331. The Cold Fusion Murder Conspiracy - Eugene Mallove

On this episode, Garrett and Payton dive into the case of Eugene Mallove, a cold fusion scientist who was found brutally murdered outside his childhood home. Was his controversial research behind his death, or was the truth far more senseless? Links: Netflix Video Every Monday @11am PST, 12pm MST, 2pm EST 1pm CST https://www.netflix.com/murderwithmyhusband Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderwithmyhusband NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.com Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themwmh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderwithmyhusband/ Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@murderwithmyhusband Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327 Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7?si=f5224c9fd99542a7 Sources: Oxygen.com - https://www.oxygen.com/an-unexpected-killer/crime-news/eugene-mallove-scientist-murdered-after-housing-dispute ForeignPolicy.com - https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/07/the-coldest-case-cold-fusion-eugene-mallove-mit-infinite-energy/ Wikipedia.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Mallove NBCConnecticut.com - https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/man-found-guilty-in-norwich-physicist-murder-case/100019/ NorwichBulletin.com - https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/courts/2015/01/07/interactive-timeline-eugene-mallove-murder/33198079007/ WMUR.com - https://www.wmur.com/article/conn-man-who-killed-nh-scientist-sentenced/5196382 CapeCodTimes.com - https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2004/05/17/cold-fusion-advocate-killed-in/50935084007/ Fox61.com - https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/trial-begins-in-alleged-murder-of-scientist-eugene-mallove/520-014a24e3-539a-44d4-b7a9-b8da917f79f8 TheBulletin.org - https://thebulletin.org/2016/07/the-life-and-brutal-death-of-a-cold-fusion-crusader/ TechnologyReview.com - https://www.technologyreview.com/2004/05/17/101669/death-of-a-cold-fusion-proponent/ KeeneSentinel.com - https://www.keenesentinel.com/arrests-made-in-2004-slaying-of-bow-scientist-by-the-concord-monitor/article_cf19d3d1-6205-5452-9265-d753cadec733.html TrueCrimeNE.com - https://www.truecrimene.com/episodes/p6zagfbyw95khxlki00s3o5zfagrz4 DavidKushner.com - https://davidkushner.com/article/the-coldest-case/ PeacockTV.com - https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/playback/vod/_/f36140c1-e05d-3865-bea1-b0ed9c67a127 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:02Payton Moreland?

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• 0:31Payton Moreland?

  You're listening to an Ono Media Podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder with my Husband. I'm Payton Moreland.

• 0:38Garrett Moreland?

  And I'm Garrett Moreland.

• 0:39Payton Moreland?

  And he's the husband.

• 0:40Garrett Moreland?

  And I'm the husband.

• 0:41Payton Moreland?

  You think the good people of Netflix can tell? We literally just woke up.

• 0:44Garrett Moreland?

  Good morning. Usually don't do this, but we're doing a early 7:00 AM recording session.

• 0:50Payton Moreland?

  You know, you know, with just the bagel shop and I'm not, I gotta stop talking about the bagel shop. Sometimes you just gotta squeeze things in, you know?

• 0:59Garrett Moreland?

  Life's crazy right now. Peyton has her baby shower today, so been a little bit, lots going on. So we said, you know what? We're gonna wake up early. We're gonna record. Here we are.

• 1:09Payton Moreland?

  But we're not really the type to wake up and get all ready. So this is what you get.

• 1:14Garrett Moreland?

  This is true. Happy Monday.

• 1:17Payton Moreland?

  Happy Monday.

• 1:18Garrett Moreland?

  It'll be Tuesday, whenever you're listening. Thanks, everyone who continues to say hi to us at the bagel shop. What else have we got? Peyton has her baby shower today.

• 1:26Payton Moreland?

  Also, everyone who continues to listen.

• 1:29Garrett Moreland?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:30Payton Moreland?

  Just like week to week, the fact you guys come back, it's just amazing.

• 1:34Garrett Moreland?

  You guys ever get annoyed with our voices?

• 1:36Payton Moreland?

  Are you annoyed of our voices right now?

• 1:38Garrett Moreland?

  No, I can't hear your voice.

• 1:40Payton Moreland?

  Oh, true. If you don't know, only I wear headphones.

• 1:44Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, I don't wear headphones. Kind of random, but it's been really, it's been so hot here in Utah. It's been insane. I don't like the heat. I don't know how you people in Arizona do it, cuz it's been, it's been like 100 degrees here.

• 2:00Payton Moreland?

  More than that. 5:00 PM, it was 101 last night.

• 2:02Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, it was 101 degrees, which not a fan of. What can you do? But it's been really hot. It's been crazy. So kind of just been staying inside, to be honest. Golf here and there, pickleball here and there. But mainly podcasts, bagels. Can you believe that we're gonna be parents?

• 2:26Payton Moreland?

  No.

• 2:27Garrett Moreland?

  We're just gonna have a little just munchkin just running around?

• 2:31Payton Moreland?

  No.

• 2:32Garrett Moreland?

  We're not very nervous. A lot of people are like, are you nervous? No.

• 2:36Payton Moreland?

  I'm terrified.

• 2:37Garrett Moreland?

  I'm not nervous at all. It's just a baby. Like, what could possibly go wrong, you know? I turned out great.

• 2:43Payton Moreland?

  So much.

• 2:44Garrett Moreland?

  Peyton turned out great. Anyways, that's what we got. Good morning. Let's just hop into this week's episode.

• 2:52Payton Moreland?

  Our sources for this episode are oxygen.com, foreignpolicy.com, NBCConnecticut.com, norwichbulletin.com, WMUR.com, CapeCodTimes.com, Fox61.com, thebulletin.org, TechnologyReview.com, keenesentinel.com, TrueCrimeNE.com, DavidKushner.com, and Peacock TV. Every once in a while, we come across someone who can be defined as a genius. Whose brain operates on another level than most other people's do. Someone who thinks outside of the box and has ideas that can truly change the world for the better.

