Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast · Blue Ewe Media

MoNo Encore: The Murder of Frank Richardson w/ Kimberly Tilley

·1 hr 14 min·5 clips

Eric Riveness opens by welcoming Kimberly Tilley back as a guest he can always count on for a good story. He says this one is a Christmas murder story. The case centers on the death of Frank Richardson. The episode also points listeners to Tilley's book, Has It Come to This? Riveness says the story has jealousy, cheating, and whodunit energy. Tilley sets the scene around the killing. The conversation stays close to the timeline. It also spends time on the people around Frank and how they reacted. A central question is whether the first person on the scene behaved the way you would expect. Riveness sounds skeptical about how calm things seemed after the discovery. The episode also comes back to a plan to meet at a store. That plan turns into another point of tension because the timing never fully settles. Riveness suggests that trying to stage a scare would have made things worse, not better. The show then brings in a neighbor who heard the gunshot. He waited because the sound was unusual for the neighborhood. When nothing else happened, he went back inside. That pause leaves the reported sequence feeling incomplete. The conversation notes that the screaming described in the account was not heard by other people nearby. Rather than force a neat answer, the episode keeps circling the same mismatched details.

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A Christmas murder story shaped by patient questioning and a skeptical look at the official version.

This episode follows Kimberly Tilley through the killing of Frank Richardson as a Christmas murder story, and it never tries to make the case feel easier than it is.

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For a patient, guest-led Christmas murder story with a holiday shadow and sharp, careful edges.

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