog...

This week Steven and Hannah return to Canada and talk about the 1975 rape and murder of Sharon Prior in Montreal Quebec. The case goes cold, then in 2019 it gets reignited. DNA is sent to a laboratory in the United States and tracks the suspect all the way to West Virginia. Learn how the suspect fled to Canda to escape prosecution of a 1970s rape, get extradited, spends 10 years in jail and then r...

Steve and Hannah dug into the Ontario, Canda archives and discuss the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop. Learn how Genetic Genealogy exonerated a Suspect who was wrongfully convicted in 1992 and solved the case 40 years later by using DNA experts in the wake of the Golden State Killer case that fast forwarded Genetic Genealogy as a staple of investigative inquiry. Thanks for listening this week! Sta...

Steve and Hannah absorb the details of the senseless and brutal murder of Laura Kempton, who was 21 years of in 1981 when her life was cut short. Listen as Steve praises the Portsmouth, NH Police Department for great investigative work. Hannah takes Steve through the crime scene and all the evidence collected, and details witness testimony to peel back the time line. Eventually cold, it was not un...

What did Bill McGuire do to deserve being killed at the hands of his wife by a 38 Revolver, cut up into pieces, placed in three suitcases and thrown in the water? Listen as Steven and Hannah discuss how Melanie MacGuire, used her medical knowledge to pinpointedly cut up her husband’s body after she shot him three times, and dispose of his parts in the water. Learn how forensics traced a hospital b...

This week Steven listens as Hannah details the 2001 murder of Sue Ellen Gunderson in Evanston, Wyoming by a serial rapist. Originally thought to have been the husband, investigators zeroed in on a serial rapist who confessed to being bored with sexual assault so he turned to robbery. When Sue Ellen attempted to call the police, he shot and killed her. Learn how DNA led to a conviction.   Thanks fo...

Welcome back! This week Steve and Hannah peel back the onion on the 2012 murder of Vincent Goslyn, a Fort Cambell Kentucky active-duty Solder. Listen as they discuss how the local police team up with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division to learn that Goslyn’s wife and her lover lured him to a secluded area where he was gunned down shortly after returning from a Deployment to Afghanistan. Ste...

Steven and Hannah talk at length about the 1984 murder of 14-year-old Barbara Rowen. Drugged, raped, and murdered by the drug addicted father of the girl she babysat; the murderer elicited the help of a friend to dispose of Barab’s body on the side of the road. Listen as Hannah tells Steven how cold case detectives confident in their ability solve the case 30 years later.   Thanks for listening th...

Arizona Canal Murders – 1992 Murders of 21-year-old Angela Brosso & 17-year-old Melanie Barnas Solved! Cold Case Solved – The Senseless Murder of Schoolteacher Christy Mirack ; Solved – 1996 Pricilla Lewis Murder Solved – 1996 Pricilla Lewis Murder Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podcast, we would lo...

Steve and Hannah discuss the random and senseless act of killing Ron Kirby in 2013 in Alexandria, VA. Listen as they detail how the suspect cowardly targeted the city’s wealthy neighborhood where Ron Kirby sat at home awaiting a plumber to fix a faucet. Hannah outlines how police linked Kirby’s murder to other cases through firearm ballistics that ultimately led to the arrest and conviction of the...

Steven and Hannah lead you through this episode full of suspense when they discuss the 1993 execution style murders of Richard LeDonne and Clayton Krause. Who barged in the hotel room and shot the both numerous times? Was it the Mob? The evidence suggests it was, but there is more so tune in and see where this week’s episode goes!     Thanks for listening this week!   Stay subscribed to True Crime...

This week, Steven and Hannah talk about a troubled 19-year-old who although lost in her ways did not deserve to get brutally murdered beyond recognition. Police secured strong DNA and only needed a match to solve this 2009 murder. No hits in CODIS, police turned to new technology a few years out from genealogy called “Snapshot Phenotyping.”     Thanks for listening this week!   Stay subscribed to...