113: Episode 113: The Murder of Peter Porco & the Boorn Brothers

Published: March 18, 2020, 10:30 a.m.

Kristin starts us off with our most old timey story ever. It was May of 1812 in Manchester, Vermont, and something was up. Russell Colvin was missing. People were pretty sure he\u2019d come back. He had a wife. He had a child. He had obligations. Plus, he was known to wander off from time to time. But then months passed. Then years. People in town became suspicious. What if Russell hadn\u2019t wandered off? What if he\u2019d been murdered?\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us about a November morning in 2004. Peter Porco, an Appellate Division court clerk, had always been reliable. So when he didn\u2019t show up for work one day, a coworker went to Peter\u2019s house to check on him. The coworker peered through the windows to discover a grizzly scene.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cThen Again: A case of who done\u2026 what?\u201d by Mark Bushnell for the Vermont Digger
\n\u201cThe Boorn Affair,\u201d Cincinnati Daily Star, May 24, 1875\n\u201cFirst wrongful conviction: Jesse Boorn and Stephen Boorn\u201d Bluhm Legal Clinic Center on Wrongful Convictions\xa0\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cChristopher Porco\u201d by Rachael Bell, The Crime Library\n\u201cMemory of Murder\u201d episode 48 Hours\n\u201cChristopher Porco 15 Years Later\u201d by Diego Cagara, Spotlight News\n\u201cChristopher Porco: The Unthinkable\u201d ForensicFilesNow.com\n\n\u201cChristopher Porco 2: The Explainable\u201d ForensicFilesNow.com\n\n\u201cMurder of Peter Porco\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n
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