331. The Cold Fusion Murder Conspiracy - Eugene Mallove

Summary

Murder With My Husband - Episode 331: The Cold Fusion Murder Conspiracy - Eugene Mallove

Date: July 27, 2026
Hosts: Peyton & Garrett Moreland

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Episode Overview

This week, Peyton and Garrett delve into the mysterious and brutal murder of Dr. Eugene Mallove, a pioneering scientist best known for his passionate advocacy of "cold fusion," a potential source of limitless clean energy. The case is steeped in both scientific controversy and conspiracy theories, leading many to wonder if Mallove was targeted for what he knew—or if the truth behind his death was far more ordinary and tragic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Who Was Eugene Mallove? (04:13–10:13)

• Background:
  • Born in Norwich, Connecticut; a childhood spent gazing at the stars and pondering the universe.
  • Early love for science fiction and space exploration led to MIT admission in 1965 and work on Apollo lunar missions.
  • Graduated from MIT, continued at Harvard for a doctorate in Environmental Health Sciences.
  • Founded “Astronomy New England,” created star maps and computer-connected telescopes, and taught science journalism at MIT and Boston University.
• Quote:
  “Gene always had a love for science fiction novels and the idea of space exploration…He was probably going to end up being someone special. He was a genius.” – Peyton (06:50)

The Cold Fusion Controversy (09:43–13:11)

• What is Cold Fusion?
  • Cold fusion was announced in 1989 by two electrochemists, claimed to have created nuclear fusion at room temperature.
  • If true, it would provide a carbon-free energy source, potentially solving global warming and eliminating fossil fuels.
  • The scientific community and institutions like MIT dismissed cold fusion as unrepeatable "bunk science."
• Mallove’s Response:
  • Quits MIT, accuses them and others of covering up promising results for political/financial reasons.
  • Publishes Fire from Ice, becomes a global cold fusion advocate, and starts Infinite Energy magazine.
  • Financial troubles force Mallove into odd jobs, including high school teaching, as he keeps cold fusion work alive in his basement.
• Quote:
  “I think there's a lot of technology that exists that we cover up for multiple reasons.” – Garrett (11:28)

The Night of the Murder (16:19–20:07)

• Events:
  • In May 2004, Mallove travels from Bow, NH to his old family house in Norwich, CT to clean it for new renters.
  • A prospective renter finds his body around 11pm on May 14. He’s been beaten, stomped, stabbed 32 times in the face, and robbed of shoes and wallet.
• Quote:
  “There, just lying in the driveway, on his back was a man...covered in blood.” – Peyton (18:44)

The Investigation: Dead Ends and Conspiracy (24:09–33:09)

• Strange Crime Scene:
  • House is a mess due to cleaning, complicating the search for evidence.
  • Minivan missing from the scene—later found at Foxwoods Casino.
  • No useful fingerprints, suggesting gloves.
• Initial Suspects:
  • Police look at the former tenants (the Anderson family), who were recently evicted for nonpayment.
  • Andersons and their basement-lodger Lenny Campbell are cleared by alibis.
• Tinfoil Hat Theories:
  • Given Mallove’s ostracized status and accusations of a cold fusion cover-up, some entertain the idea of a targeted killing by powerful interests.
  • Police and hosts both weigh the plausibility of conspiracy vs. coincidence.
• Quote:
  “While a conspiracy seemed like a fascinating twist in Eugene’s story...police are like—maybe it’s just much simpler.” – Peyton (33:09)

The Breaks: Red Herrings and Real Leads (33:09–45:35)

• Nick Gardner Red Herring:
  • Fingerprints in van traced to a local burglar, but only because he broke into multiple impounded cars after Mallove's van was seized by police.
• Actual Break:
  • Two men found asleep in another stolen car with blood on the seats, but DNA mix-ups mean no solid link to the murder.
• Years of Frustration:
  • The case goes cold for four years. Public speculation grows about whether Mallove was assassinated for his controversial science.

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The Truth Surfaces (2009–2014) (45:35–49:46)

• Key Witness Emerges:

  • New task force offers a $50,000 reward and a billboard seeking tips.
  • Jill Sebastian, friend of Candace Foster (girlfriend of Andersons' son Chad), comes forward.
  • Chad had come home the night of the murder with bloody clothes and was visibly distressed by news reports.
  • Candace admits to seeing keys found at the scene as belonging to their home.