• 3:32Garrett Moreland?

  I feel like you're, I feel like you're explaining me.

• 3:35Payton Moreland?

  Exactly. Someone who comes up with world-changing bagels.

• 3:39Garrett Moreland?

  I like that. I like to hear.

• 3:41Payton Moreland?

  But ideas this big and the people who come up with them can be seen as a threat. When you're shaking up the status quo, sometimes that comes with a cost. And the people who get hit by these geniuses with big ideas are often the people in power. They don't like change. They like everything to work the way it is. So when someone that's a genius, that's brilliant, that's making headway in technology, is killed in a mysterious way, we are kind of conditioned to think it might be a tinfoil tale. What wealthy or powerful forces wanted this person gone?

• 4:23Payton Moreland?

  But as we'll see in today's case, not everything is as calculated as we think. Sometimes coincidences are just more common than they seem. And sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. So today, we are gonna take a trip to New England, to the town of Beau, New Hampshire. This is where in 2004, 56-year-old Eugene Malav is just trying to get by. He wants to be a good husband and dad and accomplish some of his lingering dreams. Again, 2004. Eugene, or Jean, as his family and friends called him, grew up 150 miles away in Norwich, Connecticut,

• 5:07Payton Moreland?

  in a house that Eugene himself now owned and was using as a rental property.

• 5:12Garrett Moreland?

  No, I really wouldn't go to Connecticut or like the Virginias.

• 5:17Payton Moreland?

  The Carolinas.

• 5:19Garrett Moreland?

  The Carolinas, not the Virginias. I feel like you can't, you can't find that here.

• 5:24Payton Moreland?

  No, not really.

• 5:25Garrett Moreland?

  Not in the West. Maybe like Northern California, but Oregon, Washington, I guess.

• 5:29Payton Moreland?

  We got a mountain or two.

• 5:31Garrett Moreland?

  Anyways.

• 5:32Payton Moreland?

  This house he grew up in, that he now owned and rented out, had a special place in Jean's heart. It was where he spent his nights as a young boy, looking up at the stars and asking big questions about the universe. Now, ever since he was little, Jean always had a love for science fiction novels and the idea of space exploration. And as he got older, that turned into bigger concepts. Like, what is his place in this very vast universe? But it was clear to everyone who knew Jean in his early years, he was probably gonna end up being someone special. He was a genius. He understood science and astronomy in a way that other people couldn't.

• 6:13Payton Moreland?

  And this was a skill that actually later got him into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in Boston.

• 6:20Garrett Moreland?

  That's so cool.

• 6:21Payton Moreland?

  Jean actually started classes there in the fall of 1965. And by the summer of 1968, Jean was working in a lab as a staff assistant, helping to run tests for the Apollo lunar missions. Following year, he graduated with a bachelor's in aeronautical and astronomical engineering. And then went on to continue his studies at Harvard University. And you know, that's pretty impressive, cuz I can barely pronounce what he's getting a degree in, and he's getting a degree in them.

• 6:54Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 6:55Payton Moreland?

  So while he was living in Boston, Eugene also met the love of his life during this time. It was a Boston University student named Joanne Smith. And the two were made for each other. They were both pretty outgoing, warm and friendly people. And they ended up tying the knot on September 9th, 1970. And they go on to have two kids, Kimberlin in 1974 and Ethan in 1979. And as his little family is growing, he's having kids at home with his wife, Joanne, Jean's career was skyrocketing. Pun intended. He graduated from Harvard with a doctorate in environmental health sciences. He worked for several tech engineering firms.

• 7:40Payton Moreland?

  And in the same year they had Ethan, Jean founded Astronomy New England. This was a company that was making and marketing astronomy tools like 3D star maps and computer-connected telescopes.

• 7:57Garrett Moreland?

  Dang.

• 7:57Payton Moreland?

  From there, Eugene started publishing a lot of his work in scientific papers. And he began teaching science journalism at MIT and Boston University. And then, in 1991, Eugene ends up having one of the greatest accomplishments of his career.

• 8:15Garrett Moreland?

  Dude, Eugene's a genius.

• 8:17Payton Moreland?

  He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a book he wrote.

• 8:21Garrett Moreland?

  Impressive.

• 8:22Payton Moreland?

  On something called cold fusion.

• 8:25Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, yeah, I think I might have heard of this before.

• 8:27Payton Moreland?

  Really? I had no idea what cold fusion was.

• 8:30Garrett Moreland?

  I've heard of cold fusion for sure. But also, I'm into all that, so.

• 8:33Payton Moreland?

  So to understand cold fusion is to understand a big piece of Jean. I won't get into the weeds on this, but cold fusion is basically a source of free energy. That's like what I think it boils down to, in a very simplified way.

• 8:52Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 8:52Payton Moreland?

  It all came about in 1989, when two electrochemists claimed to discover nuclear fusion in a simple lab setting. Now, unlike other forms of energy, cold fusion doesn't need extreme temperatures and pressure to create it. It's a carbon-free energy source that honestly could solve a lot of the world's problems. Meaning, even back in 1989, when they discovered it, they were thinking this could replace coal, oil, natural gas, eliminate things that could lead to global warming.

• 9:29Payton Moreland?

  The problem was, when other scientists went to replicate that supposedly successful 1989 cold fusion experiment, no one could produce the same results. So the scientists were like, hey, we did it. This is how it works. This is what happened. But then no one could do it again. Which is why, to this day, cold fusion actually remains an unproven and controversial hypothesis in the energy world.

• 9:56Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 9:57Payton Moreland?

  Are you a tinfoil tale about cold fusion?

• 9:59Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, I totally am a tinfoil tale about cold fusion.

• 10:02Payton Moreland?

  You've got your tinfoil hat on?

• 10:03Garrett Moreland?

  Yes, I'm very.

• 10:05Payton Moreland?

