Forensic Tales

Forensic Tales

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  • Johnny Cashman Jr

    #148 - In April 2022, police informed the Cashman family that their son, 38-year-old Johnny Cashman Jr, was discovered dead from an apparent medical condition inside his Virginia apartment. Although they were devastated by the news, they believed the police were right about what happened to Johnny. However, they later found out that his apartment was covered in blood and the scene looked nothing like the police described. The family now wants the police to investigate Johnny's death as a possible homicide. What can the forensic evidence reveal about what happened to Johnny?

     

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    • Written and produced by Courtney Fretwell
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    • Jimmy Hoffa

      #147 - In July 1975, a famous American labor union leader mysteriously disappeared after a scheduled lunch meeting at a restaurant in Michigan. The police found his car at the restaurant, but there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa. The case was cold until new DNA testing was done in 2001. But even with the new testing, many people still doubt that the mystery behind Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance will ever be solved.

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      42 min
    • Adrienne Shelly

      #146 - In November 2006, actress, screenwriter, and director, Adrienne Shelly was found dead inside her New York apartment from an apparent suicide. But according to people who knew Adrienne, she would have never killed herself. And she would never leave her young daughter and husband behind. It wasn't until the police discovered key forensic evidence inside the apartment that they began looking at her death as a possible homicide.

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      41 min
    • Richard Glossip

      #145 - In 1997, the owner of an Oklahoma City motel was beaten to death with a baseball bat. Shortly into the investigation, the police arrested a teenager, Justin Sneed, for the murder. He quickly confessed to killing the motel owner but told the police someone else hired him to do it. Justin Sneed said that his older friend and manager of the motel, Richard Glossip, was the mastermind behind the murder. Both men were convicted of the murder, and Richard Glossip was sentenced to the death penalty.

       

      Can a man be executed solely on the confession of a convicted killer and without any forensic evidence?

       

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      39 min
    • Leslie Harris

      #144 - In May 1976, a young wife went missing after having an argument at a restaurant with her husband. The next day, her naked and lifeless body was found 20 miles away from the restaurant at a military air station. Initially, the police suspected the husband was involved with his wife's murder. But the deeper the police dug, the more they second-guessed their first theory about what happened to Leslie Harris.

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      43 min
    • Ray Krone

      #143 - On the morning of December 19, 1991, the body of thirty-six-year-old Kim Ancona was found in the men's restroom of the Phoenix, Arizona, bar where she worked. She had been fatally stabbed and sexually assaulted. Her killer left behind little physical or forensic evidence. Blood at the crime scene matched Kim's blood type, and the police didn't perform semen or DNA tests. Investigators relied on bite marks found on Kim's breast and neck

      Shortly after the murder, the Phoenix police identified their first suspect, Ray Krone. Krone was Kim's friend and became a regular customer at the bar. Phoenix police asked Krone to make a Styrofoam impression of his teeth for comparison. And according to the police, his teeth matched the bite mark on Kim's body. But is a bite mark enough evidence to convict someone of first-degree murder?

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      43 min
    • Mary Scott

      #142 - In November 1969, Mary Scott arrived home to her San Diego apartment after her shift as a cocktail waitress. The next day, her best friend checked on her after she learned that Mary didn't show up to work. When her friend entered the apartment, she found that her friend had assaulted and strangled to death. With little evidence to go on, the case remained unsolved for the next five decades. It wasn't until cold case investigators turned to forensic genetic genealogy that they eventually identified a possible suspect in Mary's murder.

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      44 min
    • Billie-Jo Jenkins

      #141 - On February 15, 1997, 13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins was murdered in her very own backyard in Hastings, East Sussex, England. The case quickly gained widespread media attention for its brutality and apparent lack of motive. The police received a few tips early on in the investigation, but there seemed to be one particular suspect that stood out the most. The prime suspect was someone close to Billie-Jo Jenkins.

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      44 min
    • Julie Rea

      #140 - On October 13, 1997, 10-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick was found murdered inside his mother, Julie Rea's home in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Julie claimed a man wearing a ski mask broke into her house, attacked her, and killed her son. But investigators were skeptical of Julie's story because they didn't believe the crime scene matched her story. Can forensic science determine if Julie Rea is an innocent victim or a cold-blooded killer?

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      49 min
    • Valentine Jane Doe

      #139 - On February 15th, 1991, windsurfers discovered the naked body of a young Jane Doe along US Highway 1 in Key West, Florida. She had been assaulted and strangled. For years, authorities tried to identify the woman and her killer. The only clue they had was that she wasn't from Key West because she didn't have tan lines and wore moccasin shoes.

      Without a name, she became Valentine Jane Doe because investigators believed she was murdered on Valentine's Day. Could forensic science help give her an identify and catch her killer?

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      48 min

    About Forensic Tales

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    Not all stories have happy endings... Hosted by Courtney Fretwell, M.S. in Forensic Psychology, Forensic Tales is a weekly true crime podcast with a forensic twist. Each episode features real cases…

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