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Murder In The Hudson Valley follows murder cases from discovery through suspects, evidence, motives, and punishment. The tone is direct and sometimes darkly wry, with Linda Zimmerman and Brian Horowitz reacting in real time to brutal facts, odd details, and legal turns.
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Murder In The Hudson Valley is a conversational true-crime show about homicide, serial offenders, legal outcomes, and the unease that remains after a case appears closed. It has a local-radio feel, but its case selection is wider than the title suggests. Recent episodes move from Hudson Valley murders to other murder cases, suspicious deaths, and JFK-adjacent suspicious deaths. The structure is direct. A case is introduced, the timeline starts, and the discussion tracks victims, suspects, evidence, motive, arrests, trials, appeals, parole, and public risk. Linda Zimmerman and Brian Horowitz are recurring voices, and their dynamic gives the show its shape. One often brings the case; the other reacts, questions, keeps score, or gets pulled into the next turn. The result feels less like a narrated documentary and more like a grim case briefing shared across a table. There is humor, but it is usually defensive, dry, and brief. The show does not soften the worst facts, though it tends to frame them through outrage, disbelief, and concern for victims rather than spectacle. It is especially animated by cases involving children, serial predators, parole releases, insanity arguments, racial violence, and official explanations that do not quite satisfy. The JFK-related episode shows another side of the format: names, connections, intelligence-world proximity, family ties, journalism, and a careful willingness to say that some dots remain suspicious without pretending certainty. That skepticism matters. Murder In The Hudson Valley works best when it lets a case stay messy: the evidence can be disturbing, the verdict can be frustrating, and the aftermath can feel unfinished. It is not a cozy mystery feed. It is a blunt, often angry, sometimes mordantly funny true-crime record of what people did, what the system did next, and why the answers still bother someone paying attention.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer case chronology, evidence, courtroom consequences, and candid reactions over polished narration. It especially suits people interested in murder cases, serial offenders, parole controversies, and unresolved historical suspicion.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge comes from its table-talk format: brutal cases are walked through step by step while the voices question motives, defenses, sentences, and official certainty in plain language.
Murder in the Hudson Valley looks into notorious homicide cases from around the region. Award-winning author and historian Linda Zimmermann and police officer Brian Horowitz follow the case from the moment the crime scene is discovered, up to the final verdict. They discuss the suspects, evidence, forensic techniques, and legal battles used to identify and convict the guilty.
Like case night with two sharp friends, only one arrives with a blank notepad.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
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A true crime podcast episode discussing a disturbing unsolved murder case from 1991 in the Hudson Valley.
Murder in the Hudson Valley examines the 1980-1981 attacks later attributed to Joseph Gerard Christopher across Buffalo, Midtown Manhattan, and Rochester.
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After 21-year-old teacher Lydia Beecher was killed in Poland, New York, in March 1914, her expelled student Gene Giannini confessed to seeking revenge.
Linda Zimmerman and Brian Horowitz revisit the 1980 murder of 16-year-old Paula Bohavesky and report that parolee Robert McCain pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at Courtland Town Park, receiving four months in jail.
Brian and Linda introduce a disturbing true crime episode about the Vampire of Düsseldorf, a serial killer rivaling Albert Fish.
A disturbing true crime episode about the notorious serial killer Albert Fish from the Hudson Valley.
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