True Crime in the 50

Katy Accardo
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Hey True Crime fans! Get ready for True Crime in the 50, the podcast that delves into the craziest True Crime story in each and every state! Every two weeks, I'll take a look at the most unbelievable murders, serial killers and disappearances that took place in all 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. If you love True Crime (and America) you won't want to miss this! Do you feel safe in your state?

  1. 4d ago

    Vermont: The Murders of Roland and Maram Hanel

    Roland and Maram Hanel lived a quiet life in the tiny town of Jay, Vermont, just five miles from the Canadian border. Roland was retired from the plastics business and had done very well in life. Maram was his Egyptian-born second wife and the two were homebodies who loved nature and biking, hiking and skiing. On Thursday, September 20th, 1984, the two were found brutally murdered; each shot 8-11 times in their home. Right away, police hit a dead end. Roland and Maram had no enemies and were not tied up in shady dealings. Who would have wanted this nice couple dead, and why?  Show Notes:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39515953/

  2. Oct 5

    Utah: The Murder of Eric Richins

    Eric Richins grew up on a cattle ranch in Kamas, Utah and was close with his family. When he was in his early 20s, he started a masonry business with a friend and became quite successful. Becuase of his business, he had to go to the Home Depot quite frequently, and that is where he met a cashier named Kouri. Kouri was working her way through college and the two soon started dating and eventually married and had three sons together. But their marriage was struggling by the time their oldest son was 9 years old and their youngest was 5. Kouri Richins had started a house flipping business and was being sued by at least two of her homeowners. She also owed lenders more than $1 million and had forged Eric's signature on documents that showed she had taken out a home equity line of credit on their house to the tune of $250,000. Eric soon realized that his wife was not who he thought she was, and left all of his money in a trust to be overseen by his sister and then given to his sons when they became adults, in case something happened to him. And something did happen to him. On March 4th, 2022, Eric was found deceased in the early morning hours while sleeping in bed. Later, his cause of death was found to be an extreme overdose of street-grade fentanyl. Eric Richins did not use drugs. As the investigation would conclude, someone very close to him had taken his life, and in the most tragic of ways. Show Notes: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/in-the-news/dateline-full-episode-book-of-lies-rcna342477

  3. Sep 21

    Texas: The Murders of Cody Beavers and Gelareh Bagherizadeh

    Nesreen Ursan and her siblings grew up in Conro, Texas, a small rural town just north of Houston and were raised by their father, Ali, and their stepmother, Shmu. Ali was a devout and strict Muslim and did barely allowed his two daughters, Nesreen and Nadia out of the house. Until Ali had a heart attack and Nesreen convinced him to allow her and Nadia to attend college so they could be doctors and take care of him. Ali agreed, and Nesreen and Nadia were off to the north campus of Lone Star College in the fall of 2009. There at Lone Star College, Nesreen met Cody Beavers and fell in love. She started to Westernize herself, wore her hair down and experimented with makeup. Nadia had a crush on Cody's twin brother, Corey, but that crush was unrequited. Soon, Ali found out that Nesreen had a boyfriend and tried to shut Nesreen in her room, chained to her bed. But Nesreen escaped and eloped with Cody. They then rented their own apartment and Nesreen became close friends with a woman named Gelareh Bagherizadeh. Until both Cody and Gelareh were shot dead. Nesreen had to find their killer or killers, because she knew that if they weren't brought to justice, she would be next. Show Notes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11096284/

  4. Sep 7

    Tennessee: The High School Class that Solved The Redhead Murders

    Alex Campbell is the kind of High School Sociology teacher that students actually listen to. Alex has been the sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee for the past 18 years. And, in 2018, Alex Campbell got an idea for a lesson plan. He wanted his class to look into The Redhead Murders, a series of unsolved Jane Doe cases whose victims were young, redheaded sex workers. The killer, or killers had left the women on the side of busy highways in states like Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The kids took to the lesson plan like a fish to water, and made great headway with the aid of local and state police departments, and even the FBI. When they were finished, no one could have predicted that a small High School class in Elizabethton, Tennessee, could have solved a series of murders and brought justice to their families. Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-101/id1724019923 https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65926261/

