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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 187: The Durham Family Murders

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1972, three members of the Durham family were murdered in their home in Boone, North Carolina, and the way it was solved 50 years later will shock you.

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0:00.0

What's up you guys, I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast.

0:05.4

Welcome back everybody. Happy Monday. I can't believe this week is the start of March.

0:30.4

Like what is happening? How it is insane. You're going to have like a whole last baby in like what three months, four months, four months, that's insane. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, so happy.

0:46.6

Start of March if you're listening to this, I guess a couple days later, even before when this comes out, happy start of March.

0:53.8

First of all, I want to give major props to Andrea for covering the Golden State Killer Case. The last three episodes. She did an amazing job. If you guys haven't listened, you need to go listen to those because it is a crazy story, of course, but Andrea covered it in a lot of depth and it's super interesting. So highly recommend you go listen to those. Thanks.

1:16.8

Today's episode is not necessarily going to be lighter, but it's another one that was solved many, many years after it happened. Okay. So we'll just dive right in. Let's do it.

1:27.9

On the evening of February 3rd, 1972, Virginia Durham made a call from her home in Boone, North Carolina. Oh, her son-in-law Troy Hall picked up the phone, but he could barely hear Virginia when she said help.

1:41.9

Oh, no. 20 minutes later, Troy Hall was calling the Sheriff's Department to report a triple homicide at the Durham home. Oh, my gosh.

1:51.9

This is a story of the Durham family murders and how it went unsolved for 50 years. Holy shit. 50 years. That just, that's not right. No.

2:05.9

And the way that it got solved, it's not through DNA that it got solved. So, okay. So the Durham family moved to Boone in 1971 and they lived in a home on Clyde Townsend Road, which was a steep dead end street. So their house was like at the top of a hill.

2:25.9

And living in the house was 44-year-old Virginia, her husband, 51-year-old Bryce, and their 18-year-old son, Bobby Joe. Virginia and Bryce's daughter, 19-year-old Jenny Sue, lived about four miles away with her husband, Troy Hall.

2:41.9

Okay. So the Durham family had moved to Boone because Bryce got an opportunity to open her own a Buick dealership in town.

2:50.9

And so this was a dream come true to have his own dealership. So they moved there. He opened it up and Virginia also worked at the dealership keeping the books.

2:59.9

Okay. I like Boone. Boone's in a really cool area. Yeah, I've heard that. It's really nice. It sounds very pretty. Especially if you're into like snowboarding or skiing and stuff like that because they have all that stuff now.

3:13.9

Oh, so fun. So Bryce and Virginia worked at the dealership. Bobby Joe was in his first year of school at Appalachian Appalachian. Is that how you say it?

3:24.9

It depends on where you're from. It's either Appalachian or Appalachian. So, Appalachian or Appalachian State University. And Jenny and Troy were also students at ASU, but since they were married, they lived separately from the family.

3:40.9

Okay. And the Durham family was known in town to be hardworking, but they were also known to kind of keep to themselves for the most part. They weren't super like, you know, involved in a ton of stuff, but they were very friendly and people liked them.

3:56.9

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