Introducing Soledad O’Brien’s Murder on the Towpath: The Cold Case of JFK’s Mistress

Who Killed JFK?

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Soledad O’Brien shares the first episode of her true crime podcast MURDER ON THE TOWPATH – you won’t want to miss this troubling cold case involving one of JFK’s mistresses. It was a baffling mystery. A socialite and artist with powerful connections was murdered on her daily walk in a posh DC neighborhood. Nobody knew what to make of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s murder. A Black man named Raymond Crump Jr. soon became the suspect – and in 1964, that was bound to capture everyone’s attention. But was he Mary’s killer or a scapegoat?

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0:00.0	Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.
0:09.1	Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
0:13.7	I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
0:18.5	At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
0:21.2	Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.0	You would sit there with a book or a newspaper and just half listen to the police radio,
0:38.3	which is a constant chatter in your ear.
0:43.3	You're listening, but you're not listening,
0:45.3	but certain cues will alert you.
0:49.3	It was October 12, 1964.
0:53.3	Lance Morrow was listening to the Metro Police Scanner.
0:57.0	He was fresh out of Harvard, working as a cub reporter for a DC newspaper.
1:01.0	He happened to be at police headquarters that day, just filling in for a co-worker.
1:07.0	I know that feeling when you're just sitting there waiting for something newsworthy to happen.
1:12.8	He didn't wait long.
1:14.5	So I'm sitting there just about getting on toward noon.
1:17.8	And I heard on the police radio, Cruiser 25, cruiser 26, cruiser 27, proceed to, I believe it was the 3,800 block of Canal Road.
1:31.1	The cruisers racing to the scene weren't just any police cars.
1:35.2	Well, the first thing I knew was that that was three homicide cruisers being called for some reason,
1:43.1	and that's extremely unusual.
1:45.3	They were responding to a murder.
1:48.3	I'd never run into that.
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