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"Unacceptable": Privilege, Deceit and the Makings of the College Scandal
Most of us followed the high profile cases of Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. The college scandal was so much bigger than that. If you miss being outraged then th...
Talking Ted with Kevin Sullivan
Theodore Robert Bundy was one of the most vicious and prolific serial killers in American history. His hunting grounds were college campuses across the country. This w...
Harvard’s William Parsons and Long Island’s Vanished Heiress
It was a hot summer day June 9th, 1937 on a sprawling estate in Stony Brook, New York. Alice Parsons disappeared off the face of the earth. This is the story of her d...
A Deadly Resentment: The Murder of Harvard's Brian Stidham
It was October 5th 2004, a Harvard-educated doctor, Brian Stidham was found brutally slain in his business complex in Tucson, Arizona. The murder initially looked lik...
Murder in the Stacks
The Murder of Penn State’s Betsy Aardsma went unsolved for decades. Has author David DeKok solved the case in his book’ Murder in the Stacks’?
Harvard's Harry Thaw : The Girl in the Velvet Swing
In 1906, Harry Thaw shot prominent architect Stanford White in the middle of a crowded performance at Madison Square Garden. Thaw had become obsessed by the news that...
Oxford's Rose Dugdale: The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
This week we have the pleasure of interviewing Anthony Amore, the author of "The Woman Who Stole Vermeer." How did English aristocrat Rose Dugdale go from curtseying...
Rerelease: The Jane Britton Murder at Harvard (1st of 2)
A young, beautiful anthropology student was killed in Harvard Square in 1969. Her murder went cold for 50 years. Laura and I had no idea the pathways this case would ...
UPenn’s Ira Einhorn: The Unicorn’s Secret
In the 1970’s, Ira Einhorn was guru to the counter culture in Philly. He was also keeping a terrible secret...
Yale's William Bradford Bishop, Jr.: The Forty-Four Year Search for a Killer Fugitive
How easy is it just to disappear? After committing an horrific crime in 1976, William Bishop used his experience in intelligence and foreign service to evade justice....
Trial By Fire
On a snowy February night in 2003, a crowd gathered in the Station night club to hear the band Great White. In a catastrophic series of events, the Station became an i...
I’ll Take Care of You: The Murder of Bill McLaughlin
Join Laura and Sarah as we interview New York Times bestselling true crime author Caitlin Rother about her book, “I’ll Take Care of You”.
Harvard Medical School’s Bloody Brahmins
It was shortly before Thanksgiving 1849, Dr. George Parkman went out for his routine appointments and errands and never came back. This is the story that rocked Victo...
Harvard's Nancy Dillard: Arsenic and Old Money
What happens when a seemingly perfect life is slowly eroded by toxicity? Someone was poisoning Nancy Dillard in a case that would shock Dallas high society.
Murder at Yale: Annie Le
Annie Le had everything to look forward to, a bright future and a wedding... Why was this promising young woman killed?
Cornell's Charlie Tan: Legally Guilty, Morally Innocent
Laura and Sarah get extra salty this week as they duke it out over the Charlie Tan case. You decide, was he morally innocent, or legally guilty?
Widener 2: Hauntingly Harvard
Join Sarah and Laura, along with D.C. O'Rourke from Hauntingly Yours, as they explore the spooky side of Harvard's Widener and other famous buildings in Harvard Yard!
Widener Library: the Pearl of Harvard
Harvard’s enormous Widener Library was born from the Titanic tragedy. Join Laura, Sarah, and a very special guest this week as they unearth a never told story from the...
Harvard's Amy Bishop the Criminal Zeitgeist
Join us this week as we talk to the ladies from the Women and Crime Podcast and discuss what motivated Amy Bishop to kill three of her colleagues in a Mass Shooting?
Sister School Edition: Vassar College's Christa Worthington: A Murder in Truro
This week, Sarah and Laura take a look up close and personal at the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington, who was found dead in her Truro, Mass. home. A Barnstable Super...
Sister School Edition: Smith College’s Jean Harris: Starving for Love
Jean Harris was the head mistress of the elite Madeira Prep school but, she secretly hid a prescription pill problem and an obsession for the one thing she couldn't ha...
UPENN's Rafael Robb: Gaming the Legal System
Rafael Robb was a tenured Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on gaming theory. He was the last one anyone would suspect of murder! Was he gaming...
Princeton’s Thomas Gilbert, Jr: The Dark Side of Privilege
Most parents would have walked away after their child committed murder, but Shelley Gilbert did not. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old...
Jason Bohn: Columbia University’s Ticking Time Bomb
After a horrendous childhood, Jason Bohn got his life together, went to Columbia and became a successful Wall Street lawyer. None of the surface success could conta...
Michael Ross: Cornell Serial Killer
Michael Bruce Ross was a serial killer who was executed in Connecticut after he waived his right to appeal. It was the first execution in New England in 45 years, and ...
From Yale to Jail: Dirk Greineder
Join us this week on a walk in the woods that ended in tragedy and pulled back the veil of Ivy League perfection to reveal a disturbed mind.
Ann and Billy Woodward: "The Ideal Couple"
Billy Woodward, a Harvard Legacy, was shot and killed by his wife, Ann. Was it an accident or intentional with a subsequent cover up? You be the judge.
Ivy League Murders Trailer
The trailer for the podcast Ivy League Murders, with Sarah Alcorn and Laura Rodrigues McDonald.
The Jane Britton Murder at Harvard
A young, beautiful anthropology student was killed in Harvard Square in 1969. Her murder went cold for 50 years. Laura and I had no idea the pathways this case would ...
Leopold & Loeb: Crime of the Century
Laura and Sarah explore the Nietzchean "supermen"