
61 episodes

Crime of the Truest Kind Anngelle Wood Media
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A biweekly Massachusetts and New England true crime stories and local history podcast - the things that happen here - with empathy for victims and families involved. Created and hosted by Boston radio personality, Anngelle Wood (WFNX, WBCN, WZLX), each episode walks you through a local crime story and the people and places involved. Online at CrimeoftheTruestKind.com and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/crimeofthetruestkindFollow @crimeofthetruestkind, leave a rating and write a review#massachusetts #newengland #truecrime #crime #society #storytelling #empathy #advocacy #crimestories #history #podcast #newenglandtruecrime #massachusettstruecrime
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EP 53 | Rita Hester & The Murder That Started A Movement, Allston, Massachusetts
Chanelle Pickett and Rita Hester were murdered three years apart. Chantelle in 1995 in Watertown, Mass, and Rita Hester in 1998 in Allston. Both were brutal crimes. Neither of them got justice. The attitudes and the language around gay and transgender lifestyles were very different back then. How the media covered violence against transgender people was cruel, if they covered them all. As a result of the mistreatment they got even in death, their deaths were instrumental in the creation of the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th.
Chanelle's murderer was prosecuted and used the Trans Panic Defense.
Rita Hester's murder is still unsolved.
Mallery Jenna Robinson, transgender and HIV advocate and host of A Hateful Homicide podcast, joins me to talk about the violence transgender women face - then and now. We talk about the fight for justice for transgender victims, the urgent need for laws to protect the transgender community from hate crimes and the critical role empathy and compassion play in our society.
A Hateful Homicide with Mallery Jenna Robinson
Transgender Day of Remembrance is Nov 20
Resource Kit for Journalists
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#ritahester #transdayofremembrance #chanellepickett #ahatefulhomicide #TDOR #malleryjennarobinson #allston #massachusetts #watertown #homicide #unsolved
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EP 52 | I Heart Lewiston, Maine with Bernadette from Murderific true crime podcast
Bonus episode. This episode is about gun violence, mental health, mass murder, a terrorized community, and trauma. Listen with care.
In episode 52, we go to Lewiston, Maine where a local man known to the community opened fire on two businesses in the largest mass casualty event in Maine’s history that left 18 dead, 13 injured and an entire region at a loss.
In the second part of this episode, I speak to Bernadette, host of the Murderfic podcast, who lives in the area of Southern Maine where the manhunt for the shooter was going on and ultimately where he was found. We talk about the crime, the impact on the close community and what we have come to learn about the man who committed the crimes.
Crime of the Truest Kind
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Murderific Podcast
Governor Mills Launches “Healing Together” Online Resource to Help Support to Lewiston Victims and Families
City of Lewiston to Open Community Resiliency Center CRC to Offer Services on Mon, Nov 13
City of Lewiston Families and Victims Fund
Maine Community Foundation
Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund
Mass shootings, as catastrophic as they are, often shine a spotlight on the larger, hidden crisis of mental health. When the 18 shooting victims were identified by Maine State Police, there was not someone in the community around Lewiston who did not know one, some or all of them.
Ronald G. Morin, 55
Peyton Brewer-Ross, 40
Joshua A. Seal, 36
Bryan MacFarlane, 41
Joseph Lawrence Walker, 57
Arthur Fred Strout, 42
Maxx A. Hathaway, 35
Stephen M. Vozzella, 45
Thomas Ryan Conrad, 34
Michael R. Deslauriers II, 51
Jason Adam Walker, 51
Tricia C. Asselin, 53
William A. Young, 44
Aaron Young, 14
Robert E. Violette, 76
Lucille M. Violette, 73
William Frank Brackett, 48
Keith D. Macneir, 64
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EP 51 | Breanne Pennington, Migdalia Perez, Kathleen Daneault, Patricia Joyce & The Dark History of Murder In Gardner, Massachusetts
+Episode 51: Breanne Pennington, Migdalia Perez, Kathleen Daneault, Patricia Joyce & The Dark History of Murder In Gardner, Massachusetts
This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about things that happened here, in Massachusetts and New England.
This episode deals with gun violence, mental health, murder-suicide, stalking, terrorized communities, domestic violence, sexual assault, serial killing, murder, and society. Listen with care.
We peel back the layers to decades of crimes that shook the quiet town of Gardner, Massachusetts to its core and delve into the timeline of Breanne Pennington's murder, sharing her happiest times and her most proud moments spent with her family, her faith, her love of horses and raising chickens. The young mother met a tragic end at the hands of her own husband, Aaron Pennington, who still has not been apprehened.
Casting light on Gardner's dark past, a town with a rich history and the unsettling details of other women's murders dating back to the 1960s, we say the names of those Gardner women whose disappearances and deaths are far less known today.
In 2020, Migdalia Perez was stalked and killed by a man she was terrified of. She got no help or protection in her final days. 25-year-old Kathleen Daneault was found murdered in 1983. More than 30 years later, we learned she was killed by a man whose notorious reputation of violence against women paints the chilling picture of a serial murderer, and the mystery of the still-unsolved case of Patricia Joyce. In the Summer of 1965, Patty was a hard-working 17-year-old preparing for her senior year in high school. Her story is hardly known today and her case was looked at closely for its similarities to The Boston Strangler murder case of the 60s.
We examine the grim reality of domestic violence in its many forms and the dangers that exist behind closed doors in what could be any home, in any neighborhood.
