S20 Ep6: Obsessed: Finding Justice For The Lost Boys Of New England w/ David McGrath
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
In the tranquil towns of New England during the 1970s, a sinister mystery unfolded when several boys vanished without a trace and the community’s peace was shattered. With law enforcement stymied in its search for answers, whispers of a possible serial killer surfaced, especially after one boy’s body was found years after his disappearance. But what happened to the others remained a heart-wrenching puzzle.
In 2013, author David McGrath, a former host on the Law Enforcement Today Network and an investigator with a relentless drive for justice, watched a documentary about the cold case investigation regarding the missing boys. Himself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and active in his local community with a sex abuse therapy group, McGrath was struck by the number of unanswered questions in the documentary.
What followed, beginning in January 2014, was a five-year quest to find the answers to this child abduction and murder mystery. Traveling all over the United States, he uncovered a labyrinth of dark secrets just beneath the surface and unknown to most residents of the bucolic communities from which the boys disappeared. Haunted by his own past, he had to navigate these dark waters if he wanted to bring truth and justice to the victims and their families.
OBSESSED: A Survivor's Quest To Find The Lost Boys of New England is McGrath's riveting true crime memoir. A poignant, horrifying, incredible story of suspense, courage, and the unyielding quest for truth.* David joins today's TCT to talk about the pedophiles he pursued in this case, some of the unfortunate victims, and the history of the area. As well as what we can do to be more vigilant and protect our children from sexual predators!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.6 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.3 | Today, folks, is not going to be an easy show, but it's going to be an informative show, |
| 0:32.3 | and it's going to be a very interesting show. |
| 0:34.6 | We're going to deal with a subject today that, although it's entirely intriguing, |
| 0:41.2 | it is a difficult one. We're going to talk about today about child sexual abuse. We're going to |
| 0:47.0 | talk about the murder of children. But there's a reason we have to. We have to bring this out into |
| 0:52.9 | the light, folks, because it sits in the dark for way too long. reason we have to. We have to bring this out into the light, folks, because it sits |
| 0:54.3 | in the dark for way too long. And we don't keep our eyes out the way we should in this case |
| 1:02.1 | and point this out to proper authorities the way we should. The man I have on today has a wonderful |
| 1:08.0 | new book out there that I encourage you all to get a copy of, to read, |
| 1:12.8 | to absorb, and to become more vigilant in your own communities and help out. This man has |
| 1:20.5 | gone above and beyond to do God's work. And he's put a wonderful new book out there called |
| 1:25.1 | Obsessed, A Survivor's Quest to Find Justice for the Lost Boys of New England. |
| 1:30.4 | David McGrath is a true crime author and private investigator as a victim of childhood sexual abuse himself. |
| 1:36.5 | McGrath focuses solely on investigating crimes against children and corruption. |
| 1:41.2 | McGrath has reported for years on the Catholic Church abuse scandal and missing |
| 1:45.0 | children in New England. He's a combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan and now works for one of |
| 1:51.6 | the largest private investigation firms in the country. He's been published in law enforcement |
| 1:56.8 | today in townhall.com and runs a weekly true crime column on substack. |
| 2:01.4 | Dave lives south of Boston with his two sons and a beagle. |
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