When a young, pregnant Massachusetts woman is found dead in 2021,

local police write off her death as a suicide.

However, the findings of a medical examiner hired by her family

prompt the FBI to step in and perform an expert investigation of their own.

Federal authorities charge a disgraced police officer

with the premeditated murder of a young woman they say he had abused for years in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your host, Scott.

We're airing this extra episode on the fifth anniversary of this podcast.

We aired our very first episode on December 10th, 2019.

So before we get into today's story, Scott and I want to sincerely thank all of you for listening.

Yeah, it's almost unbelievable that we've been able to do it for five years now.

Right. Never missed an

episode. This podcast is made meaningful by the fact that people take time to listen to these

stories and we truly appreciate all of you. We hope you'll stick around for another five years

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Now on to today's story.

It's a little different than the cases we typically cover in that it's not unsolved. Someone has been charged with this victim's murder already and will soon be going on trial. However, in many

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