Special thanks to The Gardner News for their reporting - thegardnernews.com
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Domestic Violence does not look the same for everyone.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NCADV.org
The Hotline
TheHotline.org
Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
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EP 50 | Lizzi Marriot: A Life So Bright, Dover, New Hampshire
This is a true crime, local history, and storytelling podcast. I write about crimes, I set the scene, connect story themes, I talk about the things that happen here, in Massachusetts and New England.
This episode is about sexuality, consent, sexual violence, murder, and defending a loved one’s privacy in death. Listen with care.
Episode 50, Lizzi Marriott: A Life So Bright, Dover, New Hampshire
Lizzi Marriott would have celebrated her 30th birthday on June 10 this year. She will be forever 19. Returned to the earth and sea that she loved so much.
Growing up in Westborough, Massachusetts, she went to Westborough High School, Class of 2011. Lizzi Marriott set her sights on becoming a marine biologist. She had a special love for the ocean and all of its creatures. Her college essay was about her desire to protect marine life, a passion that was sparked during a weeklong marine biology camp in ninth grade. Lizzi was passionate about a future in the field of marine science. Her love flourished as a volunteer at the New England Aquarium in Boston. She was often seen saving wildlife, whether it was a frog or a turtle, something crawling or slippery, she loved everything about it. The University of New Hampshire in Durham was her dream school So it is no surprise that Lizzi was ecstatic when she got into the marine biology program. She began her sophomore year in the fall of 2012.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, started out pretty ordinarily for Lizzi. She was a few weeks into her first year at UNH, loving her studies in marine science. She was working, making new friends. She told her aunt and uncle she'd be going out after class that night and would be home later. Lizzi went to her chemistry lab until 9:00. At 8:55 pm she sent a text saying she was going to visit a new friend, someone she met at her retail job. She had recently made friends with an 18-year-old who worked at Target, a woman named Kathryn McDonaugh who went by Kat. The two traded text messages and made a plan to meet at her Dover apartment to watch a movie. Lizzi would make the short drive from Durham to Dover, the fastest route would take 13 minutes. Lizzi did not made it back to her aunt and uncle in Chester where she lived. While it did make them nervous, they tried to pass it off as a teenager enjoying a new friendship and staying up too late. They figured she’d just crashed at the friend’s place. But when there was no sign of Lizzi on Thursday, everyone knew something was very wrong.
Remember Lizzi and The Intrepid Explorer Fund RememberLizzi.org
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EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi (part two of the Tiffany Moore Murder)
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EP 49 | Shawn Drumgold, Roxbury, Massachusetts: The Sonoma Street Alibi
Part two of the Tiffany Moore murder case. In August 1988, Tiffany Moore was shot three times in what police would call a rival gang turf war on Humboldt Ave in Roxbury. The streets were not safe, Tiffany's own mother sent her away to keep her from the violence that was taking over their neighborhood, only for it to take her back in the cruelest way possible. The city was outraged and put pressure on the Boston Police to solve her murder and do something about the violence. Her death was covered nationwide and would symbolize the disorder that ruled the streets, the kind of chaos that elicited fear among those who were outside looking in. Police targeted a low level drug dealer named Shawn Drumgold, painting him as a savage gang member. This episode is about a murdered child, drugs, gang violence, witness intimidation, police and prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful convictions, and a still-unsolved crime.
There is no justice in putting innocent people in prison.
The New England Innocence Project: newenglandinnocence.org
October 2 is International Wrongful Conviction Day
Learn about the Exoneree Network: newenglandinnocence.org/exoneree-network
JusticeforSeanEllis.com
Trial 4 is the Netflix documentary about Sean Ellis's wrongful conviction
Watch the trailer
Two core sources (more will be listed in show note at crimeofthetruestkind.com)
Doubt Cast Over Tiffany Moore Verdict by Dick Lehr, Boston Globe, May 2003
Thanks to Dick and The Globe's great reporting or Shawn Drumgold might have died in prison.
Coming Home by Chris Wright, Boston Phoenix, Dec 2003
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EP 48 | Darlene Tiffany Moore, Roxbury, Massachusetts: Murder on H-Block (part one)
Season Three. In episode 48, we head to the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury where, in the summer of 1988, the murder of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in the area known as the H-Block (named for the streets: Humboldt, Homestead, Harold, Harrishof, and Holworthy) had a major impact on the city. She was an innocent girl with a life full of promise and just two days away from returning to her new hometown of Greenville, South Carolina to begin 7th grade. It was not to be.
She was in an area known as a thoroughfare of violence and was struck with a bullet meant for another. But who? A rival gang member? Revenge for a bad drug deal? This is a story about Boston’s past, the war on drugs, murdered kids, "Just So No", the violent drug trade, street gangs, an outraged community, witness intimidation, police misconduct, wrongful convictions, an unsolved crime, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
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There is a lot to unpack here. This is part one of two. In part two, we will go over the arrests of the suspects in her case, the trial, and what came after.
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#roxbury #boston #massachusetts #darlenetiffanymoore #homicide #streetgangs #drugtrade #warondrugs #humboldtave
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Customer Reviews
Witty and well-researched
I enjoy the scene setting storytelling aspect of the show. The sensitivity to survivors and families and, especially, the candor and dark humor. We all need to laugh sometimes and, often, in our darkest moments.
Why
Why do you need all that background music?
It just seems to take away from the story.
You’re such matter is enough for listeners.
Local Fan
I only recently discovered this show and I’m glad I did. I have been bingeing ever since. I have lived in New England my entire life and have felt an attachment to a lot of these cases. Thank you for telling their stories in such a respectful way.