Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
Episodes
Introducing: United States of Kennedy
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, Murder on the Towpath Fans! We want to share a new show you might like, United States of Kennedy. About the show: United States of Kenned...
Two Women
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A murder in Georgetown brought together many people. Some were famous. Others deserved to be. Now, Mary's paintings hang in the Smithsonian. Dovey was...
White Noise
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lost diary and a mysterious phone call cause conspiracy theorists to wonder if Mary knew too much. If so, did the CIA take her out? The theories mig...
Exhibit A
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A witness for the prosecution said he saw Ray after Mary's murder. But did he? Dovey's final defense hinges on one important piece of evidence: Ray Cr...
Just Say Yes
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the year before her death, Mary was coming into her own as a painter. She was experimenting with her art and drugs. But what Dovey didn't know at t...
The Mapmaker's Testimony
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a whole year, Dovey retraced Mary’s last steps on the towpath in order to build her defense. Meanwhile, the aggressive, gum-smacking prosecu...
The CIA Wife
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Pinchot came from a rich, eccentric family. The kind of folks who rode horses naked on their estate and hobnobbed with Kennedys. She was fiercely...
Married to the Law
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dovey Johnson Roundtree became a lawyer at a time when no one wanted Black women to amount to anything. She’d grown up with the KKK terrorizing ...
Bad Luck, Mary
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a baffling mystery in 1964. Mary Pinchot Meyer - a socialite and painter connected to politicians and artists alike - was shot in broad dayligh...
Introducing Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot in broad daylight in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Just 45 minutes after Mary’s death, her killer had been ar...