Episode Fourteen | Kristen Crowley: An Unfathomable Death, Peabody, Massachusetts

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On the night of June 1, 1996, two ex-Marines and former roommates lied to their girlfriends and headed the local strip club where they spent hours drinking and propositioning dancers. Around 12am, when they failed to convince any of them to leave with them, they happened upon a stunning young woman named Kristen Crowley at a nearby convenience store. They were clearly confusing fantasy with reality. One of the men thought she looked just like one of the girls they'd seen at the club. Within one hour of her chance encounter with these two men, she was dead. This is the unfathomable story of the murder of Kristen Crowley.
 

Kristen Gove Crowley June 12, 1969 - June 2, 1996

Thank you to journalists JM Lawrence, Julie Manganis, Emily Sweeney for providing information about this story.

Music from Joe Kowalski and Andrew King appears in this episode.

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Photos of Kristen with her family and on her wedding day, and where she was laid to rest in Peabody (I purposely kept them off instagram).

Leather Soul - The History of Leather Town, Peabody, Massachusetts

Gary Cherone with Van Halen

Kristen Crowley | News sources
 

Interview with JM Lawrence who covered the Kristen Crowley case
 

Thanks to Julie Manganis of Salem News
 

Peabody, Mass

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/peabody-massachusetts

Wiki
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody,_Massachusetts

St John’s Fire
 https://www.nafi.org/blog/st-johns-school-fire-october-28-1915/#:~:text=John%E2%80%99s%20School%20fire%20was%20a%20deadly%20fire%20that,began%20in%20the%20basement%20of%20the%20school%20building.

Salem News - St John’s Fire, 100 Years Ago https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/suffer-the-little-children-remembering-the-21-who-died-in-the-st-johns-fire-100/article_d069f2f1-3e88-5be1-8c02-7c6f8fb2d2ec.html
 
 Leather Soul - the tanneries of Peabody
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl43P3yYU0I

Kristen Crowley’s killer John P. Keegan Dies in Prison - his obit 2013
 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southofboston-ledger/obituary.aspx?n=john-p-keegan&pid=166835587&fhid=20823

Marine Corps Discharge Terms

https://woman.thenest.com/administrative-discharge-marines-17634.html

Documentary appearance by Susan Gove Ramunda

http://www.justiceproductions.org/documentaryfilms/theemptychair.html

South Coast Today, Dykens Trial

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/19971028/news/310289990

Kristen’s grave site

https://cemetery.org/kristen-gove-crowley

ARCHIVES

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/290793131/BD8B47B2DD844BECPQ/1?accountid=9675

CBS Boston - John Keegan wants parole (clip)
 https://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/04/man-convicted-in-1996-death-of-peabody-woman-seeks-parole

https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/i-could-have-saved-her-killer-blames-co-defendant-while-seeking-parole/article_1cef32d7-d946-5c96-a14b-30a04b9b98c3.html

https://www.eagletribune.com/news/kristen-crowley-killer-dies-in-prison/article_0f2eb080-d04f-5ee4-ac1b-fc50f2f83eb5.html

Lynn Item - Susan Gove speaks at parole hearing

https://www.itemlive.com/2011/10/04/mother-of-murder-victim-speaks-at-parole-board-hearing-for-one-of-the-two-men-who-killed-her-daughter

Salem News - One of men convicted in Peabody woman's death seeks parole
 Julie Manganis, Oct 3, 2011
 https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/one-of-men-convicted-in-peabody-womans-death-seeks-parole/article_cd3010a1-7dbd-5711-9675-1a2164e71d42.html
 
 Salem News - Kristen Crowley killer dies in prison
 Alan Burke, Sept 7, 2013
 https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/kristen-crowley-killer-dies-in-prison/article_dd8ace7c-ac9e-5a11-a23a-5f520078cbc7.html

AP News - Few Knew Murder Victim Lived Two Lives
 Ed Golden, June 3, 1996
 https://apnews.com/article/78e52f5e06a36f9fb6f0d28aeea4834c
 
 Southcoast News - Dehumanizing headline
 https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/19960604/News/306049952
 
 Boston Herald - Victim’s kin: Killer should ‘rot in prison’
 Oct 5, 2011 https://www.bostonherald.com/2011/10/05/victims-kin-killer-should-rot-in-prison
 
 Killer gets life term in Peabody case
 Caroline Cole, Oct 28, 1997
 https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/403903131/F45F0000E28842A3PQ/1?accountid=9675