Season 3

In 2000, Michael McDermott was experiencing some minor financial problems. He worked at Wakefield Technologies and was making a great salary. His work place was forced to garnish his wages for an IRS debt, Michael did not lik...

The Benoit family lived on Main Street, in Kingston, Ma. Melissa was an eighth grader at a local catholic school. The family had suffered a tragic loss of the Dad, Richard Benoit. On September 15, 1990, Melissa visited a fri...

Henry was a typical 15yr old kid, growing up in an all American community, a throw back to a more neighborly time. Swampscott Ma. was largely crime free until this tragedy. The case was hampered by a torrential rain storm, …

In 1991 James "Whitey" Bulger won the Massachusetts lottery. Bulger and three cohorts hit the Mass Millions jackpot for over 14 Million dollars. In today's money that would be about 28 Million. Jim Bulger was under investigat...

Pam Smart was highly educated with a handsome new husband and a career many would envy. She manipulated a fifteen year old boy into thinking she loved him. Naturally though there was only one obstacle. Pam's husband Greg. Pam...

Aaron Hernandez had it all, a starting job on the New England Patriots, a touch down in the Super Bowl, A beautiful fiancé, where did it all go so wrong? He is credibly accused in the murder of three people …

Aaron Hernandez was involved in a shooting after leaving a club in Florida, did Urban Myer place his thumb on the scale, after his star players where linked to a shooting? Did Florida set the stage for three more victims …

Aaron Hernandez, there is so much more to this story than was portrayed in the media. Aaron was convicted in the bizarre murder of Odin Lloyd. But he was suspected in an attempted homicide while playing for the Florida Gators...

Brianna craved independence and she was on her way to life goals she had set. She appeared to fall into a tough crowd that was involved in hard drugs. Some poor decisions led to some teenage strife. She departed her …

Home invasion homicide should trigger the ultimate sanction in this country, nothing less. These monsters plotted executed, and celebrated the invasion of the Cates home and the destruction of their lives. Steven Spader and C...

In October 2009 17 yr old Steven Spader and 19 yr old Christopher Gribble masterminded the most brutal and senseless home invasion murder in New Hampshire history. A team of losers murdered a mother in her bed and used a …

Kimberly had a host of issues, crack cocaine chief among them. She was trying to get her life in order, so her seven year old child could have a future. She was walking with a friend Halloween night, when a …

A heartbreaking story from 1996. Jesus wanted a new bike in the worst way. He had a girl's pink bike, with flat tires. In the world of six year old boys, this problem needed to be solved. A neighbor strolled …

This case is one of a handful of cases that changed how police view street level victims of violent crime. Robin Benedict's fall from a normal life to a prostitute in Boston's combat zone, the city's red light district, was …

Pam Smart was highly educated with a handsome new husband and a career many would envy. She manipulated a fifteen year old boy into thinking she loved him. Naturally though there was only one obstacle. Pam's husband Greg. Pam...

A case that defies logic. A 20 month old baby disappears from her dad's house. The investigation revealed that there were no signs of break in, The police bluntly say that they have not received the whole truth in this …

In July 1973 Susan Petz and her boyfriend Daniel Porter wanted to beat the heat in Boston and explore the expansive Adirondack Mountains in New York. Susan was due to finish her journalism degree at Boston University in the f...

Amy at 14, fell in love with a monster. Jamie Fuller 16, told his friends that he was going to kill Amy. His friends didn't prevent the murder they assisted in it. A brutal and senseless crime, Jamie Fuller and …

Albert DeSalvo was forced to watch his mother have her fingers broken one at a time. His father beat his children frequently and had prostitutes at the house. Albert never had a chance and he transferred his violence to fema...

A severely abused child, raised in the depths of the great depression grows into a depraved sadist, that terrorized Boston in the early 1960's. The Boston Police were nowhere near finding the Boston Strangler, until he confes...

S tation Nightclub Fire 2003 -Scott James wrote the definitive book on the Station Nightclub Fire, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The book "Trial By Fire" takes the reader by the lapels and propels them trough the actual fire...

