In this episode, Ally covers the murders of the Gustafson family in Townsend, Massachusetts, a case that is often remembered for its most chilling details, but at the center of it all were Priscilla Gustafson and her two young children, Abigail and William. We get into the family at the heart of this story, the terrifying events that had already unfolded in another nearby home, and the trail of warning signs that came before everything escalated into one of the most haunting cases in Massachusetts true crime.

Story starts: 13:00

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Sources:

• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth v. LaPlante, 416 Mass. 433 (1994)
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth v. LaPlante, 482 Mass. 399 (2019)
• WBUR, “Mass. High Court Rejects Early Parole Petition For Man Convicted Of Murder In 1987”
• NBC Boston, “Man Convicted of Killing Woman, 2 Children Asks for Earlier Parole”
• Oxygen, “Daniel LaPlante’s Murder of the Gustafson Family Revisited”
• Dark Downeast, “The Infamous Case of Daniel LaPlante (Massachusetts)”
• Crime of the Truest Kind, “The Truth About The Crimes of Daniel LaPlante, Townsend, Massachusetts, with author Joe Turner”