Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, 48 Hours listeners. It's me, Erin Moriarty. This week, we're doing something a little different in your 48 Hours podcast feed. I'm taking you inside one of the most chilling cases I've ever covered. The brutal murders of Claudia and Chip Maupin, a beloved couple in their golden years who were killed inside their home in Davis, California. For months, investigators had almost nothing to go on.
No physical evidence, no clear suspect. They even had to look closely at members of the family. And then a tip led them somewhere almost no one expected, to a 15-year-old boy. It's the focus of my latest six-episode podcast, 15, Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders. All week long, you'll hear 15 right here in place of your regular 48 Hours episodes. You don't have to do a thing.
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the door and I just kind of stood over their bed watching them sleep for a few minutes. My body was trembling. I was nervous but excited and exhilarated. I was actually going to do it. I was there. It's finally happening.
I will never understand how he did what he did. My name is Victoria Heard and Claudia was my mother. I'm her eldest daughter. My mom was my best friend.
In 1995, Claudia Maupin packed up her bags and left her home in Fairfield, California, to move 30 miles northeast to Davis. In her late 50s, she was looking to start a new life.
She had been single for a while, and she had decided that she was ready to settle down.
When I talked to Claudia's daughter, Victoria, she was sitting with her own daughter, and they couldn't stop giggling as they recounted the move.
I remember very well. It was very intentional. Oh, really? Yeah. She was ready to have a companion, and she knew that she wanted somebody smart, and she knew that she wanted somebody who lived in Davis.
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Chapter 2: What led Claudia Maupin to move to Davis, California?
And he didn't show up, and that was very unusual. It was unusual enough that my mother said to me, you need to try to find your father. So you guys have been divorced for 40 years, let it go. But it sat in my brain. So I went to try to call him, but our church is sort of out in the country here and didn't get any cell reception. So I let it go until we went home afterwards. And I called.
And I called his number, and I called Claudia's number. And they both went to voicemail. How unusual is that? It was very unusual. Claudia always answered her phone.
Peggy then called her son, Robert.
And I tried to reassure her that she was overreacting, that, you know, oh, there's all kinds of reasons he might have missed that performance. And I dutifully went to check, but everything I saw indicated they were out of town.
It was evening when Robert rang his father's doorbell. No one answered. He looked through the front windows and didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
I didn't realize they had their car locked in the garage. If they were home, the car would have normally been in the driveway. And then there were some newspapers piled up, and I thought, oh, that's proof that they're out of town.
Robert decided if no one was home, it wasn't worth going inside. So he left. Another hour passed, but still, no one could get in touch with Chip and Claudia. Around 7.30 p.m., Claudia's daughter, Laura, decided to visit the house. Like Robert, she rang the front doorbell, and again, no one answered. But Laura wasn't satisfied leaving it at that. She walked around the back of the house.
She saw a few lights on inside. And that's when she noticed that one of the back windows wasn't just open. The screen had been meticulously cut. She stepped forward to get a closer look. She could just barely see into Chip and Claudia's shared bedroom. But even in the dim light, she could see something wasn't right.
I think she saw blood stains, but she didn't see bodies. She saw enough that she made a call to get other people over there.
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Chapter 3: How did Claudia and Chip Northup meet and fall in love?
It's impossible even now and everything we've been through and seen to imagine anybody doing that to somebody who was so kind and so precious.
Meanwhile, Chip's children still had no idea that anything was wrong. Chip's daughter, Mary, hadn't heard anything since her brother went to check on Chip the night before. The next morning, she turned on the TV to watch the news.
I noticed there was this shot with police caution tape from a tree to the garage, and it says, double homicide in Davis. And I'm like, wow, that's unusual. So the next time it came on, I looked at it again. I said, that looks like where my dad lived. I paused it and rewound it, and at this point I'm calling the kids and my wife to come out and look and say, is that Grandpa Chip's place?
She was finally able to see the number by the door, and it confirmed the unthinkable. It was Chip and Claudia's house. She called the police to see if they could tell her what was happening.
It took them about 10 minutes before they would tell me, well, yes, that is the house where they found bodies. But they wouldn't tell me it was my father. They wouldn't tell me anything. They said I had to come down to the police station. But at this point, I started calling my family because I didn't know anything.
i didn't want the rest of my family to find out this way that's a horrible way to find out i i cannot i mean i literally nearly collapsed on the floor when i realized that it was their house that i'm watching this on television to start from there just made everything all of the events that began to unfold worse and worse
Welcome to Radio Rental. The scariest stories you've ever heard in your life, all told by real people. And off we go. This wasn't a human being that I saw. There's something here in this house, something out of this world.
There was a woman moving through the hall. I stepped back and I was completely alone.
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Chapter 4: What was the family dynamic like for Claudia and Chip?
No.
Did you have the weapon?
We didn't have the weapon, no.
Still, while the crime scene was unusually clean, the bodies were anything but. Both victims had stab wounds everywhere. In their necks, the torso, the legs. And that wasn't even the most horrifying part. It was a very bloody scene. Right. And there were some strange details, too, weren't there?
Yeah, there were. There were a couple objects inside the bodies, one of them being a shot glass or a glass of some sort.
Put inside the body?
Yeah.
And a cell phone in the other, right?
Right.
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