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Murder, She Told

The Murder of Judy Lord: Cold Case Solved

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

1975 - Concord, New Hampshire. In May 1975, a rent collector knocked on the door of 22-year-old Judith Lord’s apartment. There was no answer—only the sound of her baby crying. When he went inside, he found Judy dead in her upstairs bedroom. From the beginning, police had suspects. The case moved quickly. An arrest felt imminent. But then, a single scientific conclusion shifted the trajectory of the investigation. What should have been a straight path to justice became a decades-long detour. This is a story about a young mother, a community shaken, and a murder investigation steered off course by flawed forensics—a mistake that cost years, and a resolution that came far too late. Episode sources and photos: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/judy-lord Support the show: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.murdershetold.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetoldpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@murdershetold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/mstpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠murdershetold.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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on a warm afternoon in may of 1975 the body of 22 22-year-old Judy Lord was discovered in her upstairs

1:13.1

bedroom after a rent collector stopped by and heard her baby crying downstairs.

1:18.6

This is the story about a young mother, a community shaken, and a murder investigation

1:24.2

steered off course by flawed forensics, a mistake that cost years and a resolution

1:30.2

that came far too late. I'm Kristen Cee violence, and a little bit of language.

2:01.2

Please listen with care.

2:09.1

Judy Arnold was part of a big family, a huge family.

2:14.1

She was child number 11 of 14, four boys and 10 girls. She was born in Maine in

2:20.5

1953 and in the earliest years of her life lived in a small town north of Bangor called Old Town.

2:27.2

Judy was 11 years old when she and her family moved south to Ware, New Hampshire, where they

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