We explore the age-old question, “Am I the asshole?” with situations curated by Rebecca from the sub-Reddit world. Maureen also does an NNW on the Max docuseries Onision In Real Life. Enjoy!

156. Charles Terry, Shirley Coolen, and the Boston Strangler

29 days ago 1h 50m

Charles Terry wasn’t a good guy, especially when it came to women. He liked to beat, rape and strangle them. He was convicted for several attacks and just out of prison in 1951 when Shirley Coolen, a Brunswick, Maine, single mother was found de

155. ‘Justified’ injustice II: Katherine Hegarty, murdered by cops

Mar 4th, 2024 2h 20m

In our third episode looking at the “justified” killings of Maine citizens by the state’s law enforcement agencies, we go back to one that spurred a lot of changes over the past decade, but also — spoiler! — not some of the things that really m

154. ‘Justified’ injustice: Ambroshia Fagre and Kadhar Bailey

Feb 5th, 2024 1h 48m

Ambroshia Fagre was just 18 and likely an innocent bystander when she was killed by police in Maine in February 2017, along with Kadhar Bailey, 25, who police suspected of an armed home invasion. The two were among 13 people shot by police in M

153. A double tragedy for the McKenna family

Jan 23rd, 2024 1h 50m

One of Maine’s 2022 homicides was Drew McKenna, 24, accidentally shot by his older brother Shay. In 2023, the McKenna family suffered a second tragedy when the lost Shay, who was shot by police. We also update the 2023 homicide list — it’s up t

152. Maine 2023 Homicide List: 51 and counting

Jan 8th, 2024 2h 3m

We bring you our annual Maine homicide list with 2023’s 51 homicides, a record year and more than twice the average annual number. Even without the Lewiston shootings that killed 18, it was the worst year for homicide in Maine in decades. The l

Special holiday greeting and some recommendations

Dec 25th, 2023 24m 41s

Enjoy the figgy pudding, fireworks, airing of grievances, or however else you celebrate! Here are some recommendations on what to watch to get you through until our next episode in two weeks. Happy holidays!

151. Miriam Stoltz: When memory is murdered

Dec 11th, 2023 1h 59m

Miriam Stoltz was found shot in the head on a cold February afternoon in the woods in New Hampshire, where she’d lain for 15 hours before being found by a runner. The next day, Roger Whittemore was found dead in Miriam’s Windham, New Hampshire,

Episode 150: The Berwind, mutiny or just plain murder?

Nov 27th, 2023 1h 46m

Racial injustice on the high seas and in the courts plays out in a 1905 mass murder on a cargo ship, the Harry A. Berwind. Captain ER Rumill and three other crew members, all but one of them white, are killed, leaving just black crew members He

149. Lessons learned from the Logan Clegg murder trial

Nov 13th, 2023 1h 56m

Presumption of guilt. Consciousness of guilt. The magical shell casing. Testilying. Giving the dogs credit. These are just some of the lessons learned as we wrap up discussion on the Logan Clegg murder case after Maureen spent more than three w

148. Can you murder someone from 3,000 miles away?

Sep 29th, 2023 1h 25m

Andrew Denton had made it clear he wanted to die. Sidney Kilmartin, living in Manchester, Maine, 3,000 miles away from Denton’s home in England, was determined to make sure that would happen. In December 2011, Kilmartin mailed Denton a deadly d

Something suddely came up. But now Groovy Tube podcast is back.

Sep 17th, 2023 3m 50s

We’ll have Episode 148 of Crime & Stuff up shortly. But in the meantime, we have some exciting news! After a nearly four-year hiatus, our other podcast Groovy Tube: The Crimes of the Brady Bunch, is returning Nov. 6. Haven’t listened? Nows the

147. Gay panic: No justice for Frederic Spencer

Aug 31st, 2023 1h 24m

No one knows why Fred Spencer was in his friend and apartment-mate’s room on the afternoon of April 28, 1973. One thing quickly became clear — he didn’t come out alive. The outcome of the University of Maine graduate student’s case would have w

146. Amber Cummings: A special justice

Aug 13th, 2023 1h 53m

No one in Belfast, Maine, who knew James Cummings liked him very much. But was it OK for his wife, Amber, to shoot him to death as he slept? Turns out, it very well may have been. Rebecca explains. Maureen gives an NNW review to the audio versi

145. Amie Riley Unfinished Justice

Jul 22nd, 2023 2h 14m

When Amie Riley disappeared from a Manchester, New Hampshire, bar on August 15, 2003, her boyfriend, mother and friends were frantic, but police weren’t. Not even a little bit. Eight months later, when her remains were found, the investigation

144. James Cameron the worst kind of criminal

May 28th, 2023 1h 49m

When police visited James Cameron’s house in Maine in 2007 and took his computer, among other things, most people figured there was just one crime he was likely being investigated for. And they were right – child porn. That was the beginning of

143. Gerald Goodale Part 2: Janet Brochu

May 13th, 2023 1h 40m

In June 2021, we brought you Gerald Goodale Part 1, the 1988 murder of Geraldine Finn. At the time her killer, Goodale, had just been arrested for the 1987 murder of Janet Brochu. His case has finally gone to court, so we we bring you Goodale’s

142. The forgotten murder of Lillian MacDonald

Apr 28th, 2023 1h 47m

Lillian MacDonald was just doing her job, passing out the pay envelopes on July 12, 1930, when she disappeared from her Portland, Maine, place of employment. Her grisly murder wasn’t the only injustice that happened to her as the case unfolded.

141. The sad tale of Rosie Ruiz

Apr 12th, 2023 2h 11m

People will say that in 1980, Rosie Ruiz “came out of nowhere” to win the women’s race in the Boston Marathon. But it soon became clear she came out of the crowd a half mile from the finish line. In the week that followed, it was revealed she a

140. Metal Mayhem and Murder

Mar 31st, 2023 1h 57m

Norway’s Black Metal music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought together young men who, giving themselves nicknames like Necro Butcher and Hell Hammer, aimed to shock and act out more than make music, But the hijinks gave way to arso

139. The Killing Bones: When grave looting leads to murder

Mar 17th, 2023 1h 44m

The crime of looting indigenous ancestral sites in the U.S. and around the world goes back centuries. Professor Liz makes a special guest appearance to school us on how archeological looting has led to murder in her adopted home state of Oregon

138. New details on the trail to Logan Clegg’s arrest

Feb 28th, 2023 1h 46m

Episode 133 told part of the story of what led police to arrest Logan Clegg in the April 2022 double murder of Djeswende and Stephen Reid in Concord, New Hampshire. With the release of the 25-page Concord Police Department affidavit filed in su

137. The mysterious final ride of Rita Maze

Feb 15th, 2023 1h 42m

The second-to-the-last time Bob Maze heard from his wife Rita, she was on her way home to their Great Falls, Montana, home from visiting relatves in Helena, 90 minutes away. The last time he heard from her was 10 hours later and she was calling

136. The many victims of Brian Walshe

Jan 31st, 2023 1h 48m

You may have heard the Brian Walshe — arrested Jan. 17 on charges her murdered his missing wife, Ana — was once convicted of fraud “for selling two fake Andy Warhol paintings for $80,000.” That’s like saying the Titanic took on a little water.

135. Arnold Nash and his final escape

Jan 17th, 2023 1h 52m

Arnold Nash was a “career criminal.” He was also a career escape artist from the Maine State Prison System. And the funny thing was, he was escaping because he wanted to stay incarcerated. His crimes escalated as his need to be in prison grew,