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My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty

A Strange Tip | Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders

My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty

CBS News

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Two months after the murders, a teenage tipster calls police with intimate knowledge of the crime and shocking details about who was responsible. But how did this high schooler know so much information, and why didn't he report it earlier? Get early, ad-free access to episodes of Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders by subscribing to 48 Hours+ on Apple Podcasts. The series is widely available everywhere else you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is one of the most sensational crimes ever to explode in Hollywood.

0:05.0

In 1989, Beverly Hills police found Jose and Kitty Menendez gun down in their mansion.

0:11.0

And the killers, their two sons.

0:14.0

Why did you kill your parents?

0:15.0

Because we were afraid.

0:17.0

But were Lyle and Eric cold-blooded murderers or victims no one believed?

0:22.6

I'm Slicia Stanton and my new series on the Menendez Brothers is out now.

0:27.0

Listen to truer crime wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.4

Before we begin, just a trigger warning.

0:33.5

The following episode contains references to graphic physical violence and suicide.

0:40.1

Please listen with care.

0:44.3

Hi, this is Corporis Island.

0:46.2

Hello?

0:46.8

This is Corporal Island. Who am I speaking with?

0:48.9

I want to remain anonymous. Is that okay?

0:53.4

For two months, police have relentlessly searched for the killer of Chip Northup and

0:59.6

Claudia Moppin. Officers had interviewed the family and people who knew the couple. They'd set up

1:07.0

a hotline to receive tips. But nothing had panned out. And then, late on the evening of

1:15.2

June 15, 2013, 911 dispatch received an anonymous call. They transferred it to the Davis Police

1:25.6

Department.

1:30.7

Okay. What are you calling to report, sir?

1:34.5

The double homicide that happened in April this year.

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