The Waltham Triple Murder

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In September of 2011, a morbid saga began to play out in a suburb of Boston named Waltham.

The bodies of 37-year-old Raphael "Rafi" Teken, 31-year-old Erik Weissman, and 25-year-old Brendan Mess were found in Brendan's second-story apartment. The specific circumstances of their deaths pointed to a vicious killer with personal motives, and robbery was immediately ruled out as a potential motive.

The case quickly went cold, but attention would be drawn to it more than a year later, when one of the largest acts of terrorism in American history began to unfold in neighboring Boston...

Episode researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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0:00.0	In the late summer months of 2011, a morbid story began to play out in Waltham, Massachusetts,
0:17.1	a suburb on the western edges of Boston, just about 20 minutes away from the city of Cambridge.
0:23.3	Home to approximately 60,000 people, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, which is comprised
0:29.6	of a large population of university students and faculty members, as well as foreign residents
0:35.3	from all over the world.
0:36.9	In September of 2011, the bodies of three men were found inside of the apartment of the
0:42.6	youngest victim, at 12 Harding Avenue, in the dead end neighborhood of Bleachery.
0:48.6	All three were Jewish, and all were physically imposing men, who worked in career fields
0:54.3	that demanded rigorous fitness standards.
0:57.4	Like the three men seeming to be the polar opposite of most murder victims, they had somehow
1:02.1	fallen prey to a violent killer, who single-handedly murdered all three, and left the scene in a chaotic
1:09.6	mail-strum that is still hard to parse through years later.
1:13.4	Speaking to ABC News a couple of years later, a Waltham investigator would call this
1:18.4	crime, quote,
1:19.6	The worst bloodbath I have ever seen in a long, long-forced-and-career, unquote.
1:25.0	At the time this quote was made, unrelated events had exposed this case to an international
1:30.4	audience, but almost a decade later, it remains as unsolved as ever.
1:36.7	This is the story of the 2011 Waltham Triple Murder.
1:44.6	Rafael M. Ticken, known as Rafi to many of his friends and family members, was born on
1:50.4	December 28, 1973.
1:53.6	The son of a rabbi, Rafi grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, just a few miles outside of
1:59.4	Boston.
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