Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad

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Retired Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes and Investigative Journalist Billy Jensen dig deep into unsolved murders, unidentified remains and missing persons cases. Each week listeners ride shotgun as Holes and Jensen attempt to solve the crime using a variety of methods, from old-fashioned detective work to advanced technologies including familial DNA searches, social media geotargeting, and maybe most important—the skills of their listeners who send in tips and theories, becoming active members of The Murder Squad. 

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Winter Distraction: The Dis...

01.25.2021

CBS News' Erin Moriarty joins Billy and Paul this week to discuss the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos. On May 24th, 2019, Jennifer dropped her children off at school then vanished in New Canaan, Connecticut. After she was reported missing, blood ...

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01.25.2021 Winter Distraction: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos with Erin Moriarty CBS News' Erin Moriarty joins Billy and Paul this week to discuss the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos. On May 24th, 2019, Jennifer dropped her children off at school then vanished in New Canaan, Connecticut. After she was reported missing, blood ...
01.18.2021 Winter Distraction: The NXIVM Cult with Karen and Georgia Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from My Favorite Murder join Billy and Paul to discuss the NXIVM cult that made headlines after branding sex slaves. They discuss the inner workings of the group and the crimes for which justice is ...
01.11.2021 Winter Distraction: The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell with True Crime Obsessed Gillian Pensavalle and Patrick Hinds from True Crime Obsessed join Paul and Billy to discuss one of the most infuriating missing person cases in recent history. They look into the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell from Utah on December 6th, ...
01.04.2021 Winter Distraction: The Murder of Hazel Drew with Kate Winkler Dawson Kate Winkler Dawson, host of the Tenfold More Wicked podcast, joins Paul and Billy to discuss the case that inspired Twin Peaks. Hazel Drew disappeared from Sand Lake, New York on July 7th, 1908. Her body was discovered in 4 ...
12.28.2020 Winter Distraction: The Route 40 Killer with Kara and Liza Kara Klenk and Liza Treyger from That’s Messed Up: A SVU Podcast join Billy and Paul to discuss the Route 40 Killer. Steve Pennell is the only known serial killer from Delaware. He preyed on sex workers in the late ...
12.21.2020 Winter Distraction: Updates with the Murder Squad During Jensen and Holes' first Winter Distraction of the season, Billy and Paul talk about some of the biggest updates in the past year. They discuss arrests, DNA testing and the impact of Squaderinos getting loud. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
12.16.2020 The Unsolved Murders of Mary and Susie Reker with Wine and Crime Kenyon, Amanda and Lucy from the Wine and Crime podcast discuss a case from Minnesota never discussed on their podcast with Paul and Billy. The women talk Billy and Paul through the unsolved murders of Mary and Susie Reker, including ...
12.14.2020 Thank You, Squaderinos! This week Paul and Billy look into three separate missing person cases sent to us by Squaderinos. Susan Osborne and her son Evan disappeared from Holtville, Alabama in May of 2017. Dulce Alavez was abducted from Bridgeton, NJ on September ...
12.09.2020 Helping Investigations with Britain Lockhart Billy and Paul are joined by Britain Lockhart, host of the Youtube channel Depths of Historythis week. Britain uses scuba diving and metal detecting to find antiques, guns, and to help local law enforcement find evidence during investigations. Jensen and ...
12.07.2020 Who Killed Jennifer Odom? Paul and Billy look into the unsolved murder of 12-year-old Jennifer Odom. Jennifer disappeared after getting off the school bus on February 19th, 1993, in Florida. After her remains were found six days later, the case focused on serial predators ...
12.02.2020 Lou Pearlman's Scams with Scam Goddess Laci Mosley The Scam Goddess podcast host Laci Mosley joins Billy and Paul to teach them about scams in the true crime world. They delve into the many schemes Lou Pearlman, the music mogul responsible for boy bands like the Backstreet Boys ...
11.30.2020 What Happened to Mitrice Richardson? Billy and Paul look into the mysterious death of Mitrice Richardson. Mitrice was behaving erratically when she was arrested on September 16, 2009 in Malibu, California. She was released on her own in the middle of the night with no ...
11.25.2020 The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer with True Crime Garage, Part 2 Paul, Billy, Nic and the Captain continue looking into the disappearance of Brian Shaffer from 2006. In this episode they look into theories about what may have happened to Brian--an accident, left town, met nefarious people or possibly even a ...
11.23.2020 MISSING: Morgan Nick and the Death of Quawan Charles This week Paul and Billy look into the disappearance of Morgan Nick from Alma, Arkansas. Six-year-old Morgan disappeared from a little league field on June 9th, 1995. The case and descriptions of the possible abductor had Squaderinos bring the case ...
