MYSTERIOUS DEATH: The Kidnapping & Assassination of Aldo Moro
Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House
4.6 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On March 16, 1978, former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped off a busy Rome street by the Red Brigades terrorist group, his five bodyguards killed in seconds. For 55 days, he wrote 86 letters begging for his life, while his own government called his death a spiritual victory. In this episode of Murder: True Crime Stories, Carter Roy examines the assassination, the political forces that may have sealed Moro's fate, and the questions that no official investigation has ever fully answered.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, it's Carter Roy. Before we get into today's episode of Murder True Crime Stories, |
| 0:06.6 | I want to tell you about another show I think you'll love, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bot. |
| 0:13.1 | Every Monday, Dr. Bot goes where history gets mysterious. Vanished civilizations, |
| 0:19.7 | doomsday prophecies, paranormal phenomena, and events that science |
| 0:24.4 | still can't fully explain. Dr. Bot treats these moments like open case files, not myths, |
| 0:31.4 | not superstition, just incomplete explanations, waiting for a closer look. |
| 0:40.1 | Hidden history drops every Monday. |
| 0:44.8 | Follow now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. |
| 0:46.8 | So you never miss a mystery. This is Crime House. |
| 1:03.0 | On March 16th, 1978, the man kissed his wife goodbye, walked downstairs, and got into a car. He was headed to one of the most |
| 1:13.1 | important meetings of his life. He never made it. Instead, 91 shots were fired in broad daylight |
| 1:20.9 | on a busy Roman street. Five of the man's bodyguards were slaughtered in seconds, and he was dragged into the trunk of a car |
| 1:28.8 | and driven away. The world knew who did it. The killers called the press and announced |
| 1:35.2 | it themselves. But what happened next is where the real mystery begins, because for 55 days, |
| 1:42.4 | the Italian government had the chance to save him, and they chose not to. |
| 1:49.6 | This is the kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Morrow. |
| 2:22.5 | People's lives are like a story. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. But you don't always know which part you're on. Sometimes the final chapter arrives far too soon, and we don't always get to know the real ending. I'm Carter Roy and this is murder. True Crime Stories, a crime house original powered by Pave Studios. New episodes come out every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. |
| 2:27.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Murder Mystery Fridays where I'm covering unsolved cases with |
| 2:34.0 | questions that I can't get out of my head. |
| 2:36.3 | The ones where the evidence points in multiple directions and every theory feels like a possibility. |
| 2:42.3 | And today I'm joined by Dr. Horini Bott, the host of Hidden History, the debut show from Pave's new |
| 2:49.3 | History Studio, Rewind. Thanks so much for having me, Carter. |
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