• Confession and Reconstruction:

  • Pressed by police (and under protection), Candace outlines the crime:
    • Chad and cousin Moselle Brown, angered by Mallove discarding the Andersons’ belongings, confront and beat Mallove.
    • Later that night, they return with Candace, who helps fake a robbery scene and drives Mallove’s van to the casino—using socks on her hands to avoid fingerprints.
    • All three staged evidence and delivered the fatal blows.

• Quote:
  “They begin stomping on him… stabbing him in the face. And then they staged the house to look like a robbery.” – Peyton (48:09)

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Justice and Aftermath (49:46–end)

• Sentencing:
  • Moselle: Convicted of murder (58 years).
  • Chad: Pleads guilty to manslaughter and robbery (16 years).
  • Candace: Guilty of hindering prosecution & tampering with evidence; receives probation.
• Reflection:
  • The episode closes discussing how someone with potential to change the world could be killed so senselessly over a property dispute.
  • Mallove’s work, brave and controversial, might have advanced global science if not for this violence.
• Quotes:
  • “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?” – Peyton (50:35)
  • “That’s annoying, right? It’s annoying. I just… there’s so many people out there who resort to violence.” – Garrett (51:23)

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Early Banter:
  “You guys ever get annoyed with our voices?” – Garrett (02:55)

• On Cold Fusion Theories: “All right, are you a tinfoil tail about cold fusion?” – Peyton (11:20)
  “Oh, I totally am a tinfoil tell about cold fusion.” – Garrett (11:23)

• Personal Touch:
  “Can you believe that we’re gonna be parents?...No, I’m terrified.” – Peyton (03:56)

• On Crime and Violence:
  “Like, here’s my thing. We’re just completely skipping over the fact that he was alive suffering in that driveway. And they came back and continued the poor decision.” – Peyton (52:06)

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Key Timestamps

• Eugene’s Backstory & Cold Fusion: 04:13–17:10
• Discovery of the Body & Crime Scene: 18:44–25:00
• Investigation and Suspects: 25:00–33:09
• Casino Van Mystery & Red Herrings: 33:09–41:49
• Breakthrough and Confessions: 43:07–49:46
• Trial, Sentencing & Host Reflections: 49:46–End (52:26)

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Takeaways

• Murder of Potential: Dr. Mallove’s death is haunting both for its brutality and for the possibility of science lost.
• Conspiracy vs. Coincidence: Sometimes, what seems like a shadowy plot is, devastatingly, only senseless violence.
• Personal Connection: The case circled all the way back to those closest to Mallove’s property—a tragic irony.
• Host Reflection: Peyton and Garrett express frustration over violence as a response to petty grievances, and the senseless end to a visionary’s life.

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For listeners who missed the episode:
This is a case about genius, science, the seduction of conspiracy, and the banality of violence. The murder of Eugene Mallove, a scientist ostracized over his pursuit of cold fusion, isn’t a slick government crime or the machinations of oil companies but a horrifying intersection of bad luck and anger—a sobering reminder that truth can be grimmer than fiction.

Transcript

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And I'm Garrett Moreland.

[Peyton Moreland]

And he's the husband.

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And I'm the husband.

[Peyton Moreland]

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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,

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you know, Life's crazy right now. Baiton 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.

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

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This is true. Happy Monday.

[Peyton Moreland]

Happy Monday.

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Happy Tuesday. Whenever you're listening. Thanks to everyone who continues to say hi to us at the bagel shop. What else have we got? Paint has her baby shower today.

[Peyton Moreland]

Also, everyone who continues to listen.

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Mm.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

Are you annoyed of our voices right now?

[Garrett Moreland]

No. I can't hear your voice or my

[Peyton Moreland]

voice if you don't know. Only I wear headphones.

[Garrett 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, because it's been. It's been like 100 degrees here.

[Peyton Moreland]

More than that 5pm it was 101 last night.

[Garrett 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? No, we're just gonna have a little. Just munchkin just running around. No, I'm not very nervous. A lot of people are like, are you nervous?

[Peyton Moreland]

No, I'm terrified.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

So much.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

Our sources for this episode are oxygen.com foreign policy.com nbcneticut.com norwichbulletin.com WMUR.com Cape Cod times.com fox61.com thebulliton.org technology review.com keincentinel.com, truecrimene.com David Kushner.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.

[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

Someone who comes up with world changing

[Garrett Moreland]

bagels, I like that. I like to hear.

