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288: The Kidnapping of Martha "Doe" Roberts

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True Crime, History, Comedy

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Allen Roberts returned home, annoyed. A man named Sam Wagner had set up an appointment with him to talk about purchasing some land. Allen had gone out to meet Sam, but the man never showed. Now Allen found himself back home and, strangely, alone. His wife, Martha “Doe” Roberts was nowhere to be found. That was unlike her. She never left the house without at least writing a note.

And now for a note about our process. For this episode, Brandi copy and pasted 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.

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Hold the Line” episode Hometown Homicide
“A Tale of a Lethal Friendship and How It Led to A Cruel Murder” by The Mystique, Medium
“Martha Doe Roberts” unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com
“Husband vows to pay ransom for missing wife” Associate Press, The Tennessean “Neighborhood Watch: The Kidnapping of Doe Roberts” podcast episode, True Crime Campfire
“State v. Lord” casetext.com

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0:00.0

One semester of law school.

0:02.1

One semester of criminal justice.

0:04.4

Two experts.

0:06.4

I'm Kristen Caruso.

0:07.8

I'm Brandy Pond.

0:08.9

Let's go to court.

0:10.5

On this episode, I'll be talking about a kidnapping.

0:14.0

Mmm.

0:16.0

That's right.

0:18.0

Guess who's back.

0:19.0

Back again.

0:20.0

It is us.

0:22.0

Oh no. Oh, I thought you were talking about how is doing

0:24.4

kidnapping again because I like kidnappers and we sang a little ditty as we did it.

0:28.8

Oh, all right. I feel like we'd get caught really quickly. Yeah, yeah. You sound kind of like

0:34.9

Marv in the Home Alone movies where he wants like a fun nickname for...

0:41.1

Which one's Marv? Is it the tall one or the short one?

0:44.0

Obviously.

0:45.0

So in the first one he wants to be the wet bandits, so he leaves the water running at all of the houses they

0:52.0

rub. Which just allows them to tie all the crimes to them.

0:56.0

I'm obviously a sexy kidnapper, so you're going to have to rethink that whole thing.

1:00.3

I think we've got go.

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