On Halloween weekend in 2010, 54-year-old Bobbie Miller was beginning again in Gilford, New Hampshire. She had a new home, a business degree in progress, flower boxes waiting to be built, and a yellow Labrador named Sport at her side. By the evening of November 1, Bobbie and Sport had been found shot to death inside the house on Country Club Road.

There was no sign of forced entry. Investigators narrowed the critical window to the 25 hours between 4:00 p.m. on October 31 and 5:00 p.m. on November 1. No murder weapon has been publicly identified, no motive has been announced, and no one has been charged.

This episode of Under the Pines follows Bobbie beyond the cold case file: the mother whose home was always open, the student rebuilding her future in her fifties, the artist who worked in stained glass, the hiker who loved Mount Major, and the woman still making plans with her daughter. It also examines the bitter divorce, the unresolved financial dispute, the nearby Maine arson two days before her final confirmed sighting, and the theories that have divided both the public and members of her own family.

Those theories are clearly separated from verified fact. Neither her former husband nor her son has been charged or publicly named as a suspect in Bobbie’s murder, and investigators have never publicly linked the Acton fire to the killings.

The latest public appeal lists a reward of up to $56,000 for information leading to an arrest and prosecution. Tips can be made anonymously to the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit at 603-271-2663 or [email protected].

Sources:

Appeal for Information in 2010 Homicide of Roberta “Bobbie” Miller
https://www.doj.nh.gov/news-and-media/appeal-information-2010-homicide-roberta-bobbie-miller

Roberta “Bobbie” Miller’s Family Seeking Answers in Unsolved Homicide
https://www.concordmonitor.com/2025/11/03/roberta-miller-gilford-cold-case/

Daughter of Murder Victim “Bobbie” Miller Pleads for Public’s Help to Find Killer
https://indepthnh.org/2025/11/03/daughter-of-murder-victim-bobbie-miller-pleads-for-publics-help-to-find-killer/

Family Wants Justice in 2010 Murder of Roberta Miller in Gilford
https://indepthnh.org/2024/02/27/family-wants-justice-in-2010-murder-of-roberta-miller-in-wolfeboro/

Family of Bobbie Miller Seeks Answers More Than a Decade After Her Shooting
https://www.wmur.com/article/bobbie-miller-cold-case-shooting-112222/42043400

Roberta “Bobbie” Miller Obituary
https://obits.phaneuf.net/roberta-miller

The Murder of Roberta “Bobbie” Miller
https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/bobbie-miller

NH Family Offers $50,000 Reward to Find Woman’s Killer
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nh-family-offers-50000-reward-to-find-womans-killer/

Newspapers.com Historical Newspaper Archive
https://www.newspapers.com/

#BobbieMiller #NewHampshireColdCase #UnsolvedMurder #NewEnglandTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

On April 29, 1984, twelve-year-old Gycelle Cote left her Sanford, Maine home to meet friends in woods neighborhood children treated like their own backyard. By morning, she had been found near the Mousam River, and a town that knew her as kind, affectionate, artistic, and full of life was left trying to understand how an ordinary Sunday ended in murder.

Eighteen-year-old Scott Waterhouse was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life. This episode follows the investigation, witness testimony, biological evidence, trial, appeal, and the dispute over satanism evidence while separating the verified record from cult rumors and later online speculation. At the center is Gycelle: a flute player, softball player, young artist, and the girl her family remembered for running toward people, hugging them, and saying, “I love you.” Listener discretion is advised.

Sources and further reading:
State v. Waterhouse, 513 A.2d 862 - https://law.justia.com/cases/maine/supreme-court/1986/513-a-2d-862-0.html
Sanford Girl to Be Remembered Tuesday - https://www.pressherald.com/2014/04/26/sanford-girl-to-be-remembered-tuesday/
Murder in Maine Mixed Satan Worship and Drugs - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/18/Murder-in-Maine-mixed-Satan-worship-and-drugs/9683469602000/
The Mills - https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/the-mills/
Scott Waterhouse Gets Life, Part 1 - https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-tribune-scott-waterhouse-gets-li/143749269/
Newspapers.com Archive: Journal Tribune, Portland Press Herald, Evening Express, Bangor Daily News, Sun-Journal, Lewiston Daily Sun, Maine Sunday Telegram, Times Record, and Morning Union - https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?keyword=Gycelle%20Cote
John P. Cote Obituary - https://conroytullywalker.com/obits/john-cote/
Gycelle Anne Cote Memorial - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71948912/gycelle_anne-cote

Music: “Broken Wings” by Yoza, used with permission.

