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Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

On September 8, 1978 15 year old Raynham, MA resident, Mary Lou Arruda, was kidnapped while riding her bike to her friends house on the first friday of the new school year. Could her disappearance have had something to do with the fact that she grew up in the middle of what paranormal psychologists had coined the Bridgewater Triangle? Could it have been the work of the satanic cult who practiced their rituals in the Freetown State forest, or had the devil himself rode into town? Join me as I tell John the case of Mary Lou Arruda. 

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Sources:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1038292.html
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/01/26/no-tears-in-raynham-on/987501007/
https://www.silvafuneralhome.com/obituaries/joanne-arruda
https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/31/steve-damish-time-to-delete/32590506007/
https://lailasnews.com/international/mary-lou-arruda-death-obituary-how-james-kater-death-happened/
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/02/01/decades-later-arruda-case-looms/32587202007/
https://www.patriotledger.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2020/10/28/enter-the-bridgewater-triangle-if/581946007/
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1983/388-mass-519-2.html#:~:text=*522%20On%20November%2011%2C%201978,afternoon%20of%20September%208%2C%201978.
Articles from the Boston Globe from 1978-2002 accessed via Newspapers.com

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 214 of the True Crime Couple podcast. I'm Kay. And I'm John.

0:06.4

You guys are so funny and so right. We are being super soft with our voices. A lot of our comments have been like, have you noticed that their voices have gone down since having Ryan.

0:17.6

Yeah. And it's, we just, we don't want to wake our sleeping princess. So,

0:21.4

our voices will help lull both you and her to sleep. So that's nice. I guess so. Yeah.

0:27.5

You know what it is to? My voice travels really bad in this house. It's a small house. It's small

0:34.0

house. So if I raise my voice like another octave, it just travels so far.

0:40.0

So yeah, I get what people are saying. I guess you're right.

0:42.9

We're keeping it down a little bit. We've become softer.

0:45.5

A little softer. So thank you for going through it all with us. We also want to add that we would love for you to submit your listener stories to us at

0:54.3

Truecrime couple at gmail.com.

0:56.5

We have our October episode coming up really, really soon.

1:00.6

So we would like to hear all the stories that you have to offer, whether it's supernatural,

1:05.6

it involves true crime or just something creepy that happened to you.

1:09.4

Or it doesn't even necessarily have to be something

1:11.6

that happened to you. It could be some creepy things involving your town or local legends or

1:17.1

something like that. Yeah, you know, just try to scare me real badly. And you know what perfect timing

1:22.0

than to have soft voices, right? And we can do these at night, which should even be better.

1:26.8

Oh, yeah. We'll do that

1:27.8

episode at night. We should do that episode at night for sure. Also, if you're new to Patreon,

1:32.3

stay tuned at the end for a personal shoutout. If you would like ad-free episodes and two

1:37.7

bonus episodes a month, please join us at patreon.com slash true crime couple. Okay, so without any further ado, let's get into the

1:47.0

episode. John, would you like to hear something crazy? Of course. Rain of Massachusetts

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