11.18.2020 The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer with True Crime Garage, Part 1 Paul and Billy are joined by Nic and the Captain from the True Crime Garage podcast to look into a missing person case they've covered extensively. In the first part of this special two part Fall Distraction, the guys discuss ...
11.16.2020 Are There More Richard Davis Victims? This week Billy and Paul look into the murder of 5-year-old Siobhan McGuinness from Missoula, Montana. Her case was recently solved with genetic genealogy, but identifying her killer only brought on more questions. Could he be responsible for other murders--including ...
11.11.2020 The Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic with James Renner James Renner joins Paul and Billy to discuss the case which first brought him into the true crime world. Author, podcaster, and journalist has spent most of his life in some way looking into the unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic ...
11.09.2020 Who Killed Rebekah Gould? Part 2 Billy and Paul continue their look into the unsolved murder of Rebekah Gould from September 2004 in Melbourne, Arkansas. This week they are joined by Faculty member of Forensics and Criminal Justice at American Military University Jen Bucholtz to question ...
11.04.2020 The Baseline Killer with Fruitloops Wendy and Beth from Fruitloops: Serial Killers of Color podcast guest on Jensen and Holes: Fall Distraction to discuss a case from their town. In August 2005 an offender began attacking people in the Phoenix area first known as the ...
11.02.2020 Who Killed Rebekah Gould? Part 1 Paul and Billy look into the unsolved murder of Rebekah Gould from September 2004 in Melbourne, Arkansas. The case has left her family and community in a swirl of rumors with no justice. In this episode, the guys look into ...
10.28.2020 Serial Killer Harrison Graham with Affirmative Murder Billy and Paul are joined by Alvin and Fran from the Affirmative Murder podcast. The guys delve into the case of serial killer Harrison Graham in Philadelphia. It's a case Fran finds particularly interesting--from the seven murders he committed to ...
10.26.2020 The Disappearance of Brianna Maitland Billy and Paul look into the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland from Montgomery, Vermont. After leaving work on March 19, 2004, her car was found abandoned crashed into a barn. Upon learning she was missing, questions circled around a fight ...
10.21.2020 The Golden State Killer with Paul Haynes, Part 2 Paul, Billy and Paul Haynes continue to discuss the Golden State Killer. Each giving credit to the science that brought about closure in the case but lay out ways they wish could have caught him sooner. Jensen and Holes: The ...
10.19.2020 The Humboldt Five, Part 2 Paul and Billy finish their look into the Humboldt Five. They take a deeper look into the disappearances and deaths of Sheila Franks and Danielle Bertolini. Sheila was a single mother of two young children. Danielle was a transplant from ...
10.14.2020 The Golden State Killer with Paul Haynes, Part 1 Paul and Billy welcome Michelle McNamara's researcher and citizen detective Paul Haynes. The three give their reactions to the sentencing of Joseph DeAngelo. They discuss details of the case which couldn't be talked about until after the Golden State Killer ...
10.12.2020 The Humboldt Five, Part 1 Billy and Paul begin their look into the Humboldt Five with this first part of a two part series. They delve into the missing person cases of Jennifer Wilmer, Karen Mitchell and Christine Walters. Each young woman disappeared near Humboldt ...
10.05.2020 The Keddie Cabin Murders Paul and Billy look into the unsolved murders of Sue Sharp, John Sharp, Tina Sharp and Dana Wingate. In April 1981, the small resort town of Keddie, California was changed forever. Someone entered the Sharp home of Cabin 28 with ...
09.28.2020 The Lovers' Lane Unsolved Murders Billy and Paul look into the unsolved murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson from August 1990. The two went on a double date before parking at a local lovers' lane in the Houston area. Before and after the murders, ...
09.21.2020 MISSING: Lashaya Stine and Brookelyn Farthing Paul and Billy look into two separate missing person cases this week. The first, 16-year-old Lashaya Stine left her home in Aurora, Colorado on July 16, 2016 around 2 AM. Her mother believes she went out to meet someone but ...
09.14.2020 The Search for Mr. Cruel Billy and Paul look into the unsolved cases of Mr. Cruel out of Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The unknown offender attacked four young girls creating terror. He wore a black ski mask and was usually ...
09.07.2020 The MacDonald Murders Paul and Billy look into the 1970 murders of Colette MacDonald and her two young daughters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Colette's husband--a surgeon and former Green Beret--Jeffrey MacDonald was eventually convicted of the murders but has always maintained his ...
08.31.2020 Who Killed Nanette Krentel? Billy and Paul look into the unsolved 2017 murder of Nanette Krentel out of Lacombe, Louisiana. The offender tried to cover up her murder with a fire that burnt down a 3,000 square foot home in rural Louisiana. It's a ...
