The Twist From Loving Husband to Evil Killer - September 8 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.9	A cup of murder...
0:15.0	Sometimes in a mystery illness takes over, it's hard to unravel what is really happening.
0:23.6	Or if the cause of death is actually a murder in disguise. On September 8, 2004, a woman lost her battle with a month's long illness,
0:31.0	and thus began a years-long investigation and legal battle. So if you like your coffee hot, put your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:44.5	James and Julie Keone were a college sweetheart.
0:47.7	They married in 1996, settled in Kansas City, Missouri, and while Julie worked as an ICU nurse before switching to a company
0:55.6	who provided health care information technology, James, who never quite graduated, landed a job
1:01.5	at a local radio station and used it as a jumping off point for a job doing marketing
1:06.6	for a non-profit educational consulting group. They were in love, beautiful and successful.
1:13.5	They rarely fought, seemed pretty wealthy, and always looked happy.
1:19.5	From the outside, they had everything anyone could ever want.
1:23.8	In 2004, James, always the picture of charisma and savviness, announced that he was accepted into Harvard's prestigious business school on an academic scholarship.
1:35.2	No one was really surprised. He was the guy who knew exactly how to network and had moved himself through the broadcasting world to the marketing one with ease.
1:45.1	And with a charisma that could accomplish nearly anything, everyone seemed really happy for James and Julia's latest adventure.
1:53.5	Because with his acceptance into school would come their move from their close-knit family and loved ones to Waltham, Massachusetts, a city just
2:02.9	outside of Boston. Both managed to work out deals with their employers so they could work
2:07.9	remotely while James attended school. And though the move was likely jarring, like most things
2:13.8	in Julie and James' lives, it all seemed to work out perfectly. However, that picture
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