The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 2
Part One left off with detectives certain that groundskeeper Brandon Nodier killed pet cemetery owner Dorothy Thompson — but unable to prove it. In Part Two, we dig into an even wilder theory: that Do...
30 Syys 39min
The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 1
In 1985, two fishermen pulled a body wrapped in 200 pounds of chains from the Mississippi River. It was Dorothy Thompson, 63, who ran a strange and beloved roadside attraction outside New Orleans call...
23 Syys 29min
Who Killed Roxanne? How a podcast helped solve a 44-year-old Louisiana murder
In 1982, 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was raped and murdered in the woods outside Covington, Louisiana. Her case went cold for over 40 years, derailed early on by a serial killer's false confession. Then...
16 Syys 35min
She Killed the Man Who Almost Killed Her: The Jema Heffernan Story, Part 2
Part One left off with Jema Heffernan taking in a man named Javon Donahue — and Javon nearly strangling her to death. In Part Two, that single act of violence hardens into a decade-long "hostage relat...
9 Syys 29min
She Killed the Man Who Almost Killed Her: The Jema Heffernan Story, Part 1
Lloyd Lockridge:Journalist Justine van der Leun set out to find the untold stories of women serving murder sentences after surviving years of abuse — women whose only official record reads "guilty," w...
2 Syys 27min
Colonel Dixie: The Murder of Liz Leverett
In the mid-1960s, McDonald's sued a tiny Mobile, Alabama fast-food chain called Colonel Dixie — over golden arches, green sidewalks, red and white trash cans, and a stolen operations manual. Colonel D...
26 Elo 32min
The Rise and Fall of Jacklean Davis, New Orleans' First Black Female Homicide Detective
Jacklean Davis was the first Black woman to make homicide detective in the New Orleans Police Department. She grew up in Central City, inspired by a Black patrol officer known on the street as Christy...
19 Elo 34min
J.J.: The Undercover FBI Agent Who Took Down Len Davis and New Orleans' Dirtiest Cops
Len Davis was a New Orleans police officer known in the Desire projects as Robocop and the Desire Terrorist. In 1994 he ordered the murder of Kim Groves, a 32-year-old mother of three who had filed a ...
12 Elo 47min
