678 // The Unsolved Murder of Honoree Fleming

Missing

Crawlspace Media

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna discuss the unsolved murder of Honoree Fleming from Castleton, Vermont on October 5th, 2023. On October 5, 2023, 77-year-old Honoree Fleming, a beloved retired college dean and accomplished scientist, was fatally shot while walking along a popular rail trail in the quiet town of Castleton, Vermont. Despite witness descriptions of a suspicious man fleeing the scene and ongoing efforts by investigators to track down national leads, this brazen, broad-daylight murder remains a hauntingly unsolved mystery. If you have any information in the murder of Honoree Fleming please contact the Vermont State Police at 1-844-848-8477 and Tips may be submitted anonymously by texting keyword VTIPS to 274637 (CRIMES), or you can submit online anonymously at https://cityprotect.com/forms/state.vt.us/anonymous. This episode was researched by Kathleen Studer. No One Cares About Crazy People: https://noonecaresfilm.com/. Check out Quince: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://quince.com/MISSING⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Mint Mobile: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mintmobile.com/missing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Kensington Publishing: ⁠https://www.kensingtonbooks.com⁠. Sources: Newspapers.com. Ancestry.com. https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/local/castleton-community-approaches-one-year-after-honoree-flemings-death/article_144ca0c4-8285-11ef-ad0f-03b1f9c28149.html. https://www.castletonvermont.org/home/news/vermont-state-police-identify-victim-castleton-homicide. https://vermontbiz.com/news/2024/april/06/vermont-state-police-investigation-continues-killing-honoree-fleming. https://vtdigger.org/2025/08/06/police-contact-arkansas-authorities-in-probe-of-2023-killing-of-honoree-fleming-in-castleton/. https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/local/vermont-state-police-issue-statement-on-honoree-fleming-case/article_95572e13-c17d-422d-affe-1638658635d4.html. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-arrested-deaths-new-hampshire-couple-found-shot-hiking-trail-rcna53586. https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/RESOLUTN/HCR173/HCR173%20As%20Introduced.pdf . Main podcast theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://incompetech.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠http://williamsflutes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.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 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. 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	The
0:07.0	The In today's new episode, we speak about the tragic and unsolved murder of 77-year-old Dr.
0:45.8	Honorie Fleming from Castleton, Vermont on October 5th in 2023.
0:52.6	Lance, would you make of this conversation?
0:55.1	Well, we did it live, so I love it.
0:56.8	I love that we're able to communicate and interact with the listeners on YouTube.
1:01.2	So thank you to all of the listeners who contributed and joined us for this conversation.
1:05.6	And thanks to Kathleen Studer, our wonderful researcher who put together this great document, enabling us to
1:12.6	deliver this story with as much accuracy as possible. It's really a tragic story, and it's kind of
1:17.9	tough to walk away from this, not feeling a little bit, I don't know, like you want to go do
1:22.2	something about it because these two people, Ron and Honorary, they were married, they knew
1:26.6	each other for almost half a century,
1:28.1	they contributed so much to so many parts of society, from mental health to cellular research.
1:34.0	They just packed their lives full of being as productive as possible and to just have this
1:39.1	senseless random, seemingly random, but definitely senseless murder take place is just, it's infuriating, really.
1:46.5	Absolutely. And there was a pretty good composite sketch of the murderer. So missing is a video show on Spotify and YouTube, and we will show composite sketches of the killer.
1:58.9	And there's a couple of the people that come up later in the
2:01.8	conversation. We'll flash to pictures of them too. So you may want to check out the video for this.
2:08.0	And if you have any tips in the Unsolved Murder of Honorie Fleming, please submit them to
2:14.0	the Vermont State Police at 1-844-848-847.
2:20.0	We're going to break quick here for commercial, and we'll be right back to discuss the Unsolved
2:24.9	murder of Honorie Fleming. The internet is coaching our kids.
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