SOLVED: Arlis Perry 1
Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In October 1974, 19-year-old Arlis Perry stepped inside Stanford University's memorial church late one Saturday night to pray after an argument with her husband, and never came out. When a security guard found her body the next morning, detectives encountered one of the most disturbing crime scenes they had ever seen, with evidence suggesting the killing was deliberate, ritualistic, and deeply personal. In Part 1 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy traces Arlis's life in small-town North Dakota, her whirlwind move to California, and the investigation that quickly ran cold.
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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. |
| 0:57.0 | Leaving home for the first time is a little scary. |
| 1:03.0 | Leaving home for the first time is always a little scary. |
| 1:08.0 | Not having your parents around and being away from your community is hard enough. |
| 1:12.7 | It's even more difficult when you move far away and have to create a completely new life for |
| 1:17.7 | yourself. In October of 1974, 19-year-old Arles Perry was dealing with all that and more. |
| 1:25.6 | Back in her hometown in North Dakota, Arliss had a great group of friends, a tight-knit family, |
| 1:32.0 | and was extremely involved in her local church. |
| 1:35.2 | But that fall, she'd left everything behind and moved 1,700 miles away to Stanford, California. |
| 1:42.9 | She had her new husband, Bruce, to comfort her, but Arles still felt like a fish out of water, |
| 1:48.0 | so she leaned into her faith. And that's exactly what she was doing, just before midnight on October 12th, |
| 1:56.0 | when she visited the church on Stanford's campus. Instead of guidance, she found something much more terrifying, and what happened next left |
| 2:07.2 | detectives convinced that the devil had made his way to California. |
| 2:25.3 | The People's lives are like a story. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. |
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