  It exists, but it's being covered up?

• 10:07Garrett Moreland?

  I think a lot of that. Yep. I think there's a lot of technology that exists that. We cover up for multiple reasons.

• 10:14Payton Moreland?

  Right.

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• 10:45Payton Moreland?

  This is Tamsin Fidel from the Tamsin Show. Fall in New York City is my favorite time of year. Crisp mornings, that excuse to layer up, walking around the city without melting. And once that shift happens, I genuinely don't want anything on my feet except Bombas. Their new suede moccasins have been my go to for the second it cools down. Cushy soles, sheerling lining, water resistant suede. And I have to remember comfort this good is technically allowed outside the house. When I'm traveling, I reach straight for their compression socks. They help with the fatigue from being on the plane so much. And I feel so much better landing when I have a pair on. My sock drawer is filled with Bombas now. So I have merino wool for the cold mornings, sweat wicking pairs for workouts, and a few dressier ones for whatever fall wedding season throws at me. My favorite part, though, for every item

• 11:28Payton Moreland?

  you buy, Bombas donates an essential clothing item to someone facing housing insecurity. One purchased, one donated, over 200 million donations and counting. Head over to Bombas.com/audio and use AUDIO for 20% off your first purchase. That's B-O-M-B-A-S.com/audio. Code AUDIO at checkout. Okay, so this is all happening around the time that our genius, Gene, is working. And he is like, we're really close to making cold fusion a reality. In fact, he believed it so much, he actually had a falling out with his own alma mater, the university he taught at MIT. And after the 1989 experiment was publicized, a bunch of different people,

• 12:13Payton Moreland?

  like I said, they tried to recreate it, including scientists at MIT. But after not being able to reproduce it themselves, these scientists at MIT were like, it's obviously a hoax. As did multiple government institutions like the Department of Energy. But not Eugene. He was like, I believe it. I believe this study. The science makes sense. Cold fusion is very possible, if not right around the corner. And he thought some of these larger institutions, including MIT, were purposely concealing data and shooting down ideas on the subject because of a larger cover up. Like, the people who fund MIT not wanting

• 12:52Payton Moreland?

  this to happen. So Eugene quit MIT and instead goes on to write a book about cold fusion. It was called Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Führer. Eugene went on to be one of the most outspoken advocates for cold fusion in the world from like a science view. And it changed the trajectory of his career. After leaving MIT in June of 1991, he went on to launch a magazine called Infinite Energy that focused on scientific developments and kept the public updated on cold fusion. And in the meantime, he found work consulting with private research companies. But this wasn't paying the bills. So he had

• 13:34Payton Moreland?

  to take work as a high school science teacher, just to also make ends meet. And at the same time, he turned his family basement into a makeshift lab and continued working with friends on cold fusion experiments to try to recreate it.

• 13:49Garrett Moreland?

  And his basement's crazy.

• 13:51Payton Moreland?

  His daughter Kimberlin remembered going down there growing up and seeing her dad tinkering away like a mad scientist in the basement.

• 13:58Garrett Moreland?

  I think that's actually so cool.

• 14:00Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 14:01Garrett Moreland?

  Like, I think it's amazing.

• 14:03Payton Moreland?

  It reminds me of that Goosebumps episode.

• 14:05Garrett Moreland?

  Yes.

• 14:05Payton Moreland?

  So sometimes he would even sleep in the basement. But by the late 1990s, Gene had some investors sniffing around his projects and magazine, Infinite Energy. Many of them were anonymous out of fear of risking their own reputations. Because again, he's kind of been ostracized. This is bunk science. And yet Eugene poured his heart and soul into this work. And by the time he was 56 years old, Eugene had dedicated 15 years of his life studying cold fusion. And there didn't appear to be an end in sight, but...

• 14:40Garrett Moreland?

  Dude, if this guy had GPT, it would have been over.

• 14:44Payton Moreland?

  Money obviously is still on his mind. So after taking many odd jobs, he was looking for some ways to make extra cash. And this is when he was like, my childhood home. For Eugene, like I said, it was a sentimental place, the spot where the world was his oyster, could lead to endless possibilities. And he's like, I don't want to let go of it. So when his parents decided to sell it, he had a better idea. He was like, keep it and rent it out. I'll do it. So that's what he did for a year or so. But in May of 2004, his current renters had moved out of his childhood home. So Eugene got into his green minivan with his Infinite Energy bumper stickers and made the drive from his home in Bow, New

• 15:29Payton Moreland?

  Hampshire, to Norwich, Connecticut.

• 15:31Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 15:32Payton Moreland?

  The plan was to go clean up the place, get it ready for the next renters. But that night took a turn that no one saw coming. So it's around 11:00 PM on the night of May 14, 2004, a woman pulls up to Eugene's family home in Norwich, Connecticut. About an hour or so before, she had actually seen the for rent sign out on the lawn while driving by. So she had called the number on it and ended up speaking to Joanne. This is Eugene's wife. She's like, yeah, I'm interested in this property. And Joanne was like, oh, my husband Gene actually just drove down there. He's cleaning it up now. You should just go back and stop by. So the woman goes back, parks her car, and approaches the home. But

• 16:16Payton Moreland?

  before she could even knock on the front door, she comes across a horrifying scene. There, just lying in the driveway on his back, was a man. He wasn't wearing any shoes, but he had on a white t-shirt and khaki pants, and they were covered in blood.

• 16:34Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 16:34Payton Moreland?

  So she races back to her car. She grabs her very old cellphone, 2004, and dials 911. She told the operator her location and that she'd found a man who was not moving in a driveway, covered in blood, and actually appeared to be deceased. So a few minutes later, police and first responders arrived at the scene. And there they find the man ding. They find the man in question.

• 16:57Garrett Moreland?

  Eugene.

• 16:59Payton Moreland?

  He had been beaten.

• 17:00Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 17:01Payton Moreland?

