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Murder Most Foul

James Sulanowski

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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,

01:17:55

Death By Dentist

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/02/24

At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. He was also a newly divorced dad, his toddlers Ben and Lincoln the center of his universe.On the morning of July 18, 2014, Dan dropped his boysoff at preschool, hit the gym for a workout, and headed home to his quiet, tree-canopied neighborhood. Within seconds of pulling into his garage, two .38-caliber bullets fired from point-blank range were

00:50:16

Homicide at Rough Point (Part One)

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/01/26

In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant ofbillionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort. In a murderous quid-pro-quo, the local police

00:58:50

Homicide at Rough Point (Part Two)

Murder Most Foul ·

2025/01/26

In Part One of our two part series on 5 time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance’s Book, HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, we left off as Mr. Lance was detailing how, back in the fall of 1966, the Newport, Rhode Island police covered up the murder of art curator and designer Eduardo Tirella, whom Doris Duke, crushed to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon just minutes after he told the notoriously possessive, billionairess that he was leaving her for a career in Hollywood. As Peter

00:46:03

THE POISON TREE

Murder Most Foul ·

2024/12/16

Seven years before Lyle and Erik Menendez gunned down their parents in Beverly Hills, after years of abuse, suffered by he and his sister, Richard Jahnke ambushed their father in the garage of their home on Cowpoke Lane in Cheyenne, Wyoming and shot him dead. THE POISON TREE is a riveting account of the sadistic physical, mental and sexual abuse suffered by Richard and Deborah. The book also covers the murder, trial and aftermath of an incident with eerie parallels to the Menendez Case. My guest

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