UNSOLVED: The Murder of Jeannette DePalma 1
Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House
4.6 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In 1972, 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma disappeared from her quiet suburban neighborhood in Springfield, New Jersey, and at first, no one treated it as a crisis. Known as a rebellious teenager with a complicated reputation, many believed she had simply run away. But as weeks passed with no word, that assumption began to unravel. In Part 1 of Murder: True Crime Stories, Carter Roy examines Jeannette’s life, the conflicting perceptions that shaped her story, and the early investigation that struggled to gain traction. When her remains were discovered weeks later in a nearby quarry under unsettling circumstances, the case took a darker turn and set the stage for a mystery that would only grow more complex.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, it's Carter Roy. |
| 0:02.8 | Real quick before today's episode of Murder, True Crime Stories, |
| 0:07.5 | I want to tell you about another show from Crime House that I know you'll love, |
| 0:11.6 | America's Most Infamous Crimes. |
| 0:15.0 | Hosted by Katie Ring, each week, Katie takes on one of the most notorious criminal cases in American history. |
| 0:22.5 | Serial killers who terrorized cities, unsolved mysteries that keep detectives up at night, |
| 0:28.8 | and investigations that change the way we think about justice. |
| 0:33.1 | Listen to and follow America's most infamous crimes, Tuesday through Thursday on Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:40.4 | Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:53.7 | This is Crime House. This is Crime House. |
| 0:57.0 | We like to think we know the people around us. Whether it's a friend or a family member, |
| 1:06.0 | we put stock in the tiny details. Their routines, little inside jokes, a favorite song on the radio. |
| 1:13.6 | But the truth is every person exists in fragments. |
| 1:17.6 | There's the version their parents see, the version their friends know, and the version they keep hidden from everyone else. |
| 1:25.6 | And when something terrible happens, |
| 1:28.3 | those fragments don't always come together neatly. |
| 1:31.3 | Sometimes they splinter even further. |
| 1:34.3 | Memories shift, rumors grow, and before long, |
| 1:38.3 | a person's life is reduced to competing stories, |
| 1:42.3 | each one claiming to explain who they really were. |
| 1:46.3 | In 1972, 16-year-old Jeanette De Palma went missing in suburban New Jersey. In the weeks |
| 1:55.2 | and months that followed, there were all sorts of narratives about what happened to her. |
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