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Rachel Nickell and the Wimbledon Common Honey Trap
Jul 8, 2026On July 15, 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon Common in broad daylight, with her two-year-old son as the only witness. With no DNA at the scene, police fixated on the wrong man, building an infamous honey trap operation around a profiler's hunch while the real killer stayed free. It took sixteen years and a DNA breakthrough to finally get justice. This week, Andie covers one of the most notorious investigations in British...
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Bernadette Vander Meer's Accident Became a Murder Twenty Years Later [Current Affairs]
Jul 7, 2026In August 2006, Bernadette Vander Meer fell 1,200 feet from the summit of Angels Landing in Zion National Park on what was supposed to be her tenth anniversary trip. Authorities called it an accident and closed the case. Twenty years later — after a tip from a former youth group member, a phone call from a pastor who never believed it, and an affidavit laying out an affair, a breakup two days before the trip, and a half-million-dollar insurance payout — her husband was arrested for her...
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A Fatal Fourth of July: The Murder of Football Legend Steve McNair
Jul 1, 2026A former football superstar Steve McNair seemed to have it all: fame, fortune, family and a lasting legacy. But a secret affair was quietly unraveling, and before the 4th of July holiday weekend was over, two people would be left dead.Sources:1. Hill, Vincent. Incomplete Pass. 2026.2. “Kazemi Requested Money from McNair - ESPN.” ESPN.Com, ESPN, 20 Oct. 2009, https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=4578675.3. “McNair’s Other Lover: Leah Ignagni.” CBS News | Breaking News, Top Stories & Today’s...
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Killer on Campus: The Murder of Jesse Valencia
Jun 24, 2026When a popular, openly gay University of Missouri student is murdered on campus, police interview his friends and lovers as well as looking at the murder as a possible hate crime. The entire time the detectives are digging into Jesse’s personal life, the actual killer is hiding in plain sight, much closer to the investigation than anyone expected.Sources:Davidson, Linda. The Cop With A Secret. 2026.Arnold, Chelsea. “Steven Rios Seeks New Trial for 2004 Murder of MU Student | Local |...
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Gilgo Beach Killer Rex Heuermann Sentenced [Current Affairs]
Jun 23, 2026Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of seven women, after admitting to killing eight over a 17-year span. This week, Jessie and Andie discuss the sentencing hearing, the families’ devastating victim impact statements, and the long-delayed reckoning for the women Heuermann murdered.Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right...
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Love, Lies and Ammunition: Louise and William Thoresen
Jun 17, 2026When a young woman falls in love with a wealthy heir, she thinks she is marrying into a life of privilege and adventure. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a relationship filled with infidelity, abuse, fear, a crap ton of weaponry, and so many mysterious murders that there is a possible link to the Zodiac Killer.Sources:1. Thoresen, Louise, and E. M. Nathanson. It Gave Everybody Something to Do. M Evans & Company, 1974.2. “Chicago Tonight | The Murder of Valerie Percy: ‘Cloud Over...
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Same Week, Opposite Coasts: Two Relationships That Turned Fatal [Current Affairs]
Jun 15, 2026Two women, decades apart in age, whose relationships turned deadly within days of each other. In Berkeley, thirty-seven-year-old Vanessa Sanchez was fighting Stage 4 breast cancer when the man police called her boyfriend walked into her apartment — and days later walked out with a roller suitcase. In southeastern Kentucky, eighteen-year-old Jadeance Hale spent her final hours trying to leave her boyfriend, with her best friend Lila Asher beside her, when a 911 call and a high-speed pursuit...
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The Devastating Murder of Danielle Marshall
Jun 10, 2026When a loving young mother is shot in cold blood, her nine-month-old daughter is left crying at the scene. Police interview several suspects, including her ex—the baby’s father—his current girlfriend, a man she had been dating, and another who wished he could. Sources: 1. “Danielle Marshall Murder Back in Spotlight | 11alive.Com.” 11Alive.Com, 10 AD, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mynews/east-cobb/danielle-marshall-murder/85-a3855b99-f54c-4a35-957f-cf3ba07bc356. 2. Hawkins,...
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A Family Killed in Muscatine [Current Affairs]
Jun 9, 2026This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, Jessie covers the devastating case out of Muscatine, Iowa, where police say a domestic dispute ended with Ryan McFarland killing his ex-wife Lisa and five of her children across three locations before taking his own life. Family GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/johnathan-mcfarland Sources:...
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Ye Olde Sapphic Slashing: Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward
Jun 3, 2026A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892 Memphis, Tennessee. Sources: 1. Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever. Millbrook Press, 2019. 2. News 3 Channel, https://wreg.com/news/1892-memphis-teen-female-love-affair-turned-murder-is-new-opera/. Accessed 3 May 2026. 3. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15638529/frederica-ward. Accessed 3 May 2026. 4. Public Ledger, 26 Jan. 1892. 5. The Commercial Appeal, 29...