Hitched 2 Homicide True Crime Podcast

Betty Gail Brown’s 1961 murder remains one of central Kentucky’s most haunting, officially unsolved campus homicides, with more than six decades of investigation failing to identify a definitive killer. On the night of October 26, 1961, 19‑year‑old sophomore Betty Gail Brown left her home on Lackawanna Road in Lexington to study for a biology exam at Forrer Hall on Transylvania ...

For more than six years, Ella Jackson’s family waited for a jury to hear what happened behind the closed doors of her Richmond, Kentucky, home. They waited through canceled court dates, pandemic shutdowns, laboratory delays, judicial recusals, newly discovered evidence, and repeated postponements. All the while, the man accused of murdering Ella—her husband, Glenn Jackson—was n...

Ron Ruse Jr. was murdered in December 1987 by his ex-girlfriend Linda Ricchio, a killing born out of obsession, stalking, and refusal to accept the end of their relationship. “Ron did everything he could to escape the relationship—but Linda moved in next door and waited with a gun.” Ronald Lewis “Ron” Ruse Jr. was a 28‑year‑old auto mechanic living in Carlsbad, California, when ...

On a bitter March night in 1778, in the small town of Brookfield, Massachusetts, Joshua Spooner left a tavern for the short walk home. He never made it. Somewhere along that snowy path, he was ambushed, beaten, and dumped headfirst into his own well. By morning, the quiet rhythms of rural life had been shattered—and the investigation would soon reveal a conspiracy so sensational...