True Crime New England

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz are throwing it back to 18th century Connecticut and bringing you into the life of female serial killer Lydia Sherman. Over the course of her reign of terror, Lydia found her way into the lives of several men, leaving each of them convulsing and foaming at the mouth from arsenic poisoning when they no longer served their purpose to he...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the horrible case of a greedy, selfish man who did the unthinkable. On July 4th, 2003, Manuel Gehring was seen arguing with his children at a fireworks display in Concord, New Hampshire. He then put them in his van and was not seen until a week later when police tracked him 3,200 miles away in California. The only problem was...

Join Katie and Liz on another installment of their mini-episode series, in which they discuss cases involving people of color who just do not get enough attention from media or law enforcement. Katie kicks off the episode by sharing the details of the senseless murder of grandmother Deanna Pugh out of Hartford, Connecticut in 2007. Then, Liz tells the story of the mysterious murder of 17-year-old...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about an infamous Vermont case that is sure to give you whiplash from how many twists and turns there are. In 1978, mother Grace Reapp and her 5-year-old daughter Gracie Reapp went missing from their Jericho, Vermont home. What followed is an extremely suspicious trail following estranged husband of Grace, Michael Reapp, who beha...

Katie and Liz spend this week’s episode telling the details of a complicated case involving two teenagers whose lives were tragically cut short, both involving the same man. In 1999, 15-year-old Jennifer Rivera witnessed the murder of her 17-year-old neighbor Hector Feliciano and was able to accurately identify the killer. When this became public knowledge and the killer had her name and location,...

Tune in to the 38th installment of the mini-episode Case Profile series, where the girls highlight stories involving crime against people of color in New England. First, Liz kicks off the episode by sharing the murder of 18-year-old Jaden Christopher Salois in 2019, who was shot and killed at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts home. Then, Katie gives the details of the brutal murder of young mother Shana...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz take you back to 19th century Maine for a brutal murder. One October night in 1856, weathered housewife Mary Knight went to bed for the last time, as by morning her throat would be slit ear to ear. The question is, of course, whodunnit? Tune in to hear the details of the crime, the investigation, and the conclusion of the murder of Ma...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, the girls talk about the story behind Netflix’s popular docuseries, “Trial 4”, which tells the story of a young man accused of a crime he did not commit. In 1993, corrupt Boston Police Officer John Mulligan was shot in the face while sleeping in his car. With the help of his equally corrupt colleagues, 19-year-old Sean Ellis was a scapegoat for the...

Join Katie and Liz on the 37th installment of their mini-episode series, where they cover unheard of cases of people of color who simply do not get the attention they deserve. Katie starts the episode off by sharing the mysterious story of Oronoque John Doe- a mostly skeletonized man that was found in Connecticut in 1992 who has still not been identified. Then, Liz tells the details of the unfortu...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, head to Connecticut with Katie and Liz as they tell a true horror story involving possibly the world's worst landlord. Geoffrey Kent Ferguson, known for his threatening demeanor, was a one-chance only kind of guy, so if he saw a problem, he was going to take his own form of justice. This resulted in the 1995 murders of 5 tenants, a group of close-k...

This week's episode of True Crime New England is most certainly going to give you whiplash, as this case has a ton of twists and turns that'll only lead to more questions. Katie and Liz dive into the mysterious death of Somersworth, New Hampshire nurse, Irene Copeland, who was found dead from an apparent accidental overdose in 1950. But thirty years later, a trunk is discovered, with horrifying co...

