The Wood Chipper Murder

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to discuss the murder of Helle Crafts, a flight attendant who went missing in 1986. They discuss the circumstances of her disappearance and how all roads led to her husband, as we’ve seen countless of times before. They also get into the investigation of her murder and the unlikeliest of heroes that led to the eventual capture of the killer: private investigator Keith Mayo, who refused to let the case go cold. To end the episode, the play Making Mr. Mayo Merry, where they put their own lateral thinking to the test in a series of riddles to find out who would make the best private investigator! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	On November 19, 1986, a flight attendant and mother of three
0:34.0	named Haley Crafts disappeared.
0:36.4	When her husband Richard Crafts was asked about her whereabouts,
0:39.0	he gave conflicting stories about where she was,
0:41.4	saying at first that he didn't know, then that she
0:43.8	was visiting friends, and later that she
0:46.0	was tending to her sick mother.
0:48.6	For weeks, the police assumed that Haley was only missing
0:51.4	and which of eventually, but day after day,
0:54.0	she had still not reappeared.
0:56.6	After almost a month after her disappearance,
0:59.1	the police finally launched an official investigation
1:01.8	into the matter, spurred by trickling evidence
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