I'm Rebecca Everett, co-host and reporter of Father Wants Us Dead.

We're releasing our next gripping True Crime series, in the shadow of Princeton.

Sissy Stewart was the feisty matriarch of the Stewart family, a prominent family in Princeton,

New Jersey that ran the local newspaper.

But on a spring day in 1989, someone stabbed her to death and locked her body in the basement.

The motive of the high profile killing was a mystery and every lead another dead end. Was it a serial stabber, a family member, or even a conspiracy among

Ivy League alums? In the Shadow of Princeton is the first in-depth examination of the cold case with

never before heard interviews with investigators and witnesses. You can listen to

In the Shadow of Princeton exclusively and ad free on Wunderry Plus. Join Wunderry Plus in the

Wundery app or Apple Podcasts. To get you started, here's the first few minutes of

episode one.

Sunday, April 2nd, 1989 was a warm spring day in Princeton, New Jersey. For Sissy Stewart, that meant gardening, keeping up appearances around her stately home, as was expected in

the affluent borough.

But first, surely, there was time for Bloody Mary's. Sissy Stewart, who was 74 but never acted her age and wasn't about to start.

Mixed a couple cocktails around lunchtime for herself and her good friend Doris Melanger.

They sipped the drinks on antique furniture in her tidy living room.

Sissy was a Grand Dom.

She seemed to know everyone in town. Her family owned the local newspaper and she had money.

But you'd never know it looking at her that afternoon. She wore a t-shirt, sweater, and cuffed blue jeans with a strip of old cloth for a belt.

She was frugal and fixed things instead of throwing them out.

The glasses she wore for gardening were a wonder, held around her ears only with strips of wool tied to fishing weights.

A little after 2 p.m. that day, Sissy said goodbye to her friend and headed out to tend to her yard on Mercer Street,

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