MURDERED: Joan Webster & Marie Iannuzzi

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In 1981, a Harvard graduate student vanished after stepping out of Logan Airport the night after Thanksgiving. As investigators searched for answers, they focused on a suspect connected to another murder – a woman who was killed just two years earlier. He was convicted in one case and widely believed responsible for the other. But after reviewing thousands of pages of records, we found gaps that raise difficult questions: Was the wrong man blamed? And is the real killer still out there?

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And this story is about what can
0:05.9	happen when a case feels solved, even when it may not be. In Massachusetts, two women from
0:13.6	very different worlds disappeared within a few years of each other. One was last seen leaving a bar.
0:20.6	The other vanished after stepping out of Logan Airport.
0:24.5	Police would eventually say that these two cases were connected and that they had found the man responsible.
0:29.3	But after spending more than a year reporting on this case, interviewing witnesses, tracking down
0:36.0	survivors, and reviewing thousands of pages of
0:39.3	records, we found a story that doesn't sit quite right. And our question is, was the wrong
0:47.3	man blamed for these crimes? And if so, then is the person or people who actually committed
0:53.5	these murders still walking free?
0:56.7	These are the stories of Joan Webster and Marie Ianutsi.
1:11.6	Music I'm going to be. I'm going to be I'm
1:13.6	I'm December 1st, 1981 is a Tuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving break,
1:39.7	and the day that Terry Webster really starts feeling anxious about not hearing from her youngest
1:44.7	daughter, Joan. Their whole family had been together for the holiday weekend at their home in
1:49.1	New Jersey. But instead of driving back to college in Massachusetts with her older sister, as
1:54.4	planned on Sunday, 25-year-old Joan left on Saturday night because she wanted to make it to a
2:00.5	study group. So her dad booked her a flight to Boston Logan Airport. And she's at Harvard, I assume? Yeah, so she is in grad school there for architecture. And girl works hard, hence ending her break early just to go home and study, which is probably part of the reason Terry didn't stress out at first when she didn't hear from her daughter on Sunday.
2:19.3	Like, you know, that's study group day. She's busy, yeah. Whatever, yeah. Didn't hear from her on Monday. Maybe she's just getting settled. But still not hearing a word from her by Tuesday morning. Now she knows something is up. And almost at the same time, Terry's starting to spiral, the phone rings.
2:36.4	It's one of Joan's friends from Harvard, and right away, Terry knows something is wrong,
2:40.5	because the friend tells her that Joan missed that Sunday study group,
2:44.4	and she didn't show up to class on Monday either.
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