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Last Seen Alive

Unsolved Double-Homicide: Bill and Peggy Stephenson

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2773 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When a Northern Kentucky couple are murdered in their own home, investigators discover the strangest crime scene of their careers. An active—but perplexing—investigation unfolds as investigators attempt to determine who ended the quiet, peaceful lives of two beloved grandparents in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

 

if you believe you may know anything at all about the deaths of Peggy and Bill Stephenson, please call the Boone County Sheriff’s office at 859-334-2175.

 

See photos from this episode and check out the sources we used to research it here: 

https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2023/07/31/unsolved-double-homicide-bill-and-peggy-stephenson/

 

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When a Northern Kentucky couple are murdered in their own home, investigators discover the strangest crime scene of their careers.

0:07.1

An active but perplexing investigation unfolds as investigators attempt to determine who ended the quiet, peaceful lives of two beloved grandparents in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

0:35.4

Thank you. episode of Last Seen Alive. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime

0:41.9

storyteller by night. As always, I'm your co-host Scott. Bill and Peggy Stevenson were last seen

0:48.1

alive on May 27, 2011. They were both 74 years old at the time and had been married to each other for decades. In fact,

0:56.0

they'd been high school sweethearts. During their years together, they'd build a life together on

1:00.4

Kentucky's northern border, where they'd raised three children, become grandparents, and even

1:04.8

great-grandparents. After marrying in the 50s, the couple had worked on a dairy farm in rural

1:10.3

Boone County, Kentucky,

1:11.9

eventually starting and raising their family. At the time of their deaths, they still lived in Boone

1:16.9

County, but in the moderately sized town of Florence, which is just a 20-minute drive from downtown

1:21.7

Cincinnati, Ohio. A few miles and the Ohio River were all that stood between their neighborhood and the

1:28.3

Queen City. Speaking of their neighborhood, it was a planned subdivision where they had a condo,

1:33.8

and it was decidedly suburban and statistically speaking, a pretty safe place to live.

1:39.3

So this is a far cry from their early years together as dairy farmers.

1:45.8

Exactly. They were not living on an isolated farm or anything like that. Their neighborhood was actually quite populated and busy,

1:51.3

not the type of place for something like this would normally happen. And the neighborhood suited a couple

1:55.8

really well. They lived low-risk lifestyles, leading what journalist Amber Hunt described in an article on

2:01.1

their case as quiet but impactful lives. Bill was semi-retired by then working part-time for an

2:07.6

insurance company. Both Bill and Peggy were particularly involved in their church, where Peggy

2:12.8

played the organ and Bill served as a deacon. Bill had also founded something called the Trucker's Chapel

2:18.6

Ministry, which provided a convenient space at a local truck stop for truck drivers to attend

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