EP. 265 - OHIO: THE HALLOWEEN FAMILY MURDERS

Two lives. A brutal double murder. And a story far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined. On September 10, 1995, a routine shopping trip turned into an unimaginable nightmare. Twenty-nine-year-old Lisa Marie Manderach and her 18-month-old daughter, Devon, stopped at a children’s clothing store in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, just before closing time. They never made it home. What dark secrets would emerge as investigators pieced together the horrifying events of that day? Listen as we unravel a case that proves the truth can be more unsettling than fiction.

On September 18th, 2023, officers in Romeoville, Illinois, knew they were facing something they had never seen before. As they peered in the windows of a darkened family home, the flashes of what lay inside made their stomachs churn. Three dogs, shot. Furniture turned over. Belongings strewn across the room like a robbery gone wrong. The young family that lived in the home: 32-year-old Alberto Rolon, 38-year-old Zoraida Bartolomei, and their boys, nine-year-old Adriel and seven-year-old Diego, were missing. As police looked inside, nothing could have prepared them for where the family ended up: Or why.

On June 21st, 2018, a 29-year-old dedicated mother and aspiring lawyer, Maria Jimenez-Rodriguez, vanished without a trace. For the next 8 years, her family fought for justice: Leading the investigation into her disappearance, hunting down clues, and even confronting her killer by themselves. This case is one defined by love in the face of true evil. Evil was pieced together, piece by piece, using phone records, video surveillance, and a receipt for an incredibly troubling purchase.

In the final part of our three-part series, we take you inside the courtroom of the trial of the century: The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts versus Lindsay Clancy. It’s a case that began on a cold winter night more than three years ago, but has spiraled into something much, much more. In the wake of this trial, controversy, anger, and arguments have sprouted across the country and the world. And with them came misinformation, rumors, and outrage. Join us as we break the trial down, moment by moment, to bring you the full truth of this case, unfiltered, from the mouths of the people in that courtroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part two of this three-part series, we walk second-by-second through January 24th, 2023, a day that changed Duxbury, Massachusetts, and the Clancy family forever. On that day, police arrived at the peaceful family home belonging to Lindsay and Patrick Clancy to discover the most horrific scene of their career: Lindsay, clinging to life in the snow outside after an apparent suicide attempt, and inside, the bodies of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, strangled to death in the basement of their own home.