Will There Ever Be Justice for Murdered Molly Bish: 25 Years Unsolved
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
3.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Molly Bish is 16 when she disappears from her life guard job at Commons Pond in Warren, Massachusetts, 25 years ago. Her murdered remains are found on a mountainside three years later. No one has ever been arrested in Molly’s kidnapping and murder. This is a case that Nancy Grace has closely followed for years. Molly’s mom and sister join Nancy in this “Crime Stories” episode to revisit the evidence and discuss renewed efforts to find justice for the lifeguard teen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.8 | June 27, 2000. |
| 0:15.8 | Every time June 27 rolls around, I think about Molly Bish. Why? What happened to a beautiful, beautiful young girl, Molly Bish? |
| 0:32.8 | It's been 25 years since Teen Lifeguard Molly Bish, just minutes after her mother dropped her off at |
| 0:39.3 | Commons Pond for work. Molly's remains were found three years later. 26 of her 206 bones were found |
| 0:47.1 | five miles away from the swimming area, but her murder remains unsolved. Rodney Stanger, a Southbridge man, who was convicted of murdering |
| 0:56.2 | his girlfriend, was once a potential suspect, but more recently, D.A. Joe Early said another man, |
| 1:03.1 | Frank Sumner, a sex offender who died in 2016, is a person of interest. |
| 1:09.0 | Let's just revisit. What happened? Joining me right now is a person of interest. Let's just revisit. |
| 1:12.1 | What happened? |
| 1:19.2 | Joining me right now is a special guest, Maggie Bish, and her daughter, Heather. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:22.5 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:24.5 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 1:33.3 | It was Molly's eighth day at a brand new job as a lifeguard. She was just 16. It was a hot summer day. Do you remember that day, Maggie? Oh, how I do. Again, we had just gotten out of school. I'm a school |
| 1:49.1 | teacher, and it cleaned your room. And I actually was special ed teacher, and I had some |
| 1:55.7 | IEP, some work to complete. And so we were all kind of buzzing a little bit. |
| 2:01.9 | You know, Molly had a new job. My son had just trained her and I had taken her to work |
| 2:08.0 | the day before and it was kind of a little unsettling. We had seen a car that day, parked in |
| 2:16.3 | the parking lot. |
| 2:18.3 | And there was only one white vehicle, and Molly got out. |
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