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Episode 208: The Eastburn Family Murders | A Chance Encounter

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of our two part series on the Eastburn family we will cover the suspect and the subsequent court hearings that will follow. Please be advised that this episode contains sexual assault and crimes against children. 

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
Three trial for murder By Nicholas Schmidle

Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders by Scott Whisnant
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 208 of the true crime couple. I'm Kay. And I'm John.

0:05.2

If you are by any chance listening to this show out of order, please know that this is part two of a two-part series. You must first listen to episode 207 to understand episode 208.

0:19.5

Unless you just like those kind of books that start backwards,

0:22.7

then have at it. Hey, some people are into that. We hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much

0:29.4

for being understanding about the two parts. It certainly isn't easy doing this with a three-month-old,

0:35.3

so we appreciate how good you all are to us.

0:38.3

So without any further ado, I know that you're anxious to get back into the case of the Eastburn

0:43.4

family, so I will not prolong your weight any longer.

0:48.1

John, are you ready to hear something crazy?

0:50.8

Of course.

0:54.2

Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer has confessed to the killings of 11 people

0:59.6

whose remains were found in his apartment.

1:02.5

We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not?

1:07.0

Lock your doors, lock your windows. If you have the ability to provide additional security devices, then by all means do so.

1:15.5

Where we left off, the bodies of Katie Eastburn and her two daughters, five-year-old Kara and three-year-old Erin, were found on Mother's Day in their ranch home in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1985.

1:30.5

They had all been brutally murdered. The youngest of the Eastburn children, 21-month-old Jana,

1:36.6

had been found after over two days of being left in her crib, alive but starving and terrified. Gary Eastburn, a captain with the U.S.

1:47.5

Air Force, had been away on assignment in Montgomery, Alabama. The detectives working the case

1:54.2

ruled Gary out as a suspect because he had been nowhere near his home at the time of the murders.

2:00.7

Where we left off, detectives had questioned the Eastburn family's babysitter Julie,

2:05.7

who revealed to them that the Eastburn residents had been receiving lewd and bizarre phone calls.

2:11.5

But also inquiries about an ad that the family had posted,

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