Going West: True Crime

Monique and Spencer Tepe / Part 2 (Happening Now) // 572

11 Jan 2026

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Today, an arrest was made for the murders of Monique and Spencer Tepe, who were killed on December 30, 2025, in their Columbus, Ohio home. Join us as ...

Monique and Spencer Tepe (Happening Now) // 571

09 Jan 2026

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On December 30, 2025, a 37-year-old Ohio dentist didn’t show up to work, concerning his co-workers. When friends and colleagues checked his family h...

Joyce Chiang // 570

06 Jan 2026

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In January of 1999, a 28-year-old immigration attorney headed to Starbucks in Washington DC woman after seeing a movie with a friend. But when she did...

Kristil Krug // 569

02 Jan 2026

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In December of 2023, police in Colorado responded to a quiet neighborhood in Denver for a welfare check after a 43-year-old woman stopped responding t...

Ana Walshe // 568

30 Dec 2025

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In January of 2023, a wife, mother, and real estate executive vanished from suburban Boston while heading to the airport to tend to a work emergency. ...

Jocelyn Earnest // 567

26 Dec 2025

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In December of 2007, a 38-year-old woman was found dead in her Virginia home next to a gun and a typed letter that, at first glance, appeared to be a ...

Carol Rofstad // 566

23 Dec 2025

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In December of 1975, a 21-year-old college student headed out for a pub drink with a friend before the Christmas holiday. That night, a year and a hal...

Gone on Christmas: Parris Hopson & Za'zell Preston // 565

19 Dec 2025

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In December of 2019, a young woman stepped out for a walk on Christmas Day after feeling anxious at a family gathering, and she never returned. Eerily...

Christina Parcell: The Rose Petal Murder // 564

16 Dec 2025

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In October of 2021, deputies in Greer, South Carolina, responded to a chilling scene in a suburban home: a 41-year-old woman found lifeless in her liv...

Catherine Woods // 563

12 Dec 2025

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In November of 2005, a 21-year-old dancer was found brutally slain in her New York City apartment. She was ambitious, talented, and chasing her dream ...

Rebecca Park: The Whole Story (Happening Now) // 562

11 Dec 2025

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In November of 2025, a 22-year-old pregnant Michigan woman went missing under suspicious circumstances mere days before she was set to give birth. Thi...

The Devil Made Me Do It // 561

09 Dec 2025

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In February of 1981, the small town of Brookfield, Connecticut became the stage for one of the strangest murder cases in American history. It began wi...

Rebecca Park (Happening Now) // 560

05 Dec 2025

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In November of 2025, a 22-year-old pregnant Michigan woman went missing under suspicious circumstances while approaching labor. Within weeks of her di...

Theresa Fusco // 559

02 Dec 2025

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In November of 1984, the normally safe Long Island village of Lynbrook was gripped in fear when a 16-year-old girl vanished after leaving her job at a...

Melissa Lamesch // 558

28 Nov 2025

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In November of 2020, police in Mount Morris, Illinois responded to a report of a house fire, where firefighters would make a grim discovery: the body ...

Anna Kepner (Happening Now) // 557

25 Nov 2025

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In November of 2025, an 18-year-old girl died suspiciously while on a cruise with her family; her body found wrapped in a sheet under her stateroom's ...

Emma Walker // 556

21 Nov 2025

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In November of 2016, a 16-year-old was found dead in her bed in a quiet neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, after her parents thought she had simply...

Jackie Levitz // 555

18 Nov 2025

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In November of 1995, a furniture heiress vanished without a trace from her elegant Mississippi home just weeks after moving in. Through an unlocked do...

Murder on Elm Street // 554

14 Nov 2025

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On Thanksgiving Day, 2012, the small town of Little Falls, Minnesota was quiet and calm, with most people home enjoying the holiday and staying out of...

Melissa Wolfenbarger // 553

11 Nov 2025

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In late 1998, a 21-year-old mother vanished from Atlanta after a phone call home on Thanksgiving Day. Months later, her remains were found scattered b...

The Jamison Family // 552

07 Nov 2025

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In October of 2009, a family of three set out for the Oklahoma mountains in search of a fresh start. Days later, their pickup truck was found abandone...

Joan Webster // 551

04 Nov 2025

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In November of 1981, a 25-year-old graduate student at Harvard vanished after arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport after being with family for Thanksg...

Dominique Dunne // 550

31 Oct 2025

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In October of 1982, a rising young actress from a prominent Hollywood family was preparing for her next big role, fresh off a breakout performance in ...

Karen Swift // 549

28 Oct 2025

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In October of 2011, a 44-year-old mother of four vanished after returning home from a Halloween party in Tennessee. Her abandoned vehicle was discover...

Holly Maddux // 548

24 Oct 2025

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In September of 1977, a 30-year-old woman vanished after a break-up with her eccentric, famous boyfriend. Over a year passed before her decomposing bo...

The Teen Vampire Murders // 547

21 Oct 2025

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In November of 1996, two parents were brutally murdered inside their home - but the killers weren’t total strangers, and more intriguingly, they wer...

Cheri Jo Bates // 546

17 Oct 2025

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The day before Halloween, 1966, an 18-year-old college student spent the afternoon at her campus library in Riverside, California, but she never made ...

The Memory Card Murders // 545

14 Oct 2025

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In September of 2019, a phone was stolen from an Anchorage, Alaska man, and found to contain videos and images of the brutal murder of an Indigenous w...