#GycelleCote #SanfordMaine #MaineTrueCrime #NewEnglandTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast

Two New Hampshire girls vanished thirty-six days apart in 1980. Neither ever came home.

Fifteen-year-old Rachael Garden was last seen after leaving Rowe’s Corner Market in Newton. Thirty-six days later, fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn disappeared from her family’s Manchester apartment after a night marked by dark hallways, an open back door, and a bed holding the wrong girl.

This episode of Under the Pines follows both unsolved New Hampshire disappearances from the last confirmed moments through decades of searches, reported sightings, mysterious phone calls, and unanswered questions. Rachael was first viewed as a possible runaway, but investigators later said the circumstances suggested foul play. Laureen left behind her clothes, money, purse, and new birthday sneakers. Months later, unexplained calls charged from California gave her mother a fragile reason to believe she might still be alive.

The cases have never been officially connected. No one has been charged. What remains are two girls who were more than case files: Rachael, a daughter and sister remembered for her smile and the horse she loved; Laureen, a girl who loved singing and dancing and dreamed of becoming an actress.

Have information? Contact the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit at 603-271-2663 or [email protected]. Tips may be made anonymously.

Sources
Rachael Garden | New Hampshire Department of Justice
Laureen Rahn | New Hampshire Department of Justice
Renewed Call for Information in 1980 Disappearance of Laureen Rahn
Have You Seen This Child? Rachael Elizabeth Garden
Have You Seen This Child? Laureen Ann Rahn
Rachael Garden Disappearance: Officials Actively Investigating
New Hampshire Unsolved Case File: Disappearance of Laureen Rahn
Rachael Elizabeth Garden | The Charley Project
Laureen Ann Rahn | The Charley Project
The Mystery of Rachael Garden
The Forty Year Search for Laureen Rahn
FBI, Manchester PD Conduct Search Related to 1980 Missing Persons Case
Archived New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News Reporting

Music: “Broken Wings” by Yoza.

#RachaelGarden #LaureenRahn #NewHampshireColdCase #MissingPersons #TrueCrimePodcast

Fourteen-year-old Amy Carnevale was preparing for high school, a new home, and a future she believed was still waiting for her. Instead, her boyfriend, Jamie Fuller, had already told other teenagers that he intended to kill her.

In August 1991, Amy disappeared from Beverly, Massachusetts. For five days, her family searched while people close to Jamie carried pieces of the truth. This episode remembers Amy as a daughter, sister, friend, student, and girl who hoped to become a hairdresser.

We examine the warnings, investigation, first-degree murder conviction, escape plot, 2024 parole denial, and the real case behind No One Would Tell. We also separate verified facts from disputed claims involving steroids, pregnancy, and the alleged haircut lure.

Dating-abuse support: Call Love Is Respect at 1-866-331-9474, text LOVEIS to 22522, or visit loveisrespect.org. Call emergency services if there is immediate danger.

Sources:
Commonwealth v. Jamie P. Fuller - https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/421/421mass400.html
Jamie Fuller Life Sentence Decision, August 20, 2024 - https://www.mass.gov/doc/jamie-fuller-life-sentence-decision-august-20-2024/download
Boy Allegedly Plotted Death of 14-Year-Old Girlfriend Months Ago - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/29/Boy-allegedly-plotted-death-of-14-year-old-girlfriend-months-ago/7939683438400/
Funeral Held for Slain Cheerleader - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/31/Funeral-held-for-slain-cheerleader/3629683611200/
Witnesses Tell of Girl's Murder - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/16/Witnesses-tell-of-girls-murder/7245719208000/
Teen Bodybuilder Guilty in Cheerleader's Death - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/23/Teen-bodybuilder-guilty-in-cheerleaders-death/5852719812800/
Mother of Convicted Teen Killer Charged in Escape Plot - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/08/12/Mother-of-convicted-teen-killer-charged-in-escape-plot/1910745128000/
Cynthia Gill Obituary - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/cynthia-gill-obituary?id=24298954
Christopher M. Carnevale Obituary - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/christopher-carnevale-obituary?id=57933802
No One Would Tell, 1996 TV Movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117191/
No One Would Tell, 2018 TV Movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8883456/
No One Would Tell: The Amy Carnevale Story - https://yourdream.liveyourdream.org/no-one-would-tell-the-amy-carnevale-story/

#AmyCarnevale #JamieFuller #NoOneWouldTell #TeenDatingViolence #MassachusettsTrueCrime

Lineida Olivera was a mother of eleven, a sister, a daughter of Puerto Rico, and a woman still trying to rebuild her life when she disappeared from Worcester, Massachusetts in early 2007.