[Peyton 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 tell what wealthy or powerful forces wanted this person gone. 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 going to take a trip to New England, to the town of Bow, New Hampshire. This is where in 2004, 56 year old Eugene Molav 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 Gene as his family and friends called him, grew up 150 miles away in Norwich, Connecticut in a house that Eugene himself now owned and was using as a rental property.

[Garrett Moreland]

No, I really want to go to Connecticut or like the Virginias.

[Peyton Moreland]

The Virginia, the, the Carolinas.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's what I meant, the Carolinas, not the Virginias. I feel like you can't, you can't find that here.

[Peyton Moreland]

No, not really.

[Garrett Moreland]

Not in the west, maybe like Northern California, but. Or again Washington.

[Peyton Moreland]

I guess we got a mountain or two. Anyways, this house he grew up in that he now owned and rented out had a special place in Gene's heart. It was where he spent his nights as a young boy looking up at the stars and asking questions about the universe. Now ever since he was little, Gene 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 Gene in his early years, he was probably going to end up being someone special. He was a genius. He understood science and astronomy in a way that other people couldn't. And this was a skill that actually later got him into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT in Boston.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's so cool.

[Peyton Moreland]

Gene actually started classes there in the fall of 1965. And by the summer of 1968, Gene 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 because I can barely pronounce what he's getting a degree in. And he's getting a degree in them.

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[Peyton 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 9, 1970. And they go on to have two kids, Kimberlyn in 1974 and Ethan in 1979. And as his little family is growing, he's having kids at home with his wife, Joanne. Gene's career was skyrocketing. Pun intended. He graduated from Harvard with a doctorate in environmental health sciences. He worked for several tech engineering firms. And then the same year they had Ethan. Gene founded Astronomy New England. This was a company that was making and marketing astronomy tools like 3D star maps and computer connected telescopes.

[Garrett Moreland]

Dang.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Dude, Eugene's a genius.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

It's impressive.

[Peyton Moreland]

On something called cold fusion.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

Really? I had no idea what cold fusion was.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

So to understand cold fusion is to understand a big piece of. Gene, 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah.

[Peyton 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. The problem was, when other scientists went to replicate that supposedly successful 1989 cold fusion experiment, no one could produce the same results. So these 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. Okay, are you a tin foil tail about cold fusion?

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, I totally am a tin foil tell about cold fusion.

[Peyton Moreland]

You've got your tinfoil hat on.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yes, I am very.

[Peyton Moreland]

It exists, but it's being covered up.

[Garrett 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.

[Peyton Moreland]

Right.

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[Garrett Moreland]

And his basement's crazy.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

I think that's actually so cool. Yeah, sometimes I think it's amazing.

[Peyton Moreland]

It reminds me of that Goosebumps episode.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yes.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

But, dude, if this guy had chatgpt, it would have been over.

[Peyton 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 Hampshire, to Norwich, Connecticut. Okay, 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 11pm 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 Jean 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 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

So she races back to her car. She grabs her very old cell phone 2004 and dials 91 1. 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 manding. They find the man in question, Eugene. He had been beaten.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my gosh.

[Peyton 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?

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my gosh. I know this. You know the story I've heard about this. It happened.

[Peyton Moreland]

This is a first.

[Garrett Moreland]

It happened two years. Less than two years ago. A year ago, maybe? Or no. Am I mixing something up?

[Peyton Moreland]

This is 2004.

[Garrett Moreland]

It happened in 2004.

[Peyton Moreland]

Yes.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, then I don't know it. Okay, never mind.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

They do.

[Peyton Moreland]

In this weird space, this day and age.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yep.

[Peyton Moreland]

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Not even one I wrote. I just generally want to be the voice. Like a voice actor.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, that'd be cool.

[Garrett Moreland]

Like bedtime stories or something. Yeah, would be so cool.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's weird.

[Peyton Moreland]

And honestly, it doesn't take him 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 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 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 bow 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 Gene that afternoon. He told her he was coming home 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

She told them the van should probably be pretty easy to spot. There's bumper stickers. Yeah, and his vanity plate reads, INF nrg, Infinite energy.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton 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 8:30pm 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 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 felt out of place. Police actually feel confident this first day, like, at the crime scene, that these keys belong to the killer. 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 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 Gene'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 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, or is there anyone at all that you think might have wanted to murder your husband?

[Garrett Moreland]

I mean, I feel like that's such a loaded question, being how smart he is.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

Yeah, besides every single person in the world.

[Peyton Moreland]

So she goes crazy. 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton 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 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay.

