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LOVE MURDER
by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
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
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders
At the end of a long, dirt road in the wilds of Georgia, two men created a world entirely their own—part sanctuary, part gothic fantasy. There were rumors of devil worship and sinful orgies—but when evil came to Corpsewood in the winter of 1982—it came from the outside world. Sources: 1. Petulla,...
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Christa Pike Survived Her Own Execution [Current Affairs]
In 1995, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee, by a classmate who believed she was after her boyfriend. Christa Pike spent the next three decades as the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. On September 30th, the state gave her two doses of pentobarbital, and she did…
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The Beauty Queen and the Bad Apple: Allison Baden-Clay
When accomplished executive and former beauty queen Allison Baden-Clay disappeared from her Brisbane home, suspicion quickly turned toward her husband Gerard. Scratches on his face, a secret affair, financial trouble, and a trail of lies would make the case one of Australia’s most notorious...
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Hockey & Home Invasions: Tom Clayton & Kelley Stage Clayton
Kelley Clayton seemed to have built the perfect life: a beautiful home, two beloved young children, and a marriage to a handsome former professional athlete — but when that picture-perfect life is shattered by a brutal murder, the police dig through the wreckage to discover dark lies and hidden...
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A Body in the Crawlspace and a 24-Year-Old Cold Case [Current Affairs]
Human remains found in the crawlspace of a Big Bear Lake home in 2020 are identified as Jill Maiorca, who went missing in 2007, and her former husband is charged with first-degree murder. In Pennsylvania, a grand jury hears from previously reluctant witnesses, and the man accused of raping and...
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Kissing & Killing Cousins: Susie Newsome Lynch, Fritz Klenner, and the Bitter Blood Murders
When investigators link two very different sets of multiple murders, they uncover one disturbing connection. This connection reveals a bitter family feud, a vicious custody battle, and a relationship that may have pushed everyone involved past the point of no return. These are the Bitter Blood...
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Husband Charged 19 Years After Wife’s Murder at His Amusement Park [Current Affairs]
In 2006, mother of three Doris Worrell was shot and killed at the Georgia amusement park owned by her husband, Jon Worrell. Nearly two decades later, after years abroad and a new interview with the family’s former nanny, Jon was arrested and accused of arranging his wife’s murder. Current Affairs...
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Influence to Kill: Jack Avery & Gabbie Gonzalez
They were young, beautiful, famous and raising a child together — a boy band heartthrob and influencer whose relationship played out in front of millions of fans. But after their romance fell apart, one member of the couple decided a breakup wasn’t enough. Sources: 1. “Gabbie Gonzalez Case, Who…
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Six Weeks a Mother: The Murder of Brandi Hornsby [Current Affairs]
Brandi Hornsby was 24 and six weeks into being a mother when she was killed in her Stockton, California home in the fall of 2021. When her mother came looking for her three days later, Brandi's boyfriend attacked her too, then fled with the baby. This week, after a five-day manhunt, a SWAT...
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Murder on Big Moose Lake: Grace Brown & Chester Gillette
In July of 1906, two young lovers checked into an Adirondack hotel before setting out alone on Big Moose Lake in a rented rowboat. Only one of them would return, and the subsequent trial would become a media sensation; inspire famous novels, movies, and more than one ghost story. Sources: Murder…
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The Devil at Angel’s Landing: Bernadette and David Vander Meer
A 10th wedding anniversary hike ends in tragedy when one member of the couple falls 1,200 feet to their death. It’s quickly ruled an accident, but nearly 20 years later, a tip from a surprising source blows the whole case wide open, revealing dark secrets and treacherous betrayals. Sources: 1....
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The Three-Hour 911 Delay in the Death of Destiny Dunn [Current Affairs]
When 37-year-old mother Destiny Dunn was found dead in a Missouri motel room, her partner Nicholas Ayres was charged with her murder. Investigators say his own videos and a series of disturbing 911 calls reveal what happened in the hours before her death. Find LOVE MURDER online: Website:...
