Alfred Wright: What Happened in the East Texas Woods?
On November 7, 2013, 28-year-old physical therapist Alfred Wright experienced car trouble along a rural highway near Hemphill, Texas. While waiting for his parents to pick him up, Alfred suddenly ran ...
13 Aug 46min
The Map That Exposed a Serial Killer: The Maury Travis Case
During the early 2000s, Black women began turning up dead across Missouri and Illinois. Their bodies were discovered in different jurisdictions, and for months, the connection between them remained un...
6 Aug 31min
The Child Everybody Saw: The Life and Death of Emani Moss
Emani Gabrielle Moss was ten years old. Her family called her “Angelface.” She loved reading, dancing, and cooking, and her fourth-grade teacher remembered a child with a beautiful smile who always wa...
30 Jul 40min
Asia Adams: She Never Came Back Through the Door
In this Thursday episode of Murder in the Black, we cover the murder of 21-year-old Asia Adams, a West Chester University student whose life was taken inside her mother’s Germantown home in November 2...
23 Jul 45min
The Boy Without a Name: The William DaShawn Hamilton Case
In this episode of Murder in the Black, we examine the heartbreaking case of William Deshaun Hamilton, a six-year-old boy whose skeletal remains were discovered in the woods of DeKalb County, Georgia,...
16 Jul 42min
LaVena Johnson: The Soldier, the Tent, and the Questions That Never Went Away
Private First Class LaVena Johnson was just 19 years old when she died while serving in Iraq in 2005. The U.S. Army ruled her death a suicide, but her family—led by her father, John Johnson—has spent ...
9 Jul 44min
Predators Don’t Live in Folders | Jesse Matthew Jr.
In this episode of Murder in the Black, we look at the case of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. and the murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham.This story is not just about how Matthew was eventually ca...
2 Jul 53min
The River Did Not Keep Her | The Murder of Lisa Eatmon
Lisa Eatmon was a Brooklyn mother, Army veteran, and expectant mom preparing to welcome her son, Jaden Marquis. In April 2005, Lisa was found in the Hudson River, and what first seemed unclear soon be...
25 Jun 41min
