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Jodi Arias: Murder of Travis Alexander

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! The story of Jodi Ann Arias and the murder of Travis Victor Alexander is known as one of the most highly followed criminal trials in the history of the United States. Millions tuned in daily to watch live courtroom footage of the trial, the…

Episode 17: The Suitcase Murder

Three suitcases are discovered floating in the Chesapeake Bay in May 2004. The first suitcase contained 2 human legs that were severed from the rest of the body. The second contained the torso. And the third suitcase held the rest of the body. The discovery of the suitcases take police investigators on a wild ride. From…

Suicide or Homicide: Death of Rebecca Zahau

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Subscribe to Forensic Tales Podcast so you don’t miss an episode! Was the mysterious death of Rebecca Zahau a suicide or a staged homicide? Let’s let the forensic evidence decide. Rebecca Zahau is from Falam in the Chin Hills of Myanmar known as Falam, formally known as Burma. During her childhood she moved around a…

Episode 14: Murder of Karina Vetrano

Karina Vetrano went missing on August 2, 2016 after leaving the house to go out jogging in Spring Creek Park, New York. Her brutally murdered body was discovered along the running path a few hours later. Medical examiners recovered a DNA profile underneath Karina’s fingernails, on her back, and on her cell phone. Did police and…

Episode 13: Murder of Shari Smith

Sharon “Shari” Faye Smith was abducted from her own driveway in May 1985. For days, her abductor tortured her family by making phone calls promising she was alive and well until her body was discovered. Forensic scientists were able to examine the letter using Electrostatics Detection Apparatus (ESDA) to reveal indentations and impressions in the…

Episode 12: Christopher Porco

Peter and Joan Porco were brutally attacked inside their Albany, New York home with a 3 foot axe in November 2004. Joan survives the savage attack, but her husband, Peter, does not. Right away, police suspect the couple’s son, Christopher, may have been involved in the attack. Let’s let the forensic evidence decide.

Christopher Porco

Subscribe to Forensic Tales Podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In Delmar, New York, a suburb just outside the city of Albany, lived Peter Porco and his wife, Joan Porco. On November 15th, 2004, Peter Porco didn’t show up to work at the Supreme Court in Albany, New York like he did every morning….

Murder of Karina Vetrano

Subscribe to Forensic Tales Podcast so you don’t miss out on a new episode! Karina Vetrano, 30-years old, went missing while jogging in Queens, New York on August 2, 2016. Her badly beaten, lifeless body was discovered a few hours later by her father, a retired New York Fire Department firefighter. Karina only had some…

Murder of Shari Smith

Subscribe to Forensic Tales Podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In May 1985, 17-year old Sharon Faye Smith, who went by the nickname “Shari”, was entering a whole new and exciting chapter in her life. She was about to graduate high school. On May 31st 1985, Sheri was just 2 days shy of graduating…

Jodi Arias: Murder of Travis Alexander

Episode 17: The Suitcase Murder

Suicide or Homicide: Death of Rebecca Zahau

Episode 14: Murder of Karina Vetrano

Episode 13: Murder of Shari Smith

Episode 12: Christopher Porco

Christopher Porco

Murder of Karina Vetrano

Murder of Shari Smith

Episode 11: The Black Dahlia

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