After giving birth to twin girls, Lineida told her sister Marilyn she wanted treatment and a chance to recover her children. Then the calls stopped. Her family searched with flyers, emails, and a MySpace missing-person page. On September 4, 2007, her remains were found in woods about 200 yards from Route 122 in Rutland.

This Under the Pines episode follows Lineida’s life before the case file, the family who kept looking, the unresolved homicide investigation, and the careful public discussion around possible links to the Main South Woodsman cases involving Carmen Rudy, Betzaida Montalvo, Dinelia Torres, and Wendy Morello. The theory material is clearly separated from the verified record.

If you know anything about the death of Lineida Olivera, contact Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office at 508.453.7589 or [email protected].

Sources:

• Lineida Olivera – Rutland – 9/4/2007 – https://worcesterda.com/cases/lineida-olivera-rutland-9-4-2007/
• Lineida Olivera Gonzalez Obituary – https://www.collinsfuneral.com/obituaries/lineida-gonzalez
• Lineida Olivera – https://charleyproject.org/case/lineida-olivera
• Mother of 11 linked to serial killings – Daily News, Amanda Smith, June 30, 2007
• Expert blames serial killer: “Main South Woodsman” preying on prostitutes – Telegram & Gazette, Scott J. Croteau and Shaun Sutner, September 9, 2007
• Skeleton site yields evidence: Officials say clues linked to killer of mother of 11 – Telegram & Gazette, Scott J. Croteau, September 13, 2007
• Evidence uncovered in case of body found in Central Mass. – The Boston Globe, John C. Drake, September 13, 2007
• A serial killer victim? Sister says no, it was “someone she knew” – GateHouse News Service / Liz Mineo, September 25, 2007
• Probe into Worcester, Middlesex killings broadens – The Boston Globe, John R. Ellement, May 8, 2008
• Berlin man is arraigned in 1996 killing of Fitchburg prostitute – The Boston Globe, Milton J. Valencia, September 24, 2008
• Convicted killer Alex Scesny’s murder conviction upheld by state’s highest court – MassLive, Scott J. Croteau, July 14, 2015

#LineidaOlivera #UnsolvedMurder #MassachusettsTrueCrime #UnderThePines #ColdCase

Mercy Brown and the New England Vampire Panic tells the true story behind one of New England’s most haunting legends: the nineteen-year-old girl from Exeter, Rhode Island, remembered by history as America’s last “vampire.”

But before she became folklore, Mercy Lena Brown was Lena. A daughter. A sister. A young woman in a farming family being slowly emptied by tuberculosis, then called consumption. Her mother died. Her sister died. Lena died. And while her brother Eddie was still wasting away from the same disease, fear brought neighbors back to the family graves.

This episode of Under the Pines looks past the vampire label and into the human story underneath it: a family surrounded by death, a father under pressure, a community caught between folk belief and emerging medical science, and a young woman whose body became the place where grief, fear, and superstition collided.

This is not a monster story. It is a story about tuberculosis, New England folklore, 19th-century medicine, Rhode Island history, and the cost of trying to explain the unexplainable before science could save the people families loved.

Sources:

Have Mercy… – The Rhode Island Historical Society – https://www.rihs.org/have-mercy/

The Great New England Vampire Panic – Smithsonian Magazine – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/

Vampires and Death in New England, 1784 to 1892 – Michael E. Bell – https://www.yorku.ca/kdenning/%2B%2B%2B2150%202007-8/BellVampiresandDeath.pdf

Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires – Michael E. Bell – https://www.weslpress.org/9780819571700/food-for-the-dead/

The “Vampire” Quilt: A Material Culture Study – Rhode Island History Navigator – https://navigator.rihs.org/rhode-island-a-bibliography-of-its-history/the-vampire-quilt-a-material-culture-study/

The “Vampire” Quilt: A Material Culture Study – Quilt Index PDF – https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/35-90-236/Uncoverings1999-A7.pdf

When Tuberculosis Helped Put Colorado on the Map – History.com – https://www.history.com/articles/the-disease-that-helped-put-colorado-on-the-map

Mercy Lena Brown Memorial – Find a Grave – https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6628164/mercy_lena-brown

Additional source material includes Providence Journal reporting from 1883, 1884, January 1892, March 1892, and May 1892; Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner references; Rhode Island death records; the 1880 United States Census; cemetery records; and public folklore material used only where clearly framed as legend or cultural afterlife.

