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New Orleans Unsolved
by Anna Christie, Thanh Truong
New Orleans Unsolved is an independent narrative true crime podcast based in the historic city of New Orleans. Investigator/producer Anna Christie and veteran journalist Thanh Truong dive deep into unsolved cases and lesser-known stories from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Season 1 focused on the mysterious death of a teenager whose body was recovered from the Mississippi River. Season 2, The Rope Murders, revolves around a set of cold cases involving murder victims who were ritualistically tied up and left in desolate areas of Louisiana and Mississippi.
Episodes
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S2 Episode 44, Feed Your Mind
Fifty years. A handful of names that never quite go away. And the question I can't stop asking: when does a coincidence stop being a coincidence?
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S2 Episode 43, Annie Get Your Gun
How can you understand a story if you don't have all the pieces?
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S2 Update before Ep.43
Why have I been so quiet? That's a good question and I have an update for y'all.
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S2 Episode 42, Who's Watching Who?
The past always catches up. This episode breaks down how information has looped back around, connecting pieces of a puzzle that's been building for over six years.
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S2 Update to Ep.41
This is a brief update on what I’ve learned since the release of Episode 41 regarding the bodies I observed at St. Roch Cemetery in New Orleans. Since the episode aired, I’ve made efforts to get clarification and understand what I was seeing. This update reflects where things stand based on the...
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S2 Episode 41, Follow The Money
Every detail has its day.
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S2 Episode 40, The Playbook
A small discovery opens a much bigger path. Anna traces it, step by step, into places that have been overlooked for decades.
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S2 Episode 39, Something's Happening
As Stanley Burkhardt’s bid for bail is denied, years of chasing scattered leads finally pay off. Long-missing details come to light, revealing more about Burkhardt himself and the path he’s taken to escape accountability — until now. If you’d like to support this ongoing investigation, visit...
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S2 Episode 38 Don't Swing Twice
With the help of new information that has surfaced, I’m able to fit together pieces of the puzzle that had long remained disconnected. This episode traces the impact of that development—and the new clarity it brings to the investigation.
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S2 Episode 37, The Baby
Time takes everything but the truth.
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Update before Ep.37
Just a little update.
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S2 Episode 36, The Dogwood Tree
In this episode, Anna follows a trail of overlooked details—newspaper clippings, archived files, and a name buried in an old contact list—that led us to a hidden connection between two key figures. What began as a quiet hunch became a pivotal piece of the larger puzzle. You’ll hear how Anna's...
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S2 Episode 35, Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Anna receives some long awaited documents, uncovering a lead she never expected. A conversation she thought impossible finally happens, revealing critical new information. But just as the pieces start falling into place, a new discovery shifts the investigation.
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S2 Episode, 34 Chasing Time
No one's the villain in their own story.
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S2 Episode 33, In for a Penny, In for a Pound
In this episode Anna gives updates from leads she has been tracking down. Anna also has a meeting that doesn't get the results she was hoping for. However, a new lead that brings new information comes to light. You know what they say, when one door closes, another door opens.
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Update before Episode 33
I know I've been quiet. Here's an update before the next episode.
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S2 Episode 32, Hindsight is 20/20, The Rope Murders: The Investigation
A small detail revealed in a recent interview connects back to information from season one, bridging the gap between two criminals. The Eddie Wells case continues to be the nexus in every leg of the investigation.
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S2 Episode 31, The Thief/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
In this episode Anna focuses on two of the men convicted in Troop 137. More information comes to the surface that leads to implications of a cover-up , conspiracy or blackmail on a much larger scale. You'll also hear from an individual that witnessed the theft of an important recurring item.
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S2 Episode 30, House Of Cards/ The Rope Murder:The Investigation
This is the second half of episode 29. After you listen I think you'll understand why I had to break this up into two parts. Out of all the information I've received during this six year investigation, this is the most shocking so far. Every time I think it can't get worse, it does.
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S2 Episode 29, The Unraveling/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
This is a two part episode. The second part will come out tomorrow night at midnight. "A secret is a kind of promise ... It can also be a prison." –Jennifer Lee Carrell
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S2 Episode 28, Riding Shotgun/ The Rope Murders : The Investigation
In this bonus investigation episode, "This is just way way too much, I mean its unfolding, from what you are telling me its unfolding."