  And stomped on repeatedly. He had 32 stab wounds to his face. He was unrecognizable outside of his beard. And because his shoes and his wallet were missing, police immediately are like, this is a robbery, right?

• 17:17Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh. I know this.

• 17:19Payton Moreland?

  You know the story?

• 17:20Garrett Moreland?

  I've heard about this. It happened...

• 17:23Payton Moreland?

  This is a first.

• 17:24Garrett Moreland?

  It happened two years, less than two years ago, a year ago, maybe. Or no, am I mixing something up?

• 17:30Payton Moreland?

  This is 2004.

• 17:31Garrett Moreland?

  It happened in 2004?

• 17:33Payton Moreland?

  Yes.

• 17:34Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, then I don't know it.

• 17:35Payton Moreland?

  Okay.

• 17:36Garrett Moreland?

  Never mind.

• 17:37Payton Moreland?

  Well, you know, it's not that far off because a lot of people who uncover things do end up dead in this.

• 17:42Garrett Moreland?

  They do. Mm-hmm.

• 17:43Payton Moreland?

  In this weird space.

• 17:44Garrett Moreland?

  In this day and age, yeah.

• 17:45Payton Moreland?

  So wouldn't be shocked if there was another mad scientist who ended up dead. All right, you guys, we are getting into an ad. And Amazon Music is your one app for music, podcasts, and audiobooks. You can get access to audiobooks included with your Amazon Music Unlimited subscription. So in simple terms, your Amazon Music Unlimited subscription does more for you now. Again, music, podcasts, audiobooks, all in one app. And if there is one thing about me, it is that I love to put an audiobook on at night right before I'm about to fall asleep. I will literally just kind of play games on

• 18:26Payton Moreland?

  my phone, listen to an audiobook as it puts me to sleep. And they have everything, okay? If you're a Court of Thorns and Roses girly, you know, and you can listen to all of their books on Amazon Music, and it really brings them to life. It is such a fun way to go about reading. And I know Garrett, you just watched Project Hail Mary.

• 18:50Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, it was crazy because I watched the movie, but I also listened to the audiobook. So when Amazon Music wanted to sponsor us, I was pretty excited because I don't read many books, but I will listen to audiobooks.

• 19:01Payton Moreland?

  And I think the thing that's so fun about audiobooks is that they can really bring a story to life in a way that like maybe isn't happening when you're reading. So it is one of my favorite ways.

• 19:12Garrett Moreland?

  Well, you, it's almost like a podcast where you can do it wherever you are. So if you're driving somewhere, if you're cleaning, like, kind of like how a lot of people are listening now, they're doing a bunch of different things. Also, you need to listen to Project Hail Mary. If you haven't listened to it yet, it's amazing.

• 19:27Payton Moreland?

  Via Amazon Music?

• 19:29Garrett Moreland?

  Yep.

• 19:29Payton Moreland?

  Um, yeah, like Garrett said, a lot of us now are multitasking. And that is what's so amazing about Amazon Music is audiobook, podcast, music, whatever it may be, you can do both at once.

• 19:42Garrett Moreland?

  Music, podcasts, audiobooks, all in one app. Go check it out. Didn't you listen to A Court of Thorns and Roses on Amazon Music or via audiobook?

• 19:53Payton Moreland?

  I read it first and then listened. Because if you know, you know. You have, like, reading it was one experience. And then listening to A Court of Thorns and Roses was an entirely different experience. They also have like Verity, Verity by Colleen Hoover is really popular. You can listen to that one as well. They have so many, whether you're looking for like self-help, romance.

• 20:17Garrett Moreland?

  Also, the voices are good. Like, they're not, they're not, they're not like cheesy, like, they're good. They intrigue you. It gets you interested. It keeps you intrigued in the book and what's going on. And I don't know, for me, I feel like that's something that's pretty important because like if a voice is boring, or like monotone, I'm like, nah, I'm done. Get me out of here. Not doing it anymore.

• 20:41Payton Moreland?

  One of my dreams is actually to voice an audiobook one day. I think that would be so fun. So, hey, Amazon Music. Maybe one day it won't be just a podcast. You're listening to my voice on Amazon Music on. It will also be a book.

• 20:55Garrett Moreland?

  That's true. One of Peyton's dreams, she actually does want to do a, um...

• 20:59Payton Moreland?

  An audiobook.

• 20:59Garrett Moreland?

  She wants to do an audiobook.

• 21:00Payton Moreland?

  Not even when I wrote. I just genuinely want to be the voice, like a voice actor.

• 21:04Garrett Moreland?

  You've talked about this before. You're like, I want to just read a book.

• 21:06Payton Moreland?

  Yeah, that'd be cool.

• 21:08Garrett Moreland?

  Like bedtime stories or something?

• 21:10Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 21:10Garrett Moreland?

  Would be so cool.

• 21:11Payton Moreland?

  All right, you guys, music, podcasts, audiobooks, all in one app. We love Amazon Music, and you will too. Go check it out right now. So the police are like, wow, this is pretty bad. But what's strange is just how vicious this looked like if it's just a robbery for the shoes in the wallet. Why does it feel so much more personal that beating stomping on someone stabbing them over 30 times in their face?

• 21:38Garrett Moreland?

  That that's weird.

• 21:39Payton Moreland?

