True Crime New England

It's another mini-episode for True Crime New England's case profiles series, and today Katie and Liz continue to share tragic tales of people of color whose stories just did not get enough media attention. Katie kicks the episode off by telling of the 2020 murder of 14-year-old Jose Nunez, who seemingly vanished from his Bridgeport, Connecticut home. Jose's strangled body was found soon after. The...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz are going way back to the 18th century to tell the story of the last woman executed in New Hampshire. Ruth Blay, an unwed schoolteacher, became pregnant in the year of 1768 and the town of South Hampton was lit up with gossip. During this time, it was not only a scandal to have a pregnancy out of wedlock, but a punishable crime. In th...

It's True Crime New England's 2nd birthday, and you're invited to the party! On this special episode, Katie and Liz recap the past year, with statistics, fun highlights, and fan favorites! Join the girls as they share the growth of the podcast, and bring back a popular portion of last year's episode: the superlatives! Make sure you listen to the end for a special announcement!

Join Katie and Liz on the 2-year anniversary episode of True Crime New England! For the big event, the girls decided it was time for a monster of a case - The Connecticut River Valley Killer! From 1978 to 1987, seven women in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire were found brutally murdered. The women shared similar characteristics in their lives and their deaths, including al...

Join Katie and Liz on the 22nd installment of the case profile mini-episode series. On today's episode, Liz starts off by sharing the details of the murder of Tremaine Newton, who, in 2009, was found dead in his car near a commuter parking lot in Connecticut. Initially believed to be an accident, police discovered that his injuries clearly didn't line up with a car crash. Then, Katie shares the st...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they go back in time to Memorial Day weekend of 1988 in Central Falls, Rhode Island. 7-year-old Michelle Norris was playing on a local playground with her brothers and her cousins when suddenly... she vanished. The kids who were playing with her didn't see anything out of the ordinary- there was no struggle, or screaming, or a...

Tune into the 21st installment of True Crime New England's Case Profiles, a mini-series highlighting underrepresented people-of-color in New England whose murders and disappearances often go unsolved. This week, Katie starts off by telling the devastatingly mysterious disappearance, and eventual murder, of Denise Hart out of Vermont in 2015. Despite the discovery of her body nearly a year later, p...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz recount a horrifying story of two well respected anesthesiologists out of Boston who were brutally murdered for absolutely no reason. In early May of 2017, police received a phone call from a man saying he had received frantic texts from a friend that there was a gunman in his penthouse condo and that it was a serious situation. When...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they discuss the horrifyingly disturbing case of serial child molester Dr. George Reardon. Over the span of thirty years, between an Albany, New York hospital, and St. Francis Hospital in Connecticut, Dr. Reardon tricked families and children into participating in a study regarding child development. Several complaints came in...

Join Katie and Liz on the twentieth installment of their case profiles mini episode series. To kick things off, Liz tells the tragic stabbing death of 16-year-old Devon Hodo, who was killed in Taunton, Massachusetts in 2008. Despite being a part of a large brawl, no one has ever come forward with information as to who killed him. Then, Katie tells of the tragic murder of Santa Melendez, whose body...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the tragic events of May 14th, 2011, in which a 6-year-old boy was killed and disposed of on a rural road in South Berwick, Maine. After eyewitness descriptions and posting pictures, the police were finally able to apprehend the killer of the little boy... his mother, Julianne McCrery. Coming from Texas, Julianne had made t...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz dive into the horrific murder of a 15-year-old girl from Barre, Vermont. On October 25th of 2000, DeAndra Florucci left her high school with a friend and an older man named Donald Baumgartner. The friend witnessed DeAndra leave to go to a man named Dana Martin's house, and waited for her to return. When hours went by and DeAndra had n...

On the nineteenth installment of True Crime New England's case profile mini-series, Katie and Liz tell two tragic stories that will leave you wondering. First, Katie tells listeners about the murder of 19-year-old mom, Jocelyn McCready, whose body was found in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1995. Jocelyn had been strangled, and her murder remains unsolved. Then, Liz tells of the mysterious disappearan...

