Episode 24: The Story of Daniel and Loretta Burroughs

May’s Landing is a small rural community in Atlantic County, New Jersey with a population as of 2010 of only a little over 2,000 people. It was the perfect location for the newly married couple, Daniel and Loretta Burroughs to begin their life together. After being high school sweethearts but spending 30 years apart, the two reconnected after Daniel’s divorce from his first wife and Loretta’s unexpected loss of her husband Joseph. The couple married in 1999 and seemingly had the perfect life. That was until August of 2007, when Daniel would go missing. In shock, friends and family including Daniel’s children asked Loretta where Daniel could have gone. Loretta claimed that he had run off with his mistress and relocated to Florida. But why hadn’t anyone heard from him? Why hadn’t he taken any of his belongings? Tune in to hear the story of a couple who seemed to have found themselves together again after three decades apart only to be separated by evil. 

 

Sources: 

South Jersey Times – Woman gets 55 years in murder, dismemberment of spouse – Mark Daniels – April 26, 2015 – Retrieved: December 3, 2024

Press of Atlantic City – May 18, 2013 – Slain husband moved on with her – Lynda Cohen – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

Press of Atlantic City – May 24, 2013 – Wife’s arrest in Hamilton death reopens 20-year-old case in Pa. – Cindy Scharr – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

South Jersey Times – March 20, 2015 – N.J. woman who hid husband’s body parts in closet is convicted – Mark Daniels – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

Press of Atlantic City – March 12, 2015 – Husband in boxes trial in session – Lynda Cohen – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

Press of Atlantic City – March 18, 2015 – Husband’s remains stored in closet – Lynda Cohen – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

Press of Atlantic City – May 21, 2014 – Woman pleads not guilty to killing husband, keeping remains – Lynda Cohen – Retrieved: December 5, 2024

Snapped – Season 18: Episode 9 - Loretta Burroughs

Deadly Women - Investigation Discovery

Fox News - Woman convicted of killing husband, hiding his remains in containers gets 55 years in prison - April 22, 2015 

TheCinemaholic - Where is Loretta Burroughs Now? - June 17, 2021 - Viswa Vanapalli 

Daily Mail - Guilty: 'Head in a handbag' grandmother who murdered husband, chopped him up and moved remains from house to house for six years - Donna Andersen - March 18, 2015

Wikipedia - Mays Landing, New Jersey