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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