x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Ivy League Murders

Sarah Alcorn & Laura Rodrigues McDonald

Join Laura and Sarah as they discuss the most haunting cases to spin out of some of America"s most elite corners.

true crime documentary

All Episodes

56:52

UPenn’s Ira Einhorn: The Unicorn’s Secret

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/11/18

In the 1970’s, Ira Einhorn was guru to the counter culture in Philly. He was also keeping a terrible secret...

en

37:30

Yale's William Bradford Bishop, Jr.: The Forty-Four...

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/11/11

How easy is it just to disappear? After committing an horrific crime in 1976, William Bishop used his experience in intelligence and foreign service to evade justice. He has never been found. Join us this week as we put our ILM spin on the case.

en

48:56

Trial By Fire

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/11/08

On a snowy February night in 2003, a crowd gathered in the Station night club to hear the band Great White. In a catastrophic series of events, the Station became an inferno that would kill a hundred people and injure many more. What ensued was a fifteen year battle for the truth. Join us as we speak to author Scott James and discuss his book, Trial by Fire.

en

54:43

I’ll Take Care of You: The Murder of Bill McLaughlin

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/10/27

Join Laura and Sarah as we interview New York Times bestselling true crime author Caitlin Rother about her book, “I’ll Take Care of You”.

en

55:04

Harvard Medical School’s Bloody Brahmins

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/10/26

It was shortly before Thanksgiving 1849, Dr. George Parkman went out for his routine appointments and errands and never came back. This is the story that rocked Victorian Boston to its core.

en

31:08

Harvard's Nancy Dillard: Arsenic and Old Money

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/10/14

What happens when a seemingly perfect life is slowly eroded by toxicity? Someone was poisoning Nancy Dillard in a case that would shock Dallas high society.

en

33:55

Murder at Yale: Annie Le

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/10/05

Annie Le had everything to look forward to, a bright future and a wedding... Why was this promising young woman killed?

en

36:37

Cornell's Charlie Tan: Legally Guilty, Morally Innocent

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/09/27

Laura and Sarah get extra salty this week as they duke it out over the Charlie Tan case. You decide, was he morally innocent, or legally guilty?

en

38:21

Widener 2: Hauntingly Harvard

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/09/25

Join Sarah and Laura, along with D.C. O'Rourke from Hauntingly Yours, as they explore the spooky side of Harvard's Widener and other famous buildings in Harvard Yard!

en

26:17

Widener Library: the Pearl of Harvard

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/09/17

Harvard’s enormous Widener Library was born from the Titanic tragedy. Join Laura, Sarah, and a very special guest this week as they unearth a never told story from the Titanic.

en

52:05

Harvard's Amy Bishop the Criminal Zeitgeist

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/09/10

Join us this week as we talk to the ladies from the Women and Crime Podcast and discuss what motivated Amy Bishop to kill three of her colleagues in a Mass Shooting?

en

51:37

Sister School Edition: Vassar College's Christa...

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/09/04

This week, Sarah and Laura take a look up close and personal at the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington, who was found dead in her Truro, Mass. home. A Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted Christopher McCowen in 2006 of murdering her, despite several other possible suspects.

en

44:08

Sister School Edition: Smith College’s Jean Harris:...

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/08/28

Jean Harris was the head mistress of the elite Madeira Prep school but, she secretly hid a prescription pill problem and an obsession for the one thing she couldn't have, Herman Tarnower ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

en

37:26

UPENN's Rafael Robb: Gaming the Legal System

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/08/24

Rafael Robb was a tenured Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on gaming theory. He was the last one anyone would suspect of murder! Was he gaming the legal system? Find out on Ivy League Murders!

en

37:52

Princeton’s Thomas Gilbert, Jr: The Dark Side of...

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/08/13

Most parents would have walked away after their child committed murder, but Shelley Gilbert did not. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old father on January 4th 2015, she paid for his defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and psychiatric examinations. The Gilberts, who had a vacation house in the Hamptons, paid for their son’s NYC apartment, as well as his bills, his membership in the Maidstone Club, and they paid him an allowance. Mr. Gilbert was “spoiled,” said

en

41:15

Jason Bohn: Columbia University’s Ticking Time Bomb

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/08/06

After a horrendous childhood, Jason Bohn got his life together, went to Columbia and became a successful Wall Street lawyer. None of the surface success could contain his rage toward women. Like Othello, Bohn was consumed with an irrational jealousy that ended in murder.

en

40:34

Michael Ross: Cornell Serial Killer

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/07/30

Michael Bruce Ross was a serial killer who was executed in Connecticut after he waived his right to appeal. It was the first execution in New England in 45 years, and makes the Roadside Strangler the only Ivy League Graduate to have been on death row.

en

49:56

From Yale to Jail: Dirk Greineder

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/07/23

Join us this week on a walk in the woods that ended in tragedy and pulled back the veil of Ivy League perfection to reveal a disturbed mind.

en

45:10

Ann and Billy Woodward: "The Ideal Couple"

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/07/02

Billy Woodward, a Harvard Legacy, was shot and killed by his wife, Ann. Was it an accident or intentional with a subsequent cover up? You be the judge.

en

1:15

Ivy League Murders Trailer

Ivy League Murders ·

2020/06/30

The trailer for the podcast Ivy League Murders, with Sarah Alcorn and Laura Rodrigues McDonald.

en

123 results

Similar Podcasts

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime Podcast 2025 - Police Interrogations, 911 Calls and True Police Stories Podcast

True Crime Podcast 2025

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

Jay Nicoll

The Conspiracy Files

Bloody FM

Crime at Bedtime

Jack Laurence