549 // New England Serial Killer Update / Sunshine Stewart Homicide

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace & Missing. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna provide a grim update to the rumored active New England Serial Killer. The latest body found was that of 48 year old Sunshine Stewart. Sunshine was a sailing captain, a marine biologist, lobsterman, and passionate nature lover. On July 2nd, her body was found on 100 Acre Island on Crawford Pond in Union Maine and quickly declared a homicide. Consider donating to the family's GoFundMe: ⁠https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrate-sunnys-life-with-us⁠ *This episode is brought to you by Mood, the online cannabis company that's revolutionizing how we deal with life's challenges – from sleepless nights to stress-filled days. You can get 20% off your first order at https://mood.com/ with promo code Crawlspace.* We are going to CrimeCon in Denver CO. Sept. 5th - 7th! For 10% off your standard pass, use code "crawlspace" at checkout. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.crimecon.com/CC25⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Articles referenced for this episode: ⁠https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/07/07/missing-maine-paddleboarder-union-murdered-sunrise-stewart/⁠ ⁠https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-maine-paddleboarder-murdered-suspect-unknown-police/story?id=123576871⁠ ⁠https://www.wmtw.com/article/sister-murdered-maine-paddleboarder-sunny-stewart-speaks-out/65349046⁠ ⁠https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paddleboarder-death-maine-homicide-sunshine-stewart/⁠ Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing Please donate if you can: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investigationsforthemissing.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://piftm.org/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	State police have now ruled the death of a paddle border in Union as homicide. Maine
0:05.7	Gay Mortons found a woman's body in Crawford Pond while they were searching for a missing
0:10.8	paddle border on Thursday. Police have identified the body as 48-year-old Sunshine Stewart from
0:16.7	Tennant's Herber. We're told the chief medical examiner's office performed an autopsy
0:21.3	confirming her manner of death as homicide. State police say Stewart was paddleboarded Wednesday
0:26.7	evening near 100-acre island. They're asking anyone who might have seen her between 6 and 9 p.m.
0:32.9	to give them a call. Welcome back to crawl space and missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how
0:38.9	are you today? I'm doing very well today, Tim. Thank you so much for asking. Got a special
0:43.2	episode here. I hope our listeners are doing well as we release this update. When we do this whole
0:49.9	welcome to crawl space and missing, that means that we have an update on something that we've
0:53.5	been discussing and this is no exception. But before we get to that, Tim, how are you?
0:57.3	Doing well over here. Thanks for asking. Yeah, you know, we're going to talk about a tragic
1:02.1	story today. She was paddleboarding. And so we're going to get completely into it. It is a very
1:08.9	strange case. But as some of our listeners may know, we have been
1:12.4	covering this story of the fictional or non-fictional New England serial killer.
1:18.3	And still not really quite sure what to say about that. But we are also covering sort of the
1:23.6	cultural aspects of this, which includes, I guess, analyzing the media coverage of these
1:29.5	cases. And depending on what articles you're looking at in regards to the New England serial
1:35.1	killer, you may see that there are 13 bodies, 15, 16 bodies. Some of these media outlets are
1:42.4	a little different in how they're covering it.
1:45.3	But so we're trying to kind of take a step back and look at the story as a whole.
1:49.5	The latest episodes we did on this was episode 540 on missing.
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