[Peyton 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 5:00pm to 1:00am they're like, cool, we're gonna like, go follow up. Where do you work? And he's like, oh, the Foxwoods Casino.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okey dokey.

[Peyton Moreland]

The same place Eugene's van was found.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yes.

[Peyton Moreland]

Obviously, police are like. 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 were 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, when they hear this, they're like, okay. He had had multiple run ins with police before this. Detectives 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 owner of the property. And so they end up clearing Lenny as well.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay?

[Peyton Moreland]

And without any concrete evidence pointing against him or the Andersons, they're 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 we currently live in today. They look into all of this, and they decide it goes absolutely nowhere.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay?

[Peyton Moreland]

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. The government, the CIA, didn't actually murder Eugene because they learn about a guy after this named Nick Gardener. 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 8 and 10pm 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 in. The driver of this green minivan was wearing socks on their hands.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, socks.

[Peyton Moreland]

Which is why he even remembers it.

[Garrett 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.

[Peyton Moreland]

Same.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

This is obviously. Remember, there were no fingerprints in the car, just like Garrett said. So this leads detectives back to Gene's van, and when they look through at 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, forensics 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, Gene was missing his wallet. So they track Nick down, and they bring him in for questioning. 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

It took the car.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

No way.

[Peyton Moreland]

He'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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Probably is true.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Hilarious. So that's actually pretty funny.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

We don't even want to deal with you.

[Peyton Moreland]

They are like, what are we doing? Until another set of criminals come across their desk. 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Yep.

[Peyton 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 Gene'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 notice 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

I thought you were gonna say Garrett McAvoy.

[Peyton Moreland]

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 saw can die? Did 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, okay.

[Peyton Moreland]

So the police are like, maybe we're getting warm. They separate Riley and McVoy 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. No. Eugene being beaten to death hasn't been released.

[Garrett Moreland]

Why are people asking that?

[Peyton Moreland]

Exactly. But when McEvoy 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. And the results do come back pretty quick. The DNA recovered from Gene's van is a match with Gary McVoy. Finally, this is enough to arrest someone. Like, you have DNA?

[Garrett Moreland]

Why did the other guy ask that?

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

No, but I mean, if it matched Gary but not the other guy. How? Like, was the other guy involved or not?

[Peyton 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.

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[Peyton Moreland]

You know, Garrett really took over our skims ads there for a second.

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

I don't even remember that. That's hilarious.

[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett Moreland]

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[Peyton Moreland]

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[Garrett 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?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah, well, this story isn't finished yet, Gary.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay, sorry. Keep going.

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

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay?

[Peyton Moreland]

If 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

So they.

[Peyton Moreland]

So someone comes in, and it ties it back to the first suspects they actually had in the case. So she's friends with the son's girlfriend, Candace. Her name is Joe, 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. 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. Ryan 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. 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 gonna 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 goes, those keys, that keychain you found in the crime scene that I literally see, those are from our house.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my gosh.

[Peyton 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 alibi'd 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. Candice 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. 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Okay?

[Peyton 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 got to 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 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 Mazelle threw the first punch. They start a physical altercation with Eugene. Obviously, it's 2 versus 1. They end up beating him.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my God. Gosh.

[Peyton 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 have beat the crap out of him.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

Course they're saying he's. Yeah.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my gosh.

[Peyton Moreland]

So they begin stomping on him.

[Garrett Moreland]

It's horrible.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, gosh.

[Peyton 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 idd. 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

It's crazy.

[Peyton 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.

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[Garrett Moreland]

Candace, talk. First of all, she wouldn't have been arrested because no one would have known anything. Now she's gonna go to prison. She's a little confused by.

[Peyton 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

[Garrett Moreland]

gonna tell the truth.

[Peyton Moreland]

I think there's a lot of psychology that goes into confessions.

[Garrett Moreland]

I think guilt plays a bigger part than we think.

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, my gosh.

[Peyton 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. 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. 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 Malib.

[Garrett Moreland]

That's annoying, right? It's annoying. I just. It's just crazy to me. There's. How many people out there resort to violence?

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton 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.

[Garrett Moreland]

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

[Peyton Moreland]

Yeah.

[Garrett Moreland]

People just want to punch people. I'm like, yeah, what's wrong with you? Chill out.

[Peyton Moreland]

Like, here's my thing. We're just completely skipping over the fact that he was alive.

[Garrett Moreland]

Oh, I know.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

Horrible.

[Peyton Moreland]

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

[Garrett Moreland]

I love it and I hate it.

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