Episode 196 The Durham Family Murders

In February 1972, Bryce, Virginia and Bobby Durham were found murdered in their Boone, North Carolina, home during a heavy snowstorm. Within months, four men were charged and two were eventually indicted for murder, but the case against them collapsed. Nearly fifty years later, a story remembered by the son of a Georgia criminal led investigators to four entirely different men and an unexpected explanation for what happened that night.

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Episode Sources

Watauga County Sheriff’s Office, “Sheriff Hagaman Announces That 50-Year-Old Triple Homicide ‘Durham Case’ Solved”

Watauga Democrat, “Suspects Get Counsel for Current Term,” May 15, 1972

Watauga Democrat, “Investigation of Durham Family’s Slaying Continues”