Fathomless

Fathomless

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Fathomless episodes

  • Episode 21: SOLVED MURDER: Melissa Benoit
    In 1993, Melissa Benoit was 13 years old when she was brutally murdered by her next door neighbor while walking home from a friends house in Kingston, Massachusetts. Her killer hid her body in his basement for 11 days before she was found.
    29 min
  • Episode 20: SOLVED MURDER: Tracy Gilpin
    On October 1st 1986 Tracy Gilpin left a party in the Rocky Nook neighborhood of Kingston MA. She walked up Route 3A to a Cumberland Farms to buy a pack of cigarettes and was never seen alive again. Weeks following her disappearance Tracy’s body was found in Myles Standish State Forest. With little to no evidence and DNA in its infancy the case grew cold and Tracy’s murder became one of Massachusetts most prolific unsolved cases. Until decades later in 2018 when everything changed.
    In this episode we discuss this horribly tragic case of Tracy Gilpin and the family, community and investigators who never gave up hope.
    28 min
  • Episode 19: HAUNTED: New England Colleges

    In this episode, Jen talks about some ghost stories from a few New England Colleges!

    Sources:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_College
    https://www.dean.edu/news-events/dean-college-blog/story/5-haunted-historic-dean-college-stories/
    https://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/50-haunted-colleges-campuses/https://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/50-haunted-colleges-campuses/

    31 min
  • Epsiode 17: SOLVED MURDER: Vanessa Marcotte

    Vanessa Marcotte was brutally murdered on August 7, 2016 while she was out for a run. After being reported missing by her family when she did not return home after several hours, her body was discovered beaten and burned just a half mile from her mothers home. DNA evidence tied Angelo Colon-Ortiz to Vanessa's murder, and was given a life sentence in prison.  As an outcome of Vanessa's death, her family organized the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation and vanessamarcotte.org which talks about Vanessa’s story and the mission of the foundation is to teach women how to fight back and they advocate for a world where women are safe and free to live fearlessly. They participate in many events, including the Boston Marathon and have and entire resource center that includes safety tips for runners and walkers, webinars on violence prevention and safe running, self-defense classes, and several videos and links on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and more.


    Sources:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Vanessa_Marcotte
    https://www.wcvb.com/article/angelo-colon-ortiz-plea-change-vanessa-marcotte-murder-case-oct-26-2022/41778253
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/us/vanessa-marcotte-murder-guilty
    https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/man-accused-of-murdering-runner-vanessa-marcotte-in-princeton-due-in-court/2873915/
    https://vtmf.org/donate/
    https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2022/10/26/angelo-colon-ortiz-charged-with-killing-vanessa-marcotte-pleads-guilty/
    https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2021/08/police-still-didnt-learn-their-lesson-attorney-for-angelo-colon-ortiz-who-is-accused-of-killing-vanessa-marcotte-says-past-precedents-show-police-improperly-obtained-dna.html

    45 min
  • Episode 16: MYSTERY: What Happened to Betty & Barney Hill?
    In September of 1961 Barney and Betty Hill were just driving home from a romantic getaway when their lives changed forever. Join us as Amanda deep dives into the first widely reported alien abduction in the United States and the crazy events that followed! On this episode of Fathomless we try to figure out what really happened to Betty and Barney Hill.
    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 15: SOLVED MURDER: The Unfathomable Murder of Jonathan Amerault
    On September 19, 2020, in the area of Keene, NH, Armando Barron discovers text messages on his wife's phone between her and a coworker.  Enraged from finding these messages, Armando beats and abuses his wife and uses her phone to message her coworker, Jonathan Amerault.  Jonathan, thinking he is talking to his coworker, agrees to meet "her" at Annett State Park in Rindge, NH where he meet his unfortunate fate.
    47 min
  • Episode 14: HAUNTED HISTORY: The Exeter School
    In 1908 the state of Rhode Island opened “The Rhode Island School for the Feeble Minded” as a housing/farming community for the state’s disabled and developmentally delayed children. Like any other state run facility in the 1900s it was over crowded, understaffed and underfunded with a strange and sadistic superintendent at its head. Later named the Ladd School it was shut down in 1993 after years of scandals and several state investigations. However, some of the residents never left. In this episode Amanda tells us all about the timeline of the institution, the horrors the residents endured and the hauntings that followed after its closing. RESOURCE LINKS:
    http://www.theladdschool.com/
    https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/laddschool25yearsafter/
    https://medium.com/the-asylum-antiquarian/reflections-on-the-last-great-scourge-of-our-small-state-28fea0e14954
    https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2016/05/20/from-archives-final-day-ladd-center-shuts-down-quietly/29176136007/
    https://www.ocoosaws.com/me/haunted-travels-usa/the-ladd-school-8959.html
    47 min
  • Epsiode 13: True Crime News & Updates, Vol. 1

    Amanda and Jen bring your attention to some recent true crime news that you may or may not have heard about! This is Volume 1 of what is going to be a recurring episode! We like to stay updated on what's happening in the true crime world, near or far, and now you can too.

    57 min
  • Episode 12: MISSING PERSON: The Disappearance of Joan Risch

    Joan Risch was 31 years old when she vanished from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts in the afternoon hours of October 24, 1961. With a bloody kitchen scene and confusing evidence left behind, police were never made sure of Joan's fate that day. She left behind her loving husband, two children, all her personal items. This case has never been solved, and Joan is still considered a missing person.  She would be 92 years old if she were still alive today.


    Sources:

    "A Kitchen Painted in Blood", a book written by Stephen H. Ahearn

    https://www.grunge.com/768932/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-joan-risch-explained/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joan_Risch
    https://wickedhorror.com/features/february-2022-missing-person-of-the-month-joan-carolyn-risch/
    https://historichorrors.com/the-mysterious-unsolved-disappearance-of-joan-risch/
    https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Missing-Joan-Carolyn-Risch

    1 hr 25 min

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A New England based Crime, Mystery and History Podcast