  And honestly, it doesn't take them very long to figure out that this man was 56 year old Eugene. To detectives, it seemed like Eugene was first attacked around the back of the house and then actually dragged to the spot where his body was found in his driveway. Officials collected blood, hair and fiber samples, but the property itself was in complete disarray and not because of the fight, but because there were things everywhere that Eugene was trying to clean out from the previous tenants. There was broken glass in places, metal, bike parts. So they're having a hard time being like, what was part of this crime? Like, where's our crime scene? And what is just part of the mess? He's been here all

• 22:23Payton Moreland?

  day, basically tearing things apart. And while they didn't seem to find the murder weapon, they did bag and tag a couple items of interest, like a garden hose. There was a brick with blood all over it, a keychain with some keys on it, one that didn't look like it belonged to Eugene. And then unfortunately, the police had to break the news to his wife, Joanne later that night. Around 2am, they call his house back in Bo and say, Hey, your husband has been found murdered in the driveway of his family home. Now, this obviously comes to a shock because she had just sent this woman who found his dead body over to talk to him. And she had last spoken to Jean that afternoon. He told her he was coming home

• 23:08Payton Moreland?

  that night around 9pm. So she probably figured when he didn't show up, he just got caught up still cleaning out the property. But it's in speaking to Joanne that they learned something interesting. Eugene had taken his 1993 green Dodge minivan to Norwich that way. But when police had arrived, there was no minivan at the house.

• 23:31Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 23:32Payton Moreland?

  She told them, hmm, the van should probably be pretty easy to spot. There's bumper stickers.

• 23:38Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 23:38Payton Moreland?

  And his vanity plate reads INFNRG, infinite energy.

• 23:44Garrett Moreland?

  Okay. Good. I mean, it's a good thing.

• 23:46Payton Moreland?

  So police put out a BOLO for the missing green minivan, contacting all local police departments. And meanwhile, they started canvassing the area to speak with neighbors. I mean, he's found dead in the driveway. Someone had to have seen something. And one of them said, actually, I did see Eugene out there mowing the lawn earlier that day. And the minivan was there as well. But when I looked outside around 830pm, obviously, his van was gone. So that gave the police a little bit of timeline to work with. But there's something else about the crime scene. There's grass cuttings all over the yard, and a lot of the items scattered around the property. But there's one thing that doesn't

• 24:28Payton Moreland?

  have a shred of grass on it, almost like it appeared after the mowing. And that was that set of keys they found, which is why they collected it because it fell out of place. Police actually feel confident this first day, like at the crime scene, that these keys belonged to the killer. They're like, we don't think these are from the house. We think they were dropped after the crime. But before they could even start to connect the dots, they receive a tip from a local casino. So there's a Foxwoods Resort and Casino about seven miles away from Eugene's rental property. And an employee calls to

• 25:08Payton Moreland?

  say, Hey, there's a car that's been sitting in our employee parking lot that matches the one I heard police are looking for. So police rush over to the casino and sure enough, they find Jean's 1993 Dodge minivan with his energy plates. Police touch the tailpipe. It's cold. It's been sitting there for at least an hour. They end up towing the car to Norwich Police Works Garage to have it processed for evidence. And in the meantime, they're like, Hey, you got security footage? Like, can we see? Unfortunately, it doesn't help. It was a foggy night. They weren't really able to make anything out. So they end up scanning the van for fingerprints, DNA, fibers, anything. And they find there

• 25:53Payton Moreland?

  are zero fingerprints in or on the car outside of Eugene's. There's nothing on the steering wheel. So they're like, Okay, well, whoever moved this car, because obviously it wasn't Eugene, was probably wearing gloves. So over the next day or two, police are like, we got to learn more about this guy. Like, was this targeted? Is it random? They end up speaking with Joanne and the rest of Eugene's family. And when they asked Joanne, well, is there anyone at all that you think might have wanted to murder your husband?

• 26:23Garrett Moreland?

  I felt that's such a loaded question, being how smart he is.

• 26:26Payton Moreland?

  She's like, I mean, besides the government?

• 26:30Garrett Moreland?

  Yeah, besides every single person in the world.

• 26:32Payton Moreland?

  So she goes, maybe the previous tenants at the rental property. She's like, he was at the rental property. Maybe it was the previous tenants. She said, two weeks before the murder, Eugene had to make a tough call and evict the couple.

• 26:46Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 26:47Payton Moreland?

  Their names were Pat and Roy Anderson. Apparently, they hadn't been paying their rent for the last six months. Eugene had let it slide, but he needed the rent money. And so he evicted them. So police start looking into the Andersons. And while they aren't sure where they're living now, they do find an address for their son Chad. Chad was living with his girlfriend Candace, not too far away from the rental property. So they go, Hey, can we talk to your parents? He says, Listen, I don't know much about Eugene, like the, the, the guy who owned the house my parents were renting. But I know my parents haven't seen or spoken to him since he kicked them out two weeks ago. Chad

• 27:29Payton Moreland?

  also said, there's also no hard feelings, like they hadn't been paying rent. They understood the situation. So when police are like, well, where, where were you on the night of the murder? He's like, me and Candace, my girlfriend, were at home. All of it seems to add up to police. Chad is cooperative. He gives the police his parents new address.

• 27:48Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 27:48Payton Moreland?

  So they then go to visit Roy and Pat. It's about eight miles away. And Pat tells them pretty much the same thing. Nah, we were evicted. We understood why. Everything's cool. We moved out. Like, there's no bad blood between us and Eugene. And when they're like, Hey, where were you the night he was murdered? Pat was like, I was at home. I had been working a long day at a local nursing home. And when they ask Roy, he goes, Oh, I was at work that night from 5pm to 1am. They're like, cool. We're gonna like, go follow up. Where do you work? And he's like, Oh, the Foxwoods Casino.

• 28:23Garrett Moreland?

  Okey dokey.

• 28:24Payton Moreland?

  The same place Eugene's van was found.

• 28:26Garrett Moreland?

  Yes.

• 28:26Payton Moreland?

