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True Crime All The Time Unsolved

Barbara Colby

True Crime All The Time Unsolved

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True Crime

4.75.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Colby was a respected stage actress whose career was finally taking off in Hollywood when she landed a starring role on the sitcom Phyllis. Tragically, just weeks after filming her first episodes, she was murdered in Los Angeles in a case that remains unsolved nearly 50 years later.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the murder of Barbara Colby. Investigators struggled with solving Barbara's murder, in large part, because they could not find a motive. On July 24, 1975, after teaching an acting class in Los Angeles, Barbara was talking with fellow actor James Kiernan in a parking lot when two armed men approached and shot and killed them both. Investigators initially explored possible links to a series of violent crimes that occurred in the Los Angeles area the same night.


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0:00.0

Thank you. I'm Mike Ferguson. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 468 of the True Crime All the Time Unsolved podcast.

0:40.8

I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime.

0:44.4

Mike Gibson, give me, how are you?

0:45.8

Hey, I'm doing good, man.

0:46.6

How about you?

0:47.2

I'm doing very well.

0:48.3

Yeah.

0:49.0

Tired.

0:50.1

You and I just got back from CrimeCon separately.

0:53.6

We did.

0:54.1

Not together, but separately.

0:56.6

We had a good time.

0:57.6

We met a lot of great people.

0:59.5

Some new people.

1:00.8

Some people we've known for many, many years.

1:03.2

Loved it.

1:04.1

But there's no time to rest because I got to get ready to go to Jamaica and you're

1:09.3

heading to Greece.

1:10.1

I know it.

1:10.8

So we've got to get a bunch of recording done. Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Richard Ramirez jump out of our highest level. Thanks, Richard. Patrick Erickson also jumped out to our highest level. Erickson in the house. We had Casey Van Nuw. Thanks, Casey. Jackie Hanson.

1:28.4

Well, there's Jackie.

1:29.8

And Charles Thompson.

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