In 2018, a 68-year-old romance novelist was accused of shooting and killing her husband inside the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland, Ore., where he worked as a chef and instructor. In May of this year, a jury handed down their decision in the trial of Nancy Crampton Brophy.
During the month of July, "True Crime Chronicles" will be taking a summer break, but the show will return to its weekly publishing schedule in August.
 
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Unsolved mysteries. Cold cases. The lost and the missing. Hosts Will Johnson and Reed Redmond work with local crime reporters around the country, mining newsroom archives to bring you a new case each week.

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A Missouri couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their alleged roles in the kidnapping and murder of a young mother in Arkansas.
 
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A Murder in Arkansas | 170

The families of a Houston couple shot and killed in 2017 may finally have some peace. 
 
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A Double Murder in Houston | 169

It's been more than ten years since Kortne Stouffer disappeared from Palmyra, Pennsylvania. Her family and friends are still holding out hope that someone will come forward with answers.
 
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Missing in Pennsylvania | 168

In 1854, Charity Lamb killed her husband with an ax. She became the first woman to go on trial for murder in the Oregon Territory, and the first female prison inmate.
 
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The Ax Murderess | 167

Here’s a preview of Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper. Over a single week in February 1942, a depraved serial killer stalked London’s dark and WWII bomb-ravaged streets, hunting for victims in the city’s bars and clubs. But the victims of the so-called Blackout Ripper are now all but forgotten. Using new research from police files, court transcripts and exhaustive genealogical studies, season 2 of Hallie Rubenhold’s Bad Women reconstructs the lives of the women The Blackout Ripper brutally attacked and murdered and examines why their deaths were swept from view. Listen to Bad Women at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/bwblackout?sid=chronicles. 
 
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