Murder Unscripted

Murder Unscripted

Veteran true-crime producer, Ed (Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, City Confidential) and his crime encyclopedia gal pal, Melissa, bring you the most immersive podcast in the genre - breaking down the barrier between fan and creator. Expect deep dives into obscure stories, interviews with with victim's families, investigators, and other insiders, and behind-the-scenes insight on your favorite crime shows from a seasoned industry professional...all with a touch of humor to lighten even the darkest tales. 👉 New episodes every Tuesday. 🌐 For more information about us and the show, visit our website at: www.MurderUnscriptedPod.com E-mail: murderunscriptedpod@gmail.com Follow us on socials 👇 FB - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557418124048 Insta - https://www.instagram.com/murderunscripted/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@murderunscripted ⚠️ Graphic details; listener discretion advised.

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Ep:121 | The Pillow Pyro, Part 2 | How A Fire Captain Became A Serial Arsonist | Murder Unscripted

September 15, 2026 • 84 mins
For years, a serial arsonist burned his way across California and vanished before the smoke cleared. In Part 2, we finally put a name and a face to him, and it is the last person anyone suspected: John Orr, a celebrated Glendale fire captain and arson investigator. Orr did not just work near the case, he helped run it. He photographed the scenes, argued the theories, and chased the very fires he had set, including the deadly South...
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Ep: 120 | A Cigarette, Three Matches, and a Rubber Band | The Pillow Pyro (Part 1) | Murder Unscripted

September 8, 2026 • 78 mins
A cigarette, three matches, and a rubber band. For most of the 1980s, that was all it took for a serial arsonist to burn his way across California and vanish before the smoke was even spotted. Most of the fires destroyed property. One destroyed a family. A fire at a crowded hardware store in South Pasadena killed four people, including a child, and was quietly ruled an accident, letting the man responsible keep going for years. Mel...
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Ep. 119 | Murders of Barbara Walsh & Renee Powell | He Set 7 Fires to Erase Himself. He Missed One Thing | Murder Unscripted

September 1, 2026 • 65 mins
Shoreline, Washington, 1995. Firefighters knock down a small apartment fire and find a woman's body inside. One month later, 50 feet away, it happens again. Two ordinary, kind women were murdered in nearly identical attacks by a man who brought nothing with him. He used the victims' own belongings, disabled their smoke detectors, and set the fires to erase himself completely. For two years, it worked. Ed opens September’s &ld...
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Ep: 118 | A Conversation with Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick | Pioneer of Genetic Genealogy | Murder Unscripted

August 25, 2026 • 65 mins
Her degree says nuclear physics but her work changed the way cold cases are solved. ⬇️ To close out our Killer Connections block, Ed and Melissa sit down with the woman whose name has come up all month long: Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick. Before forensic genetic genealogy was a headline, before it was even a field, Colleen saw a different way to use DNA. She founded Identifinders International, helped turn distant relatives into the ke...
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Ep. 117 | Murder of Cliff & Linda Bernhardt | Killers Leaves Bowl of Ice Near Victim's Body | Murder Unscripted

August 18, 2026 • 59 mins
Billings, Montana, November 1973. Cliff and Linda Bernhardt set their dinner table for three and welcomed a guest they trusted. By the next morning, the young couple were dead, and the killer had staged the scene in a way so strange it would puzzle investigators for the next 45 years. Cliff had survived the jungles of Vietnam. He didn't survive dinner at his own table. Melissa covers Week 3 of Killer Connections: a bizarre 1973 col...
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Ep:116 | The Murder of Leslie Preer | A Killer Hidden in Her Daughter’s Past | Murder Unscripted

August 11, 2026 • 95 mins
On the morning of May 2, 2001, Leslie Preer -- a warm, generous 48-year-old woman who her family said saw the world through rose-colored glasses -- didn't show up to work in Washington DC. Her boss drove to the family home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her husband Sandy met him there. When police arrived, they found Leslie on the bathroom floor, under the running shower, having suffered a brutal attack. From the beginning, investigat...
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Ep:115 | The Murder of Roxanne Wood | 35-year-old Cold Case Solved with Genetic Genealogy | Murder Unscripted

