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Murder Most Foul

James Sulanowski

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00:51:53

Lyle and Erik

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/12/11

Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who murderedtheir parents in 1989 in Beverly Hills and would be all but forgotten as they languished in prison under a sentence of life without the possibility of parole save for recent developments in their case. Today there is the good chance the brothers will be released from prison sometime in 2025. Interest in the murders, trials and convictions has peaked with this new twist. I am no different. But rather than weigh in on whether the brothers, have served

01:00:28

The Man in the White Van

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/11/26

Based on true events. In 1975 Florida, a series of violent disappearances go unnoticed, and young Annie (Madison Wolfe) is targeted by an ominous white van that stalks her every move. As the menace escalates, her parents dismiss her fears, and Annie is soon plunged into a terrifying nightmare that shatters her world. Also starring Brec Bassinger, Skai Jackson, Ali Larter, and Sean Astin. Directed by Warren Skeels.

00:45:14

NCIS: Cold Case Files

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/10/28

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the NCIS television dynasty. Some of you may have the impression that the entire agency is made up entirely of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and a handful of agents and wacky support staff. Au contraire. NCIS has many divisions staffed by hundreds of agents. One of those divisions is the NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit (CCHU). My guest today, Joe Kennedy, established the CCHU in 1995. The Unit was the first dedicated Federal-level cold case homicide unit in the

00:53:18

KAREN READ: Cop killer or victim?

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/10/05

Provocative title? In the early morning hours of January 29, 2022, Boston Police Department Officer John O'Keefe was found dead outside the home of fellow Boston Police Officer, Brian Albert, in Canton, Massachusetts. O'Keefe had been dropped off the night before by his girlfriend, Karen Read, to join a party hosted by Brian Albert and Jennifer McCabe. Upon being discovered, he was transported to a local hospital where cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia. Three days

00:49:34

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/09/21

Was “What's My Line?” TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large? These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw in his book, “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much.” Shaw unfolds a "whodunit" murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don

00:50:44

The Devil Behind the Badge

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/09/14

Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other three women were on edge but assumed they were safe. Twelve days later, they too were dead and police had detained an unlikely suspect--Juan David Ortiz, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border

01:18:36

Who Killed Seth Rich?

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/08/30

Who Killed Seth Rich? If you guessed Hilary Clinton, you’d be wrong, but not alone. It’s been said that we all love a good conspiracy story. In the midst, of the political convulsions that surrounded the 2016 Presidential Election, a young man by the name of Seth Rich was gunned down and killed on “W” street in Washington, D.C. He was presumably the victim of a botched robbery attempt.Seth had not been long laid to rest when the internet exploded with the claims that not the Russians, but Seth

01:02:31

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/08/26

Can two brilliant minds outsmart the law? In 1924 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy University of Chicago students, sought to commit the perfect crime simply for the thrill of it. They meticulously planned the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, a distant relative of Loeb. Despite their careful plotting, a pair of eyeglasses left at the crime scene linked them to the murder. Their trial captivated the nation, especially with the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow

01:04:06

Teach Me To Kill: The Pamela Smart Story

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/08/22

Teach me to kill. That’s exactly what Media Instructor, Pamela Smart, did for 3 of her teenage students in 1990, in Derry, New Hampshire. Smart seduced and slept with Billy Flynn, the trigger man, and encouraged his friends to participate in the plot that she created, to kill her husband, Greg.After 34 years, Pam, serving life without the possibility of parole, wants out of prison. Although she admits to the affair, she maintains that she had no knowledge of the murder plot. Join me today, as I

00:44:09

Then No One Can Have Her

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/08/12

Steve DeMocker was a narcissist, a philander and all-around cad, but was he a cold-blooded killer? In 2008, in Prescott, Carol Kennedy, his newly minted ex-wife, was found bludgeoned to death in her home. It wasn’t long until the police focused on Steve as the main suspect. One might suppose this became a run-of-the mill murder case. Au contraire, mon frere! Returning Murder Most Foul guest author, Caitlin Rother, found that writing her book, THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER about the investigation and

