Who Murdered Mary Meyer? - 646

Generation Why: True Crime

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True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

October 12th, 1964. Washington, D.C. Mary Meyer was murdered while taking a walk along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath. The police quickly arrested a man named Ray Crump who was near the crime scene. But Crump's arrest and trial didn't answer the many questions surrounding Mary's murder. In the years that followed there were suggestions that she was killed because of her close association with D.C. officials.

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0:00.0	Attention Generation Y listeners.
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1:37.3	I'm doing very well, Justin.
1:39.2	I'm recording with you.
1:40.9	How are you doing?
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1:43.0	We're doing an interesting case. It is true crime.
1:48.1	It is a murder that happened. But there is so much more to this. This case has the CIA,
1:55.7	the FBI, high-level scandals, presidential assassinations, and a secret diary that might have blown this all out into the public.
2:07.9	So I'm excited to talk about it.
2:11.0	Do we have any announcements before that?
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2:29.6	Please check it out.
2:30.6	Also, you can find our blog there.
2:33.0	Lindsay is always updating the blog with new and
2:35.6	interesting stories that you'll want to know if you're into true crime. And on that website,
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