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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER PART ONE WILLIAM J CRAIG IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST
Description: It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frostโs poems. But on January 30, 1979, a womanโs scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind.
In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier, had her life brutally ripped from her. Her husband, William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier, was convicted of this heinous murder, which he has always vehemently denied.
Some elements of this case seem to be chilling echoes of the Jeffrey MacD...