In 2007, a body was found in the Tennessee woods and quickly identified by police as a Black or mixed-race woman. But the victim’s true identity remained locked away for two decades.

In Episode 2 of Forensic Echoes, we trace the shocking story of Mary Alice Maloney: a Connecticut native whose body was found 800 miles from home. We dissect the investigative failures that led to her initial misidentification and reveal the painstaking, multi-year process by which the DNA Doe Project corrected the record.

The puzzle is solved, but the truth remains hidden. The DNA gave Mary Alice her name back, but the investigation into her murder is just beginning.

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In 1975, Judy Lord was brutally murdered in her Concord, New Hampshire, apartment. The case went cold instantly.

A suspect was identified—but the FBI's primitive hair analysis quickly excluded him, locking away the truth and allowing a killer to walk free for five decades.

Forensic Echoes is the true crime podcast dedicated to finding closure where justice was once denied.

In our debut episode, we unravel the story of Judy Lord: the initial tragedy, the fifty-year mystery, and the shocking scientific error that contributed to her case remaining unsolved. Finally, hear how the revolutionary power of Genetic Genealogy cracked the case wide open in 2025, exposing the killer who had been hiding in plain sight since day one.

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