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All episodes of “ In the Shadow of Princeton ” are now available for free on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. The creators of the hit podcast “Father Wants Us Dead” have dropped their next gripping true crime series about a New Jersey killing steeped in mystery and Ivy League intrigue. “In the Shadow of Princeton” is an investigative deep-dive into the 1989 cold-case killing of Emily “Cissy” Stuart, the feisty matriarch of an old Princeton family that ran the local newspaper.
First released on Wondery+ and now free wherever you get podcasts, “In the Shadow of Princeton” hit No. 7 on Apple Podcasts' true crime charts and No. 22 for all podcasts in the U.
S. Emily "Cissy" Stuart, a well-known character in Princeton, was found murdered in her basement April 4, 1989. File photo/police photo Cissy Stuart — forthright, caring, and tough enough to chop her own firewood — downed a bloody mary and set out to do some yard work on a warm spring day in 1989.
But someone stabbed Cissy in the back five times as she stood inside a basement room under her porch where she kept gardening tools. The killer then carefully padlocked the exterior door and vanished. Investigators from around the state descended on her stately property a block from campus, but they found few clues: no murder weapon, no sign of robbery or ransacking, no obvious reason anyone would want to kill the grande dame of Princeton.
" In the Shadow of Princeton “ follows the investigation of this murder — a “Zodiac”-like maze of leads and dead ends that stretches over 35 years. The basement room where Cissy Stuart was killed was accessible by a few steps down under the side porch. The first black door goes to a root cellar.
The second door, to the room where she was found, is hidden in shadow. (Police photo) Police photo The project is reported by longtime Mercer County reporter Kevin Shea , who’s followed the case for over two decades, and Rebecca Everett . Everett co-reported “Father Wants Us Dead ‚" an award-winning series named one of Apple Podcasts’ top new shows of 2022 and one of the best true crime podcasts of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
For " In the Shadow of Princeton ," Shea and Everett tracked down witnesses and retired investigators, reviewed police documents and even a Princeton student senior thesis and traveled across the U.S. to get answers to the case’s biggest questions.
All episodes are available for free on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. A 1989 story in The Central New Jersey Home News about the murder of Cissy Stuart. © USA TODAY NETWORK © USA TODAY NETWORK You can also listen ad-free by joining Wondery+ with a free trial.
For trailers, photos and other information about the podcast, visit www.theprincetonmurder.com .
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