The Eastburn family murders | Ep 185
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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In May 1985, a Fayetteville neighborhood froze. Newspapers stacked up outside the Eastburn home as a baby’s cries echoed inside. Katie Eastburn and her daughters, Kara, 5, and Erin, 3, lay brutally stabbed—21-month-old Jana left alone in her crib for days. A dog named Dixie, a white Chevette, and a blond stranger sparked a 25-year hunt for justice. Three trials. DNA that wouldn’t stay buried. But the truth? It twisted through decades of lies, suspicion, and a killer who almost slipped away. What really happened that night—and why did it take so long to unmask the monster? Dive into the haunting Eastburn murders now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. |
| 0:06.9 | My name's Allison. |
| 0:07.8 | Yeah, my name is Mike. |
| 0:08.7 | Hi, Mike. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm doing pretty good. How are you? |
| 0:11.3 | Good. You look good. Do you put on some new makeup today or something? |
| 0:13.8 | I didn't. No. Standard makeup. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay. Maybe I'm just having a good face day today. Who the heck knows? |
| 0:20.1 | Yeah, you have a good face day most |
| 0:21.2 | days. There are certain days that I just look at my skin and I'm like, well, join the club. |
| 0:26.2 | For you specifically. Like me, I think I'm fine. Oh, I think you're gorgeous. Thank you very much. |
| 0:30.8 | You're welcome. I'm just kidding. So if you're new here, yeah, we just have a little intro usually before we dive into these dark horrible stories and just to kind of have a little |
| 0:38.5 | chit chat, a little back and forth. One of our listeners, they said they wanted to check out our new |
| 0:42.9 | setup that we have here at the Crime and Coffee Couple Coffee Shop. And they said, you know what, |
| 0:47.1 | it'd be nice to have some biscuits. And I said, you know what, let's put out a biscuit. Let's put out |
| 0:50.7 | some Milano cookies here, a Pepperidge Farm. So why don't we say biscuits in the United States unless we're referring to the flaky actual |
| 0:58.8 | biscuits? Yeah, I don't know. It's just how we do things. I was thinking the same thing. I was |
| 1:02.8 | like, do they have like biscuits and gravy or something like that? No, they're just like cookies. Right. |
| 1:07.3 | And same thing with tea. Like in the United States states people are often like oh i'm not feeling |
| 1:11.6 | good i'm going to make a cup of tea it's like well that's just standard in the uk yeah in the u.s |
| 1:16.3 | like i automatically associate any kind of tea with being sick so to our kids yeah i've been drinking |
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