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On the morning of Friday, August 16, 1996, Marissa Moody brought her 6-year-old son to the impressive home of Janet and Perry March to have a play date with 5-year-old Sammy March. The March family seemed like the picture-perfect family, but Marissa never felt comfortable around Perry March.  He was intimidating and snubbed her at every opportunity.

Janet March, 33-years-old, was an accomplished artist from a privileged upbringing.  It wasn’t terribly unusual that Janet wasn’t there for the play date.  The March children had a nanny.  The only thing that seemed off that day to Marissa was the presence of a rolled-up rug lying on the floor near the kitchen entryway.  She had never seen it before, and when she returned to pick up her son that afternoon, the rug was gone. Perry claimed that Janet had left home for a 12-day vacation.  But, after 12 days, there was still no sign of her. Homicide detectives became convinced that Janet’s 100-pound body had been concealed in the rug that day.

Join us at the quiet end for The Disappearance of Janet March. According to homicide detectives, Perry March killed his wife Janet during an argument on the evening of August 15, 1996.  His father, Arthur, and brother, Ronald, were seen as possible accomplices in disposing of Janet’s body.  But with no body and no murder weapon, the case was nearly impossible to prove.  The court of public opinion found Perry March guilty from early on in the investigation, but it would take years for his true character to be exposed.

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Read “Love, Lies, & Murder” by Gary C. King

In 2006, 33-year-old Mechele Linehan was visited by the Alaska police regarding a 1996 murder.  Back then, Mechele had been an exotic dancer.  The murder victim was a former client named Kent Leppink.  But, in 2006, Mechele was a professional woman married to a physician and raising a young daughter in Washington state. Her arrest was shocking to the people in her community.

Join us at the quiet end for The Fisherman & the Flirt. Mechele had been dancing at The Great Alaskan Bush Company for only a few months when she met Kent Leppink. He was infatuated with Mechele and soon told people that she was his fiancée, but Mechele said that they were never engaged and were not in a romantic relationship. There are many sides to this story, so let’s dive in and try to separate fact from fiction.

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When 16-year-old Patricia Columbo took a job in a soda shop next door to a pharmacy, no one even imagined that she and the 36-year-old married pharmacist Frank DeLuca would become involved in a sexual relationship. But that’s exactly what happened.

Over the next four years, Patricia’s parents tried to talk some sense into her.  First, Deluca moved Patricia into his family home with his wife and five children.  When Patricia’s parents gave her money to move out and get her own apartment, they were distressed to learn that she had Frank DeLuca move in with her.

Join us at the quiet end for A Dark Passion.  Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca went into her family’s house with the motive to kill them all and receive her family inheritance, but the murders were clearly overkill, revealing a level of hate beyond all reason and leading everyone who knew the family to question why these shocking crimes happened.

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Read “Love’s Blood” by Clark Howard

On July 5, 2003, 37-year-old Florida bartender Sandra Rozzo was shot in her own garage before she could even get out of her car.  Sandra, known by her friends as Sandee, was a hard worker, a good friend, and a devoted mother to her young daughter.  The idea that someone would want her dead was difficult to comprehend.

There was one man with a motive: 36-year-old Tracey Humphrey.  Humphrey was an ex-boyfriend charged with felony battery and the sexual assault of Sandee.  He was due to go on trial in August of 2003.  Sandra planned to testify against him. But Tracey had an ironclad alibi. If he didn’t kill Sandee himself, could he have been the mastermind behind her murder?

Join us at the quiet end for The Silencing of Sandra Rozzo, a murder case with an unlikely pair of co-conspirators. It’s also a case that begs the fascinating question of whether one person can convince an otherwise nonviolent person to kill.

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Read “Kill for Me” by M. William Phelps

Elaine O’Hara of South Dublin, Ireland, spent her life looking for love. Because of her extensive history of mental health issues, Elaine spent many of her years in the St. Edmundsbury Hospital, receiving psychiatric treatment for depressive disorder, self-harming behaviors, and three suicide attempts.  As a result, she missed the usual social milestones of dances, dating, and boyfriends.  In her thirties, she began to meet men online and became involved in masochistic behavior.

Elaine was exceedingly vulnerable to online predators.  One of these predators was Graham Dwyer, a married architect with a secret desire not only to bind and hurt women, but to kill them. In August of 2012, Elaine disappeared.  Police assumed she had committed suicide by jumping off nearby cliffs.  But disturbing texts found on recovered cell phones later revealed that Elaine had been involved with a dangerous man.

Join us at the quiet end for Groomed for Murder. Elaine O’Hara wanted to find a man to love her and have a family of her own, but instead she was tragically lured to her own murder by a cruel, sick man who was living a secret double life.

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After a night out clubbing with a friend in New York City, the beautiful and kind 20-year-old Kim Antonakos disappeared.  Kim was on her way home in the early morning hours when she was abducted.  Her father, wealthy businessman Tommy Antonakos, immediately began a widespread and organized search for his daughter.  What he didn’t know was that Kim’s abductors were supposed friends of Kim.  Right under Tommy’s nose, these cold-blooded men pretended to care about her and to participate in his search for Kim.

Join us at the quiet end for Seized and Scorched. Everything about Kim’s abduction showed unbridled cruelty and extraordinary incompetence.  When plans to hold Kim hostage for money didn’t go according to plan, Kim’s abductors panicked and took Kim’s life.  But not only was her young life stolen from her and those who loved her, Kim died an agonizing and slow death, leaving her unrecognizable.  Before the investigation was completed, another murder would occur, revealing that the callousness of at least one of her killers ran deeper than even imagined.

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In the early morning of April 22, 2016, relatives of the Rhoden family in Pike County, Ohio, began to discover family members brutally killed in their own homes.  In all, eight members of the Rhoden family were murdered, including one minor, 16-year-old Christopher Rhoden, Jr.

The victims had been shot to death.  Three young children, including a newborn infant, were left alive.  Investigators determined early on that the killings were planned and carried out by at least two perpetrators who knew the family well, but it took over two years to make arrests.

This crime investigation is the most extensive in the history of the state of Ohio.  Evidence of cock-fighting and marijuana growth operations were found at some of the crime scenes, but the motive may have been something as simple as a child-custody dispute.

Join us at the quiet end for The Piketon Massacre.  Due to the methodical nature of these killings and the lack of forensic evidence at the scenes, these murders have been described as a premeditated and sophisticated operation. Four people have been arrested and the death penalty is on the table.

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This episode was suggested to us by Jeane, a long-time listener. In fact, Jeane was so enthusiastic about this case that she volunteered to write the script, and we took her up on that. Jeane was a federal prosecutor in the San Francisco Bay area for 27 years, focusing primarily on white-collar crimes, before she retired in 2018. She looks forward to the U.S. Department of Justice becoming a nonpartisan institution once again and cherishes the career attorneys who stuck it out. 

So, thank you for all your research and hard work, Jeane.  This is a fascinating case you brought to our attention and we’re excited to share it with our listeners at the quiet end. 

That said, please join us at the quiet end for The Cards He Was Dealt, the story of the life and death of Barry Crane. 

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