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Coming September 2024, the eight-part investigative podcast that picks up where the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Have You Seen Andy?, leaves off.
Hosted by Melanie Perkins McLaughlin, whose decades-long investigation about her missing childhood friend, Andy Puglisi, who went missing in 1976 from the public pool in Lawrence, Massachusetts, includes hundreds of interviews, multiple searches, and many unanswered questions.

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In this bonus episode, recorded live at Faces Brewing Co. in Malden, Mass, we explore local cold cases. With journalist Emily Sweeney, we uncover the intricate details behind some of the state's most perplexing unsolved crimes.

We mark the anniversary of Debra Melo's mysterious disappearance. The case of 30-year-old Taunton mother who went missing in 2000 continues to pose questions about the people closest to her. We call for the public's involvement to keep her memory alive and push for answers.

Next, we navigate three cases covered in Cold Case Files: The murder of retired Watertown police officer Gail Miles, the disappearance of Stow teenager Cathy Malcolmson, and the mystery surrounding the murder of John and Geraldine Magee in their Andover home. Despite years of investigative work, these families have few answers.

We shine a light on the Middlesex County Cold Case Unit's work to solve these cases, like the 1971 murder of Natalie Scheublin in her Bedford home - a case finally resolved five decades later.

Delving deeper, we explore the disappearances of Jennifer Mbugua, missing from North Attleboro in 2014, the case of murdered boy Eddie Flynn in Billerica in 1947, Bruce Crowley who was last seen in Provincetown in late December 2022, and remains of an unidentified man found on Town Beach in Sandwich in June 2014. Despite a few recognizable items found with the body, his identity is still "Man of the Dunes".

Plus the years-old unsolved cases of Andy Puglisi, missing from Lawrence since 1976, teenagers Melanie Melanson who disappeared from Woburn in 1989 and Deanna Cremin who was found murdered in Somerville in 1995, Rita Hester, the Black Trans woman stabbed in her Allston apartment in 1998, Charline Rosemond found shot in a parking lot in Somerville in 2009, Brittany Tee, missing from Brookfield since 2023, Karina Holmer's 1996 grisly murder that still haunts Boston, and Reina Rojas who disappeared in 2022 after taking a ride from her East Boston neighborhood to Somerville.

We emphasize the importance of public awareness and legislative advocacy, hoping for breakthroughs that could finally solve these mysteries.

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Late Release!

Coming in hot with the history on this one with the Corpse Flower, The Tot Finder, a Nine-Alarm Fire, and The Wizard of Oz/Darkside of The Moon, The Beaneaters, and the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

The Molassacre. A Molasstrophe. That's what happens when 2 million gallons of molasses explodes onto the narrow streets of the North End, in a bizarre and unbelievable story of Boston's dark wave of history.

On January 15, 1919, a 26 million pound dark wave of stickiness surged through the North End of Boston, seemingly gaining strength as it rolled toward Boston Harbor. A massive swell toppled telephone poles, twisted metal trolley tracks, crushed freight cars, flooded basements, and ripped buildings from foundations. Chest-deep molasses warmed from the above average temperatures thinned out into a coating three feet deep that would grab people like human fly paper, animals struggled to get free of it, only sinking further.

I will be at the True Crime and Paranormal Podcast Festival in Denver on July 12-14.

Crime of the Truest Kind
Massachusetts and New England crime stories
Hosted by Anngelle Wood
@crimeofthetruestkind

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Music included in episodes from Joe "onlyone" Kowalski, Dug McCormack's Math Ghosts. and Shredding by Andrew King