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Part 2- After the "Inside Man" was taken care of, the caper was a burglar's dream. Did the robbers in this heist, ever make a dime on the 500,000,000 robbery? It seems like the motive …

The amounts of money in this heist are staggering. Five hundred million in art stolen, a ten million dollar reward. St. Patricks Day 1990, the famous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is robbed of 13 pieces of art. Some of the …

In August 1962 the U.S.Postal Service wanted to save money on armored car services. Instead, they had a truck driver and one guard transport money, in mail trucks from Cape Cod post offices, to the Federal Reserve Bank in Bos...

As the internet was taking off, Michael McDermott would seemingly be in a great position for success. He was a computer genius and was writing software code for a leading technology company, Edgewater Technologies, located in...

In 1978 Boston was quite a different place. Organized crime had very little fear of the police or FBI, mostly because local gangsters had them on the payroll. On June 28, 1978 five bodies were discovered in the dank and …

Kimberly had a host of issues, crack cocaine chief among them. She was trying to get her life in order, so her seven year old child could have a future. She was walking with a friend Halloween night, when a …

1997-Charles Jaynes is likely the most infamous murderer in modern Massachusetts history. Jaynes and his codefendant Sal Sicari groomed ten year old Jeffery Curley. The duo then murdered the child and defiled his body multip...

In 1997 Sal Sicari lead his fellow pedophile Charles Jaynes to his neighbor in East Cambridge, Ma, ten year old Jeffery Curley. When Jeffery resisted their sexual advances, Jaynes placed a gas soaked rag over the child's mout...

The HBO film Trial 4, is a virtual hagiography for Sean Ellis. The HBO-Netflix documentary is so slanted in favor of Sean Ellis it is difficult to digest. In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe …

(REPLAY) In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe, the Boston Police Forensic Unit, took Letia Walker's fingerprints at the courthouse and then proceeded to place a print on the gun that killed Det Mu...

Donald Eugene Webb was a career criminal and ran with a crew of professional criminals, from Fall River, Massachusetts. He ran into Police Chief Greg Adams in Saxonburg, Pa. Webb ended up shooting and killing Adams, during a ...

S tation Nightclub Fire 2003 -Scott James wrote the definitive book on the Station Nightclub Fire, in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The book "Trial By Fire" takes the reader by the lapels and propels them trough the actual fire...

Hundreds were trapped inside the Station, a Rhode Island roadhouse bar, hosting a fading rock band. The night's draw "Great White" a hair band from the eighties, took the stage. The band set off pyrotechnics inside the wood ...

Lisa's body was discovered on Easter Sunday 1992. She had been abducted from her second job as a clerk at a gift shop. The police had accurately ascertained that Lisa was abducted, however the case soon went cold. A woman …

Amy's killer had struck in a similar manner less than a year prior. Alemany had actually left his ID (wallet) on top of an unconscious victim. Both the victim and a passerby gave accurate physical descriptions, why wasn't Ale...

REPOST-We are on vacation this week, then back at it, here is a well received pod from last year(ish) Barry M. The tragic case of Amy Lord, a true urban boogeyman story. Amy was abducted from the safety of her …

Phoebe Prince was the poster child for bullying in America in 2010, new laws were passed and significant attention was drawn to this severe societal issue. She committed suicide just after a round of hellacious bullying. Phoe...

In July 1973 Susan Petz and her boyfriend Daniel Porter wanted to beat the heat in Boston and explore the expansive Adirondack Mountains in New York. Susan was due to finish her journalism degree at Boston University in the f...

In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe, the Boston Police Forensic Unit, took Letia Walker's fingerprints at the courthouse and then proceeded to place a print on the gun that killed Det Mulligan. D...

The HBO film Trial 4, is a virtual hagiography for Sean Ellis. The HBO-Netflix documentary is so slanted in favor of Sean Ellis it is difficult to digest. In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe …

Hello all, we are on vacation this week, please review Bella's story, its a replay from earlier in the year. We'll be back at it next week! One of New England's most heart wrenching homicides. Bella's mother already had two …