Murder, She Told
Maine and New England true crime with original interviews and detailed documentary style storytelling. Murder, She Told is an award winning, true crime podcast shedding light on the cold cases, missing persons, and crime stories that often get overlooked of Maine, New England, and small towns from away. Murder, She Told uses detailed storytelling with an investigative twist, and weaves in original interviews with friends, family, and investigators close to the case. Rooted in deep research, straightforward narratives, and the victims and their family at the center of every story, Murder, She Told will speak to any listener no matter where they call home. Murder, She Told is created and hosted by native Mainer and victim's advocate, Kristen Seavey. Connect at murdershetold.com and on instagram @MurderSheToldPodcast.
Episodes
December 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Tis the season for true crime chaos! Hosts Kristen Seavey from Murder, She Told, Javier Leiva from PRETEND, and Shaun from Sins & Survivors join forces to explore Christmas crimes gone horribly wrong.
From a bath salts-fueled home decorator in suburban Ohio to a serial burglar stealing Robert De Niro's wrapped presents right from under his tree, these real-life Grinches prove that the holidays bring out the worst in some people....
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December 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Special bonus episode! Kristen is joined by fellow true crime podcasters Javier Leva from Pretend, and Shaun from Sins and Survivors for a special "Podcasters on Podcasters" style crossover conversation where we let our guard down and talk shop.
Follow Pretend and Sins and Survivors wherever you're listening now.
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December 10, 2025 • 38 mins
1990 - Portland, Maine.
When Portland Police responded to a call of a man lying on the sidewalk in front of Pine Street Variety on a chilly November night in 1990, they initially assumed he’d simply passed out after drinking. But 26-year-old Scott Sampson—a father of two young boys—was already dead, and had been for hours, with no one calling for help.
35 years have passed, yet Scott’s sister remains anchored to the same questio...
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November 18, 2025 • 37 mins
1989 - Concord, New Hampshire.
When the bouncer at Take Five Music Hall in Concord, NH saw 21-year-old David Braley darting into the woods after being kicked out, he thought little of it and moved on. But that fleeting glimpse would turn out to be the last time anyone saw David alive.
Months of frantic searching ended on a cool spring day in 1990, when a body appeared along the Merrimack River. David’s discovery answered one ques...
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November 5, 2025 • 40 mins
2012 - Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On a June evening in 2012, 16-year-old Charlene Holmes, who went by Chay, was exactly where she was supposed to be—walking home with friends in her own neighborhood in Cambridge—when a car crept down Willow Street. Moments later, shots rang out.
She wasn’t the intended target. She was a bright, hopeful teenager caught in someone else’s crossfire.
More than a decade later, police and Chay’s famil...
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October 28, 2025 • 27 mins
This week I wanted to bring you a spooky and fun Halloween season bonus from my friend, Laurah Norton of The Fall Line.
This is One Strange Thing: a podcast that brings you witty true stories of ghost sightings, strange disappearances, supernatural events and famous crypitds, creatures, and lore from small town America.
This episode is The Connecticut Witch: “In Southwestern Connecticut, in a little village tucked into Monroe, ...
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October 24, 2025 • 9 mins
1977 - Monroe, Connecticut
UPDATE: This week brought a major development in the long-unsolved murder of 8-year-old Renee Freer, who was brutally killed behind her home in Monroe, Connecticut, in June 1977. After nearly 50 years, Renee's case has taken a stunning turn—and it’s not the resolution anyone wanted.
The original episode on Renee Freer was released on March 25, 2025 in collaboration with the Monroe Police Dept. Revisit ...
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October 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Holden, Maine - 1983
In the summer of 1983, Kitty Collins Wardwell vanished after a fight with her much older boyfriend and business partner, Francis ‘Frank’ Julian. Kitty was only weeks away from turning 30—ambitious, full of plans, and then, without warning... she disappeared.
For years, her family searched and speculated. Rumors spread, and the truth seemed to slip further away with every passing year. What began as a missin...
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October 14, 2025 • 62 mins
1974 - Swampscott, Massachusetts.
In the shadows of the early-December afternoon, somebody with a baseball bat beat the life out of 15-year-old Henry Bedard Jr. He had been on his way home to wrap a Christmas gift, and was found the following day in a well-travelled patch of woods that was popular amongst the town’s youth.
Henry was a good kid from a good family, who, to this day, still can’t understand why somebody would have do...
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September 23, 2025 • 56 mins
1996 - Milo, Maine.
On a cool April day in 1996, 32-year-old Michael Madore disappeared without a trace. He left behind everything—his possessions, his beloved dogs, and a letter claiming he was bound for Alaska to live out a childhood dream of becoming a “mountain man” like Grizzly Adams.
