LOVE MURDER

When a young woman falls in love with a wealthy heir, she thinks she is marrying into a life of privilege and adventure. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a relationship filled with infidelity, abuse, fear, a crap ton of weaponry, and so many mysterious murders that there is a possible link to the Zodiac Killer.
Sources:
1. Thoresen, Louise, and E. M. Nathanson. It Gave Everybody Something to Do. M Evans & Company, 1974.
2. “Chicago Tonight | The Murder of Valerie Percy: ‘Cloud Over Kenilworth’ Remains | Season 2016 | PBS.” PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, 15 Sept. 2016, https://www.pbs.org/video/chicago-tonight-murder-valerie-percy-cloud-over-kenilworth-remains/.
3. “Valerie Percy Murder: Suspect William Thoresen Revealed in 1966 Kenilworth Mystery | ABC7 Chicago | Abc7chicago.Com - ABC7 Chicago.” ABC7 Chicago, https://abc7chicago.com/archive/9405395/. Accessed 22 May 2026.
4. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193178696/william_erness-thoresen. Accessed 22 May 2026.
5. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117445135/louise-thoresen. Accessed 22 May 2026.
6. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193178695/richard_ehrman-thoresen. Accessed 22 May 2026.
7. New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/24/archives/it-gave-everybody-something-to-do-by-louise-thoresen-with-e-m.html. Accessed 22 May 2026.
8. Time Magazine. Accessed 22 May 2026.
9. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129173076/judith_mae-andersen. Accessed 22 May 2026.
10. New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/06/archives/the-way-she-tells-the-story-its-a-manhaters-dream-alleged-motives.html. Accessed 23 May 2026.
11. Arizona Daily Star, 14 Nov. 1970.
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Two women, decades apart in age, whose relationships turned deadly within days of each other. In Berkeley, thirty-seven-year-old Vanessa Sanchez was fighting Stage 4 breast cancer when the man police called her boyfriend walked into her apartment — and days later walked out with a roller suitcase. In southeastern Kentucky, eighteen-year-old Jadeance Hale spent her final hours trying to leave her boyfriend, with her best friend Lila Asher beside her, when a 911 call and a high-speed pursuit ended in tragedy. Jessie and Andie trace both cases as they unfolded in the news this week.
Current Affairs is Love Murder’s shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.
Sources:
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/06/04/crime/berkeley-murder-victim-found-suitcase/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/berkeley-homicide-suitcase/4095222/
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/trying-to-leave-him-all-day-woman-who-brought-friend-to-help-her-break-up-with-boyfriend-is-killed-before-man-turns-gun-on-himself-cops-say/
https://www.wkyt.com/2026/06/08/dispatch-audio-reveals-more-about-chase-that-led-double-murder-suicide/
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/coroner-21-year-old-laurel-county-man-shoots-and-kills-2-teens-before-committing-suicide
https://fox56news.com/news/kentucky/911-calls-reveal-concerns-before-deadly-knox-to-laurel-county-chase-ends-in-murder-suicide/

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When a loving young mother is shot in cold blood, her nine-month-old daughter is left crying at the scene. Police interview several suspects, including her ex—the baby’s father—his current girlfriend, a man she had been dating, and another who wished he could.
Sources:
1. “Danielle Marshall Murder Back in Spotlight | 11alive.Com.” 11Alive.Com, 10 AD, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mynews/east-cobb/danielle-marshall-murder/85-a3855b99-f54c-4a35-957f-cf3ba07bc356.
2. Hawkins, Erik. “Danielle Marshall Murder: Josh Gibson Guilty In Cold Case.” Oxygen, Oxygen, 16 Mar. 2020, https://www.oxygen.com/in-ice-cold-blood/crime-news/josh-gibson-danielle-marshall-murder-cold-case.
3. In Ice Cold Blood. 2018.
4. “LIFE IN PRISON: ‘This Gruesome Murder Involved a Level of Premeditation That I’ve Rarely Seen’ | 11alive.Com.” 11Alive.Com, WXIA, 7 AD, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/cold-cases/life-in-prison-this-gruesome-murder-involved-a-level-of-premeditation-that-ive-rarely-seen/85-517965561.
5. The Real Murders of Atlanta. 2022.
6. Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin. 2019.
7. The Atlanta Constitution, 13 Feb. 2018.
When a loving young mother is shot in cold blood, her nine-month-old daughter is left crying at the scene. Police interview several suspects, including her ex—the baby’s father—his current girlfriend, a man she had been dating, and another who wished he could.
Sources:
1. “Danielle Marshall Murder Back in Spotlight | 11alive.Com.” 11Alive.Com, 10 AD, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mynews/east-cobb/danielle-marshall-murder/85-a3855b99-f54c-4a35-957f-cf3ba07bc356.
2. Hawkins, Erik. “Danielle Marshall Murder: Josh Gibson Guilty In Cold Case.” Oxygen, Oxygen, 16 Mar. 2020, https://www.oxygen.com/in-ice-cold-blood/crime-news/josh-gibson-danielle-marshall-murder-cold-case.
3. In Ice Cold Blood. 2018.
4. “LIFE IN PRISON: ‘This Gruesome Murder Involved a Level of Premeditation That I’ve Rarely Seen’ | 11alive.Com.” 11Alive.Com, WXIA, 7 AD, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/cold-cases/life-in-prison-this-gruesome-murder-involved-a-level-of-premeditation-that-ive-rarely-seen/85-517965561.
5. The Real Murders of Atlanta. 2022.
6. Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin. 2019.
7. The Atlanta Constitution, 13 Feb. 2018.
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This week on Love Murder Current Affairs, Jessie covers the devastating case out of Muscatine, Iowa, where police say a domestic dispute ended with Ryan McFarland killing his ex-wife Lisa and five of her children across three locations before taking his own life.
Family GoFundMe:
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Sources:
https://apnews.com/article/03c85292f6bda89b524e7280052f03e1
https://abcnews.com/US/6-killed-iowa-shooting-spree-domestic-dispute-police/story?id=133498664
https://www.kcci.com/article/muscatine-iowa-shooting-spree-seven-dead/71464714
https://www.kwqc.com/2026/06/02/police-6-family-members-killed-muscatine-before-suspected-gunman-shot-himself/
https://people.com/iowa-father-who-shot-six-relatives-criminal-past-11990204
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A forbidden love affair turns deadly when one teenage girl brutally murders the object of her obsession in 1892 Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources:
1. Coe, Alexis. Alice + Freda Forever. Millbrook Press, 2019.
2. News 3 Channel, https://wreg.com/news/1892-memphis-teen-female-love-affair-turned-murder-is-new-opera/. Accessed 3 May 2026.
3. Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15638529/frederica-ward. Accessed 3 May 2026.
4. Public Ledger, 26 Jan. 1892.
5. The Commercial Appeal, 29 May 1898.
6. Bolivar Bulletin, 8 Apr. 1898.
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