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Reprehensible: Susan and Jimmy Grund
The Grunds of Peru, Indiana were a couple people just couldn’t help but notice. Susan was a glamorous younger wife, Jim a high-powered atty. Together they made a dashing couple and had all the trappings of wealth: a beautiful home, fancy trips, a Cessna airplane, designer duds and the best that...
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Introducing “Kouri Richins: The Children’s Author Who Killed Her Husband” from RedHanded
Today, we are sharing part one of a two-part series from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile murders and cults to con artists and cultural catastrophes, always...
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Obsessed: The Toxic Love of Barbara Piotrowsky & Richard “Dick” Minns
When a 27-year-old beauty queen and Houston-area nurse is shot multiple times in a donut shop parking lot, the authorities have to follow a twisted path to finally catch the mastermind of the attack. Sources: 1. Finstad, Suzanne. Sleeping with the Devil. 1992. 2. Cosgrove, John, and Terry Dunn...
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Courtney Clenney Sentenced as D4vd Is Ordered to Stand Trial [Current Affairs]
Jessie and Andie bring major updates in two cases previously covered by Love Murder: Courtney Clenney accepts a plea deal in the fatal stabbing of Christian Obumseli, while disturbing new evidence is revealed as singer D4vd is ordered to stand trial for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas...
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The Widower and the Au Pair: Jason Corbett and Molly Martens
In the summer of 2006, a young mother in Limerick, Ireland suffered an asthma attack at home. She didn't survive. Her husband was left alone with two babies, a dog, and a house full of grief. So he did what any desperate parent would do. He asked for help. He just had no idea what was coming....
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Senseless: The Murder of Janice Zengotita-Torres
When a devoted mother & wife vanishes on the ten-minute drive between her work at a discount clothing store and home, police look at the most likely suspects—but after some acting on the kidnapped woman’s “behalf,” they catch on to a shocking plot & terribly senseless act committed in the name of...
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Sara Gilson Killed Days After Viral TikTok About Estranged Husband [Current Affairs]
Oklahoma influencer and mother of two Sara Gilson was trying to escape an allegedly abusive marriage when she learned her estranged husband, youth basketball coach Jeremiah Duffey, was accused of sexually abusing a teenage player. Less than two weeks after Sara posted a viral TikTok about the...
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Force of Nature: The Hurricane Harvey Murder of Crystal McDowell
A loving mother with a tragic past disappears during Hurricane Harvey, leading investigators to suspect the three men closest to her. Sources: 1. 48 Hours. 1988. 2. Dateline NBC. 1992. 3. Maines, Don. “Baytown Woman’s Murder Case Is Solved – OutSmart Magazine.” OutSmart Magazine, OutSmart…
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The Houston Murder Suspect Fighting Extradition From Italy [Current Affairs]
Lee Gilley was awaiting trial for the capital murder of his pregnant wife, Christa Bauer Gilley, when prosecutors say he cut off his ankle monitor, fled the country using forged documents, and sought asylum in Italy. Now, an Italian appeals court has temporarily blocked his extradition over...
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The Fatal Attraction Murder: Carolyn Warmus, Paul Solomon, Betty Jeanne Solomon
A stagnant long-term marriage comes to a shocking end when one member of the couple is murdered in their own home. But was the killer the spouse, the wife’s lover, or any of the husband’s mistresses? Phone records eventually put a private eye of murky ethics on the investigator’s radar and…
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Dial-Up Deception: Carolyn “Sherry” Durall and Robert Durall
To friends and neighbors, Bob and Sherry Durall looked like a busy, happily married couple raising three children in the suburbs of Seattle. Behind the image of family, faith and stability, however, was a darker story - one that would lead detectives into the strange new world of internet dating...
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Four Months Married, Eight Months to Charges [Current Affairs]
In this episode of Love Murder Current Affairs, in Bellevue, Washington, software engineer Avinash Narne has been charged with murdering his wife, Raajitha Sabbineni, eight months after he reported finding her unresponsive behind a locked bathroom door — an arranged marriage that lasted four...
