164 - The Murder of Russell Bean

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In the Fall of 1978, twenty-five year old Russell Bean mysteriously vanished from a small New Hampshire town. He left behind a wife, children, siblings and a mother. For a long, dark decade, Russell's fate remained a mystery until a dramatic confession changed everything.

In early March of 1988, a woman went to the police and relayed a story told by her father less than a week before his death. Her story suggested the location of a body and when police arrived they were shocked to discover Russell Bean had never left New Hampshire, but had been buried right beneath their noses.

The land belonged to Robert Chambers, a long-time resident, part-time police chief, Russell's former best friend and the man his wife next married. Soon the investigation was swallowed into a sensational chaos of rumors telling of a bizarre love triangle, anger, jealousy and betrayal. It was up to investigators to determine fact from fiction, myth from reality, in hopes of uncovering just who killed Russell Bean and who exactly knew where to find him for all those years?

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0:29.1	Every small town has its secrets, some darker than others.
0:34.1	When 25-year-old Russell Bean went missing from Marlow, New Hampshire in the fall of 1978,
0:40.7	there were few who asked questions. There were no searches, no flyers,
0:45.2	nothing to suggest he'd ever even been there.
0:47.4	Time slowly moved forward, and for many, Russell Bean was forgotten.
0:53.6	Not to his family, though, they never stopped believing that one day they would find him,
0:58.4	likely the victim of a crime by an unknown perpetrator who used Russell's kindness
1:03.6	in big heart against him. However, the more time passed, the less likely it appeared the answers
1:09.8	would come, and then everything changed. In the winter of 1988, 10-long years
1:17.3	after Russell vanished, a late-night confession blew open the case and revealed the horror of the truth.
1:24.1	Investigators arrived at a quiet cabin along a secluded dirt road.
1:29.3	Four long and difficult days later, 20 feet below the surface,
1:34.1	Russell Bean was finally located. The home belonged to Robert Chambers, a long-time resident of Marlow,
1:42.2	part-time police chief, Russell's former best friend, and the man who had married his ex-wife.
1:49.2	Quickly, the investigation would uncover accusations of abuse, violence, revenge, and betrayal,
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