August 4, 2026 • 70 mins
35 years cold. 6 cells worth of DNA. One pink-haired genealogist. ⬇️ Roxanne Wood was murdered in her home in Niles, Michigan in February 1987. Her husband Terry was never charged, but he was never cleared either. For 35 years, a small town called him "Slash" to his face. The real killer was a stranger who lived a few miles away and had never been in the case file. The case was cracked by genetic genealogy using a DNA sample so...
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Ep:114 | A Conversation with Celeste Walsen, DVM | Courthouse Dogs Foundation | Murder Unscripted

July 28, 2026 • 58 mins
She brought dogs into the courtroom! Listen to find out how. Most true crime content is about catching the bad guy. This episode covers what happens afterwards - specifically, the moment a child has to walk into a room full of strangers and say out loud what happened to them. Courthouse facility dogs sit with victims and witnesses (many of them children) during forensic interviews, depositions, and testimony. They reduce cortisol...
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Ep:113 | The Murder of Frances Fitts | Dog Finds Evidence of Murder and Changes Texas Law | Murder Unscripted

July 21, 2026 • 61 mins
Frances Fritts was murdered in a house fire in Brenham, Texas in 1994. Her husband Charles walked out without a scratch. He had $800,000 in insurance lined up, a girlfriend abroad, and a Mercedes ad running in the local paper. Investigators had plenty of motive. What they needed was proof the fire was set deliberately. That proof came from two dogs named Samantha and Jager - hydrocarbon-sniffing K-9s who alerted to accelerant in ...
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Ep:112 | The Murder of Carlos Maldonado | Kevin Lychwick Kills Neighbor As Part of 'Operation Slop Shop' | Murder Unscripted

July 14, 2026 • 78 mins
He named his murder plan "Operation Slop Shop" and his neighbor was first on the list. Carlos Maldonado was a 55-year-old dad rebuilding his life - starting a window tinting business and rekindling a relationship with his daughter Talisa. On April 14th, 2024, he vanished without a trace. His body wasn't found until October 30th - wrapped in tarp and garbage bags, tied with rope, hidden on a wooded hill less than 200 feet from hi...
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Ep:111 | The Murder of the Caneiro Family | Man Kills and Burns His Brother's Entire Family | Murder Unscripted

July 7, 2026 • 72 mins
Two fires. One night. Four bodies. His own brother was behind everything. In the early hours of November 20th, 2018, a 911 call came in reporting a house fire in Ocean Township, New Jersey. Within hours, a second 911 call came in from a neighborhood fifteen miles away in Colts Neck. A man had gone outside to check on his generator after a mysterious power failure. He never came back in. His wife and two children were still insid...
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Ep:110 | A Conversation with Steve & Kristi Goncalves (Parents of Kaylee Goncalves) | Never-before-heard Stories about Kaylee | Murder Unscripted

June 30, 2026 • 87 mins
Kaylee's parents sit down to address the recently released autopsy details, the relentless online conspiracies, and share never-before-heard stories about their daughter Kaylee. The media dubbed them "The Idaho Four." But behind that moniker were four individuals with four families and four futures. One of them was Kaylee Goncalves...a bright, bubbly 21-year-old who had the world by a string. And while everyone knows the story of...
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Ep:109 | The Murder of Katherine Foster | Her Best Friend Wanted Her Man, So She Killed Her | Murder Unscripted

June 23, 2026 • 81 mins
They were the 3 musketeers. One of them was a killer. In February 1980, 18-year-old University of South Alabama freshman Katherine Foster was supposed to meet her two best friends for a trip to the mall. She never showed up. Days later, a search party found her body in the woods just a few hundred yards from campus -- laying flat on her back, fully clothed, makeup intact, looking for all the world like she had simply laid down to ...
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Ep:108 | The Murder of Jeanne Clery | Co-Ed's Brutal Death Changes Campus Safety Laws Across the Country | Murder Unscripted

