LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette team up each week to tell stories of love and relationships gone fatally wrong. This show is all about seemingly normal people driven to terrible madness by passion and rage. Hang out with your new best friends each week to discover how someone can go from sweet to murderous in the blink of an eye, and to hear all the ways murder can give love a real bad name.
Episodes
May 24, 2024 • 6 mins
On this edition of Current Affairs, Jessie and Andie provide an update on the murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston cop John O'Keefe.
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/karen-read-trial-day-15/3375169/
https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/star-witness-at-murde...
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May 22, 2024 • 78 mins
Originally recorded as a Patreon.
Karen Read is on trial for murdering her boyfriend John O'Keefe with an SUV during a winter storm. Andie provides a background on the case, including a play-by-play of the night of the incident and the big questions that have divided a Massachusetts community.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Umsz9NZ8Dxv6SnxX7rzvB7QKsT-pgD89DR7QelGHSB4/edit?usp=sharing
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May 17, 2024 • 7 mins
In this week's Current Affairs, Jessie and Andie bring you two cases. The first is the disappearance and murder of Suzanne Morphew. The case has been ongoing for years but has seen new developments. The second is a current case of a disappearance where the husband in question was just arrested.
Sources:
https://people.com/suzanne-morphew-vanished-mothers-day-four-years-ago-what-to-know-8645318
https://cbi.colorado.gov/news-article...
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May 15, 2024 • 97 mins
Tragedy strikes when a mother is killed seemingly accidentally on the last day of deer-hunting season in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. When her husband displays some shocking behavior, authorities take a closer look at her death.
Sources:
The Sweater Letter (reprinted as Hunt to Kill) by Dave Distal
Forensic Files S9E2
American Justice - The Deer Hunting Murder
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May 10, 2024 • 9 mins
This week on Current Affairs, Jessie and Andie give updates in two cases including that of the radiologist who drove his family off a California cliff only to have everyone survive. In their main story, they cover Mica Miller. Miller's suicide has gotten national attention due to the strange circumstances surrounding it.
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May 8, 2024 • 105 mins
This week we will be talking about a case that starts like a romance novel, but ends like a psychological thriller. When two lovers reunited on the 20th anniversary of their first meeting, a whirlwind romance ensues, and wedding bells ring. When one of the grooms falls dead of mysterious causes, suspicion falls on his handsome husband.
Sources:
Love Until Death by Mark Seal
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2022/05/17/scam...
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Couples who murder together don't usually stay together. However, Allen Morgan and Margaret Spooner Morgan may be the exception. The couple are currently on trial in the UK for planning the murder of Allen's previous wife Carol all the way back in 1981.
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://people.com/married-couple-accused-arranging-bruta...
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When a young man with a good family background is accused of annihilating his entire family in a cold-blooded triple homicide, authorities and the media alike attempt to uncover how and why this tragedy occurred.
Sources:
CNTL+ALT+DESIRE on Paramount Plus
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/amato-family-murders
"For the Love of a Cam Girl"
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April 24, 2024 • 110 mins
Three seemingly unconnected murders occur within a six-week period in two different states in 1985. Eventually law enforcement is able to trace all three victims to one obsessive love affair. That's just scratching the surface on this very intense 200th episode!
Sources:
The Soldier of Fortune Murders: A True Story of Obsessive Love and Muder for Hire, by Ben Green: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soldier_of_Fortune_Murd...
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April 19, 2024 • 5 mins
This week Andie and Jessie cover the story of Cedric Robertson and Nakita Davison, who was found dead in the trunk of her car. They also cover the sad story of Sade Robinson who was allegedly murdered by Maxwell Anderson after a first date
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources
https://www.facebook.com/MilwaukeeCountySheriff/posts/820071280165934?re...
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April 17, 2024 • 73 mins
Neighbors in 1950 Factoryville, PA are concerned when a once-friendly couple begins acting shady. A married man receiving Lonely Hearts magazines certainly raised some eyebrows, but concern turned to alarm when Anna Homeyer disappeared without her beloved cat Mickey.
Sources:
Disposable Income: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Im-purr-fect Murder by Tammy Mal
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A pizza parlor owner in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to murdering her common law husband and co-owner and leaving his body in their bedroom for weeks. She also hired a contractor to dig a 7x3x3 foot hole in their driveway with the intent to bury the body.
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://6abc.com/anna-maria-tolomello-case-pinas-pi...
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April 10, 2024 • 94 mins
Attorney Kevin Bryant and his wife Tabatha seemingly had a picture perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a thriving law practice, two gorgeous children and they even made time to volunteer at their church. When Tabatha is gruesomely murdered in the family's home, however, the police discover several shockingly sorted secrets and fatal betrayals.
Sources:
Betrayal In Blood by Michael Benson
Someone You Throught You Knew S1E3
O...
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April 5, 2024 • 8 mins
The Au Pair Affair: Plots, Fetish Websites, and a Double Murder [Current Affairs - Ad Free]
Last February a young mother and nurse and a man she had met on a fetish website were brutally killed. Seven months later, the woman's au pair was arrested, and questions around the husband remain.
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://people.com/h...
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April 3, 2024 • 119 mins
A love triangle between a prison employee and two dangerous inmates turns deadly when she helps to facilitate their escape. The convicted murderers would be on the run for three weeks, stoking terror into the Adirondack region of New York State.
Sources:
Escape from Dannemora by Michael Benson
Wild Escape by Chelsea Rose Marcius
Cellmate Secrets S7E3
Showtime Series: Escape at Dannemora
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March 27, 2024 • 102 mins
When an attractive acclaimed surf photographer and a handsome airline pilot cross paths in 1990's Hawaii, the chemistry is electric. Only four years into their marriage, however, one would kill the other on a fatal camping trip. The authorities would be forced to attempt to separate fact from fiction.
Sources:
Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule
First Degree Podcast
Murder in the Rain Podcast
Articles from OregonLive.com, Williamette We...
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March 23, 2024 • 8 mins
This week on Current Affairs:
An update in the Kouri Richins case
Richard Sotka convicted of double murder of Rhonda Cegelski and Paula O'Connor
The murder of Curtis Engeland
Deborah Frazier and Thomas Waddell
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://people.com/richard-sotka-convicted-murder-two-green-bay-women-8608949
https://www.nbcne...
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March 20, 2024 • 108 mins
Unrequited love, drugs and seething jealousies poison the complicated relationships between three promising young adults in Austin, Texas. After a night of partying, something goes tragically wrong and the victim's loved ones are left in a never-ending nightmare.
Sources:
A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey
The Orange Tree Podcast - Season 1 (later rebranded to "Darkness")
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Jesse Alvarez has been convicted of the murder of Mario Fierro, the new partner of his ex-girlfriend. One of the pieces of evidence that helped aid the conviction? Some VERY incriminating Google searches.
Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://people.com/man-who-googled-how-to-kill-your-exs-fiance-convicted-murder-8608745
https://people.co...
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March 13, 2024 • 65 mins
An affair between a US District Attorney and a Congressman's wife results in a murder in broad daylight, only steps away from the White House. It's a ye olde star-spangled scandal, and the very first time the temporary insanity defense was used in court.
Sources:
Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder and the Trial that Changed America by Chris DeRose
Jealous Rage Vol 1 by R. Barri Flowers
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