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Rachel Nickell and the Wimbledon Common Honey Trap
On July 15, 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon Common in broad daylight, with her two-year-old son as the only witness. With no DNA at the scene, police fixated on the wrong man, building an infamous honey trap operation around a profiler's hunch while the real killer…
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Bernadette Vander Meer's Accident Became a Murder Twenty Years Later [Current Affairs]
In August 2006, Bernadette Vander Meer fell 1,200 feet from the summit of Angels Landing in Zion National Park on what was supposed to be her tenth anniversary trip. Authorities called it an accident and closed the case. Twenty years later — after a tip from a former youth group member, a phone...
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A Fatal Fourth of July: The Murder of Football Legend Steve McNair
A former football superstar Steve McNair seemed to have it all: fame, fortune, family and a lasting legacy. But a secret affair was quietly unraveling, and before the 4th of July holiday weekend was over, two people would be left dead. Sources: 1. Hill, Vincent. Incomplete Pass. 2026. 2. “Kazemi...
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Killer on Campus: The Murder of Jesse Valencia
When a popular, openly gay University of Missouri student is murdered on campus, police interview his friends and lovers as well as looking at the murder as a possible hate crime. The entire time the detectives are digging into Jesse’s personal life, the actual killer is hiding in plain sight…
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Gilgo Beach Killer Rex Heuermann Sentenced [Current Affairs]
Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of seven women, after admitting to killing eight over a 17-year span. This week, Jessie and Andie discuss the sentencing hearing, the families’ devastating victim impact statements, and the...
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Love, Lies and Ammunition: Louise and William Thoresen
When a young woman falls in love with a wealthy heir, she thinks she is marrying into a life of privilege and adventure. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a relationship filled with infidelity, abuse, fear, a crap ton of weaponry, and so many mysterious murders that there is a possible link…
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Same Week, Opposite Coasts: Two Relationships That Turned Fatal [Current Affairs]
Two women, decades apart in age, whose relationships turned deadly within days of each other. In Berkeley, thirty-seven-year-old Vanessa Sanchez was fighting Stage 4 breast cancer when the man police called her boyfriend walked into her apartment — and days later walked out with a roller…
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The Devastating Murder of Danielle Marshall
When a loving young mother is shot in cold blood, her nine-month-old daughter is left crying at the scene. Police interview several suspects, including her ex—the baby’s father—his current girlfriend, a man she had been dating, and another who wished he could. Sources: 1. “Danielle Marshall…
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A Family Killed in Muscatine [Current Affairs]
This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, Jessie covers the devastating case out of Muscatine, Iowa, where police say a domestic dispute ended with Ryan McFarland killing his ex-wife Lisa and five of her children across three locations before taking his own life. Family GoFundMe:...
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Ye Olde Sapphic Slashing: Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward
A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892 Memphis, Tennessee. Sources: 1. Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever. Millbrook Press, 2019. 2. News 3 Channel,...
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Myth and Murder in West Cork: The Story of Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French producer, wife, and mother who traveled alone to her remote cottage in West Cork just before Christmas 1996. Two days later, she was found dead outside her gate, beaten beyond recognition, in a case that drew in Irish folklore, French cinema, a...
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The Final Chapter for Three Infamous Women: Betty Broderick, Raynella Leath, and Claudine Longet [Current Affairs]
Three of our past subjects died this spring. Betty Broderick, who served 35 years for the 1989 La Jolla murders of her ex-husband Dan and his new wife Linda. Raynella Dossett Leath, the Tennessee nurse twice tried in the deaths of her district attorney husband and her second husband, and…
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Scandal at the Savoy: Marguerite Alibert & Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey
A tumultuous marriage between an Egyptian “prince” and a French courtesan with ties to the British Royal Family ends in murder at The Savoy in 1920’s London. Sources: 1. Rose, Andrew. The Woman Before Wallis. Picador, 2013. 2. Lady Killers. 1980. 3. Leake, Natasha. “How a Beguiling French…
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Kouri Richins Gets Life and Alex Murdaugh Gets Another Trial [Current Affairs]
This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, Jessie and Andie cover two major updates in cases of love gone fatally wrong: Kouri Richins is sentenced to life without parole for the fentanyl poisoning murder of her husband Eric, and the South Carolina Supreme Court overturns Alex Murdaugh’s murder...
