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Method & Madness

Method & Madness

Written by: Dawn Cate
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 Seeking truth in true crime? Whether it’s challenging what you think you know about a case, pushing for answers on an unsolved murder, or highlighting injustice, you'll find it here with your host, Dawn.

Method and Madness will take you on a journey of immersive storytelling, insight, and advocacy as we dive into mostly lesser-known cases.

You'll hear from survivors, family members, investigators, and more.

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  • Replay - Fearless: Jyoti Singh

    Replay - Fearless: Jyoti Singh
    Dec 2 2025
    Originally published January 31, 2023.

    It started as a simple night out; 2 friends going to see a movie. Afterward, the pair boarded a bus headed for home. What they encountered on that ride would be described in the following days as “barbaric”, “shocking”, and “horrific”.

    This is the story of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh. She had completed her finals and was preparing for an internship to become a doctor of physiotherapy. She told her parents in December of 2012 not to worry; all of their troubles would be over soon. But on December 16th, what she encountered was pure evil.

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    41 mins
  • 103. Agony: The Murder of Tina Arriaga

    103. Agony: The Murder of Tina Arriaga
    Oct 28 2025
    In March 1994, 28-year-old Tina Marie Arriaga dropped off her two young daughters at their grandmother’s house in Long Branch, New Jersey. She told her mother she was running to the pharmacy. She never came back. Weeks later, Tina’s body was discovered behind an auto shop, strangled and beaten. No one has ever been charged.

    For more than 30 years, Tina’s family has lived with unanswered questions and growing doubts about the investigation. Her daughter, Patricia, joins Method & Madness to share her mother’s story and to ask the questions no one else has:
    Was this case neglected? Or covered up?

    “I have missed out on so much throughout my life because of someone else's actions. And I am ready to close this chapter. I'm ready to give my mother justice, and I also want my daughter to see that her voice matters,” Patricia says.

    If you have any information about the murder of Tina Arriaga, please get in touch with:
    The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Detective Matthew Delgado at 800-533-7443.

    To get in touch with Patricia, find her on Facebook:
    Facebook Patricia Arriaga Douglas

    Content Warning:
    This episode includes discussions of graphic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

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    39 mins
  • 102. Rumors: The Murder of Joan Feeman

    102. Rumors: The Murder of Joan Feeman
    Oct 7 2025
    In the late summer of 1968, 22-year-old Joan Freeman reported for an overtime shift at Hoffman-LaRoche, a sprawling pharmaceutical complex on the border of Clifton and Nutley, New Jersey. What should have been an ordinary Saturday at work became a nightmare: Joan would not leave the building alive.

    From the strange theories surrounding industrial theft and espionage to potential connections with other New Jersey cold cases, we examine the angles investigators considered and what they ultimately concluded.

    In this episode, we also touch on patterns in workplace homicides, the chilling notion that a coworker could have committed the crime, and the eerie possibility of a connection to the infamous “Torso Killer”, a thread we’ll explore in greater detail in a future episode.

    Join us as we honor the memory of Joan Freeman and navigate the unanswered questions that haunt her story.

    Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of graphic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

    If you have any information about the murder of Joan Freeman, please contact the Clifton Police Department at 973-470-5908.

    To submit information about the murder of Alexander Messier, contact the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office at (973) 285-6200

    To submit tips about the murder of Alys Eberhardt, contact the Fair Lawn PD at 201-794-5410

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