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Going West: True Crime

Theresa Fusco // 559

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In November of 1984, the normally safe Long Island village of Lynbrook was gripped in fear when a 16-year-old girl vanished after leaving her job at a local roller rink. What began as a missing persons case would soon reveal a web of lies and false confessions that would haunt the community for decades - with three convictions becoming overturned, and geological DNA bringing real answer. This is the murder of Theresa Fusco.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans?

0:16.5

I'm your host T.

0:17.3

And I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.7

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:22.4

Thank you for tuning in today. Big shout out to Dan who recommended today's case. This one actually

0:28.0

had some very, very, very recent resolution just in the last few weeks. And the way that police

0:35.3

achieved that resolution is pretty wild. So we will get into all of that today,

0:39.9

but it's crazy. Yeah, this is one of those shocking cases that take so many different twists and

0:45.0

turns. And yeah, I mean, we might actually find out about a couple other cases that could be

0:51.2

connected to today's case. Absolutely. Also, by the way, if you guys want more

0:56.4

going west episodes, I just want to tell you in the last week, we have released two bonus episodes,

1:02.5

the story of Amanda Zhao Wei, who was murdered in BC, Canada. She was an exchange student from

1:08.8

China, and that story, there's a lot of extradition talk in that one, just like we did in the Holly Maddox case in October.

1:16.6

And then we also just released the Netherlands murder of Nicole Vandenherk.

1:22.7

And that one, like her brother, confessed to that crime in recent history so that police would re-investigate it.

1:31.9

Like both of these cases, you guys can't miss.

1:34.4

Absolutely wild.

1:35.8

And if you want to go check out those cases on our bonus series, head on over to patreon.com slash going west podcast.

1:43.1

Or you can just subscribe right there on apple.

1:46.0

Yes, please. We have over 130 bonus episodes over there of cases you're not going to hear

1:51.1

on Going West that deserve all the attention. So check it out. And without further ado,

1:55.4

all right guys, this is episode 559 of Going West, so let's get into it. The

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