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S2 Episode 27, Write the Wrongs/The Rope Murders : The Investigation
New Orleans Unsolved began as a deep dive into one mysterious death. But in the six years Anna dedicated to investigate the cases that eventually became the basis for both seasons of the podcast, she discovered that rarely were the details isolated. They were part of a web consisting of cops,...
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S2 Episode 26, Yet Again/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
The path of Anna's investigation takes her back to Pass Christian, Mississippi for a second look at the location where Mark Richardson's body was discovered. We also hear about a more sinister undercurrent of what ties these cases together and the shocking news that brings us to the present day.
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S2 Episode 25, Take The Long Way Home / The Investigation
The Rope Murders took place at a time which preceded what we've all come to know as forensic science. The murders of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and Daniel Dewey were also comitted before the internet age . Anna's investigation of the murders has never revolved around web-sleuthing. Much of…
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S2 Episode 24, The Dead End Road/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Dead end roads don't always lead to dead ends, sometimes they lead to answers. Anna takes a trip to meet a listener that helps connect the dots to a location she has been searching for for years.
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S2 Episode 23, The Map/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
From digging into old records and newspaper archives to tracing faded genealogy lines, Anna has used different investigative techniques and tools. But the one tool that perhaps produced the most revelatory information has been a map that became available through a cab company. In this episode…
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S2 Episode 22, The Photos/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Over the course of six years and two seasons of the podcast, Anna has been trying to decipher the identities of the murdered teenage boys who ended up in the photos that were eventually shown to other children. The individual who showed them those photos was a child predator. Anna's investigation...
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S2 Episode 21, Devil in the Detail/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Anna unexpectedly connects with a woman who had information that sent her reeling. The years Anna has spent investigating the Rope Murders have been filled with attempts to connect deaths, details and decades. It’s been a constant pursuit of this theory that the murders of Dennis Turcotte, Mark...
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S2 Episode 20, The Leak/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
During Anna’s investigation of the Rope Murders, she found correlations to the mysterious case of Eddie Wells, the pedophile operation ran by Boy Scout Troop 137, and one person who seemed to have tentacles touching all those elements. But it took Anna years to find those connections. In the...
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S2 Episode 19, The Footlocker / The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Anna’s investigative focus stays on the Orange Grove Plantation as she sits down with a woman who, as a young girl, lived near the plantation in Plaquemines Parish and visited its grounds. Through Anna’s yearslong investigation of the Rope Murders, she’s come to believe the Orange Grove…
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S2 Episode 18, The Shell Road/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Fragmented memories, fading landmarks and decades old newspaper articles have been among the puzzle pieces Anna has had to work with as her investigation of the Rope Murders took her deeper into Plaquemines Parish…and some of its troubled history. One place, located off what was described as the...
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S2 Episode 17, The Dark Star/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
The bodies of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and Daniel Dewey may have been found north of New Orleans, but as Anna as got deeper into her investigation of their murders and the crimes of Boy Scout Troop 137, her findings kept taking her south…to Plaquemines Parish. She discovered connections…
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S2 Episode 16, King of the Bayou / The Rope Murders: The Investigation
So far, Anna’s investigation of the Rope Murders has uncovered links to the pedophile cell that was Boy Scout Troop 137. While that troop may have been based in New Orleans East, Anna found that its tentacles reached outside of the city. In this episode, Anna’s investigation shifts to a place…
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S2 Episode 15, Be Prepared/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
The Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” predates the founding of the organization in 1910, but preparedness became a cornerstone of Scouting for the century that followed. In the case of Boy Scout Troop 137 in New Orleans, the crooked leaders of that troop were unprepared for the investigations and...
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S2 Episode 14, Scout's Dishonor/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Over the two seasons of the podcast, Anna’s investigations have involved the mysterious deaths of teenage boys and the abuse of young children. As she continued her work on the Rope Murders, she kept finding a connection to an organization that was historically known to be a place for boys and...
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S2 Episode 13, The Trapper/ The Roper Murders: The Investigation
Anna begins to lay out her four-year investigation of the Rope Murders. It includes a familiar person from season one who said he was shown photographs of dead boys tied up and left in rural settings. Anna analyzes the locations where the victims of the Rope Murders were left. What did they have…
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S2 Episode 12, The City/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
It took almost 30 years for investigators to identify Daniel Dewey’s body. For almost as long, a narrative kept repeating in newspapers and online articles that Dewey and the two other victims of the rope murders may have been male prostitutes or well-known street kids in the city of New Orleans....