08.24.2020 The Taco Bell Strangler, Henry Louis Wallace: Does He Have More Victims? Paul and Billy look into the case of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace. In the early 1990’s, a monster was prowling Charlotte, North Carolina. His targets were young, attractive black women. And his victims barely made the news until he ...
08.17.2020 Who Killed Chynna and Blake Dickus? Paul and Billy delve into the 2006 unsolved murders of Chynna and Blake Dickus in Franklin, Indiana. About 25 miles from Indianapolis, in a new subdivision riddled with home break-ins, it is a double murder that haunts the community. A ...
08.10.2020 Does Matthew Kroll Have More Victims? Paul and Billy look into the murder of Heidi Newman, a case Paul investigated while supervising the crime lab in 2003. It's a case that held similarities to a still unsolved murder six years prior. With the help of investigator ...
08.03.2020 Rita Hester and the Murders of Black Transgender Women in America In 1998, Rita Hester was murdered in her Boston apartment. Rita was active in the transgender community and her gruesome death inspired Transgender Remembrance Day—but her murderer is still out there. Paul and Billy investigate Rita’s case, and also shed ...
07.26.2020 Carrie Brown: An American Jack the Ripper Victim? Billy and Paul travel to 1891 New York City to investigate the unsolved murder of Carrie Brown. While often tied to Jack The Ripper, no conclusive evidence has linked the two and the case that caused a media storm remains ...
07.20.2020 The Possible Victims of Bobby Jack Fowler This week Paul and Billy decide to look into cases that their friend Michelle McNamara, author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, looked into on her blog True Crime Diary. They look at unsolved cases in Oregon and the ...
07.13.2020 What Happened to Tamla Horsford? This week Paul and Billy look into the mysterious death of Tamla Horsford. In November 2018, Tamla Horsford was the only black guest at an adult slumber party in Cumming, Georgia. By all accounts she was the life of the ...
07.06.2020 The Murder of Vanessa Guillen and the Unsolved Homicides of Fort Hood Last week, the body of Specialist Vanessa Guillen was found near a river. She was murdered. And she was not the only Fort Hood soldier to be killed since March. In this episode, Billy and Paul will delve into the ...
06.29.2020 MISSING: Vanessa Guillen and Kierra Coles This week Paul and Billy look into two missing persons cases. The first is a soldier who went missing while on post. Vanessa Guillen was last seen at Fort Hood in Texas on April 22nd. The second is a mail ...
06.22.2020 Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia Part 2 In Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia Part 2, Billy and Paul turn their focus on who may have been capable of committing such a gruesome crime. They look into the usual suspects: the men in Elizabeth's life before her murder, ...
06.15.2020 How Defunding the Police Could Help Solve More Crimes—and Contribute to Eliminating the Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Paul and Billy examine the systemic racism that is resulting in the deaths of so many black men and women by police in the United States. And they explore how defunding ...
06.08.2020 Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia Billy and Paul examine one of the most perplexing unsolved murders in America, the Black Dahlia. In the first of a two part series, Paul examines the autopsy summaries, and through the lens of advancements in forensics, identifies the wounds ...
06.01.2020 Who Killed Ebby Steppach? Paul and Billy look into an unsolved murder of an 18-year-old out of Little Rock, Arkansas. Ebby Steppach went missing in late October of 2015. The only sign left behind was her car with a dead battery, empty gas tank ...
05.25.2020 Randy Kraft: Killer with a Scorecard Billy and Paul look into one of the three men given the nickname "The Freeway Killer." Randy Kraft was caught redhanded with a victim in his car at the time of a drunk driving arrest in May 1983. But the ...
05.18.2020 Killer on the Highway: Does Michael Magliolo Have More Victims? Billy and Paul look into convicted serial killer Michael Magliolo, who hitched rides with truckers to find his victims on the road. They are joined by retired Nashville detective Pat Postiglione, the man who caught Magliolo—as well as one of ...
05.11.2020 Voices of Evil: The cases of Amber Tuccaro and Margaret Ellen Fox Paul and Billy look into two separate cases nearly four decades apart, each haunted with a voice of the offender. The first case, from Canada, is searching for a murderer. A man picked up Amber Tuccaro as she hitchhiked her ...
05.04.2020 West Memphis Three Billy and Paul look into the murders of 8-year-olds Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch in West Memphis, Arkansas. Paul gives his unfiltered, professional opinion of what happened to the boys, as well as who he thinks may be ...
04.27.2020 Murderers Let Loose During the Coronavirus Prisons and jails in each state are letting inmates out for fear of the coronavirus. Some before trial. Some early release. And scores of those are already back in prison for reoffending—some being accused of killing people in their small ...

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