March 25, 2026

Murdered by Mistake - A New True Crime Series From Voyage Media

Murdered by Mistake - A New True Crime Series From Voyage Media
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Season 2
In this new true crime series from Voyage Media - Jill Houston's neighbor Pearl died tragically, in what the police ruled an accident, but Jill has spent decades trying to prove was a murder. Did men looking for Jill's home go into the wrong house? Was a fire set to cover their crime? This true crime miniseries presents the facts from both sides, and leaves it up to you, the listener, to decide. All episodes of Murdered by Mistake are available now, anywhere you get your podcasts.
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In a snowy county in Minnesota. In nineteen ninety three,

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a beloved elderly woman named Pearl died. The police investigated

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and quickly cleared it as an accident death in a fire,

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but her neighbor Jill, was absolutely convinced this was a murder.

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She spent the past thirty two years trying to prove it.

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She told me that she was up baking and she

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had a heart attack, and once she fell, her clothing

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caught fire.

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Jill was just sobbing, just sobbing, and she said that

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it should have been me, It should have been me.

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Who were the men Jill believed broke into Pearl's home?

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And she says, I know exactly who that was. She

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said her ex husband sent them up here to take

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care of her.

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I never confronted him. I knew my place. He's not

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one that you were going to argue with. He had

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control over everybody.

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Did Pearl die in an accidental fire? Or was a

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fire set by her killers to hide their crime?

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And I can see one guy walking with a look

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like a shotgun, and the other guy had more gun

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at all.

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My life after them was no longer sake.

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Except for you.

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I've never been called in to talk about this incident.

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Nobody text me, nobody sent me a letter, nobody said

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anything about it.

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Nobody believed me.

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From Voyage Media, producer of the hit true crime podcasts

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Borderline and In the Blood, comes a new true crime

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story about what happens when you're past bleeds into your present,

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Murdered by mistake, Available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or

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anywhere you listen to podcasts,