Unsolved: The 1995 Disappearance of Robin Murphy | Part 1 with guest reader Nora McLellan

In the spring of 1995, seventeen-year-old Robin Murphy vanished after borrowing her mother’s car to visit her boyfriend in New York’s Hudson Valley. The car was found abandoned the next day — but Robin was gone. Just months earlier, 12-year-old Josette Wright disappeared in the same community. When Josette’s body was discovered, two men were convicted of her murder, but authorities insisted the cases weren’t connected.

This episode of She Goes By Jane examines Robin’s unsolved disappearance, the questions that still haunt her community, and why many believe her case may be linked to other crimes against women and girls.

📖 Featuring an original poem written in Robin’s honor, read by Canadian actor Nora McLellan.

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More about Nora McLellan: A veteran of both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, she has earned two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Jessie Award, and multiple nominations recognizing her versatility and craft. On stage, McLellan has starred in productions ranging from classics to contemporary hits, including Shirley Valentine (Grand Theatre), Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival), Hello Dolly (Citadel Theatre), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Vancouver Playhouse). At Stratford and Shaw, she has played leading roles in Cabaret, Gypsy, Saint Joan, The House of Bernarda Alba, and The Trojan Women, among dozens of others. Her screen work includes recurring and guest roles on Son of a Critch (Lionsgate/Project 10), Revival (SyFy), Killjoys (SyFy/Temple Street), Cardinal (CTV), Orphan Black (BBC America), and Saving Hope (CTV). Film credits include Sometimes the Good Kill, Tart, My Own Country (Showtime, directed by Mira Nair), and Double, Double, Toil and Trouble