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Murder on Bridle Path: Carol Kennedy and Steven DeMocker
When a beloved Arizona teacher, therapist, and artist is bludgeoned to death in her own home, suspicion falls on the two men who loved her — an ex-husband who couldn't accept the divorce, and the best friend living in her guest house. A phone call cut short, mysterious DNA under her fingernails,...
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A Houston Family Annihilation and a Miami Sentencing [Current Affairs]
This week on Current Affairs, two cases of love gone fatally wrong. In Houston, restaurateur Matthew Mitchell shot and killed his wife Thy and their two young children before turning the gun on himself, leaving the city's food scene and a tight-knit family in shock. In Miami, 18-year-old Jahara...
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Bob Samuels and the Green Widow Murders
When a hardworking Hollywood cameraman is found shot dead in his Los Angeles home, police initially assume it’s a burglary gone wrong. With no forced entry and no stolen items, however, the investigation turns to personal vendettas, ultimately leading to the discovery of an additional linked…
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New Court Docs Reveal Grisly Allegations in the D4vd Case [Current Affairs]
New court filings lay out prosecutors’ most detailed theory yet in the case against singer d4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. This episode breaks down the latest developments, including the prosecution’s new evidence brief, the judge’s decision...
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Secrets and Sins in Ventura, California: Sherri and Mike Dally
When a devoted wife and mother is handcuffed in a Target parking lot in broad daylight by an official-looking woman wearing a badge, witnesses assume they are watching a real arrest. When the woman doesn’t return home and no police department can find any record of the detention, suspicion falls…
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Forty-Three Years Later, Teresa Peroni’s Family Gets an Answer [Current Affairs]
In this Current Affairs episode, Jessie and Andie cover the resolution of the decades-old disappearance of Teresa Peroni, who vanished after a Fourth of July party in Oregon in 1983. More than forty years later, modern DNA testing identified her remains, renewed witness interviews helped revive…
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Unicorn Killer: Ira Einhorn and Holly Maddux
A bright young woman from Texas falls in love with a self-proclaimed counterculture guru in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The relationship that ensues is incredibly toxic and results in a missing person's case. When the truth comes out, the suspect goes on a flight from justice that lasts for years...
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D4VD Arrest, Fairfax Murder-Suicide, and Ashlee Jenae’s Suspicious Death [Current Affairs]
Three developing cases: the arrest of singer David Burke, known as d4vd, in connection with the killing of 13-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez; the murder-suicide involving former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax and his wife Cerina Fairfax; and the death of influencer Ashly Robinson,...
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A Deadly Hunt: John Bruce Dodson and Janice Lee Dodson
When a newlywed is killed 3 months after their wedding, suspicion turns on the surviving spouse. Was it simply an accident or an act of jealous revenge? If so, was it the spouse or possibly the spouse’s ex? Sources: 1. Daniels, Frank J. Dead Center. 2. “A Murder Disguised as a Hunting Accident -...
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The Gilgo Beach Killer Pleads Guilty [Current Affairs]
Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect suspected in the Gilgo Beach serial murders, stood up in court and admitted to killing eight women over seventeen years. We break down the plea, the DNA evidence that finally caught him, and what this means for the families who waited more than a decade…
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The Perfect Accident: A Death in Gapyeong Valley
In the summer of 2019, a man drowned at a popular vacation spot outside Seoul while his wife stood just feet away on shore. What first looked like a tragic accident would unravel into a disturbing case involving financial control, multiple alleged murder attempts, an affair hidden in plain sight,...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Murder of Daphne Boyden & the Kidnapping of Le-Zhan Williams
In May of 1996 a young mother and honors student is murdered in her home and her newborn baby kidnapped. For 6 1/2 long years, there are no suspects nor baby sightings. Finally, once an anonymous tip comes in, the case is blown wide open and the child is found closer to home than anyone could…
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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.
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