True Crime New England

Join Katie and Liz on yet another installment of their mini-episode case profile series! Today, the girls tell of two unsolved cases. First, Katie talks about the incomprehensible and heartbreaking murder of 17-year-old Jalajhia Finklea, who was killed by a man she knew in October of 2020. Her body was taken hundreds of miles away before it was discovered. Then, Liz talks about the confusing story...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss an unhinged case involving a man who committed murder on two separate occasions, 2 decades apart. Robert Breton had an extremely unforgiving childhood, with a mentally ill mother and an alcoholic father, who one day, snapped at his son and found that to be the cause of his demise. After Robert was found guilty of manslaughter...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz take you to Etna, New Hampshire where they review the case of a truly pointless and brutal crime. In January of 2001, Half and Susanne Zantop, two kind and brilliant professors at Dartmouth College, were stabbed to death in their home after letting in two teenage boys who claimed to be doing a survey. After discovering several items o...

Join Katie and Liz for another installment of their case profile mini-episode series! This week, Liz starts off the show by retelling the difficult life of Santino Kuang, a man born in war-torn Sudan who fought extremely hard to immigrate to America. After living in the US for only a short while, Santino was found stabbed to death in Springfield, Massachusetts. Then, Katie tells the very troubling...

Join Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England as they navigate a historical story that involves murder, gossip, and an exoneration. All the way back in 1812, Russell Colvin of Manchester, Vermont, got in a heated altercation with his brother-in-laws, Stephen and Jesse Boorn. According to Russell’s young son, who witnessed the fight, the brothers attacked his father and left h...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the tragic and senseless murders of teenagers Frank and Charles Sherman and their friend Jeremy Bullock. The young men, plus two more friends, were working on their respective cars in Wilson’s Auto Sales garage on the evening of April 13th, 1993 in Foster, Rhode Island. It was around midnight when suddenly a gunman came in and...

It's another installment of True Crime New England's mini-episode case profile series! First, Katie starts off the episode by talking about two murders: Sonia Blanco and Evelyn Cruz. Both Sonia and Evelyn were found just barely a mile and a half from each other on the same fateful morning in February of 1993 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Their murders remain unsolved. Liz then tells the almost-solv...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about one of the worst cases of spousal abuse and murder that they have ever covered. In 2011, Roxanne and Richard “Rick” Jeskey were living in Bangor, Maine. Not much is known about either of them or their relationship, but what is known from neighbors is that they fought often. On this fateful June evening, after a long night o...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz discuss the mysterious disappearance of small town girl Lynn Burdick. In 1982, Lynn was living in Florida, Massachusetts with her family on a 25-acre farm and was preparing to graduate from high school. She often worked on the farm and babysat, but also worked at her cousin’s convenience store, the Barefoot Peddler. On April 17th, 198...

Join Katie and Liz on True Crime New England's 66th installment of their case profile mini-episode series. This week, Liz starts the episode off by talking about the disappearance of Ali Kamhaz, an 88-year-old immigrant from Lebanon who wandered off from his Paxton, Massachusetts home in 2016, never to be seen again. Then, Katie tells the details of Maria Laura Capon Bravo Rojas, whose murdered bo...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz put their scientist hats on and discuss the life and legacy of a great New England scientist, Eugene Mallove. A highly educated man with degrees in both aeronautical and aerospace engineering, as well as environmental health sciences, Eugene became fascinated with the concept of cold fusion and dedicated a large portion of his life tr...

Join Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England as they navigate the complicated story of the murder of Sharon Johnson and her alleged killers. 36-year-old, heavily pregnant Sharon was found brutally stabbed and strangled in a construction site in July of 1988 in Bedford, New Hampshire. Police eventually tracked down an 18-year-old who had a child with Sharon’s stepdaughter, th...

