Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today, I have a story for you picked by some of our fan club members.

Now, we recently changed up our fan club tiers, and part of the benefit at the highest level now

is that those members get to help pick monthly content, the cases that are most important to them.

And this month, they voted that they wanted to hear about the unsolved murder of Molly Bish.

So I started researching the case, and I quickly learned that Molly's case isn't a standalone one.

There is a possible connection to another murder around the same area that has locals wondering

if there is a murderer in Massachusetts.

August 5, 1993, was a warm day in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

A man named Richard Caranian and his three young kids didn't live in Sturbridge full time.

They actually lived in a town nearby, but the family owned a little lake cottage there,

and they would visit in the summers. And August 5, was their second day of a week-long vacation.

According to Richard, it was going to be a wonderful week filled with swimming, poting, fishing, and all of the quiet moments in between that make up a lazy summer.

Now, in one of those quieter moments, two of Richard's kids were getting antsy.

Like, sitting around all day doing nothing is an adult's dream.

Like, I am currently like, air quotes on vacation right now, and I literally spent most of the time researching writing and now recording this episode.

I would kill for a lazy day of nothingness, but we all know to kids that is the worst thing ever.

It's gotta be go, go, go.

So two of Richard's kids, Holly, who was 10 and Zachary, who was 5, asked their dad if they can go down the street to a neighbor's house.

Now, this neighbor's dog just had a litter of puppies and they want to go look at them.

Can I go to? Right, same.

So Richard says, sure, go look at the puppies, then come right back.

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