The Murder of Lucia Kai Roberts (Massachusetts)

About this episode

The episode explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lucia Kai Roberts in Boston in 1982, highlighting the surrounding rumors and allegations.

On an August evening in 1982, children playing in Boston’s Franklin Park stumbled onto a scene that would quietly become one of the city’s most troubling unsolved cases. The victim was a 16-year-old girl who had already endured instability, displacement, and independence far beyond her years. Her murder received little attention at the time, but within months, rumors began to swirl: allegations of sexual assault inside a private police club, whispers of a cover-up, and a detective who refused to back down.

Topics covered

• unsolved murder
• true crime
• Boston history
• sexual assault
• cover-up
• youth
• 1980s

Keywords

• Lucia Kai Roberts
• unsolved case
• Boston
• Franklin Park
• 1982
• murder
• sexual assault
• cover-up

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Boston, Franklin Park

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