  Obviously, police are like, mm hmm. So they send over other police to Foxwoods to confirm this. And employees vouch for him. Yeah, he was here. He was working the shift on the night in question. Now luckily, the police had asked Pat and Roy a smart question. They're like, did anyone else ever live with you? Like on Eugene's rental property? They were like, actually, yeah. A guy named Lenny Campbell was living with us when we got evicted. She's like, we had let Lenny stay in our basement. He had moved into our place for a, for a bit here as well. Now, Lenny Campbell is not a stranger to Norwich Police. Like,

• 29:05Payton Moreland?

  when they hear this, they're like, okay, he had had multiple run ins with police before this. Detective said he was pretty intimidating. And what made his situation even more shady was right after Eugene's murder, the Andersons said Lenny packed up his stuff in a rush and moved out of their new property. So the officers are like, we need to track Lenny down. They find he hasn't gone far. He's working and staying on a farm in Massachusetts. When they speak to them, he's like, I had nothing to do with Eugene's murder. He's like, actually, I never even spoke to Eugene. Like, he was just the, like, owner of the property. And so they end up clearing Lenny as well.

• 29:46Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 29:46Payton Moreland?

  And without any concrete evidence pointing against him or the Andersons are like, well, the wife pointed us in this direction. It's been a dead end. But they still have been receiving some tips, ones they think might lead them down a new path. And that was about Eugene and his work on cold fusion. So essentially, they end up going to MIT. They end up talking to everyone, basically everything I've told you in the past. They end up discovering, they end up talking to, they end up realizing this guy's kind of been ostracized from the science community, people would say. He's working in bunk science, but other people would say, no, he's actually so smart and is threatening the world that

• 30:29Payton Moreland?

  we currently live in today. They look into all of this, and they decide it goes absolutely nowhere. While a conspiracy seemed like a fascinating twist in Eugene's story, like, I mean, they're like, well, you know, this is, this could happen. Police are like, maybe it's just much simpler. Maybe this isn't a huge, maybe, maybe the government, the CIA didn't actually murder Eugene, because they learn about a guy after this named Nick Gardner.

• 31:02Payton Moreland?

  Now during their investigation, police received a tip from a shuttle driver who was at the casino, the night of the murder. Now this shuttle driver is like, obviously we've all heard that the murder victim's minivan has been left in our casino parking lot. He's like, the night of the murder, sometime between eight and 10:00 PM. I was stopped at a traffic light and I saw a man driving that minivan. But he had noticed something odd, which is why he remembers it. He said, I looked over and the driver of this green minivan was wearing socks on their hands.

• 31:36Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, socks.

• 31:38Payton Moreland?

  Which is why he even remembers it.

• 31:40Garrett Moreland?

  Which, I'm not gonna lie, is actually kind of funny because when I'm, I've been cold before, I've worn socks on my hands.

• 31:47Payton Moreland?

  Same.

• 31:48Garrett Moreland?

  Is it weird? Yeah, extremely weird. But I mean, it's because he was hiding his fingerprints.

• 31:53Payton Moreland?

  Right. This is obviously, remember there were no fingerprints on the car, just like Garrett said. So this leads detectives back to Jean's van. And when they look through it this time, they find they had missed something, a plastic bag. They send it off to the lab for analysis and when it comes back, forensic say they did find a fingerprint on this plastic bag in the van. And when they run it, they get a hit. This is a man from Norwich named Nicholas Gardner, which is how they even get this name. Okay, they went, they took the tip, they went and re-looked through the van, found the bag, run it, get these fingerprints. Nicholas has a few burglaries on his record. I mean, Jean was missing his wallet. So they track Nick down and they bring him in for questioning.

• 32:35Payton Moreland?

  And when police tell him, hey, this guy has ended up murdered. We found his van abandoned by the killer in the parking lot and your fingerprints were found inside the van. Nick is pretty quick to clear the air. He's like, I had nothing to do with the homicide, but I did do something else.

• 32:53Garrett Moreland?

  It took the car.

• 32:55Payton Moreland?

  He said, I broke into a bunch of cars in the police impound lot.

• 32:59Garrett Moreland?

  No way.

• 33:00Payton Moreland?

  It's like, so after you had already collected, he said, I went and bunched and I broke in and that was one of them. Police are like, no, like this is too dumb to be true. This is too dumb to be true.

• 33:12Garrett Moreland?

  Probably is true.

• 33:13Payton Moreland?

  And it would explain why they didn't find the bag the first time. So they go examine the other cars and they're like, it checks out. Nick's fingerprints are in more than one car at the police impound lot.

• 33:23Garrett Moreland?

  Hilarious.

• 33:24Payton Moreland?

  So.

• 33:25Garrett Moreland?

  That's actually pretty funny.

• 33:26Payton Moreland?

  Nick is charged, but only for the burglaries. They're like another dead end in this homicide investigation.

• 33:33Garrett Moreland?

  We don't even want to deal with you.

• 33:34Payton Moreland?

  They are like, what are we doing until another set of criminals come across their desks? So a few days after the murder, the police get a call from a station about an hour away in New Britain, Connecticut. New Britain, Connecticut. They said, out with the old Britain. We left them and we're coming over and making new Britain.

• 33:55Garrett Moreland?

  Yep.

• 33:55Payton Moreland?

  They say one of their officers found two men asleep in a stolen car in a parking lot. And that car had been reported stolen the same night as Jean's murder. So these police call, they're like, hey, we don't know if we have something, but two, two cars go missing in the same night. And when the officers get a look inside the car, they noticed something else. There was blood all over the seats and the two men they found sleeping had scratch and defensive wounds. So the guys are arrested and brought into the station. Their names are Joseph Riley and Gary.

• 34:31Garrett Moreland?

  I thought you were gonna say Garrett.

• 34:32Payton Moreland?

  McAvoy. Now, when asked where the blood from the car comes from, they're like, oh, we just got in a fight with each other. But police throw them in a lineup anyways. They photograph them, they send the photographs over to the shuttle driver. They're like, was, is any of these guys sock hand guy? Any of these guys the guy you saw? Sure enough, he go, he literally points out Joseph Riley. He's like, that's the man who was driving the van with the socks on his hand.

• 34:59Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 35:02Payton Moreland?

