A Killing On the Cape
It was a crime that rocked an idyllic seaside town in Cape Cod -- the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington, found stabbed to death with her 2-year-old daughter, unharmed at her side. What came next was a three-year search for her killer that would involve unorthodox steps by police, a lengthy list of potential suspects, and an entire town under suspicion. Christa's trash collector, Christopher McCowen, would eventually be convicted of the crime, but his trial would raise questions about the evidence, investigative methods, and whether racial prejudice played a role. Now, ABC Radio and "20/20" take a look at all the evidence and for the first time ever, hear directly from Christopher McCowen, to examine whether the right man is behind bars.
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02/25/2022
Please stop background music etc. it’s distracting and irritating.
Fantastic
07/29/2024
This is a interesting look into a famous cape cod murder. Typical ABC biased but well produced. A good listen!
Ending?
06/04/2024
Where is the rest of it? Also definitely feel like it was biased but I was interested in the story.
Waste of time
11/28/2023
Decent production but extremely biased and literally no point. The man is guilty. More white guilt garbage
Must Listen
02/25/2023
Fantastic host…fascinating case…. I was completely mesmerized from start to finish. Hope to hear more from Mark Remillard.
Biased account
05/06/2022
Really biased podcast in my opinion
Fairly interesting case, but………
11/01/2021
First and foremost, hats off to Christa’s friend for raising Ava to be a loving, affectionate, and intelligent young lady. Friends such as this woman are few and far in between. I think the guy that lived with her and his dad has something to do with it. I they both were there, the dad seen his som going into a rage, hit Christa multiple times, jumped into his car and fled. When the son was done murdering Christa, ran back to his dad’s house. When the murder aired on tv, it’s only natural for the dad to ask his son if he did it. That said, there’s some shiesty investigative work by the troopers. Considering murders only happens in this area once every green moon, I guess it should be expected. I’m still trying to figure out when did it become an option for homicide investigation interrogations to be recorded. That alone should create doubt and question the integrity of the troopers and the persons being interviewed. ALL INTERROGATIONS SHOULD BE RECORDING!! It’s a simple matter of integrity and should alleviate scrutiny. The fact of the troopers being ok without recording the interrogation pretty much gave way to them taking advantage of Christopher. Sure, we can’t prove they did. We also can’t prove they did not. This is without absolutely certainty. In other words, reasonable doubt. I don’t want to play the race card, but did I miss the part where Christopher took a polygraph? I recall hearing her dad’s girlfriend taking a polygraph and showing deception, but it was dismissed because she was “dope sick”. She volunteered her dna so they just forget about the results of her polygraph. Interesting! Yeah, ok. Get clean and we’ll test you again. Let’s not forget Christopher volunteered his as well. Why didn’t they polygraph him? That’s kind of fishy to me. To stab someone through and through and then into the floor is a crime of rage, but also, enraged people typically stab their victim multiple times
Fascinating podcast
08/12/2021
The podcast is well produced and does a good job of telling a complicated story in audio format. Very interesting and well worth your time to listen.
The bare minimum
05/22/2021
Perhaps if I was invested in this case on the 90’s, I’d find it more interesting? In my opinion the podcast was short, dull, and boring. Covers one thing in full, then goes onto cover the next thing in full. No big shockers or unexpected twists. Not much mystery involved in the way the story is told either. Nothing seems to loop back around in that satisfying way. Then again I stopped after episode 4. This podcast is just straight facts.
Mess of a story
04/04/2021
I wanted a new podcast to listen to and saw this and so I was interested. I’m on the 4th episode and I’m already annoyed: the victim who sleeps around with random guys; the old married guy who was forced to basically pay child support with the victim. And then the disbelief the killer could have committed the crime all because of his skin color. So a POC cant be guilty of any crimes? It’s now racist to charge people based on evidence? Ugh.
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