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Murders and Minivans explores the world of true crime through the lens of everyday motherhood. Each episode takes listeners deep into cases ranging from notorious murders to overlooked crimes, offering thorough research, thoughtful discussion, and fresh perspectives.

Podcast · By Tali & Stephanie · English · US · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
12
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Sep 14, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 14, 2026

    The Shafia Murders: A Family Project (opens the original)

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    On June 30, 2009, a black Nissan Sentra was found submerged at the Kingston Mills locks on the Rideau Canal with four bodies inside: Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, 17, Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52. The family called Rona the girls' aunt. She was their father's first wife, in a polygamous marriage Canadian immigration knew nothing about. Within three weeks, Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their 18-year-old son Hamed were charged with four counts of first-degree murder

  2. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    Mica Miller: Death of a Pastor's Wife (opens the original)

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    mica miller: the trial that isn't about her death mica miller was found dead on april 27, 2024, at lumber river state park in robeson county, north carolina, about seventy miles from her home in myrtle beach. she was 30. the robeson county sheriff's office determined she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the north carolina medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. investigators said there was no evidence her estranged husband was involved in it. that is where most cases end. this one did

  3. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    The Freeway Phantom Murders (opens the original)

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    between april 1971 and september 1972, six young Black girls disappeared from southeast washington, d.c. they were ten to eighteen years old. they were walking home from the store. going to work. going to night class. coming home from a boyfriend's house. their bodies were found along highways in and around d.c. and maryland. Carol Spinks. Darlenia Johnson. Brenda Crockett. Nenomoshia Yates. Brenda Woodard. Diane Williams. at first the murders were not connected. different detectives worked diff

  4. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    The Lizzie Borden Story (opens the original)

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    On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ten months later, Andrew's daughter Lizzie was tried for both murders and acquitted in about ninety minutes. Nobody else was ever charged. Everyone knows the rhyme. Almost none of it is true. The weapon was a hatchet. Abby was Lizzie's stepmother. And the autopsy records eighteen wounds to Abby and ten to Andrew, not forty and forty-one. This episode isn't an attempt to solve it. The case can't be s

  5. Episode · Aug 17, 2026

    The Tylenol Murders (opens the original)

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    Seven people in Chicago died in three days in 1982 after taking Extra Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide. Nobody has ever been charged. Every seal on your medicine bottle comes from this case. On September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village named Mary Kellerman took a capsule for a sore throat before school. She was dead within hours. By the end of that week, six more people were dead across the Chicago suburbs, including three members of the same family who took capsules fro

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