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True Crime Historian

Was It Mother? Or Murder?

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5720 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Pittsburgh’s Feely Murder Mystery

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You’ll need your thinking cap for Episode 129, about as cold a case as you can get. It’s about eighty years old, but even police officials at the time could not agree on what happened in the back room of that tiny home, whether it was a murder or a murder/suicide. I’m not going to say we can solve it from a few newspaper clippings, but there does seem to be something amiss.

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0:00.0

Paul Bueller.

0:11.0

A happy couple, thoroughly devoted, who, like all typical parents, thought the world of their children.

0:23.3

That was the description offered police by friends, neighbors, and relatives of Martin J. Feely and his wife, Eleanor. Mr.

0:31.3

Feely, 35, had been assistant director of physical education at the University of Pittsburgh for eight years.

0:39.3

That is also the length of his residence in Pittsburgh.

0:44.3

His parents' home is in Brooklyn, but he graduated from Springfield College,

0:50.3

and it was in the Massachusetts City that he met the girl who later was to become his wife.

0:57.1

After his graduation from Springfield, Mr. Feely took a master's degree at Columbia University,

1:04.5

after which he received his appointment at Pitt.

1:08.4

A recognized authority on camping and outdoor life, he had for several years been

1:14.5

employed as a director of one of the summer camps sponsored by Life magazine. One year after coming

1:22.3

here, Mr. Feeley was married and brought his wife to Pittsburgh.

1:28.1

She was 28 at the time of her death.

1:33.4

When she married, Mrs. Feeley gave up the study of law.

1:38.4

Both her parents are dead.

1:41.0

The Feeleys were not believed to have been in financial distress, as Mrs. Feeley had a private income of her own, and her husband, it was rumored, was in line for a promotion at Pitt.

1:53.2

He recently told friends he was in the market for a new car.

2:06.6

The car. If blue-eyed doll babies could only talk,

2:11.1

then the deaths of Mrs. Eleanor Feely and her two children

2:15.3

no longer would be an enigmatic mystery. For in the children's

2:21.0

nursery, where violent death struck thrice, there lay an innocent bystander, the only person

2:29.5

unscathed by the killer's hand. That was three-year-old Janice Feeley's baby doll, which had been tenderly put to bed by the little

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