  5. Aug 24

    South Dakota: The Murder of Darlene VanderGiesen

    Darlene VanderGiesen was born in July 1963 in Osborn, Kansas. She and her sister were born completely deaf to hearing parents. Darlene went to the prestigious School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs, Iowa and then on to community college. After graduating, she moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where there was a huge hearing impaired community. Darlene made friends easily, and found a community in Sioux Falls. She befriended a woman named Sally Collins who was also deaf, and who was in an on-again-off-again relationship with another hearing impaired woman named Daphne Wright. Daphne was extremely jealous of Darlene and Sally's friendship, even though Darlene was straight and dating a man at the time. On February 1st, 2006, Darlene VanderGeiesen disappeared. Her car was found parked at a local resetaurant, but no one had seen her since that evening. When police started to investigate, they found a horrific murder on their hands: one that involved two deaf women in an unprecedented True Crime case. Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/darlene-vandergiesen-asl-and-the-legal-system/id1112004494?i=1000548828173

  6. Aug 10

    South Carolina: Samantha Josephson's Fake Uber Ride

    Samantha Josephson, who everyone called Sami, was a senior at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina and was looking forward to attending Drexel University for law school in the fall. But on March 28th, 2019, with only one month until graduation, she and some friends decided to go to the Five Points area of Columbia to go bar hopping. Five Points was a crowded area with many bars and restaurants, frequented by students. At 2 am, Sami called an Uber to come pick her up because she was ready to go back to her apartment. She saw what she thought was her ride: a black Chevy Impala. She got into that car and that was the last time she was ever seen alive again.  The Uber was not actually an Uber: in fact, it was a regular car driven by Nathaniel Roland, a 24-year-old opportunistic criminal. When Sami was found the next day by turkey hunters in a rural, wooded area, she was dead. She had been murdered and had 50 stab wounds all over her body. This case would rock the world of ride share companies and riders alike. Because of Sami's misfortune, safety laws would need to be amended throughout the US so that something like this could never happen again. Show Notes:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24517326/

  7. Jul 27

    Rhode Island: The Unexplained Death of Shawn O'Brien

    On Friday, July 21st, 2006, 35-year-old Shawn O'Brien left his roofing job in Cranston, Rhode Island and went to meet his ex-girlfriend Amy, and their 13-year-old daughter Natalia to give Amy some child support money. The three made plans to meet up later that afternoon to attend the St. Mary's Feast festival. But by 6 pm, Natalia had a headache so the three planned to take a rain check and meet at the festival the next day. Amy and Natalia dropped Shawn off at Billy's Frosted Mug, a local bar, at around 7 pm that evening. That was the last time they would see Shawn alive. By the next day, when Shawn had no answered any calls or shown up to the festival, friends and family got worried. They went to the basement apartment that he rented from his landlord, Armand, and his girlfriend, Lynn. Armand told Shawn's friends and family that Shawn had been seizing for hours. Shawn had a seizure disorder that was attributed to his heavy drug and alcohol use. But after Shawn got to the hospital and died there two days later, everyone who knew Shawn started to become suspicious that Shawn had not died because of an accident, but that he had been murdered in cold blood. Show Notes: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/shawn-obrien

  8. Jul 13

    Pennsylvania: Ellen Greenberg

    On January 26th, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania experienced a huge blizzard in the early afternoon hours. That is why Ellen Greenberg, an elementary school teacher at Juniata Park Academy, was sent home early to the Venice Lofts apartment that she shared with her fiance Sam Goldberg in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia.  She and Sam had been engaged for about six months, but it seemed as if Ellen was not quite yet in the bridal state of mind. She had been having depression issues, and had been super stressed out with work. She had recently been to see a psychiatrist who prescribed a cocktail of medications for Ellen to help ease her anxiety and depression.  But on that day, when Sam got home from work at around 4 pm, he decided to go to the gym in their building at around 4:50. By the time he got back up to their apartment, he was locked out and started to get concerned about Ellen. When he finally made it into the apartment, he saw Ellen slumped against the dishwasher with a knife through her heart. Sam was convinced she had committed suicide but her family and friends thought otherwise. What followed were court cases for years to solve the mystery: Was Ellen Greenberg murdered or did she die by her own hand? Show Notes: https://www.hulu.com/series/death-in-apartment-603-what-happened-to-ellen-greenberg-b0338377-2cf8-43c4-98b7-5f907e9d51d1

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Hey True Crime fans! Get ready for True Crime in the 50, the podcast that delves into the craziest True Crime story in each and every state! Every two weeks, I'll take a look at the most unbelievable murders, serial killers and disappearances that took place in all 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. If you love True Crime (and America) you won't want to miss this! Do you feel safe in your state?

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  • Creator
    Katy Accardo
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    173
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Katy Accardo
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