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S2 Episode 11, Texas/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
In the summer of 2000, the remains of John Doe were exhumed from his grave at Pine Hill Cemetery in St. Helena Parish. He had been buried for more than 20 years. Back in 1979, his body had been tied up and left at a local garbage dump in the parish. There were hopes that technology and forensic...
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S2 Episode 10, The FACES Lab/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
For roughly 20 years, John Doe’s body had been buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in St. Helena Parish. At the time of his burial and in the two decades that followed, there wasn't much progress in finding a suspect in his murder. The victim’s true identity also remained elusive. In the summer of 2000,...
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S2 Episode 9, Baton Rouge/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
In 1997, after almost 20 years of cold case status, the murders of Dennis Turcotte, Mark Richardson and John Doe would get renewed interest. Dennis Stewart was a relatively new detective with Louisiana State Police, but his knowledge of one of the Rope Murders went back to 1979. Stewart grew up…
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S2 Episode 8, The Quarter/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
When each victim of the rope murders was found, investigators didn’t make any public mention of a serial pattern or perpetrator. But, within a month after the discovery of John Doe’s body in St. Helena Parish, at least one newspaper ran a story about the boys being “male hustlers” who may have…
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S2 Episode 7, Pine Hill/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
In 1979, Jack Foster was assigned the case of a teenaged boy who had been ritualistically tied up, murdered and left at a local garbage site in St. Helena Parish. Foster was a self-taught detective working part time with the sheriff’s office. He was described as determined and thorough. But…
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S2 Episode 6, St. Helena Parish/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
On November 12, 1979, the tiny sheriff’s department in St. Helena Parish was just beginning its investigation of a body that had been ritualistically tied-up and left at a garbage dumpsite. The body was decomposing. Identifying the victim was difficult. What authorities could say definitively was...
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S2 Episode 5, Greensburg/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Following a coroner’s inquest jury in Harrison County, it was determined that Mark Richardson’s death was the result of a homicide. The coroner presumed Richardson died from a possible overdose of injected drugs, but the actual cause of death was undetermined. No explanation or theory was offered...
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S2 Episode 4, Biloxi/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Two days after a tied-up body was found in a wooded area near coastal Mississippi, a family from Biloxi believed it was that of their teenage son. Only weeks separated the discoveries of his body and Dennis Turcotte’s. The fact that both victims had been ritualistically bound would seem to show a...
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S2 Episode 3, Pass Christian/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
Soon after Dennis Turcotte’s body was discovered, the working theories about his death and disappearance revolved around New Orleans’ French Quarter. A New Orleans bellhop was said to be the last person who saw Turcotte alive. In this episode, Turcotte’s brother details what Dennis was doing…
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S2 Episode 2, Slidell/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
After Dennis Turcotte’s body was discovered bound and dumped in 1978, New Orleans Police Detective Frank Weicks traveled out of his jurisdiction to the rural area of Talisheek to assist in the case. The working theory was Turcotte had spent time in New Orleans French Quarter and was possibly...
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S2 Episode 1, Talisheek/ The Rope Murders: The Investigation
The creators of New Orleans Unsolved are finally back with their second season. This time, they’re investigating a set of truly mysterious murders. In 1978, hunters found the body of a teenager in a rural area of Louisiana. His hands and feet were ritualistically tied, the rope was connected to…
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The Rope Murders Trailer
Investigative producer Anna Christie and veteran journalist Thanh Truong are back with the second season of their independent true crime podcast. Season 2 of New Orleans Unsolved, The Rope Murders, begins October 11th, 2023.
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Episode 18: Raleigh
A man who says he was one of Eddie Wells’ best friends cautiously shares what he knows of a fateful day in 1982. He claims he was with Eddie the day he disappeared. To get his story, we go inside a parish jail.
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New Orleans Unsolved is an independent narrative true crime podcast based in the historic city of New Orleans. Investigator/producer Anna Christie and veteran journalist Thanh Truong dive deep into unsolved cases and lesser-known stories from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Season 1 focused on the mysterious death of a teenager whose body was recovered from the Mississippi River. Season 2, The Rope Murders, revolves around a set of cold cases involving murder victims who were ritualistically tied up and left in desolate areas of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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