Murder in Alliance

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The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance is the creator's cut of Murder in Alliance and is available wherever you get your podcasts: https://link.podtrac.com/4d50ajji The original Murder in Alliance has changed locations. You can find all 20 original “Murder in Alliance” episodes ad-free on Substack at: https://maggiefreleng.substack.com/newsletters.

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Introducing - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview

On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng ( Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Convi...

Dec 02, 2025•13 min

Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County: Preview

In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY, Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. Maggie is the latest investigator to get pulled in. And she’ll take all of us along as she teases out this complicated web of rumors and lies, and perhaps even the truth. In this special preview of Episode 1, we hear from Victoria Caldwell. H...

Sep 17, 2025•12 min

PREVIEW: Murder in Alliance

On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. David was eventually tried, convicted, and sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Yvonne. But the entire investigation may have been botched, or even worse, covered up. Now, after 22 years journalist Maggie Freleng investigates Yvonne’s murder alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member ...

May 06, 2021•2 min

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