This week on True Crime New England, Katie and Liz share the details of a brutal attack on two young women, which ultimately ends in the permanent disability of one, and the death of another. The horrific crime was possibly witnessed by one person: the three year old daughter of one of the victims. After ten years of the case running cold, an arrest is made based on a lot of circumstantial evidenc...

This week's episode of True Crime New England involves a case of a double murder with a side of some moral gray areas mixed in. Katie and Liz tell the story of the troubled and angsty Stephen Marshall, who grew up moving around the country and even to Canada, all while expressing his hatred for governmental structure and women. In April of 2006, Stephen decided to take justice into his own hands a...

Join Katie and Liz for the eighteenth installment of True Crime New England's case profile mini-episodes. Liz kicks the episode off by sharing the senseless murder of Alvis Dexter James, a Massachusetts entertainer who was shot during a singing competition at a bar in 2003. Despite there being a large amount of witnesses, his murderer has never been caught. Then, Katie tells listeners about the mu...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's harrowing episode of True Crime New England as they tackle a tough story, involving blatant racism, suppressed evidence, and a brutal crime. In December of 1980, three women were attacked and raped in their Brighton, Massachusetts apartment. When they went to police and described their attacker, they had no idea that the police officers had a personal vendetta aga...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz share a tragic and mysterious tale of two friends who made a poor decision that ultimately led to a scary ending. In May of 2018, friends Spencer Mugford and Sofia Mckenna took off on a mastless sailboat they got from The University of Connecticut Avery Point campus in order to venture out to the New London Ledge Lighthouse. Their jou...

Join Katie and Liz on the 17th installment of True Crime New England's case profile mini-episodes. Katie starts to show off by sharing the story of the disappearance of Ralph Jean-Marie, a case sent in by a listener. Ralph disappeared in April of 2020 in Barre, Vermont, early in the morning after leaving everything he owned behind. Investigators do believe his disappearance is suspicious, but he h...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz tell the horrible tale of murderer Seth Bader out of Stratham, New Hampshire in 1996. After divorcing his wife, Vicki, and taking custody of their children, Seth began a series of attacks and harassment in an attempt to squash her spirit and lead her to suicide. Eventually, he got the help of one of their adopted sons and two adult fr...

Join Katie and Liz this week on True Crime New England as they take you back over 100 years to Bennington, Vermont in 1902. At only 15, Mary married her husband, 12 years her senior, and instantly knew the married life wasn't for her. After losing their only child in a "freak accident", as well as a suspicious poisoning incident, Mary's husband moved away to New York and she refused to go with him...

This week, True Crime New England has it's sixteenth installment of the Case Profiles mini series, highlighting cases involving people of color in New England whose stories don't get enough media attention. Liz starts the episode off by telling of the mysterious disappearance of Kristopher Lewis out of Boston, Massachusetts. The 13-year-old vanished after getting off the bus in 2014. Then, Katie t...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they navigate the tragic death of 10-year-old Christine Cole from Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1988. Upon the release of a deck of cold case cards in 2018, detectives began to look into the little girl's death with advanced DNA testing technology and put all their efforts into one suspect: a legal immigrant from Cape Verde named...

This week's episode of True Crime New England takes you just below the border of Canada, in Chain of Ponds, Maine, during labor day weekend of 1975. The Newton family, made up of mom Jill, dad Ron, 6-year-old Kimberly and 4-year-old Kurt, took a trip with three other families to celebrate one last weekend outdoors before the fall really set in. On the last day of their fun-filled camping adventure...

Join Katie and Liz as they tackle the fifteenth mini-episode in the Case Profiles series! Katie kicks the episode off by telling of the very alarming and bizarre disappearance of Awilda Morrero from Enfield, Connecticut. Awilda left her home without shoes or a jacket, in the pouring rain, and was never seen again. Then, Liz finishes up the episode by telling the brutal murder of aspiring rapper Ga...