Join Katie and Liz on this week's installment of their case profile mini-episode series. To kick off the show, Katie shares the details of the horrible murders of Elizabeth Matos and William Vega. 16-year-old Elizabeth and 19-year-old William were discovered, both shot to death, on the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts in 2001. Then, Liz talks about the sad murder of father-of-six Jawara Stennet...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the senseless murder of 15-year-old Terri Weed at the hands of someone she thought cared for her. Terri had been semi-secretly dating 16-year-old Wade Willis, and in May of 1981, she approached him to tell him that she was pregnant. Embarrassed about what others would think, Wade decided he would solve the problem and kille...

On this week's episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the mysterious case of the disappearance of Doreen Marfeo- a tidy, punctual, well-liked woman who apparently changed drastically before she went missing. Doreen had been in a struggling marriage for 12 years, and according to her husband, Steve Marfeo, she had become a nervous wreck who couldn't talk about her problems and...

Join Katie and Liz on True Crime New England's 64th installment of their mini-episode case profile series. This week, Liz starts the show off by relaying the details of the senseless murder of 19-year-old Reality Shabazz Walker out of Springfield, Massachusetts in 2010. Then, Katie shares the twisted murder of 29-year-old Twana Smith out of Hartford, Connecticut in 1997.  Anyone with information a...

Come on a journey 200 years in the past as Katie and Liz explore another historic tragedy on this week’s episode of True Crime New England. In the very first years of the 19th century, Captain James Purrington moved his wife and eight children to start anew on a small farm in Augusta, Maine. James was generally well-respected in the community, known to be hard-working and honest, especially as the...

Join Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England where they tackle another harrowing exoneration case. In May of 1991, a man named Kenneth McLean was shot and killed in Roxbury, Massachusetts, supposedly after a drug deal went wrong. A teenage witness, who admitted he didn’t see the face of the shooter, only a notable ponytail, later identified Robert Foxworth as the killer. He...

Join Katie and Liz on another episode of True Crime New England's case profile mini-episode series. This week, Katie starts us off with a mysterious story about the discovery of a John Doe out of Smithfield, Rhode Island in 1987. The body had clearly been a victim of homicide and was then weighed down with cables and barbell weights in Stump Pond. Then, Liz ends the episode with the story of two b...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz bring you the tragic story of the murder of 13-year-old Maryann Measles, a seventh grader who lived in New Milford, Connecticut in 1997. Maryann had found herself inside a group of eight older people, fitting into their friend circle by smoking cigarettes and weed, amongst other things. After going to her mother to confide in her abou...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz tell listeners of the devastating murder of 19-year-old Lizzi Marriott. In October of 2012, the University of New Hampshire marine biology student went to hang out with her work friend, Kat McDonough, at her Dover, New Hampshire apartment. What she didn’t know was that she was being set up for a sexual encounter with Kat and her domin...

Join Katie and Liz for another mini-episode in their case profile series. This week, Liz starts the show off with the senseless murder of 24-year-old Quaaneiruh Goodwin, a mother of an infant who was shot in a drive-by while hanging outside a convenience store with friends in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Then, Katie shares the confusing and heartbreaking death of Brenda Lee Sawls, a woman whose deat...

Take a trip to Sheffield, Vermont with Katie and Liz on this week’s episode of True Crime New England as they discuss the tragic fate of well-loved grandmother of nine, 78-year-old Mary “Pat” O’Hagan. In September of 2010, a group of three men decided they were going to break in and rob Mary’s home for money and pills. Richard Fletcher, Keith Baird, and Michael Norrie were high on methamphetamines...

On this week’s episode of True Crime New England, Katie and Liz talk about the tragic murder of 23-year-old Lindsay Ann Burke. Described as carefree, kind, and compassionate, Lindsay had lived a life full of love and trust, with no real knowledge that there was danger in the world for people as caring as her. Unfortunately, a tumultuous relationship with a man named Gerardo Martinez led to Lindsay...

Join Katie and Liz on another installment of their case profile mini-episode series! This week, the girls discuss two very frustrating cases with little answers. First, Katie talks about the mysterious and horrible death of Lauren Smith Fields, a beautiful 23-year-old who was found dead by a Bumble date in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 2021. Then, Liz talks about the 2008 shooting death of security g...