Join Katie and Liz on the 36th installment of the mini-episode Case Profiles series. To start things off, Liz tells the tragic story of the 2018 murder of Reynaldo Pena, a young man who was shot and killed over a minor incident of road rage. Then, Katie ends the episode by telling the intriguing tale of identifying a set of skeletal remains found in 1999 by a factory worker in Waterbury, Connectic...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, join Katie and Liz as they talk about the tragic murder of passionate and strong-willed Michelle Gardner-Quinn, who was murdered after being separated from friends early in the morning on October 7th, 2006, in Burlington, Vermont. Surveillance footage showed her walking with a man, and phone calls made from his phone directly led police to the kill...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz venture into a story that has so many twists and turns, it will leave any listener with whiplash. Russell and Elaine Yates were high school sweethearts who, after nearly 20 years of marriage, completed their family when their second daughter was born in 1983. It wasn't too long after this that tensions started to rise, an argument tur...

It's the very first mini episode of 2024! Can you believe it? In this Case Profile, Katie and Liz start the new year off with two, very sad stories. First, Katie tells of the details of the murder of Joaquim Perry in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1975. Then, Liz shares the story of the brutal slaying of 73-year-old William Alvarado in his Willimantic, Connecticut apartment in 2016. Anyone with any...

Happy 2024! To kick off the new year, Katie and Liz tackle one of the most highly requested cases over the years: the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds from Waterville, Maine. Ayla was in the custody of her father, Justin DiPietro, when she was reported missing from his home on December 17th of 2011. While Ayla has never been found, it is largely believed that her father killed her and d...

Say goodbye to 2023 with Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they cover one of the most infamous tales in the history of the region.... the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire! Thanks to no safety regulations, a greedy man, and flammable island-themed decor, a packed, Boston nightclub filled with over 1,000 patrons experienced a tragedy one fateful night in 1942. In the end...

It's the last Case Profile episode of 2023! On this installment, Katie and Liz are ending the year with some tough cases that are sure to make you angry and sad. First, Liz tells the story of the murder of Curtis Ashford Jr., who was only 15-years-old when he was shot in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 2022. Then, Katie rounds out the episode by telling of the murder of Zaniya Wright, a 13-year-old g...

Join Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England as they discuss the confusing and tragic murder of loving mother Connie Dabate out of Ellington, Connecticut. According to her husband, Richard Dabate, Connie had been shot to death by an unknown intruder. It wasn’t until a few years later when the truth came out, and the real perpetrator was a lot closer than anyone realized. Tha...

Join Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England as they share the terrible details of the heartbreaking murder of 11-year-old Celina Cass from West Stewartstown, New Hampshire. In 2011, Celina disappeared from her apartment that she shared with her mom, her step-dad, her sister, and a 22-year-old son of her mom’s ex-boyfriend. Nearly a week after Celina disappeared, her body wa...

Join Katie and Liz on the 33rd installment of their mini episode series. Katie starts off the episode by sharing the details of the 1984 disappearance and subsequent murder of bar owner Tillie King out of Providence, Rhode Island. Then, Liz shares the story of missing 21-year-old Stephon Sou, who disappeared from his Dracut, Massachusetts home in 2019. Both cases remain unsolved. Anyone with any i...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they walk through the details of an insanely complex story revolving around one woman. In August of 2015, well-loved Vermont social worker, Lara Sobel, was gunned down outside her job. She had been shot and killed by a woman who held a vendetta against her for working her custody case. What everyone didn't know was that Lara wa...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the horrible case of murderer James Soares Jr. In 2008, a woman reported her sister and brother-in-law missing after they failed to attend a family reunion. Once the police began to look into the disappearance of the couple, they spoke to their own child, James, and soon made the discovery that the missing couple had been righ...

Join Katie and Liz of True Crime New England for another case profile mini-episode. This week, Liz starts off the storytelling by giving the details of the disappearance of Jerry Dolphin of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1994, Jerry Dolphin suddenly disappeared. Then, Katie tells the case of the death of Sherrian Howe in the Connecticut River in May of 2022. Sherrian had gone missing from her Manchest...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz take a look at a very scary hostage situation that took place on Halloween morning of 2008 in Stockton Springs, Maine. 55-year-old Randall Hofland went on the run after pulling a gun on a police officer at a traffic stop and showed up at Stockton Springs Elementary School a week later. He brandished a gun and held several students hos...