True Crime New England

Take a trip to Boston, Massachusetts with Katie and Liz as they discuss the largest museum heist in history. In the early morning of March 18th, 1990, two security guards were working the overnight shift at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Suddenly, two police officers buzz in, claiming they are responding to a disturbance. Unfortunately, they weren't police officers... they were thieves. Afte...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the brutal murder of a 24-year-old Yale student. Studying for her doctorate in pharmacology, Annie Le was a smart spitfire of a girl who was engaged to her equally as intelligent fiancé. On September 8th, 2009, Annie left her office to head to the research lab on Amistad Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Surveillance cameras s...

On a warm morning in July of 1991, a frantic phone call comes into the Woonsocket, Rhode Island Police Department. The manager of a local Burger King has just arrived for a day of work when he stumbles on the dead bodies of two of his employees. 21-year-old Tammy Petrin and 24-year-old Jenner Villeda have been shot in the head, and nothing has been stolen from the building. Immediately, the police...

In this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz tell the story of an unsolved double-homicide from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In the early morning of a cold February day in 1991, a two-alarm fire broke out in Mariner's Village. The fire had spread from the back of the home and even to a neighbor's house. Inside were two deceased bodies- elderly roommates, Stella Bolton and James Mo...

Take a trip to East Middlebury, Vermont, where Katie and Liz discuss the mysterious discovery of three skeletons along an abandoned logging road in the year of 1935. Found by accident, investigators were horrified to learn that all three skeletons had clearly been murdered execution style- as there was a single bullet wound in each of their temples. Further analysis of the remains revealed that th...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, take a trip up north to New Sweden, Maine and learn about the details of coffee hour gone wrong. After a normal morning service in the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church church, the residents of New Sweden were enjoying baked goods and coffee when several people started to get violently ill. Very quickly, a total of sixteen people ended up in the hospit...

The town of Danvers, Massachusetts was filled with shock and horror on October 22nd, 2013, when 24-year-old math teacher Colleen Ritzer was murdered by one of her students. 14-year-old Philip Chism, who had recently moved from Tennessee, followed Colleen into a bathroom after school, brutally raped her, and slashed her throat 16 times. Cameras placed around the school captured Philip, bloody from...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about one of the most vicious serial killers in Connecticut - William Devin Howell, a man who started getting into trouble in his young adulthood, racking up charges of all kinds and using drugs and alcohol to supplement his already subpar life. In 2003, he began a killing spree that would result in the death of 7 women. While he...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they tell of a tragic story that happened in Providence, Rhode Island. It was mid-March of 2010 when 23-year-old Greg Hart left his Dedham, Massachusetts home to hang out with his friends in Providence. Greg was celebrating his first job using his degree, which he received the year prior from the University of Massachusetts Amh...

In this week's episode of True Crime New England, join Katie and Liz as they talk about one of the most violent crimes to ever take place in New Hampshire history. In the small, relatively safe town of Mont Vernon, a little girl's life is changed forever when a group of 4 teenage boys breaks into her home. 11-year-old Jaimie Cates is stabbed 18 times, with a puncture wound to her lung, an almost f...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz head to Montgomery, Vermont to discuss the very famous disappearance of 17-year-old Brianna Maitland. A seemingly normal Friday in March of 2004 turned into a nightmare for her friends and family when her pale green Oldsmobile was found backed into an abandoned building just a mile from her workplace. Inside the car were two unopened...

Join Katie and Liz in this week's episode of True Crime New England, as they travel to Auburn, Maine and discuss the horrific case of the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Angela Palmer's life came to a disturbing end when her mother's live-in boyfriend, John Lane, severely beat her and then proceeded to cook her in the oven. Lane claimed that Angela had turned into "Lucifer" and that she was going to...

Take a trip with Katie and Liz on this week's episode as they discuss the deadliest plane crash in New England history. It was a foggy July morning in 1973 when Delta Airlines Flight 723 took off from Burlington, Vermont. A quick pitstop was made in Manchester, New Hampshire and the total number of people onboard became 83 passengers and 6 crew members. Although a brief trip, Flight 723 was set to...

Leah Ulbrich was a young mom of two who had lived a short and troubled life. She had been in and out of rehab and found herself divorced, without custody of her children, and struggling with drug addiction all by the age of 24. On this early October morning in 1995, witnesses in Hartford, Connecticut see Leah in a car with an unidentified male when the two start arguing. After what appears to be a...

Join Katie and Liz this week on a troubling journey to Bristol, Rhode Island, where they discuss the case of the mysterious death of a freshman at Roger Williams University. 18-year-old Bryan Nisenfeld was a quiet, introverted guy who enjoyed poetry, reading, and listening to music. It was known to his family that he was struggling with being away from home for the first time, and that the demands...

The early morning hours of April 21st, 2019, proved to be life changing for the family and friends of 29-year-old Michael McClain. Out for the evening in Nashua, New Hampshire, Michael witnessed an altercation between a few acquaintances that occurred outside of the bar he was at. When the police showed up to break up the situation and the crowd dispersed- Michael was gone. He made a concerning ph...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Liz and Katie talk about the horrendous crime that was committed by a 37-year-old, mentally ill man by the name of Mark Bechard. On the evening of January 27th, 1996 in Waterville, Maine, a service at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament had just ended when Bechard broke into the convent in which nine nuns lived and were going about their evening....

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the mysterious murder of a couple in Jay, Vermont. It was a Thursday in September of 1984 when a friend walked into the Hanel's chalet to find them both dead from 8 to 11 gunshot wounds each. Family, friends and even local law enforcement were confused as to who would do this to the couple, and why. Theories were thrown aro...

This week on True Crime New England, join Katie and Liz as they discuss an extremely disturbing unsolved case out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Between the years of 1988 and 1989, nine women turned up dead along Interstate 195 and Route 240. These women were all strangled, and had lived similar lifestyles, including the fact that they were all sex workers. In addition, two more women are assumed...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz go over the details of the fascinating case of the exoneration of James Tillman. After the brutal attack of a 26-year-old woman in Hartford, Connecticut in January of 1984, eyewitness testimony and perhaps racial bias led to a false accusation. Despite denying any involvement in the assault, James Tillman is convicted of several charg...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the extremely suspicious death of Lori Malloy- a 30-year-old mom living in Rhode Island, who was found naked in her apartment with no outward signs of injury. The scene was bizarre; she was surrounded by slices of bread, there was food and two empty glasses on the table, and the whole apartment was strewn with clumps of hai...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Liz and Katie talk about the harrowing kidnapping and ultimate survival of 15-year-old Abigail Hernandez in Conway, New Hampshire. A normal walk home from school in 2013 turned into 9 long months of being held captive in a storage container. Between countless sexual assaults, horrific tortures like being tazed and chained up, and earning the trust...

In the first episode of 2022, Liz and Katie take a trip to the Isles of Shoals- a cluster of nine islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. Also known as the Smuttynose Axe Murders, this gruesome attack is an infamous piece of New England history. In 1873, Norwegian immigrants John and Maren Hontvet found themselves comfortable with their island living, thanks to John's fishing business an...

In episode 25 of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the case of the murder of Jerri Ann Richard, a 4-month-old baby girl who was seemingly taken right from her crib in her family's apartment in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Her parents, Ralph and Donna Richard, claim to have nothing to do with her disappearance, and even make a televised plea for the perpetrator to bring their baby girl home...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz focus on something horrible that was brought to light in 2002 by the Boston Globe. It involves at least 100 priests in the greater Boston area alone who were continuously molesting and assaulting young boys. When the story broke, it was discovered that this wasn't just a Massachusetts problem- but one that the whole world shares. The...