True Crime New England

This week's episode of True Crime New England involves a tragic double homicide out of Windsor, Connecticut in 1996. 54-year-old Champaben was being attacked by an unknown perpetrator, having her hands and face bound with duct tape, when her 32-year-old daughter Anita arrived. Sensing something was wrong, Anita quickly sent her 2 young children out of the house to safety. It was then that the assa...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Liz and Katie find themselves back in Vermont, discussing the last execution to take place in the state's history. A young, unemployed father, Donald Demag, is short on money and having trouble providing for his pregnant wife and his child- so what does he decide to do? Well, rob and murder an elderly shop owner of course! After being sent to jail...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Liz and Katie talk about a very important case that is close to their hearts. The story of Tammy Belanger, an 8-year-old girl from Exeter, New Hampshire, starts and ends in a mystery. She was walking to school on a normal November morning in 1984, when suddenly she disappeared, never to be seen again. To this day, her loved ones are still looking f...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about a hate crime that took place in Bangor, Maine. It was a warm night on August 4th, 1984 when 23-year-old Charlie Howard was walking home from a church event with his boyfriend, Roy Ogden. While crossing the Kenduskeag River Bridge, a car full of teenagers pulls up and begins to harass and give chase to the two men. Charlie,...

To cap off our Spooky Halloween October episodes, Liz and Katie tackle one of New England's most famous cases- Lizzie Borden! While her story is known by most people through a short rhyme, there is a lot more to tell about the demise of her father and step-mother. On the morning of August 4th, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were both found dead: they had been whacked with a hatchet 18 and 11 times r...

On week 3 of True Crime New England's spooky October episodes, Liz and Katie talk about a case that has remained in the public eye for 30 years- "The Devil Made Me Do It"! When 11-year-old David Glatzel begins to show signs of being possessed (seeing a demon-like figure, kicking and biting, and having convulsions) his older sister Debbie, her boyfriend Arne Johnson, and the whole family are worrie...

In the second episode of the spooky Halloween specials for the month of October, Liz and Katie talk about a legend local to their stomping grounds... Eunice "Goody" Cole. Traveling from England with her husband in the mid 1600s, Goody Cole was disliked by her community for being too bold and standing up for what she believed in. She also swore like a sailor and that was just no good to her Puritan...

To kick off the month of October, Katie and Liz dive right into one of the spookiest and craziest events in New England history... The Salem Witch Trials. This tragic cascade of injustice all starts in early 1692, when two young girls begin to show signs of "bewitchment", eventually leading to a state-wide panic of the supernatural. With everyone pointing fingers at even the slightest flaw, more t...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the fateful evening of August 30th, 1990, where a road rage incident in Rhode Island left a young man dead, for no reason. 27-year-old Adam Emery was with his wife and another couple in his 1985 Ford Thunderbird when it was sideswiped. In a fit of hot rage, Emery chased the car he believed to have hit him, which was being d...

Episode 14 of True Crime New England involves the devastating and heartbreaking case of Brooke Bennett, a 12-year-old girl from Randolph, VT who fell victim to her uncle, Michael Jacques, in an elaborate scheme. Katie and Liz talk about the horrid actions of registered sex offender Michael Jacques and how he had singlehandedly groomed another young relative for the past 5 years, ultimately making...

In this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz cover a case that is all too familiar in America... a mass shooting. In March of 1998, a disgruntled employee of the Connecticut State Lottery, Matthew Beck, thought the best way to deal with his grievances at his workplace would be to shoot, stab, and kill the 4 superiors and advisors who dealt with his complaints. After just a few m...

In this episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz head back to Maine and talk about the absolutely devastating case of Constance Fisher. A young woman who had spent all of her life dreaming to become a mother and a housewife, Constance found herself married to a very nice man and having 3 children in quick succession. Unfortunately, a diagnosis of severe postpartum depression, which turned...

This week, Katie and Liz take a step back from murder and despair and discuss a case that hits very close to home: The Incident at Exeter! In 1965, 18-year-old Norman Muscarello is hitchhiking his way home from his girlfriends house when he suddenly is overtaken with bright red lights that blind him and frankly, freak him out. After hiding in a ditch on the side of the road watching the unidentifi...

On this weeks episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the evil and disgusting crimes of Gary Lee Schaefer, a man who terrorized the Springfield, Vermont area from 1979-1983. During his reign of malicious terror, Gary was responsible for the death of at least 2 girls, and the rape and attempted kidnapping of another. Tune in as this horrible man's dark history is discovered, with t...

On a summer evening in 1964, beloved father and local businessman Louis DeFusco of Rhode Island went out on a marina in Warwick to go fishing. That was the last time anyone saw him alive, as 12 days later his body appeared floating in the Narragansett Bay. Although his death was ruled a suicide, the circumstances were extremely suspicious. Join Katie and Liz as they discuss the aspects of this biz...

In this episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz cover the horrible and unfathomable acts of violence against the Petit Family. The perpetrators, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, met in a halfway house and began plotting home invasions both for personal gain, and for entertainment. On the night of July 23rd, 2007, Komisarjevsky and Hayes entered the home of the Petit Family, looking...

On Episode 7 of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the tragic discovery of a little girl found in a trash bag, off the coast of Deer Island, Massachusetts in June of 2015. After months of begging the public for any knowledge of the identity of this child, police receive a tip that leads to an arrest and the identification of a life lost way too soon.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram:...

Robert Joyal was an 18-year-old boy living in Gorham, ME who loved football, his friends, and his family. After some troubling teenage years, Robert was working on turning his life around and moving to Portland, ME with a friend to get a fresh start as he was graduating high school. In an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Robert and his friends were ambushed in the parking lot of a Denny's by...

Join Katie and Liz this week as they take a trip back in time to the early 1900s in Rutland, VT - a place where fairs and aviation tricks were a huge hit. But with entertainment comes tragedy, as one particular day at the fairgrounds leads to the death of 4 people, in front of a crowd of 30,000 onlookers. As details are uncovered about this day gone wrong, Katie and Liz discover several more insta...

In Episode 4 of True Crime New England, we take a long look at manipulator and gold digger Sheila LaBarre, who made her living by mooching off of vulnerable men she sought out and targeted. On top of multiple allegations of being physically abusive to her partners, Sheila is eventually imprisoned for the brutal murders of two men in Epping, New Hampshire, which were only discovered due to a victim...

In the third episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the gruesome murders committed by Craig Price, a teenager who had a troubled history of drugs and theft. Through evidence he sloppily left at the scene of his second, extremely disturbing crime, Craig Price was apprehended and sent to jail at just fifteen years old. The trouble doesn't stop in prison, as Price racks up disciplin...

In the second episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz take a look at Daniel Webb, a troubled man who heinously murders local business woman Diane Gellenbeck in Connecticut. With a history of violent assault and rape, Daniel Webb is apprehended for the murder and sent to jail. Tune in to hear about how one guy can cause so much trouble, and end the life of a beloved woman, in just a few mi...

In the first episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz cover the disappearance of 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray, who went missing after a car accident in the woods of New Hampshire. The circumstances leading up to when Maura vanished are suspicious, which only leads to speculation from family, police, and true crime fans.  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @truecrimene

New England is not as quiet as you may think...