Detective Beth Stewart-Kirth

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87 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Somebody Knows Something · S3E10: Still Waiting · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

He told us that the family who owned the Joliet Motor Hotel also owned a hotel in Raymondville, Texas, and they even arranged travel for him and some other Joliet residents to move there.

So we had to track down that hotel, too, and we are now considering that she could have potentially traveled there.

We still traveled there to see her former home, and we dove into her relationship with her husband, Wayman Jones, who originally reported her missing in 1983.

We also discovered that there was alleged violence in the home when Waitere did live there, and we uncovered some brand new information about Wayman as well.

He was arrested several times in his life, including for a murder in Chicago in 1967.

So Andrew and Chris traveled to Chicago to consider that location as well.

Tad discusses that in 2024, for example, of the over 600,000 missing people in the United States, less than 1% of them were never found.

In fact, 99.87% of all people who went missing were either recovered or returned.

So when we look at Whiteyria's case and consider that she has been missing for over 40 years, that is a statistical anomaly.

Then after months of building a family tree and searching around the country, we located extended relatives who shared mitochondrial DNA with Whiteria.

Last episode, we traveled to Tennessee to collect that DNA.

And now we are prepared to take the next steps on this case by working to upload familial DNA into databases like CODIS.

to begin a new search for Yteria.

But the testing we need to do can take a significant amount of time, and NamUs has an extensive backlog.

So for now, we have to wait and see where this new technology and new information will take us.

Exactly.

We have nearly 50 total homicide and missing person cases still in our caseload.

And as we sit here in 2026, it is very likely that we will not solve every single case that we touch.

But the whole point of this podcast and this cold case unit is to make that attempt and document it for future investigators and for the families.

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