Prime Crime: Solved Murders
Hosted and executive produced by Attorney and Law&Crime anchor Jesse Weber, Prime Crime puts a spotlight on infamously controversial stories that have shocked investigators and the public alike. Jesse Weber takes a deep dive into the most high-profile and shocking criminal cases that have garnered national attention.
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"Felony at the Firing Range" Theora Hix Pt. 1
In the summer of 1929, the body of 24-year-old Theora Hix was found on a shooting range in Columbus, Ohio.
35 min
127
The Wickham Axe Murders Pt. 2
There was no doubt who committed the brutal assaults, or why. As another victim succumbed to his wounds, a search party hunted for Nicholas Behan — who, long after his trial and execution, remained a ghoulish figure in Long Island.
34 min
128
The Wickham Axe Murders Pt. 1
In the spring of 1854, a failed courtship exploded into violence at a farm in Long Island.
30 min
129
JoAnn Dewey Pt. 2
Using little more than witness reports and a beer bottle, officers tracked down the kidnappers haunting Vancouver, Washington.
37 min
130
JoAnn Dewey Pt. 1
In 1950, countless locals watched two men force JoAnn Dewey into a dark sedan — but nobody tried to intervene.
39 min
131
Bridget Cleary Pt. 2
In 1895, Bridget Cleary vanished from her home after weeks of a protracted illness.
34 min
132
Bridget Cleary Pt. 1
In 1800s Ireland, County Tipperary was steeped in superstitions and folk traditions. Many who lived there believed in the existence of fairies.
36 min
133
Graeme Thorne Pt. 2
After his abduction on July 7th, 1960, Graeme Thorne's body was discovered in a vacant lot in Sydney, Australia.
35 min
134
Graeme Thorne Pt. 1
On July 7th, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne vanished from the convenience store he often visited before walking to school.
29 min
135
Francis Rattenbury Pt. 2
The atmosphere was tense as the trial against Alma Rattenbury and her 18-year-old lover began. After five days of testimony, the jury returned their verdict.
42 min
136
Francis Rattenbury Pt. 1
Late one evening in March 1935, Alma Rattenbury found her husband barely alive in the drawing room of their Bournemouth, England home.
38 min
137
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 2
By February 1969, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki had been missing for weeks, and things were looking grim.
37 min
138
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 1
On January 23, 1969, two college students went on a weekend trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. They never returned.
35 min
139
Lord William Russell Pt. 2
The 1840 trial for the calculated murder of Lord William Russell had one defendant and multiple witnesses — but everyone seemed suspect: the housemaid who discovered his body, the valet who had been pilfering his money, even the police investigating the case.
41 min
140
Lord William Russell Pt. 1
In May 1840, a well-known English aristocrat was found dead in his London home after what appeared to be a botched robbery.
41 min
141
Wilson Turner Pt. 2
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable.
36 min
142
Wilson Turner Pt. 1
On April 20, 1948, residents of rural Coweta County, Georgia, saw a man named Wilson Turner get chased down and beaten in the middle of a campground parking lot.
35 min
143
Bobby Franks Pt. 2
Just over a week after Bobby Franks’ body was found, his teenaged killers confessed, revealing a motive too callous to believe.
40 min
144
Bobby Franks Pt. 1
In the early 1920s, some of Chicago’s wealthiest families became horribly intertwined after the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks.
37 min
145
Oceana Snead Pt. 2
The death of young Oceana Snead was dubbed a “bathtub tragedy” — but as investigators tracked her mysterious, veiled caretakers, they uncovered evidence of a callous crime.
42 min
146
Oceana Snead Pt. 1
In 1909, 24-year-old Oceana Snead died of an apparent suicide — but the case was far less clear-cut than the woman’s aunt, Virginia Wardlaw, would have police believe.
43 min
147
Jane Britton Pt. 2
After Jane Britton's death in 1969, police suspected that one of her instructors may have been responsible for her gruesome murder.
34 min
148
Jane Britton Pt. 1
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment.
36 min
149
Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 2
It didn’t take long to find the perpetrator of the Taliesin massacre: 30-year-old Julian Carlton.
40 min
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Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 1
In 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright built a mansion in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
36 min