Listen Now: My Mom’s Murder

Lauren Malloy investigates the suspicious 1993 death of her mother, Lori Lee Malloy, after discovering that the official cause of death—hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—may be a fabrication. Growing up in the tight-knit community of Providence, Rhode Island, Malloy believed the natural causes narrative for nearly thirty years until a 2020 Facebook message from a childhood friend of her mother, Louise, challenged everything. Louise provided photographic evidence of their close relationship and explicitly claimed that Lori was murdered rather than dying of heart disease. This revelation exposes deep contradictions in the original non-investigation and prompts a personal quest to uncover the truth behind a decades-old cold case. The narrative highlights the failure of the legal system to pursue justice and Malloy’s transition from a routine life in communications to an amateur detective determined to identify her mother's killer.