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Unsolved: Worcester is a podcast series examining over 70 unsolved murders and missing persons cases on file with the Worcester Police Department.

Episodes will debut on Tuesdays.

Unsolved: Worcester Unsolved: Worcester

    • True Crime
    • 3.6 • 34 Ratings

Unsolved: Worcester is a podcast series examining over 70 unsolved murders and missing persons cases on file with the Worcester Police Department.

Episodes will debut on Tuesdays.

    Cory Cane - Fatal Hit-and-Run in Wales - Jan. 3, 2012

    Cory Cane - Fatal Hit-and-Run in Wales - Jan. 3, 2012

    It’s around 4:45 AM. January 3, 2012.
    It’s a windy morning and a chilling 25 degrees outside. 
    A motorist driving along Stafford Road in Wales sees something lying on the side of the road.
    The driver stops their car and immediately calls the police.
    The body of a young man, later identified as 23-year-old Cory Cane of Worcester, lies motionless along the south side of the tight two-lane Route 19.
    Cory had been struck by a passing vehicle.
    Police believe his body may have been left out in the cold on the side of the road for over 3 hours.
    Nearly 12 years later, and the fatal hit-and-run remains unsolved.

    • 13 min
    Found Face Down and Strangled in Swamp - Holly Jean Cote - March 4, 1984

    Found Face Down and Strangled in Swamp - Holly Jean Cote - March 4, 1984

    It’s around 2 a.m. on March 4, 1984.
    The temperature has dropped below 10 degrees in Gardner, Massachusetts.
    Mr. D’s, a bar and lounge in downtown Gardner, has closed up for the night.
    The parking lot in the back is empty, except for one car - a 1969 Pontiac Tempest - belonging to Holly Jean Cote.
    Holly had met friends at Mr. D’s around midnight when she got off her shift at a local restaurant.
    When the bar closed, Holly was supposed to head over to a friend's house for a late night after party.
    But she never showed up.
    Three months later, Holly’s naked body was discovered by canoeists near Birch Hill Dam in nearby Royalston.
    She had been strangled to death.
     

    • 16 min
    Lisa Germain - Fatal Hit and Run on Route 9

    Lisa Germain - Fatal Hit and Run on Route 9

    It’s around 6 p.m. Sunday, October 29, 2017.
    As heavy rain poured and winds howled in East Brookfield, Lisa Germain left her group of friends at Dunny’s Tavern.
    Lisa’s car was parked across the street from the bar. 
    One driver stopped to let her cross East Main Street, but the driver heading westbound didn’t slow down.
    Lisa was struck by the speeding vehicle. 
    The driver fled the scene.
    Lisa would later die at Harrington Hospital from blunt trauma injuries.
    More than six years later, the fatal hit-and-run crash remains unsolved.
     

    • 12 min
    Fatal Shooting at After Hours Valentine's Party

    Fatal Shooting at After Hours Valentine's Party

    It’s around 2:35 a.m. on February 10, 2001.
    Worcester Police officers are called to 141 Chandler Street for a report of a shooting at a late night party.
    Five rounds were fired from a large, semi automatic handgun in a room on the first floor of the two-story home. As many as 50 people were at the party when the shots are fired.
    When police arrive, they find 22-year-old Juan Carlos Gonzalez on the floor, bleeding from two gun shot wounds.
    By the time Juan gets to the operating table at Saint Vincent Hospital, he has bled to death.
    22 years later, his case remains unsolved.

    • 13 min
    Halloween Special - Worcester's Rattling Three-Decker

    Halloween Special - Worcester's Rattling Three-Decker

    Was it a poltergeist rocking the walls of a three decker home on Douglas Street?
    Did Worcester have its own haunted house?
    In early 1950, that’s exactly what reporters from the Worcester Telegram and the Boston Globe were trying to figure out.
    The residents of 14 Douglas Street were more frustrated than scared, complaining of rattling windows, picture frames falling off the walls, radios whistling, and even a bed leaping off the floor.
    On May 12, 1950, the strong vibrating of the three-story structure could be seen shaking, as hundreds of neighbors stood in the street, watching what they believed to be something supernatural. 
     

    • 14 min
    A Pair of Recent Unsolved Murders - Brandon Dirsa and Jazmin Rosario

    A Pair of Recent Unsolved Murders - Brandon Dirsa and Jazmin Rosario

    Today’s episode combines a pair of the most recent unsolved homicide cases we’ve explored to date on Unsolved: Worcester.
    19-year-old Brandon Dirsa gunned down in broad daylight on Maxwell Street on Nov. 30, 2019. 
    Jazmin Rosario, just 5 days from her 18th birthday, is shot and killed outside of the Big Y on Worcester’s West Side around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2022.
    There is very little new public information available in both cases. There are more questions than answers right now.
    As of the time of this podcast, the unsolved murder cases of Jazmin Rosario and Brandon Dirsa aren’t on the list of the Worcester Police Department’s unresolved homicide cases.
     

    • 14 min

Customer Reviews

3.6 out of 5
34 Ratings

34 Ratings

Cueball3 ,

Vocal fry

I love the idea of a podcast so close to me about unsolved murder. I’d like to have the host ease up on the drawn out speech pattern and vocal fry.

gilgrissom ,

Ok content, no background information, needs more

Been listening to every episode, the content is all public knowledge. If you’re going to dive into someone’s murder, talk about their life. Get some information from their family about the type of person they are.. but this show needs a host to not drone and drone and take word breaks at every period, I have to listen to the podcast at 2x speed and it’s still drawn out… the audio interstitial needs to be shortened to 1 measure, and play the ads one time. Not 36 times in a 5 minute window.

carlitoep3 ,

A bit of change and u got something

Love the topic but the host talk for too long can’t stay hooked on show love listening and driving while working podcast won’t work for me

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