But that dream was only ever a fantasy. The circumstances Mike left behind painted a confusing picture, and the details didn’t seem to line ...
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September 9, 2025 • 61 mins
1990 - Johnston, Rhode Island.
In July of 1999, 50-year-old Stephen Marfeo took action on a violent plan: he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Laura Vincent, and attempted to kill her boyfriend, Sal Puleo, before ultimately taking his own life.
For police, this was an open and shut case fulled by jealousy and domestic violence. However, they held out hope that this tragedy would help them unravel the mystery of what happene...
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September 2, 2025 • 72 mins
2002 - Bridgeport, Ohio
In July 2002, 45-year-old John Cornelius “JC” McGhee was gunned down in the doorway of his home in Bridgeport, Ohio, just across the river from West Virginia. The case drew little attention at the time—and quickly slipped from the headlines.
Now, decades later, his daughter, Madison McGhee, is demanding answers. Through her investigative podcast, Ice Cold Case, she’s shining a spotlight on her father’s...
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August 12, 2025 • 34 mins
2015 - Manchester, New Hampshire.
On a warm summer night in August 2015, 62-year-old Denise Robert followed her familiar routine—ending the day with a quiet walk through neighborhood streets she knew by heart. But just before 9 pm, the stillness of the evening broke. Denise was shot in the head by an unknown assailant and killed instantly.
Ten years later, there have been no arrests. No answers. Denise lived a full but quiet...
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July 29, 2025 • 54 mins
1912 - Carmel, Maine.
When 14-year-old Naomi Etta Mitchell vanished on her walk to the general store, the tiny town of Carmel, ME mobilized overnight. Neighbors scoured the woods, lanterns in hand, until their worst fear was confirmed—Naomi’s body had been found.
Suspicion fell almost immediately on J. Sherman Gray, the man witnesses had seen trailing her that night. But before authorities could close in, Sherman disappeared....
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July 16, 2025 • 44 mins
2005. Orland, Maine.
On the morning of July 15, 2005, 46-year-old Brian Allen was found shot to death in a bed at a home where he had been staying in Orland—a small blueberry town on the coast of Maine, where he worked. His death was ruled a homicide.
Brian’s murder received little media coverage and quietly slipped onto Maine’s list of unsolved homicides.
Now, two decades later, Brian’s sister Trista is breaking her silence...
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July 4, 2025 • 48 mins
2000 - Seabrook, New Hampshire.
In the early morning hours of July 5, 2000, while working the Fourth of July graveyard shift as a security guard at Venture Corp in Seabrook, New Hampshire, Curtis Pishon vanished without a trace.
Just after midnight, his car had mysteriously gone up in flames. Though the fire was later ruled arson, no one knows who set it—or why. That same night, Curtis disappeared.
Both the Pishon family and ...
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June 24, 2025 • 56 mins
1976 - Lewiston, Maine.
In the early hours of a November morning in 1976, Dorothy “Dotty” Milliken left her home to do some late-night laundry in Lewiston, Maine. She never made it back. A local paperboy found her body just before dawn, outside Beal’s Laundromat. She had been beaten to death in what police called a frenzied attack.
Tonia was just seven when her mother was killed—a traumatic loss that reshaped the course of h...
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June 3, 2025 • 32 mins
1976 - Lewiston, Maine.
On a cold November morning in 1976, 27-year-old Dorothy Milliken—Dotty to those who loved her—was found bludgeoned to death outside Beal’s Laundromat in Lewiston, ME. A paperboy made the grim discovery around 4:30 a.m. She’d gone out to do some late-night laundry, and while the city still slept, someone ended her life. Her killer has never been caught.
As the years passed, Dorothy’s case went cold. B...
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May 27, 2025 • 40 mins
1988 - Cranston, Rhode Island.
Around 11 p.m. on July 19, 1988, a Cranston police officer came across an abandoned car in the breakdown lane of Route 10. The vehicle belonged to the mother of 18-year-old Lauren Morris, a recent graduate of Bristol High, who had been reported missing after borrowing it to run errands. Blood found inside the car suggested something was terribly wrong.
Just beyond the guardrail, a short distanc...
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May 6, 2025 • 54 mins
1980 - Methuen, Massachusetts.
With Christmas fast approaching, 30-year-old William “Bill” Durney was picking up extra shifts at his job delivering gas. In the early hours of October 10, 1980, during a stop at Joe’s Shell in Methuen, MA, Bill was shot twice by an unknown assailant while setting up for the delivery. He died on the scene, leaving behind a wife and three young children. The motive remains unknown.
After early lea...
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