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In this episode, Pam Sturm’s daughter, Nikole, takes the stand to tell her version of how they “just happened” to find Teresa Halbach’s RAV4. According to her, she never looked away from the car—not once. Even while talking to police, even while writing her statement.
But her testimony starts to slip the moment it’s questioned. Did Manitowoc or Calumet arrive first? Did she see anyone actually approach the vehicle? What about the pa...
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What are the odds that some volunteer searchers, two of them, find Teresa's missing SUV is found under 30 minutes inside a massive, I mean massive 40-acre junkyard with over 4000 cars? In this episode, we hear from Pam Sturm - Teresa's cousin who "miraculously" found Teresa's vehicle in under 30 minutes.
How does this happen? Or....did someone make sure it happened?
We'll hea...
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Today, in Episode 8, we hear the testimony of Teresa Halbach's ex-boyfriend Ryan Hillegas. He organized the search party, he handed out flyers, hacked into her phone records, and he moved into her house after she was d3ad. (creepy right?)
Did police question him? Did he mention he was an ex-boyfriend? Did he use his real name?
When he's done, we'll then hear what Kathleen Zell...
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In Episode 7 of The Avery Trial, we hear from Curtis Drumm, a pilot hired by the police department to do flyovers around the area. Learn where they went and what they found. We also hear from two customers of Teresa's that day. One was just a bit on the sketchy side; well, not her exactly, more her husband who, weirdly, didn't testify.
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They found her car. They never found her.
Everything that happened after Maura Murray's accident in that tiny town in New Hampshire is a rabbit hole of dead-end leads, new witnesses, mysterious vehicles, a potential weapon, and more. Nothing that has led anyone to Maura all these years later.
Not even a suspect has ever been named!
In this episode, you'll hear about these new w...
Dawn Pliska, the receptionist at AutoTrader, was the one who made some of Teresa Halbach's appointments for her. The thing is though, her last known appointment? This leaves a big hole in the timeline.
Teresa was known for getting those "hustle shots" that made her extra cash and these appointments wouldn't even show up on her appointment sheet until she turned them in...the next day. So ...
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It's 2004 and a UMass college student is driving at night in the dead of winter. She crashes her car on a desolate New Hampshire road. The airbags go off, and someone across from the crash site calls 911. By the time the police arrive, the car is locked, there's a rag stuffed in her tailpipe, and Maura Murray is just...gone.
In Episode 2, I talk about the timeline, a man with an e...
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In Episode 5 of our deep dive into the Steven Avery trial, everyone's ready in the courtroom, and before the jury even walks in, the prosecution and defense are already fighting about what can and can’t be said.
Ken Kratz tries to slam the defense ...
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Today, we hear from Thomas Pearce, Teresa Halbach’s photography mentor, and the David Beach, her cousin, takes the stand. David helped in the search and spoke to Steven Avery.
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In this episode of Beach House 34, we dive into the first witness called by the state in Steven Avery’s murder trial: Michael Halbach, the younger brother of Teresa Halbach.
We’ll walk through Mike’s testimony, hear about Teresa’s routines, her photography business, her car, and the early days of the search. But we also hit a few red fl...
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Murray vanished on February 9, 2004 — to this day she has not been located. This story is messy, confusing, and mind-bending.
This is Part 1 of my three-part series covering Maura’s final known days. In this episode, we walk through the timeline — the breakdown at work, the suspicious hit-and-run t...
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Steven Avery spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s back on trial—this time for the murder of Teresa Halbach. In this episode, we hear the full opening statement from Avery’s defense attorney, Dean Strang.
He lays out a case that includes po...
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After 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was finally free. He was suing Manitowoc County for $36 million—until 25-year-old Teresa Halbach disappeared. Two years after his release, Avery was back in court. This time, for murder.
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Ray and Faye Copeland looked like your average grandparents—he wore overalls, she baked pies—but what they were hiding on their quiet Missouri farm in 1989 would shock the entire country.
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On July 9, 2014, a man in a FedEx uniform knocked on the door of a house in Sprint, Texas. Minutes later, six members of the Stay family were dead but one was not. The intruder however, didn't k...
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On April 7, 2008, Kathleen and Carl Schroll were found shot to death in their Kansas City, Kansas home. Within hours, a man named Pete Coones was arrested—and within months, he was sentenced to life in prison. What followed was more than a wrongful conviction. It was a case that expo...
In July 1981, 13-year-old Mary Louise Day vanished from her family’s home in Seaside, California.
No one filed a police report. No missing posters. Not even a phone call to the local station. Her name wasn't even allowed to be mentioned in the household.
For more than two decades, she was missing. And then, in 2003, a woman claiming to be Mary appeared in Arizona.
Was she really the missing girl, or part of an elaborate cover-up?
I...
On May 16, 2006, 32-year-old Rey Rivera received a phone call that sent him running out the back door of his house, not even bothering to change his shoes from his flip-flops and this would be the last time anyone saw Rey.
Days later, his body was discovered in a very strange place. What happened to Rey Rivera? Was it on purpose? An acccident? Or, was it a staged scene?
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Between 2005 and 2009, eight women were found dead in the swamps and canals surrounding Jennings, Louisiana. These murders, known as the Jennings 8 or the Jeff Davis 8 case, remain unsolved, despite years of investigation and mounting evidence of corruption within local law enforcement. In this episode, we dive deep into the mystery, exploring the connections between the...
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On July 10, 1981, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, a man climbed into his pickup truck along with his wife and then...shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. The man was Ken Rex McElroy, a local terror with a long rap sheet, a history of violence, and a reputation fo...
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