Forensic Tales
Not all stories have happy endings... A weekly true crime podcast with a forensic twist. Each episode features real stories highlighting how forensic science was used. From fingerprinting to criminal profiling to familial DNA, we have every investigative angle covered.
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July 22, 2024 • 52 mins
#238 - In January 2022, a Boston police officer was found dead, and his girlfriend, Karen Read, was accused of killing him by backing her Lexus SUV into him and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm. But Karen Read’s supporters allege that she is the victim of an elaborate cover-up by the police.
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July 15, 2024 • 57 mins
#237 - Actress and model Felicia Tang was found dead inside her Monrovia, California, apartment in September 2009. Not long after that, the police arrested a former reality TV contestant and pastor for the crime. But when the case went to trial, the prosecution and defense couldn't agree on what the forensic evidence meant or what caused Felicia's death.
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July 8, 2024 • 45 mins
#236 - When Tracy Kroh left her Enterline Township, Pennsylvania home on Saturday, August 5, 1989, she didn’t expect to be gone long. She planned to drive to her sister’s home to return a barbeque grill she had borrowed and drop off some coupons she had clipped. But her sister wasn’t home when Tracy got there, so she left the items on her front porch and returned to her car. After that, Tracy was never seen again.
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July 1, 2024 • 44 mins
#235 - Roxanne Wood was murdered inside her Berrien County home on February 19, 1987. Her throat had been cut. Her husband found her dead after the couple had driven separately to go bowling, and Roxanne returned home first.
The case went cold, and although Michigan State Police reopened it in 2001 and again in 2020, it remained unsolved. That is until students in Western Michigan University’s cold case program got involved.
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June 24, 2024 • 49 mins
#234 - On June 28, 2014, in the small town of Cottonport, Louisiana., 29-year-old Megan Parra was discovered in her home by her parents with a gunshot wound to her head. Megan’s husband, Dustin Parra, showed up minutes later and tried to save her, but it was too late. She was taken off life support the next day. Her death was ruled a suicide, but her parents are convinced there was foul play.
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June 17, 2024 • 47 mins
#233 - In October 1981, three young boys in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, made a frightening discovery in a ravine: a dead body. Other than some scratches and bruises, the body showed no obvious sign of injury. One tennis shoe was found in a nearby pile of rocks. The other shoe was missing. It was the body of 12-year-old Kurt Sova.
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June 10, 2024 • 50 mins
#232 - Blair Adams from Canada was just 31 years old when his body was found in the parking lot of a Knoxville, Tennessee hotel in July 1996. Scattered around his body was $4,000 worth of mixed Canadian, American, and German currency. His death was later discovered to be caused by a blow to the stomach - but what exactly happened to Blair remains a mystery.
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June 3, 2024 • 46 mins
#231 - On a summer night in 2015, New Jersey Transit train 4693 struck and killed an 18-year-old named Tiffany Valiante. Her death was ruled a suicide. But her family insists that the recent high school graduate and star athlete was actually murdered.
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May 27, 2024 • 36 mins
#230 - A woman is arrested for poisoning six members of her family with cyanide between 2002 and 2016. She is accused of murdering them to inherit the family property and to marry her lover, who was her husband’s cousin.
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May 20, 2024 • 41 mins
#229 - St. John’s University student Joshua Guimond left a party on Nov. 9, 2002, and was never seen again. Although more than two decades have passed, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation into his disappearance remains active. What happened to Joshua all those years ago? And is too late for forensic science to help answer some of the many unanswered questions about his mysterious disappearance?
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May 13, 2024 • 46 mins
#228 - In 2014, a prominent couple from New Jersey was found brutally killed inside their home. They each suffered multiple stab wounds, and the house had been almost burned down to the ground. But after the police wrapped up the investigation, they believed the couple died in a murder-suicide plot. However, those close to the Sheridans disagree they would have done something like this. What does the forensic evidence say happen?
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May 6, 2024 • 48 mins
#227 - 21-year-old college student Chris Jenkins mysteriously vanished on Halloween Night 2002 after spending the night out with friends. Four months later, his body was found in the Mississippi River, but things aren't always as they initially appear. What happened to Chris Jenkins after spending a fun night out at the bar with friends, and can forensic science help give us some answers?
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April 29, 2024 • 45 mins
#226 - In 2016, 27-year-old Mirna Salihin met up with a group of friends to grab some coffee - but less than 30 minutes later, she ended up dead after taking a few sips of her drink. No one had any idea what could have happened to her at the coffee shop - until forensic evidence raised some serious and deadly suspicions.
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April 22, 2024 • 53 mins
#225 - A man’s empty boat is found miles away from his home. And when his body surfaces over a week later, the authorities and his family are left with more questions than answers.
Did Patrick Mullins, a beloved librarian and high school teacher, take his own life in 2013? Or does the forensic evidence point to something far more sinister?
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April 15, 2024 • 40 mins
#224 - It’s been almost four decades since real estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office to meet with a potential buyer named “Mr Kipper” and was never seen again. The 25-year-old simply vanished on July 28th, 1986, and her body has never been found, leaving many unanswered questions.
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April 8, 2024 • 47 mins
#223 - In 1989, four members of the Pelley family from Indiana were gunned down inside their home. Without any leads or forensic evidence, the police decided they had their suspect: the Pelley family's 17-year-old son, Jeff. And the motive was simple: Jeff murdered his family because he wasn't allowed to go to prom.
Is Jeff Pelley guilty or innocent?
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April 1, 2024 • 41 mins
#222 - Over four weeks in the winter of 1984, five women were assaulted at knifepoint in a series of attacks in and around the East End neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The police quickly zeroed in on their suspect, Thomas Haynesworth, after every one of the victims identified him as the preparator. But can eyewitness identification always be trusted?
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March 25, 2024 • 45 mins
#221 - Two three-year-old girls from Noxubee County, Mississippi, are found murdered under very similar circumstances. They were both abducted from their homes, sexually assaulted, and killed. Their killers also left behind a strong piece of forensic evidence: a bitemark. But despite their similarities suggesting the same person was responsible for both crimes, two separate men were arrested largely based on the controversial subfi...
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March 18, 2024 • 48 mins
#220 - It's a murder still widely talked about today: the 1996 unsolved murder of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur. Although an arrest was recently made in the case, some people wonder if we'll ever know what happened that night in Las Vegas. And if forensic evidence can still be tested in the case.
Who murdered Tupac?
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March 11, 2024 • 43 mins
#219 - In this week's episode, we're taking a deep dive into the offiicial court documents that have been made public about the Delphi Murders. We also discuss the forensic evidence and what still remains unknown about the murders of Abby and Libby from Delphi, Indiana.
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