  So the police are like, maybe we're getting warm. They separate Riley and McAvoy and they start questioning them about Eugene's murder. And one of the first things Riley asks is, did the guy get the crap kicked out of him? This is huge because they know Eugene being beaten to death hasn't been released.

• 35:21Garrett Moreland?

  Why are people asking that?

• 35:23Payton Moreland?

  Exactly. But when McAvoy is questioned, he has a different response. He ends up curling into a ball in the corner of the room and threatens to die by suicide. He's shaking, hyperventilating, basically having a full on nervous breakdown. So they get the, both the guy's DNA, they compare them to a few things they found at the crime scene. Um, and the results do come back pretty quick. The DNA recovered from Jean's van is a match with Gary McAvoy. Finally, this is enough to arrest someone, like you have DNA.

• 35:55Garrett Moreland?

  Why did the other guy ask that?

• 35:58Payton Moreland?

  Probably just like, oh, I don't know about the murder. Did he get the crap beat out of him or something? And they're like, how would you know how?

• 36:05Garrett Moreland?

  No, but I mean, if it matched Gary, but not the other guy, how like, was the other guy involved or not?

• 36:11Payton Moreland?

  Yes, they worked together, most likely. They're like, yes, we're gonna arrest them. We found their DNA, but before they can officially charge them with Eugene's murder, the lab calls back and they're like, ah, whoops, we made a mistake. There was a clerical error. The hair we compared his DNA to actually wasn't from Eugene's minivan. It was from the car that they were found in the other stolen car. We got the stolen cars mixed up. So they're like, okay, well now we still have nothing tying them to the minivan. We can't charge them. So they sit, this case stalls for another four years.

• 36:45Garrett Moreland?

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• 37:31Payton Moreland?

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• 39:32Payton Moreland?

  So four years go by, no one knows what's going on with this case. There was nothing tying the men to the minivan.

• 39:41Garrett Moreland?

  You know, I'm kind of mad that it was just a random person. I mean, I'm mad in general because he got killed and it's horrible, but like they just killed him because they wanted some stuff from the house, you know?

• 39:53Payton Moreland?

  Yeah. Well, this story isn't finished yet, Garrett.

• 39:55Garrett Moreland?

  Okay, sorry, keep going.

• 39:57Payton Moreland?

  So people who knew Jean, after these four years go by, they're like, maybe it was a conspiracy. Like maybe there really was something else going on and maybe we'll never find out. But in 2009, Norwich PD put together a task force to look at cold cases. This is very popular in the later 2000s. And Eugene's case was top of their list. With a bunch of new resources and funding, they were able to offer a $50,000 reward for any information that would lead to an arrest in the case. They put up a huge billboard along the highway and within a few weeks, they actually get an important tip. It was May of that year, 2009, when a mother of three named Jill Sebastian walked randomly

• 40:42Payton Moreland?

  one day into the Norwich police station. She said, hey, I've seen the billboard.

• 40:49Payton Moreland?

  I think I have information that could be useful in Eugene's murder case. She said, I back then was friends with a woman named Candace Foster.

• 40:59Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 41:00Payton Moreland?

  That name rings a bell. It's because Candace was the girlfriend of Chad Schaefer. If Chad's ringing a bell, it's because he was the son of Pat and Roy Anderson. And if that's ringing a bell, it's because Pat and Roy Anderson were the tenants, who the wife had originally pointed the finger to.

• 41:18Garrett Moreland?

  So they

• 41:19Payton Moreland?

  So someone comes in and ties it back to the first suspects they actually had in the case. So she's friends with the son's girlfriend Candace. And her name is Jill. And she's like, I actually used to stay with the three of them. My boyfriend, the son, and Pat and Roy, the parents, from time to time. And not long after the murder, she noticed something about Chad. He would get really upset anytime a new story about Eugene appeared on TV. She's like, I saw him multiple times get antsy, irritable, like anytime it was brought up, especially when Jill heard something from Candace.

• 42:03Payton Moreland?

  Candace had told Jill, her friend, after the murder, she remembered Chad coming home with bloody clothes on. And apparently Jill had also seen those bloody clothes wringing around too. Now she comes in, she's like, I don't even know if this is important. It feels like speculation, like a little bit of drama. It's my girlfriend's boyfriend came home with bloody clothes. I saw them too, but this is all I have. This is all I have for you, but maybe, maybe it's worth looking into again. But she also says there's another witness to all of this. Her boyfriend, Keyshawn, had heard something too. According to her boyfriend, Chad had actually fully confessed to him about killing Eugene.

• 42:46Payton Moreland?

  She's like, oh, and my boyfriend also said that Chad told him he killed Eugene. So the following months detectives are like, okay, this is a little weird. We're going to bring Candace in, the girlfriend. She and Chad at this point are no longer together. But she also tells police, I don't want to speak out against him because we have children together. So the police make a deal. They're like, we'll put you in witness protection if you tell us all you know about this. And after looking at the crime scene photos, she points something out to the police. She was like, those keys, that keychain you found in the crime scene that I literally see? Those are from our house.

• 43:25Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 43:27Payton Moreland?

  But other than that, she doesn't really say much. So the police keep pushing. They're confident she knows more. And eventually Candace opens up. She's like, hey, fine, me and Chad weren't alone that night. I alibied him, but he wasn't alone the night of the murder. He'd been hanging around with a cousin of his named Moselle Brown. And Moselle himself had a violent past. She says, this is what happened the night of Eugene's murder. Candace claimed the afternoon, Pat had been calling Chad to complain about something. Eugene had showed up that day and was throwing all of their things away. They were supposed to have moved out of the house. There was some stuff they hadn't have got out.

• 44:12Payton Moreland?

  And he had showed up, the owner of the property Eugene, and was throwing things away that they hadn't got out. So Pat tells his son Chad, you need to go get our stuff.

• 44:23Garrett Moreland?

  Okay.

• 44:23Payton Moreland?

