Episode 344

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On a cold March evening in 2023, police in Englewood, Colorado responded to a 911 call from 81-year-old Reginald Maclaren. Inside his upscale apartment, they uncovered a scene so brutal, it would briefly dominate headlines before vanishing just as quickly. The victims were Reginald’s wife and daughter. They were two women who lived quietly, knew no one, and left behind almost nothing. It was their bodies, and the way they were found, that told the horrifying story of their deaths.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	I found my daughter and my wife somebody killed them in the apartment.
0:17.0	They have been murdered. It's a little before 6 p.m. on a Saturday in Englewood, Colorado.
0:39.3	It's sunny, but still frigid.
0:42.1	It's the end of March, 2023, and two local Englewood Colorado police deputies are sitting in their cruiser.
0:50.6	They're just talking and looking over some paperwork, really.
0:55.0	Officer Aloise has been with the force for a few years now, but today he's got a trainee
1:01.6	with him.
1:03.2	Englewood is in the heart of the Denver metropolitan area.
1:07.4	There are over 30,000 residents and a typical crime rate, which consists of basically two things.
1:14.9	Robberies and drug-related incidents.
1:18.0	Maybe a few traffic violations sprinkled in there as well.
1:22.2	Neither Officer Aloise nor his trainee are expecting any crazy calls today, let alone a double homicide
1:29.7	and a luxury apartment complex.
1:32.5	901, Inglewood Parkway is going to be unit N and is a Nancy 308 break.
1:37.3	He's got the cord to his radio wrapped around his finger, fidgeting with it as he listens
1:42.5	to dispatch.
1:43.8	Go ahead.
1:45.1	R.B. states his wife and daughter are deceased.
1:48.1	He thinks they might have been hurted.
1:51.2	The wife is 70 years old and the daughter is 34.
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