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Murder Most Foul

James Sulanowski

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00:40:39

KILLER LIES

Murder Most Foul ·

2026/01/09

History is loaded with the stories of imposters, fraudsters and outright liars. Princess Caraboo, an Englishwoman who pretended to be a Princess from a fictional island. Frank Abagnale, Jr.- who in his career, impersonated a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, just to name a few. Victor Lustig, whosold the salvage rights to the Eiffel Tower…twice!And my favorite, from the “gullible file,” David Hampton, con man and robber, who convinced a number of people in the 1980’s that he was the son of actor

00:51:32

Murder at Midnight

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/12/23

For two years, silence shrouded the vanishing of a woman from the small Southern town of Malvern, Arkansas. Now, the mysterious disappearance and the suppression of the truth are cracked open by the FBI Agent, Jerry Spurgers, who worked this case of drug conspiracy, witness intimidation, and murder from start to finish. Murder at Midnight is the true story of how the Agent Spurgers and a team of local officers, sheriff deputies, and a federal analyst combined traditional police work with new

00:56:42

The G-Man and the Psychic

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/12/07

In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn’t expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn.What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a shattering of all his preconceived notions, a huge break in the cold case, and an unlikely crime-solving partnership that spanned twenty-five years.As Bob and John took on more cases together, they slowly learned how

00:55:56

Recipe for Murder!

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/11/21

On July 29th, 2023, in Leongatha, a smalltown in rural Victoria, Australia, family and friends of local woman Erin Patterson sit down for Saturday lunch. On the menu, Beef Wellington. The next day, four of the guests are hospitalized. Doctors suspect death- cap mushroom poisoning. Within a week, three of them will be dead. On November 2nd of that same year, Erin Patterson is arrested and charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Held in custody at Dame Phyllis Frost

00:36:01

Who Killed Sandra Birchmore?

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/11/09

On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. Federal authorities later determined that her death was a homicide, with local policeofficer, Michael Farwell, alleged to have killed her. Birchmore's murder has drawn parallels to the death of John O’Keefe, another high-profile investigation in Norfolk County. Both cases involve allegations of law enforcement misconduct and have raised

00:51:57

The Edge of Innocence

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/11/01

Florence Bennet is found dead in a bathtub of scalding water. Her husband, Casper, claims that he found her like that, but his burned hands tell a differentstory.Or so the police and almost the entire population of Lorain believe.And as the Bennetts’ marriage with its secrets of alcohol, affairs and abuse is laid bare in the courtroom, it looks like the only possible verdict is murder.Bennett’s sensational trial more than fifty years ago pitted an aggressive, mercurial county prosecutor against a

01:14:26

THROUGH THE LENS OF A MONSTER

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/10/25

On death row for 42 years at San Quentin, artist and inmate William Noguera formed an unlikely bond with the notorious serial killer Joseph Naso. Over years of disturbing conversations—and at great personal risk—Noguera gained his trust. What he revealed was far worse than anyone imagined.Behind prison walls, Naso described his brutal crimes in chilling detail, disclosing evidence that had eluded investigators for decades and exposing the darknessthat drove him. Now, for the first time, Noguera lays

00:51:23

Who Massacred the McStay Family?

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/10/15

On February 15, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons were reported missing from their new home in San Diego County. They left eggs and fruit rotting on the counter. Their Dodge truck sat in the driveway. Their dogs were abandoned outside without food. But investigators found no blood, signs of a struggle, or clues to their whereabouts. Did the family take an unannounced vacation? Were they running away from personal problems? Or were they victims of foul play?In her book,

00:49:33

SON OF SAM: The Lost Tapes

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/09/18

Recently there has been a renewed interest in the Son of Sam Case in the form of documentaries, the latest by NETFLIX. Many are subtitled, “The Lost Tapes,” a reference to recordings of multiple interviews with David Berkowitz in Attica prison, shortly after he was incarcerated. Luckily for us, the tapes were never lost! They were recorded by Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle reporter, Jack Jones, and are thankfully still in his possession.Jack, a repeat guest here on Murder Most Foul,

01:06:29

Hell in the Heartland

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/07/31

On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing.While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved, and the girls were never found.In 2015, crime writer Jax Miller--who had been haunted by the case--decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really

00:39:13

THE LARAMIE PROJECT--The Matthew Shepard Story

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/07/11

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, WY, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal and it's their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project of NYC made six trips to Laramie over the course

00:42:32

No Human Involved

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/06/12

When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” — “No Human Involved.” Dehumanized and invisible to the public eye, they are rarely seen as victims. In the United States, Black women are killed at a higher rate than any other group of women, but their victimhood is not covered by the media and their cases do not receive an adequate level of urgency. That is until now. My guest today is sociologist, Cheryl L. Neely, whose newly

01:28:59

Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/05/13

On Christmas night in 1996, the brutal murder ofsix-year-old JonBenét Ramsey shocked the nation. Found dead in her family's Boulder, Colorado home, JonBenét's body was discovered in the basement, with a broken skull, strangled by a garrote and sexually assaulted. A ransom note left in the home added to the confusion, but the truth would prove even more elusive.As the case unfolded, the media swarmed andspeculation ran rampant. JonBenét’s status as a child beauty queen only fueled the fire,

00:39:58

The Fairbanks Four

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/05/02

Imagine, spending 18 years in prison for a crime youdidn’t commit! October 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert Hartman and he's just turned 15 years old. The police quickly arrest four suspects, all under the age of 21 and of Alaska Native and American Indian descent. Police lineup witnesses, trials follow, and all

01:07:33

Kared Read Murder Trial (Deja vu, all over again!)

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/04/24

When last we saw our heroine, Karen Read, she was free after her trial last year in Dedham, MA for the murder of her then boyfriend, Police Officer John O’Keefe. The trial ended in a hung jury. But like all soap operas, we ain’t done yet! Her retrial has just begun and it promises to be as bizarre as her first…or even more so.Once again, we turn to Kevin Lenihan of YELLOW COTTAGE TAILS and a frequent commentator on COURT TV for his expert analysis.

00:56:46

A Devil Went Down To Georgia

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/04/09

The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hitman pretending to deliver roses on an early winter morning.In A Devil Went Down to Georgia, award-winning writer Deb

00:59:53

Mother-in-law from Hell!

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/04/02

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga’s mother in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—had

00:43:21

The ROPE

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/03/26

In 1910 in the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective’s first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and the daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time by author Alex Tresniowski in his thrilling, True Crime book, “The

00:56:20

The Sinners All Bow

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/03/10

On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell wasfound dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death asuicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into theinvestigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the

00:56:28

A Homicidal Love Story

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/03/05

Would you kill for love?After Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband in 1974 and dumps his body where it will never be found, she slips away and starts a new life with a new love. But when her new love's ex-wife and twokids start demanding more of him, Alice delivers an ultimatum: Fix the problem or lose her forever. With Alice's help, he "fixes" the problem in an extraordinarily ghastly way ... and they live happily ever after. That is,

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