Killer Babes

This week we’re bringing you a recent true crime case from the Boston area. A man named Bampumim Texeira has been found guilty of the 2017 double murder of Richard Field and Lina Bolanos. Richard and Lina, engaged to be married, were stabbed to death in their condominium on Dorchester Ave in South Boston on May 5, 2017. Both were notable anesthesiologists in the area.

This week we’re bringing you the story that took place in a house on 135 Benefit Street, in Providence, Rhode Island. The possibly “cursed” Stephen Harris House may have inspired H.P. Lovecraft to come up with “The Shunned House” and reportedly, Edgar Allen Poe walked by it daily.

This pleasant woodsy cemetery houses a few wild legends. This week we bring you stories from Leicester, Massachusetts about Spider Gates Cemetery. Listed as one of the creepiest places in Massachusetts, this cemetery was founded in 1740 and the infamous iron gates resemble a spider’s web. It is currently owned and used by a Quaker group known as the Worcester Friends Meeting and its official name is Friends Cemetery. We visited the cemetery and now it's up to you to decide which legends are true...

The Conjuring was based on the true story of ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Conjuring House is an actual 18th-century farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island where Roger and Carolyn Perron and their five daughters were harassed and possessed by spirits. Learn more about what actually happened in that house and how it differs from the movie franchise.

On December 26, 2000, at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts, gunman Michael McDermott, an application support employee, shot and killed seven co-workers. This event is now known as the Wakefield Massacre.

Jane Toppan (1857–1938), born Honora Kelley in Boston, MA, was an American serial killer. She confessed to over 30 murders in 1901. She is quoted as saying she wanted, "to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived…” Toppan would spend the remainder of her days at the Taunton Insane Hospital where she would die of natural causes.

We talked about Salem in our 5th podcast episode and we’re going back for episode 21! The Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials that occurred in colonial Massachusetts where more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft. Of the accused, 19 people were found guilty and executed by hanging; 14 women and 5 men. One accused man, Giles Corey, was pressed, or crushed to death. We’re going to talk about the story of Giles Corey and the legacy of his execution that continued into the early 1980's.

Part 1 of our KILLER 2-part season finale! We cover the history of the Borden family in 19th century Fall River. And, of course, we take a deep dive into the infamous double ax murders that took place within the Borden household on August 4th, 1892.

On the night of February 8, 1673, Thomas Cornell rushed into the sitting room and found his mother, Rebecca Cornell on the floor, badly burned. He cried out, "Oh, Lord! It is my mother!" This was just the beginning of the strange case of the murder of Rebecca Cornell.