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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Rita Hester and the Murders...

08.03.2020

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 ...

Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad episodes:

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 ...
04.20.2020 Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras: Part 4 In the conclusion of "Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras," Billy and Paul give updates on two photographer killers from season one--revealing the invaluable tips you gave and identifications of the women in that photos that are ...
04.13.2020 Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras: Part 3 Paul and Billy delve deeper into The Dating Game Killer, Rodney Alcala, this time joined by NYPD Detective Wendell Stradford. Stradford was the cold case investigator who linked Alcala to even more crimes. Together they sift through the evidence, including ...
04.06.2020 What Happened to Carole Baskin's Husband Don Lewis? Tiger King raised a lot of questions about cult-like behavior and animal cruelty. But the biggest question for us was: What happened to Don Lewis? Two months after filing a restraining order against his wife, he goes missing. His children ...
03.30.2020 Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras: Part 2 In part 2 of "Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras," Paul and Billy continue their deep dive into The Dating Game Killer-Rodney Alcala. With the help of retired detective Cliff Shepard, the guys discuss four cases in ...
03.23.2020 Police Investigations in the Age of the Coronavirus What happens if someone is murdered during the quarantine? How will the detectives proceed? How will first responders respond to a call where someone is in imminent danger? In this special episode of the Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad, ...
03.16.2020 Can I Take Your Picture? Serial Killers with Cameras: Part 1 More than 20 killers have used this line to lure victims to their death. The second season of Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad starts with a 4-part series focused on these killers--and the photographs they left behind. Photographs that ...
03.13.2020 Trailer: Season 2- Can I Take Your Picture? Season 2 of Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad drops this Monday, March 16th.
03.09.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Paul Scheer Billy and Paul welcome actor, comedian and podcaster Paul Scheer to discuss his role as a fictional special agent as well as true crime. The guys discuss a case with a questionable confession. Plus Billy and Paul give their thoughts ...
03.02.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Henry Zebrowski This week Billy and Paul welcome Henry Zebrowski from Last Podcast on the Left. The three take a look at the first true crime case that interested Henry when he was just a boy--The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
02.24.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Dateline's Josh Mankiewicz This week Billy and Paul welcome Josh Mankiewicz from NBC's Datelineto talk about some of the most memorable cases he's covered. One case touched Josh on a personal level; the other was memorable for very different reasons. Josh also shares ...
02.17.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Phoebe Judge from Criminal This week's Winter Distraction features one of the original true crime podcasters, Phoebe Judge from the Criminal podcast. Paul, Billy and Phoebe discuss some of Criminal's most popular episodes--including one with links to the world of Harry Potter. And Phoebe ...
02.10.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction-The Case of JonBenet On this week's Winter Distraction, Billy and Paul look into another case they are often asked about-the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The six-year-old beauty pageant queen was found murdered inside the family home in December of 1996. The case remains ...
02.03.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Karen and Georgia On this week's Winter Distraction, Billy and Paul welcome Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from My Favorite Murder. Billy, Paul, Karen and Georgia discuss the case that the guys get asked the most about--the death of Kathleen Peterson covered in ...
01.27.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction with Lauren Lapkus On this week's Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction, Billy and Paul welcome the funny and talented film and television actress Lauren Lapkus. They discuss her fictional crime role in Orange is the New Black--including which real life criminal she would ...
01.20.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction: Jeffrey Epstein (with Small Town Dicks) On this week's Winter Distraction, Billy and Paul welcome the crew from the podcast Small Town Dicks. Billy, Paul, Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpsons from The Simpsons) and Detectives Dan and Dave will discuss one of the biggest pop culture crime ...
01.13.2020 Jensen and Holes: Winter Distraction: Our First Cold Case Murder Arrest Jessi has been listening to The Murder Squad since episode 1, and followed Paul and Billy's instructions and submitted her DNA to GEDMatch after using an ancestry site. In June, detectives in Colorado contacted her, asking her to help put ...
