Goldilocks: The Boy Behind the Wall | Daniel LaPlante
Serial Napper | True Crime for the Chronically TiredShow Notes
This October, Serial Napper is opening the storybook for another season of Serial Nightmare. This year, we're taking familiar fairy tales and looking at the very real cases that echo their darkest themes.
We begin with Goldilocks.
In 1986, the Bowen family began noticing strange things inside their Massachusetts home. Food disappeared. Objects moved. Tina and Karen heard unexplained noises and became convinced that something was inside the house. Their father wasn't so sure.
Then one evening, Frank Bowen opened a closet and found a teenage boy standing inside. His name was Daniel LaPlante. What followed would turn an already terrifying home invasion into one of the strangest true crime cases I've ever covered. Because when police searched the house, Daniel seemed to disappear, nd the truth about where he had been hiding was only the beginning.
In this episode of Serial Nightmare, we'll follow the Daniel LaPlante case from the Bowen family's disturbing discovery through the events that followed: the investigation, trial, appeals, and the legal decisions that would eventually change the sentence he received.
Because Goldilocks is a very different story when someone enters your home without permission...and doesn't leave.
Sources:
https://www.grunge.com/369653/the-truth-about-murderer-daniel-laplantes-childhood/
https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2021/2/3/daniel-laplante
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/daniel-laplante-priscilla-gustafson-murder-1987-townsend/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/12/03/A-teenager-accused-of-holding-a-man-and-his/7669565506000/
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/daniel-laplante-murder-priscilla-gustafson-family
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/volumes/482/482mass399.html
https://www.joeturnerbooks.com/post/daniel-laplante
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