June 16, 2026 • 82 mins
On April 5th, 1986, Howard and Connie Clery returned home from a vacation in Bermuda to find a police car waiting in their driveway. Their 19-year-old daughter Jeanne had been found murdered in her dorm room at Lehigh University. What the Clerys discovered in the aftermath was as infuriating as it was devastating. In the three years before Jeanne's murder, there had been 38 violent crimes at Lehigh including rapes, robberies, agg...
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Ep: 107 | The Murder of Sophie Sergie | Genetic Genealogy Solves 28-year-old Alaskan Cold Case | Murder Unscripted

June 9, 2026 • 66 mins
Alaskan Sophie Sergie came from a remote Yupik village of 70 people. She was going to be the first in her family to graduate college. The last thing she told her family was a promise to bring her little brother a brand new kite. She never came home. On April 25th, 1993, Sophie Sergie was found violently murdered in a University of Alaska Fairbanks dorm bathroom. Her case went cold, and it stayed that way for more than a quarter cen...
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Ep:106 | The Murder of Yeardley Love | The Obsessive Ex-Boyfriend and the Missed Warning Signs | Murder Unscripted

June 2, 2026 • 69 mins
Yeardley Love was 22 years old and ten weeks from graduating from the University of Virginia. She was a D1 lacrosse player, a political science major with plans for law school in New York, and by every account, the kind of person who made every room warmer just by being in it. She was also in an abusive relationship with a men's lacrosse player, George Huguely V, that had been escalating for years. Obsessive contact. Jealousy. Phys...
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Ep:105 | A Conversation with Dr. Mildred Muhammad | Ex-wife of the DC Sniper | Murder Unscripted

May 26, 2026 • 87 mins
If you haven't listened to our DC Sniper episode yet (E104), start there first. This is the conversation that follows it. Dr. Mildred Muhammad was married to John Allen Muhammad for 12 years. She knew him as a soldier, a father, a man she loved. What she didn't know was that after their separation, he had begun stalking her, that he had kidnapped their three children and taken them to Antigua for 18 months using forged documents, t...
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Ep:104 | The DC Sniper | 10 People Killed at Random in Bizarre Murder Plot | Murder Unscripted

May 19, 2026 • 76 mins
In October 2002, the Washington DC area woke up to something it had never felt before. People were being shot at gas stations, in parking lots, at bus stops, at a school...apparently at random, by someone nobody could see, in a car nobody could find. Police were sprinting between active scenes. Schools canceled outdoor activities. People crouched at gas pumps trying to make themselves smaller targets. Senators got police escorts to...
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Ep:103 | The Siberian Werewolf | Cop Turned Serial Killer Claims More Than 80 Victims | Murder Unscripted

May 12, 2026 • 64 mins
In post-Soviet Siberia, women were disappearing from the streets of Angarsk. Their bodies turned up in forests and industrial wastelands, mutilated beyond recognition. The weapons changed every time, but the tire tracks at the scenes were always from the same vehicle: a Lada Niva, the standard-issue Soviet police truck. The man driving it was Mikhail Popkov: junior police lieutenant, champion biathlete, beloved neighbor, husband a...
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Ep:102 | Herb Baumeister | The Serial Killer You've Never Heard About | 10,000 Bones in Backyard | Murder Unscripted

May 5, 2026 • 68 mins
His 13-year-old son found a skull in the backyard. Herb Baumeister said it was from his father's medical collection. His wife believed him. Over ten thousand human bone fragments were eventually recovered from Fox Hollow Farm — the 18-acre Indiana estate where Herb hosted family pool parties, ran a thrift store empire, and murdered at least eleven men, possibly twenty-five, while his wife and kids had no idea. Melissa walks t...
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