01.06.2020 Jensen and Holes: The Winter Distraction with Adam Conover While Billy and Paul are working diligently on season two of Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad, they're using their downtime to watch movies and TV shows about...crime. Some true crime, some fiction. In these mini-episodes, the guys give their ...
12.30.2019 Answers: Big Tips on the Manson Family’s Possible Other Murders In part two of the season one finale, Billy and Paul delve into the tips the Murder Squad has received this year. They interview Charles Manson’s acid dealer, who has never spoken to the police. But he came forward to ...
12.23.2019 Answers: A new lead in the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders In the first part of the season finale, Billy and Paul talk to a woman who was friends with Yvonne Weber and Maureen Sterling--victims from the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. She was offered by them to smoke pot with a ...
12.18.2019 Sneak Peek of Parcast's Famous Fates Every Wednesday, Parcast's Famous Fates releases 5 binge-worthy episodes only on Spotify. Each week centers around a common theme, such as Hollywood Icons, Mysterious Deaths, or Notorious Names. These incredible stories are all brought to life by an ensemble cast ...
12.16.2019 Brittany Phillips Unsolved Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the unsolved murder of Brittany Phillips. 18-year-old Brittany Phillips had just moved back to the Tulsa area a few months before she was killed in her apartment in September of 2004. Law enforcement ...
12.09.2019 Unsolved—Anita Knutson Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the murder of 18-year-old Anita Knutson out of Minot, North Dakota. Anita was a friend to everyone, appearing to have no enemies, when she was discovered murdered in her apartment on June 4, ...
12.02.2019 The Freeway Phantom (LIVE from Death Becomes Us in Washington, D.C.) Billy and Paul dive into the unsolved cases of the Freeway Phantom. In front of a live studio audience they discuss the details of six unsolved homicides from the Washington, D.C. area in 1971 and 1972. The cases are thought ...
11.25.2019 Fugitive John Blauvelt Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the fugitive case of John Blauvelt out of South Carolina. Blauvelt is wanted for the murder of his wife Cati in October of 2016. Shortly after the murder he went on the run ...
11.18.2019 The Forest City Killer In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, this city of London, Ontario, had multiple serial killers in their midst. Three have been identified but most likely there was at least one more. Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the ...
11.11.2019 LIVE from My Favorite Weekend in Santa Barbara Billy Jensen and Paul Holes delve into the unsolved murder of Eva Taylor in front of a live audience at My Favorite Weekend in Santa Barbara. Taylor's case has similarities to the Golden State Killer cases, but still remains unsolved.
11.04.2019 UNSOLVED-Shelbey Thornburgh and Missy Bevers This week Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into two unsolved murders in Texas. Both cases captured the killers on video, both have DNA, but neither has been solved. Paul and Billy delve into the details of the murders of ...
10.28.2019 The Unsolved Murder of The Haunted Mansion's Yale Gracey Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the unsolved murder Yale Gracey, one of the great minds behind the illusions featured in Disney's Haunted Mansion ride. They also discuss other unsolved Halloween cases through the years.
10.21.2019 Why are so many women going missing and being murdered in Virginia? Billy and Paul continue their look into the cases of Jesse Matthew. They take a closer look into unsolved missing and murdered women from areas that we know Matthew was in. They continue their conversation with Morgan Harrington's mom about ...
10.14.2019 Jesse Matthew, Serial Predator/Serial Killer Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham in Charlottesville, Virginia. While talking to Morgan's mother Gil Harrington, they learn new details and hear a mother's journey in learning her daughter was killed ...
10.10.2019 Bonus Episode: Crack the Case of the Missing Songbird (Barnes and Noble Exclusive) It’s 1946. A young singer/waitress had just arrived in a small Michigan town, and caused a sensation among the rough crowd at the tavern where she was singing. Then one night she went missing. Three men were interested in her. ...
10.07.2019 MISSING-Molly Miller and Colt Haynes Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the missing persons case of Molly Miller and Colt Haynes out of Love County, Oklahoma. The two went missing after a high speed police chase in July of 2013. Billy and Paul talk ...
09.30.2019 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in North America. With the help of scholar and Yakama tribal member Emily Washines, they dive into specific cases and shine light on the nearly ...
09.23.2019 UNSOLVED-Sydney Land and Neo Kauffman Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into the unsolved homicides of 21 year old Sydney Land and 20 year old Neo Kauffman. The two were killed in their Las Vegas apartment in October of 2016. Billy and Paul speak directly ...
09.16.2019 William "Wild Bill" Huff Billy Jensen and Paul Holes look into a killer that Paul has been investigating since his time on the job. William "Wild Bill" Huff is in prison for two murders, but law enforcement believes he could be guilty of many ...

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