#MercyBrown #NewEnglandVampirePanic #RhodeIslandHistory #TrueCrimeHistory #UnderThePines

Linda Carman left Point Judith, Rhode Island, on what was supposed to be an overnight fishing trip with her only son, Nathan Carman. Eight days later, Nathan was found alive in a life raft more than 100 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Linda and the boat were never recovered.

But this was never only a missing-at-sea case. Linda’s disappearance reached back into the unsolved 2013 murder of her father, John Chakalos, a wealthy Connecticut and New Hampshire real estate developer. Federal prosecutors later accused Nathan of killing both his mother and grandfather as part of an alleged inheritance and insurance fraud scheme.

Nathan pleaded not guilty. He died in custody before trial. He was never convicted. The federal case was dismissed after his death, leaving behind a story with no jury verdict, no recovered boat, no recovered body, and no clean ending.

This episode of Under the Pines tells the Carman family story as a human tragedy first: Linda as a mother, daughter, friend, and careful person who checked in before she left; John and Rita Chakalos as a married couple whose long life together ended just before the family fractured; and Nathan as a son who became the center of accusations that were never tested before a jury.

Sources used for this episode:

Vermont Man Arrested for Murder on the High Seas and Related Inheritance Fraud Scheme

Coast Guard Audio with Nathan Carman

National Liability & Fire Insurance Company v. Nathan Carman, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

Nathan Carman “omitted” from CT mom’s will years before disappearance

Nathan Carman’s Death Was Not Suspicious, Autopsy Shows

Funeral Held for Nathan Carman, Man Accused of Killing Mother in Inheritance Scheme

Man Charged with Killing Mom at Sea Seeks Grand Jury Minutes

Additional research included archived newspaper reporting from the Hartford Courant, Boston Globe, Burlington Free Press, The Day, Middletown Press, Valley News, Greenwich Time, The Free Lance-Star, Concord Monitor, Daily Press, and Associated Press coverage.

#LindaCarman #NathanCarman #JohnChakalos #MissingAtSea #UnderThePines

Ayla Bell Reynolds was twenty months old when she was reported missing from Waterville, Maine, eight days before Christmas in 2011. Her case became the largest criminal investigation in Maine State Police history. More than a decade later, no one has been criminally charged.

This Under the Pines episode follows Ayla as a child first: a little girl who loved pink, music, dancing, Dora the Explorer, books, stuffed puppies, and pictures of puppies. Then it follows the night she was reported missing, the search, the blood evidence found in the basement, the rejection of an abduction theory, the civil wrongful death lawsuit, and the pink light her mother still keeps shining.

Investigators say Ayla did not leave the house on her own, was not abducted, and that adults who were in the home are withholding information. Justin DiPietro has denied harming Ayla or having anything to do with her disappearance. Civil allegations are discussed as allegations only. The criminal investigation remains open.

If you know anything about Ayla Reynolds, contact Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit Central at 207-624-7143 or 1-800-452-4664, Augusta communications at 207-624-7076, or submit a tip through the Maine State Police website.

Sources:
Reynolds, Ayla | Maine State Police
Maine State Police History
Mother of Ayla Reynolds still seeking answers 9 years later
Emotions 'running really high' 8 years later
Wrongful death suit, police probe linger 12 years later
Ayla Reynolds’ grandmother, aunt added to wrongful death lawsuit
Settlement reached in civil case involving Ayla Reynolds
Wrongful death settlement doesn’t end investigation
Have you seen this child? Ayla Reynolds
Ayla Bell Reynolds | The Charley Project
Missing Toddler Ayla Reynolds Had Unstable Home Life
Report: Ayla Reynolds’ father took out life insurance
Ayla Bell Reynolds Web Site
Ayla Reynolds Ayla’s Angels
Justice for Ayla Reynolds petition

Music: Special thanks to Yoza for “Broken Wings.”

