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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wilson Turner Pt. 2
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable.
36 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jane Britton Pt. 1
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment.
36 min
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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
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Robert Piest Pt. 2
As police zeroed in on a local contractor named John Wayne Gacy, they began to suspect they weren’t investigating the disappearance of one missing teenager — but the murders of several.
38 min
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Robert Piest Pt. 1
After ending his shift at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest asked his mother to wait while he spoke to a man about a construction job.
37 min
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Captain Joseph White
The brutal murder of one of the wealthiest ship owners in the world shocked the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1830.
40 min
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David Blakely Pt. 2
After Ruth Ellis murdered her lover in April 1955, people throughout London thought she was guaranteed the death penalty.
43 min
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David Blakely Pt. 1
In 1955, wealthy racecar driver David Blakely was gunned down outside a bar in London.
35 min
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Mary Hogan Pt. 2
Following a lead, police zeroed in on the home of one local man.
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