True Crime New England

It's the last week of October, which means this is the final installment of True Crime New England's Spooky Halloween Extravaganza! In this episode, Katie and Liz bring you to 1979-1980 in Fall River, Massachusetts- a time when the "Satanic Panic" was plaguing the country. During the span of a few short months, three young sex workers in town would be brutally murdered. Due to the violent nature o...

On the second installment of True Crime New England's spooky-themed episodes for the month of October, Katie and Liz take a short walk on the paranormal side of true crime. The haunts of this story take place on a small island off the coast of Biddeford, Maine, where a bizarre history may continue to take a toll on visitors to this day. One fateful day in 1896, a drunk fisherman who was renting a...

This week's installment of Case Profiles involves two people from different parts of Massachusetts that met an unsettling end. Liz tells the story of the murder of 34-year-old Lineada Olivera, a mom of 11 whose remains were found scattered off Route 122 in September of 2007. Her cause of death is unknown, and police are questioning whether she died as a result of drugs or at the hands of a serial...

It's October, and you know what that means- True Crime New England is back with spooky themed episodes for the entire month! Join Katie and Liz in their first installment of this year's Spooky Halloween Extravaganza VIP Event!! The girls take you through the entirety of New England as they discuss the mass hysteria surrounding tuberculosis in the 18th through 19th centuries. All six states of our...

Join Katie and Liz in Exeter, New Hampshire this week as they discuss the largest Hepatitis C outbreak in the history of the United States. Traveling medical technician David Kwiatkowski was assigned to several hospitals between 2003 and 2011, from Michigan to Arizona to New Hampshire. During these years, David would consistently steal syringes filled with fentanyl (meant for his patients in the c...

Join Katie and Liz in the Case Profiles Mini Series, where every other Sunday, they release a mini episode detailing crime stories surrounding people of color who just did not get enough media attention. In this week's installment, Katie tells the heartbreaking story of the murder of Khisean Desvarieux, a brand-new father who was gunned down in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Liz tells the confusing case...

Listen in as Katie and Liz take you back to 1957 Vermont, where a 47-year-old farmer goes missing on New Year's Eve. Orville Gibson, while a successful dairy farmer, was not very popular around town; when he supposedly gets into an altercation with his well-loved farmhand on Christmas Eve, people are even less fond of him. When he mysteriously disappears while doing his barn chores, the police are...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, come to Maine with Katie and Liz as they share the senseless murder of 14-year-old Theresa Duran. An animal lover, athlete, and all around good friend, Theresa dreamed of being a veterinary assistant and enjoyed going to school. In July of 1984, Theresa didn't come home from a weekend at a girlfriend's house, and her parents became extremely concer...

This week's installment of Case Profiles is one that is both personal and especially tragic. Liz tells the story of 14-year-old Tyriek Keyes, who was gunned down in Newhallville, Connecticut. Tyriek was a giving, big-hearted dreamer who loved to dance and hang out with his friends. Additionally, Katie tells the story of the murder of John Frazier, a 17-year-old boy who was gunned down in front of...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they talk about one of the most infamous unsolved cases in Massachusetts history. In July of 1974, the discovery of the decomposing body of a nude woman in the Race Point Dunes of Provincetown caught the attention of not only the locals, but people all over the country. The woman had been beaten over the head, sexually assaulte...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss a case from the 60s that encapsulates a very real and terrifying concept that is unfortunately prevalent to today: illegal, unsafe abortions. Native of Connecticut, Geraldine Santoro was a loving mother of two daughters who was in an abusive relationship with a man who was violent and physical with her. The couple lived in Cal...

On the third installment of the mini episode series, Katie and Liz continue to share cases of people of color in New England who have been murdered, gone missing, or even had a mysterious death. This week, Katie tells of the uncertain death of Nannette Oleson, a Native American woman, and Liz talks about Tracy Monteiro, a man who was murdered in his own driveway. Anyone with any information on the...