#AylaReynolds #MaineTrueCrime #MissingChildren #TrueCrimePodcast #UnsolvedMysteries

Five-month-old Marlon Devine Santos vanished from a Worcester foster home in 1998 and was not reported missing for two days. What began as a missing-child investigation became a suspected homicide case, a grand-jury review, and a lasting question about how a baby placed under state protection could disappear without a trace.

This episode of Under the Pines follows Marlon’s short life, his parents’ struggle over custody, the foster home on Eastern Avenue, the lost forty-eight hours, the Wachusett Reservoir searches, the unconfirmed suffocation theory, and the separate criminal cases that later changed how the home was understood. The evidence never produced an indictment, no remains were found, and no one has ever been charged in Marlon’s disappearance.

Marlon was five months old. He was more than a missing-person file, more than a foster-care failure, and more than the questions adults left behind. He was a child who should have had birthdays, school pictures, friendships, and a life beyond one photograph.

If you have information: Send an anonymous text to 274637 beginning with TIPWPD, use the Worcester Police anonymous online tip system, or call the Unresolved Homicide Unit at 508-799-8688.

Sources

Santos, Marlon | City of Worcester
https://www.worcesterma.gov/police/investigations/unresolved-cases/santos-marlon

Marlon Devine Santos | The Charley Project
https://charleyproject.org/case/marlon-devine-santos

Missing: Marlon Santos | Worcester, Massachusetts
https://uncovered.com/cases/marlon-santos-worcester-ma

48 Hours After Baby Marlon Went Missing | Unsolved: Worcester
https://thisweekinworcester.com/episode-9-of-unsolved-worcester-season-3/

Bay State Woman Enriching Lives of Foster Kids
https://www.fiftyplusadvocate.com/2013/02/25/bay-state-woman-enriching-lives-of-foster-kids/

Marlon Devine Santos, 5 Months, Worcester, 5 Nov 1998 | Websleuths
https://websleuths.com/threads/ma-marlon-devine-santos-5-months-worcester-5-nov-1998.59354/

The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/
Telegram & Gazette
https://www.telegram.com/
The Republican
https://www.masslive.com/republican/
Daily Hampshire Gazette
https://www.gazettenet.com/
The Recorder
https://www.recorder.com/
The Daily Item
https://www.itemlive.com/

#MarlonDevineSantos #WorcesterTrueCrime #MassachusettsTrueCrime #MissingChildren #UnsolvedMysteries

In 1982, 22-year-old Paul J. Costanza was found dead inside Room 54 at the Tudor Motor Inn on Route 9 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. At first, his death was viewed through the shadow of addiction. But his mother, Lana McKinney, believed something was wrong from the beginning.

This episode of Under the Pines follows the unresolved homicide of Paul Costanza, a young man whose life had become tangled in drugs, fear, cash, and dangerous people, but whose humanity never disappeared. He was a son. He was a brother. And he was someone his mother never stopped fighting for.

Paul had been spending time around Green Hill Park in Worcester before his death. He was known to carry cash, a wallet attached by a metal chain, and a red toolbox. When he was found in the motel room, the room was trashed, his wallet was gone, heroin was missing, and yet more than $1,000 in cash remained behind in the toolbox.

A judicial inquest later ruled that Paul had been robbed and murdered.

This story is not about pretending Paul lived a clean or simple life. He did not. It is about refusing to let addiction become the only thing people remember. Lana knew the hard parts of her son’s life. She knew the fear. She knew the trouble. But she also knew Paul wanted to live.

More than forty years later, no one has been charged in his death.

If you know anything about the August 5, 1982 homicide of Paul J. Costanza at the Tudor Motor Inn in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, contact Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office at 508-453-7589, or email [email protected].

Sources:

Paul Costanza - Shrewsbury - 8/5/1982, Worcester County District Attorney’s Office

https://worcesterda.com/cases/paul-costanza-shrewsbury-8-5-1982/

Drug addict’s slaying unsolved, Kevin Keenan, Telegram & Gazette, updated August 27, 2006

https://www.telegram.com/

Music credit: Mahalo to Yoza for the use of her song “Broken Wings.”

#PaulCostanza #UnderThePines #UnsolvedHomicide #MassachusettsTrueCrime #ShrewsburyMA