March 25, 2026
Murdered by Mistake - Also From Voyage Media, New True Crime Limited Series
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The trailer for Voyage's newest true crime miniseries. 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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[SPEAKER_04]: In a snowy county in Minnesota in 1993, a beloved elderly woman named Pearl died.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The police investigated and quickly cleared it as an accident, a death in a fire.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But her neighbor, Jill, was absolutely convinced this was a murder.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She spent the past 32 years trying to prove it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She told me that she was up baking, and she had a heart attack, and once she fell for clothing caught fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She said that it should have been me, it should have been me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Who were the men?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Jill believed, broken to Pearl's home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she says, I know exactly who that was.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She said her ex-husband sent them up here to take care of her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I never confronted him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I knew my place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's not one that you are going to argue with.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He had control over everybody.
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[SPEAKER_04]: did Pearl die in an accidental fire.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was a fire set by her killers to hide their crime.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I can see one guy walking with a look like a shotgun, and the other guy had moved on at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My life after then was no longer safe.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So for you, I've never been called and to talk about this incident, nobody texted me, nobody sent me a letter, nobody said anything about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody believe me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: From Voyage Media, producer of the Hit True Crime Podcasts borderline and in the blood comes a new true crime story about what happens when your past bleeds into your present, murdered by mistake, available now on Apple Podcasts Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
00:01.111 --> 00:07.340
[SPEAKER_04]: In a snowy county in Minnesota in 1993, a beloved elderly woman named Pearl died.
00:08.401 --> 00:12.788
[SPEAKER_04]: The police investigated and quickly cleared it as an accident, a death in a fire.
00:13.849 --> 00:17.795
[SPEAKER_04]: But her neighbor, Jill, was absolutely convinced this was a murder.
00:18.876 --> 00:21.600
[SPEAKER_04]: She spent the past 32 years trying to prove it.
00:21.850 --> 00:29.482
[SPEAKER_01]: She told me that she was up baking, and she had a heart attack, and once she fell for clothing caught fire.
00:29.642 --> 00:36.133
[SPEAKER_00]: She said that it should have been me, it should have been me.
00:36.153 --> 00:36.894
[SPEAKER_04]: Who were the men?
00:37.254 --> 00:39.237
[SPEAKER_04]: Jill believed, broken to Pearl's home.
00:39.999 --> 00:42.122
[SPEAKER_03]: And she says, I know exactly who that was.
00:43.023 --> 00:46.609
[SPEAKER_03]: She said her ex-husband sent them up here to take care of her.
00:46.589 --> 00:48.015
[SPEAKER_02]: I never confronted him.
00:48.236 --> 00:49.059
[SPEAKER_02]: I knew my place.
00:49.380 --> 00:52.332
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not one that you are going to argue with.
00:52.673 --> 00:54.962
[SPEAKER_02]: He had control over everybody.
00:55.330 --> 00:57.714
[SPEAKER_04]: did Pearl die in an accidental fire.
00:58.315 --> 01:01.561
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a fire set by her killers to hide their crime.
01:01.702 --> 01:07.532
[SPEAKER_03]: And I can see one guy walking with a look like a shotgun, and the other guy had moved on at all.
01:07.732 --> 01:11.199
[SPEAKER_02]: My life after then was no longer safe.
01:11.279 --> 01:19.093
[SPEAKER_03]: So for you, I've never been called and to talk about this incident, nobody texted me, nobody sent me a letter, nobody said anything about it.
01:19.242 --> 01:20.724
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody believe me.
01:21.005 --> 01:39.613
[SPEAKER_04]: From Voyage Media, producer of the Hit True Crime Podcasts borderline and in the blood comes a new true crime story about what happens when your past bleeds into your present, murdered by mistake, available now on Apple Podcasts Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts.