The Theresa Corley Story, Part One

Murder, She Told

Kristen Seavey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

1978 - Bellingham, Massachusetts. At the age of 19, Theresa Corley held a promising future. As the first of nine siblings to pursue college—a goal she worked to finance herself—she had aspirations of becoming a pediatrician. But on the night of December 5th, 1978, Theresa, who was out celebrating with friends at Franklin's Train Stop bar, didn't return home. Her friend’s said they last saw her leaving the bar sometime before midnight on foot following a fight with her boyfriend. Theresa didn’t have a car, and the trek home was miles away. Three days later, on December 8th, her nude body was discovered halfway down a steep ditch on the side of the highway. She had been strangled. As investigators dug into the mystery of Theresa’s final hours alive, unsettling narratives surrounding a party at a nearby apartment came to light, placing Theresa there after she left the bar. What secrets were being hidden in that apartment? Were they connected to Theresa’s murder? Determined to discover what really happened, Theresa’s sister, Gerri Houde, has embarked on a relentless quest for the truth; and she’s telling her story on Murder, She Told. This is part one of Theresa Corley’s story. Part two will be released on December 19th. Blog with sources will be up later today. Support Murder, She Told: https://www.murdershetold.com/support Detailed sources and photos: murdershetold.com Instagram: @murdershetoldpodcast Facebook: /mstpodcast TikTok: @murdershetold Sponsors: Shopify - https://shopify.com/shetold use code shetold for a $1-per-month trial period. Book of the Month Club - https://bookofthemonth use code foryou to get your first book for $5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Kristen Sevy. This is Murder She Told.
0:18.0	This is Murder She Told. This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.
0:22.0	Please listen with care.
0:26.1	I know my older sisters remember my father very well but he had died when I I want to say
0:31.6	when I was seven eight but he was not in our lives. I have absolutely no memory of having a father.
0:38.0	I had heard stories of him. He was an alcoholic. He was not very nice to the older kids or to my mother. He was extremely
0:46.5	abusive and actually my mother is lucky that she survived that marriage. They separated and he basically was out of our lives and so my mother was mother and father together.
1:00.6	That was Jerry, one of her mother's nine children.
1:04.0	She was born in November of 1961,
1:06.0	two and a half years after her older sister,
1:09.0	Theresa Corley.
1:10.0	She's the second youngest.
1:12.0	She grew up with Theresa, first in an urban neighborhood in Boston called Madipan,
1:17.0	and then in small town Bellingham, Massachusetts.
1:20.0	Despite her mother shouldering the entire responsibility of raising nine children, they had a great loving childhood together.
1:28.0	That is, until her sister was murdered and discarded, like trash, on the side of the interstate in December of 1978,
1:38.0	when Theresa was just 19 years old.
1:42.2	At this point, I'm 61 years old. At this point, I'm 61 years old.
1:45.0	I would just like somebody to look at the case, analyze it,
1:50.0	you know, and not to point fingers,
1:52.0	but just tell me why it can't be solved because right from the beginning
1:56.0	you know in in 2015 I've been told this is a solvable case but here we. But what happens with these cases is they die with the family.
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