00:57:20

The Interrogation

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/08/07

On September 13, 2016, Shawn Grate was arrested in the small city of Ashland, Ohio for the abduction and rape of a young woman. Miraculously the victim actually guided her rescuers to her location using the perp’s cell phone as he slept.But her rescue was only the beginning! Police Detective, Kim Mager – a cross between Clarice Starling from “Silence of the Lambs” and Olivia Benson from Law & Order, SVU – was assigned to question Grate. It wasn’t long before she suspected that this event

00:53:41

MISSISSIPPI BURNING

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/07/08

MISSISSIPPI BURNING is the name of a motion picture, released in 1988, starring Gene Hackman and Willem DaFoe, loosely based on the murders of 3 Civil Rights workers in Mississippi, during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were lured to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and executed by the Ku Klux Klan. No one was ever convicted of their murders, until over 40 years later when Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with The Charion-Ledger, in Jackson,

01:03:14

Where is my mother?

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/06/26

On New Year’s Eve 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landrywakes up to a loud thud coming from his parents' bedroom, and it becomes the night his mother Noreen Boyle disappears forever. All his family has no doubts that she ran away after a fight with her husband. But Collier knows that his mom would never leave him behind. As Dr John Boyle refuses to discuss his wife’s disappearance, Detective David Messmore builds a secret bond with Collier who insists his mom was murdered. Together, they discover

00:53:44

WHITE HOT HATE

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/06/12

In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked theUnited States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn’t enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they would wait until after the Presidential Election so that their actions wouldn’t hurt

00:45:22

You'd Look Better as a Ghost

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/06/07

Today Murder Most Foul takes a slight departure from True Crime to discuss the above titled novel by author Joanna Wallace. Critics call it, “Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny.” This comic thriller follows the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer, who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a secret—despite the efforts of a determined blackmailer.Please join me in welcoming Joanna Wallace to Murder Most Foul

01:12:21

Fatal Attraction (Part One)

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/05/20

In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders ofhis lover’s Elizabeth’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of “he said/she said,” at their trials the star-crossed lovers each pointed the finger at the other as the actual murderer. Were Jens and Elizabeth Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? From his Virginia prison cell, Soering deployed his charm to create his

01:07:02

Fatal Attraction (Part Two)

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/05/20

In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders of his lover’s Elizabeth’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of “he said/she said,” at their trials the star-crossed lovers each pointed the finger at the other as the actual murderer. Were Jens and Elizabeth Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? From his Virginia prison cell,Soering deployed his charm to create his

00:39:51

Mapping the Night

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/05/04

Crime movies, documentaries and literature come in several genres: True Crime (just the facts, Ma’am), “Non-Fiction Novel,” (made famous by Truman Capote with his masterpiece, In Cold Blood) and pure fiction. But even with fictitious crime novels, there are hybrid approaches. Some are “based on a true story,” or “inspired by a true story,” or “drawn from today’s headlines.” Mapping the Night by David Bethel, falls comfortably into that last category. Drawn from an actual murder case that took place

01:01:43

Butcher Baker

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/04/29

To all who knew him, Robert Hansen was a typical hardworking businessman, husband, and father. Buthidden beneath the veneer of mild respectability was a monster whose depraved appetites could not be sated. From 1971 to 1983, Hansen was a human predator, stalking women on the edges of Anchorage society—women whose disappearances would cause scant outcry, but whose gruesome fates would shock the nation. After his arrest, Hansen confessed to seventeen brutal murders, though authorities suspect there

00:54:26

I have your daughter!

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/03/31

On May 31,1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. For several days after the abduction, the kidnapper called and sent letters to the family, taunting them with details of abduction and murder of Shari. Ultimately, he revealed the location of Shari’s body on a phone call to Shari’s older sister, Dawn. But he wasn’t finished. Two weeks to the day of Shari’s abduction, the murderer snatched another victim,

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