Dancing with Death: The Love Triangle Murder of Catherine Woods
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
When a talented and beautiful young woman is murdered in her Upper East Side apartment the week after Thanksgiving 2005, the police take a close look at her complicated love life.
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| 0:43.1 | All right, Jesse, last time was an infuriating case. |
| 0:44.5 | What's the story this week? |
| 0:49.3 | When a talented and beautiful young woman is murdered in her Upper East Side apartment, |
| 0:55.6 | the week after Thanksgiving 2005, the police take a close look at her complicated love life. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm Andy Cassette. And I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder. |
| 1:25.2 | Music Hi, Andy. |
| 1:31.0 | Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about suspicious kisses, |
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