The Fall River “Cult” Murders Part 2 | Doreen Levesque, Barbara Raposa, and Karen Marsden

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In 1979 and 1980, three women were murdered with links to the same scene–the streets of Fall River and/or a Satanic cult. Decades after three people went to prison for these crimes, we’re still asking: did the court system get it all wrong?

This case is disputed.

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0:49.7	In 1979 and 1980, three women were murdered with links to the same scene, the streets of Fall River, Massachusetts, and or a satanic cult.
0:56.8	Decades after three people went to prison for these crimes, we're still asking, did the court system get it all wrong?
0:58.8	I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.
1:10.7	Hello and welcome to part two of the Fall River cult murders. Go listen the last episode first, or this one is not going to make any sense.
1:15.7	Usually, if I split an episode into two parts, I try to find a natural dividing line roughly halfway through so that the episodes aren't completely different lengths.
1:25.7	But in this case, it just really made more sense to wrap
1:29.1	everything up with the trials while it's all fresh in your mind and finish with the 1980s
1:35.1	before we then get into what happened since then and the innocence claims of those convicted.
1:42.4	But just to refresh your memory on the legal outcomes in this case,
1:48.1	in the murder of Doreen Levec, Carl Drew and Willie Smith were arrested, but not prosecuted
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