HeyJaredUnder the Pines: Stories From North-Central Massachusetts
In the small cities and backroads of North-Central Massachusetts—Fitchburg, Leominster, Gardner, and the towns that border their woods—silence has a long memory.
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Connecticut River Valley Killer: Five Women, New Hampshire Cold Cases and an Unproven Theory | Part One (opens the original)
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Five New Hampshire cold cases became linked in public memory to one of New England true crime’s most enduring mysteries. Part One follows Catherine Millican, Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Critchley, Bernice Courtemanche, Ellen Fried, and Eva Morse, and asks what the evidence actually supports about the so-called Connecticut River Valley Killer. These were women with jobs, families, plans, and people waiting for them. Between 1978 and 1986, their disappearances and deaths began forming a disturbing patt
The Fall River Cult Murders: Doreen Levesque, Barbara Raposa, Karen Marsden & the Satanic Panic (opens the original)
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The Fall River Cult Murders remain one of Massachusetts true crime’s most disturbing and disputed stories. In 1979 and 1980, Doreen Levesque, Barbara Ann Raposa, and Karen Marsden were killed in and around Fall River. Their deaths became tied to allegations of a Satanic cult, ritual murder, prostitution, drugs, fear, and a witness whose story would later change. This episode of Under the Pines goes back beneath the cult label to the three young women themselves. Doreen was seventeen and weeks fr
Helle Crafts and the Woodchipper Murder: Richard Crafts and Connecticut’s Landmark No-Body Conviction (opens the original)
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Helle Crafts and the Woodchipper Murder is one of Connecticut’s most infamous true-crime cases, but the machine should never be the center of the story. Helle was a 39-year-old Danish-born Pan Am flight attendant, mother of three, cancer survivor, friend, and a woman preparing to leave a marriage that had become frightening to her. After returning home to Newtown from Frankfurt on November 18, 1986, Helle vanished during a powerful snowstorm. Her friends knew the idea that she had simply walked
The Murder of Fern Feather: Seth Brunell, the Vermont Trial That Fell Apart, and a Family Denied a Verdict (opens the original)
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Fern Feather was 29 years old, ten days from her 30th birthday, when an act of kindness placed Seth Brunell inside her car. Several days after she stopped for the hitchhiker, Fern was found fatally stabbed beside a rural road in Morristown, Vermont. Brunell admitted using the knife and claimed self-defense. This episode of Under the Pines begins with Fern’s life before the headlines: her love of tropical plants, flowers, animals, travel, and the friends who remembered her as a wildflower and a f
Who Killed Bobbie Miller? The Unsolved Halloween Weekend Murder in Gilford, New Hampshire (opens the original)
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On Halloween weekend in 2010, 54-year-old Bobbie Miller was beginning again in Gilford, New Hampshire. She had a new home, a business degree in progress, flower boxes waiting to be built, and a yellow Labrador named Sport at her side. By the evening of November 1, Bobbie and Sport had been found shot to death inside the house on Country Club Road. There was no sign of forced entry. Investigators narrowed the critical window to the 25 hours between 4:00 p.m. on October 31 and 5:00 p.m. on Novembe
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