🎙 Episode 100: Megan Huntsman — “The Confession”
Part 2 of a multi-part series
February 2015. In a Utah courtroom, a mother admits to the unthinkable.
What began as a story of one stillborn child has unraveled into a confession of six murders.
In Part 2 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the interrogation room where eighteen years of silence collapsed into words, and into the courtroom where family voices, prosecution arguments, and judicial disbelief collided.
Through detectives’ testimony, letters from Huntsman’s daughters, and statements from her mother and sister, this episode examines how a community tried to reconcile the woman they thought they knew with the crimes she confessed to. And in the end, it considers the broader weight of neonaticide, hidden pregnancies, and the silence that thrives in places where appearances matter more than truth.
📍 Location: Pleasant Grove & Provo, Utah
📅 Key Dates: 1996–2006 (murders), April 2014 (discovery & arrest), February–April 2015 (plea and sentencing)
👥 Central Figures: Megan Huntsman, Detective Dan Beckstrom, Joyce Huntsman, Jamie Huntsman, Darren West, Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman, Judge Darold McDade
🧠 Themes: Secrecy, addiction, neonaticide, hidden pregnancies, the silence of community denial
📖 Next Episode Preview: A new case begins — one where secrecy takes another shape, and where the truth is hidden in plain sight.
🎧 Murderess Podcast is written and hosted by Sidney Smith
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Official Sources Used:
– Utah v. Megan Huntsman, Utah County Court records (2014–2015) — guilty plea, sentencing, parole timeline
– Detective Dan Beckstrom testimony at sentencing (2015)
– KSL.com coverage: 6 life terms in prison for woman who killed newborns (2015)
– Associated Press reporting on guilty plea & sentencing (2014–2015)
– The Salt Lake Tribune coverage (2014–2015) — neighbor and community reactions
– Daily Mail contemporaneous reporting (2014) — discovery details and interviews
– Huffington Post: Questions Surround Case of Megan Huntsman (2014)
– Fox 13 Salt Lake City coverage (2014)
– New York Daily News reporting (2014)
– Public statements and letters from Joyce and Jamie Huntsman, and Huntsman’s daughters