  So Pat tells her son Chad, you need to go get our stuff. Like, go get it before he throws everything away. So Chad's like, yeah, I gotta go down and make this right. Chad and Moselle, his cousin, had been hanging out that day. And the more they start talking about Eugene, they get angrier. He's throwing their stuff. First he kicks their parents out. Now he's throwing their stuff away. So they decide to go to Eugene's house together. They confront him and he's like, listen, I had, I gave you guys a move date. I gave your parents a day they had to be out. There was more than enough time. Your things needed to be out. And that's when either Chad or Moselle threw the first punch. They start a physical altercation with Eugene.

• 45:07Payton Moreland?

  Obviously it's two versus one. They end up beating him.

• 45:11Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 45:12Payton Moreland?

  They hit him over and over. He's clinging to life. And this is when they drive away and go back to Chad and Candace's apartment. Like they've beat the crap out of him.

• 45:21Garrett Moreland?

  I just can't believe that there was a connection the entire time.

• 45:24Payton Moreland?

  Right? So police are like, okay, so you're just saying they beat him, but he was still alive when they left.

• 45:30Garrett Moreland?

  Of course, they're saying he's, yeah.

• 45:32Payton Moreland?

  Candace is like, yep, that's what I'm staying. Police are like, okay, well, what happened with his minivan? Like someone ditched the minivan. Did you forget that part? And she is like, oh, my gosh, okay. I was in on it too. Later that night, I went back to Eugene's house with the guys. They found that Eugene was still alive in the driveway, just barely. They're like, we're going to actually kill him and you need to get rid of the minivan.

• 46:00Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 46:01Payton Moreland?

  So they began stomping on him.

• 46:03Garrett Moreland?

  That is horrible.

• 46:04Payton Moreland?

  Stabbing him in the face. And then they staged the house to make it look like a robbery. And Candace drove off with the van to the casino.

• 46:13Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 46:14Payton Moreland?

  Which actually means the driver didn't even see the man with the socks on his hands. It had been Candace with socks on her hands. It had been a woman, which that driver had ID'd. Our other two guys who were found sleeping in a stolen car had actually ID'd one of them. But it just happened to be wrong.

• 46:35Garrett Moreland?

  It's crazy.

• 46:36Payton Moreland?

  Which we know, we know, we know that eyewitness accounts are not great. So it takes a while to get arrest warrants, almost a year. But eventually Candace and Chad are arrested. They're charged with felony murder. And when police finally find Moselle, he's already serving time in Ohio for another crime. He's extradited back to Connecticut to face charges.

• 46:56Garrett Moreland?

  Candace talked?

• 46:57Payton Moreland?

  No.

• 46:57Garrett Moreland?

  First of all, she wouldn't have been arrested because no one would have known anything. Now she's going to go to prison. I'm just a little confused why she talked.

• 47:04Payton Moreland?

  Maybe she thought the boys would actually throw her under the bus for driving the van? So she was eventually just like, I'm going to tell the truth. I think there's a lot of psychology that goes into confessions.

• 47:15Garrett Moreland?

  I think guilt plays a bigger part than we think.

• 47:17Payton Moreland?

  Yeah. So all three, Chad, his ex-girlfriend Candace, and Chad's cousin Moselle are tried separately. And since the jury considered him to kind of be the ringleader, Moselle was convicted of murder in October 2014 and sentenced to 58 years in prison.

• 47:38Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 47:38Payton Moreland?

  Chad actually ends up pleading guilty to first degree manslaughter and accessory to third degree robbery. And he receives 16 years. And then Candace, she pleads guilty to lesser charges. She only pleads guilty to hindering the prosecution and tampering with evidence. And she was sentenced to time served already, followed by probation. So Eugene's research might have been controversial, but it was brave. He was someone who saw hope in a world that at times honestly can be dark. He saw a solution to some of mankind's biggest problems.

• 48:18Payton Moreland?

  I mean, any scientist who's out here trying to help the world advance in a way that is beneficial to everyone is putting light into a dark place. And he dedicated his life to making that solution a reality. Who knows what Eugene might have achieved if he hadn't have been murdered that day? But one of the most shocking parts about this case to me is how someone so brilliant, like someone who you could easily say this was a conspiracy because they were so smart because of things they were uncovering, actually met his fate over something so trivial, like cleaning up his rental property.

• 49:01Payton Moreland?

  And it basically being not even the people who were renting the property, but their son and cousin come over and get in a physical altercation and end up literally savagely killing him. And that is the case of Eugene Malo.

• 49:15Garrett Moreland?

  That's annoying.

• 49:16Payton Moreland?

  Right?

• 49:17Garrett Moreland?

  It's annoying. I just, it's crazy to me. There's how many people out there resort to violence.

• 49:25Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 49:26Garrett Moreland?

  Like, there's a good amount of people, like even like when I'm watching clips on social media, like the amount of people that just violence is their first like interacts, like their first thought process.

• 49:39Payton Moreland?

  We come over, we confront him, stop moving our stuff. He's like, I gave you plenty of time to move it out. I have new renters coming. This has to get out of here. And so you kill him?

• 49:48Garrett Moreland?

  So many people though, like I see stuff on social media all the time.

• 49:53Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 49:54Garrett Moreland?

  People just want to punch people and like,

• 49:56Payton Moreland?

  Yeah.

• 49:57Garrett Moreland?

  What's wrong with you? Chill out like.

• 49:58Payton Moreland?

  Here's my thing, we're just completely skipping over the fact that he was alive.

• 50:02Garrett Moreland?

  Oh, I know.

• 50:03Payton Moreland?

  Suffering in that driveway and they came back and continued the poor decision.

• 50:07Garrett Moreland?

  It's horrible.

• 50:09Payton Moreland?

  Like, all right, you guys, that is our episode for this week. And we will see you next time with another one. I love it.

• 50:18Garrett Moreland?

  I hate it.

• 50:18Payton Moreland?

  Goodbye.

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