Join Katie and Liz in Woonsocket, Rhode Island as they discuss the horrid and brutal crimes of Jeffrey Mailhot. Between the years of 2003 and 2004, Jeffrey silently terrorized the town, murdering three sex workers and attempting to take the lives of even more. It wasn't until mid-July in 2004 when an anonymous tip came in, pointing police in the direction of a young woman who had survived being ch...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz take a look at two murders from Portsmouth, New Hampshire that happened in the 80s, which have some seriously mysterious connections. In September of 1981, 23-year-old Laura Kempton was found dead in her apartment. A little over a year later, in October of 1982, 20-year-old Tammy Little was found dead in HER apartment. The two young w...

In the second installment of the mini-episodes here at True Crime New England, both the girls share heartbreaking stories about the death of young men. Liz tells the story of Juan Espinal, an 18-year-old boy from Lawrence, Massachusetts who was shot and killed in November of 2017. Katie then tells the story of Edelmiro Roman, who met a similar fate as Juan. Taking place in Rhode Island, 16-year-ol...

At the end of August in 2011, the entire east coast was battling the heavy rains and winds of Hurricane Irene. Before long, the storm made its way up to New England and continued its path of destruction. Roads were flooded, homes were destroyed, and entire towns were without power for days. For 17-year-old Marble Arvidson's family, the storm was the last thing on their minds. The same day the hurr...

This week on True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about a horrifying scene discovered after a flood of phone calls came into the Oakland, Maine Police Department in November of 2015. Over ten frantic calls were placed, several of which included two women who were stuck inside the apartment of the rampage. After coming onto the scene, police discovered a triple murder-suicide, carried out by...

In an all new series of mini-episodes, Katie and Liz tell the short tales of murder and disappearances surrounding people of color in the New England states. For whatever reason, the POC community does not get nearly as much media attention as their white counterparts, and their cases have a higher rate of not being solved for this exact reason. In an effort to shed light on these crimes that dese...

In late July of 2009, at a Worcester, Massachusetts apartment complex, tenants complained to their landlord of a foul smell. Upon checking out the cause of this odor, he discovered a horrifying scene. 23-year-old Darlene Hayes had been murdered- she was wrapped in bedding, shoved in a closet, and left to decompose in the heat for 4 days. Also, Darlene was 8-months pregnant... but her fetus was mis...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz tell the mysterious and heartbreaking story of a little girl who simply vanished. In July of 1973, Janice Pockett was 7 years old and living with her family in Tolland, Connecticut. On this fateful day, she took her first ever solo bike ride with the intention of collecting a dead butterfly she had stashed in the woods a few days prio...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss Providence, Rhode Island serial killer Raymond Lassor. While his crimes spanned only over the summer of 1984, the marks he left behind on families and the community were everlasting. In the short time of his brutal killing spree, Raymond killed 3 women. All 3 of these victims were strangled as well as beaten and left in vulner...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz bring you to Rochester, New Hampshire in 1996, where the Dingman Family lived. Vance and Eve, both 40, are raising two boys- Robert, who is 17, and Jeffrey, who is 15. On the outside, Vance and Eve were loving, devoted parents who gave their sons a good life. To the boys, the strict rules, the set-in-stone curfew, and the backlash for...

It's True Crime New England's 1st anniversary! To celebrate, Katie and Liz dive into highlights and memories from the past year of podcasting. This includes statistics, listener favorites, and even a fun segment detailing the best of the absolute worst. Liz pays a special tribute to her late grandmother, which will make you cry, and Katie tells an unforgettable joke, which will make you chuckle. C...

Join Katie and Liz for True Crime New England's 50th episode as they discuss a very mysterious story in Vermont. Between the years of 1945 to 1950, five people went missing in the same vicinity that was eventually coined "The Bennington Triangle" due to the bizarre nature of the disappearances. Each of these strange stories involved people wearing red on a fall day, and they were typically near ot...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz tell the heartbreaking story of a murder that took place in Kennebunk, Maine. 18-year-old Mary Tanner, known as a free spirit, was entering her senior year of high school. She had just recently found out she was pregnant with her boyfriend of over a year, and was excited about the pregnancy. On a warm July night in 1978, Mary attended...