The Hall-Mills Murders // 544

07 Oct 2025

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On a quiet September morning in 1922, two bodies; one, a respected minister, the other, a singer in his choir, were found beneath a crabapple tree in ...

Joanna Simpson // 543

03 Oct 2025

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On Halloween, 2010, the quiet English village of Ascot was shaken when a bloody scene was found in the charming home of a local, 46-year-old bed and b...

Tracy Gilpin // 542

30 Sep 2025

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In October of 1986, a 15-year-old girl attended a friend’s house party in the coastal town of Kingston, Massachusetts after babysitting. After dark,...

The Lake Placid Murder // 541

26 Sep 2025

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In the summer of 1997, the quiet Adirondack town of Lake Placid was shattered when a 39-year-old woman went missing. Later that day, her SUV was disco...

Celeste Rivas & D4vd (Happening Now) // 540

23 Sep 2025

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In September of 2025, the body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the car of an impounded vehicle at a Hollywood tow yard. When the car was linked to ...

The Rawlins Rodeo Murders // 539

19 Sep 2025

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During the summer of 1974, four girls between the ages of 10 and 19  vanished from the same small Wyoming community while the rodeo was in town. Two ...

Justine Vanderschoot // 538

16 Sep 2025

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In September of 2003, a 17-year-old girl vanished from her family’s home in Placer County, California. Her truck was missing from the driveway, but ...

Nada Huranieh // 537

12 Sep 2025

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In August of 2017, a 35-year-old woman was found dead outside her Michigan home, discovered by her daughter near an open second story window. When pol...

The Pittsburgh Phantom // 536

09 Sep 2025

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In the late 1970s, suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lived in the fear as an apparent strangling serial killer hunted young women - walking to school,...

Jenny Low Chang // 535

05 Sep 2025

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In September of 1977, a promising 19-year-old college student in San Francisco disappeared after heading to study in her university’s library. Horri...

Mitrice Richardson // 534

02 Sep 2025

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In September of 2009, a 24-year-old woman was released from a Los Angeles sheriff’s station in the middle of the night after being arrested for fail...

Ann Marie Burr // 533

29 Aug 2025

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On a stormy night in August of 1961, an eight-year-old girl vanished from her family home in Tacoma, Washington. There was no ransom note and surprisi...

The Jack Family Disappearance // 532

26 Aug 2025

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In August of 1989, a 26-year-old man in Prince George, British Columbia was given an unexpected lifeline when a bearded stranger at a pub offered him ...

Katelyn Markham // 531

22 Aug 2025

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In August of 2011, a 21-year-old art student suddenly vanished from her Ohio townhouse. Her purse, her car —even her beloved dog—were all left beh...

Tess Hilt // 530

19 Aug 2025

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In August of 1973, a 22-year-old woman was beginning her graduate degree in psychology at the same Missouri university when she was brutally murdered ...

Mariame Sylla // 529

15 Aug 2025

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In July of 2023, a beloved elementary school teacher took a walk through her Maryland neighborhood, just as she did every evening. But this time, she ...

The Craigslist Killer // 528

12 Aug 2025

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In the spring of 2009, a short-lived spree of attacks against women in Boston and Rhode Island had the Eastern Seaboard on edge. But when a suspect wa...

The Tacoma Girls // 527

08 Aug 2025

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In the summer of 1986, two young girls vanished mere months apart, both while out riding their bikes in Tacoma, Washington. Despite exhaustive efforts...

The Devil's Den Murders (Happening Now) // 526

05 Aug 2025

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In July of 2025, a couple and their two young daughters were hiking at the Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas after recently relocating to the area. B...

Veronica Butler & Jilian Kelley // 525

01 Aug 2025

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In March of 2024, two women set off on a short drive through the rural backroads of Oklahoma, but they never made it to their destination. Hours later...

Hadden Clark // 524

29 Jul 2025

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In the 1980s and ’90s, a deeply disturbed man from New Jersey drifted from town to town, hiding behind a soft-spoken voice and a childlike demeanor....

Keith Warren // 523

25 Jul 2025

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In July of 1986, a 19-year-old man was found hanging from a tree near his Maryland home. Authorities swiftly ruled it a suicide, but those closest to ...

Erin Gilbert // 522

22 Jul 2025

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In July of 1995, a 24-year-old woman in Alaska headed out on a date with a man she had only recently met. She was last seen at a crowded summer fair i...

The Bellevue Killer // 521

18 Jul 2025

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In the summer of 1990, a serial killer originally dubbed “The Charmer” began his crusade of committing brutal acts of violence against Seattle-are...

The Green Widow Murders // 520

15 Jul 2025

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In the late 1980s, a Hollywood camera operator was murdered in his home in the Los Angeles suburbs. At first glance, the scene appeared to be a tragic...

Simeonette Mapes-Crupi // 519

11 Jul 2025

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In July of 2012, a beloved high school teacher was found murdered inside her Staten Island home. Although it was initially believed to be a home invas...

The Hiding Man: Anatomy of a Serial Killer // 518

08 Jul 2025

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Serial killers are not just the stuff of horror movies or thriller novels. They walk among us, hidden in plain sight, sometimes quiet, sometimes charm...

Sade Robinson // 517

04 Jul 2025

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In April of 2024, a 19-year-old student vanished after heading out for a promising first date in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But hours later, her torched ca...

The Babysitter from Hell // 516

01 Jul 2025

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Between 1980 and 1982, a string of unexplained child deaths unsettled small towns across Florida. Shockingly, the common thread was a quiet teenager h...

Norma Lopez // 515

27 Jun 2025

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In July of 2010, a 17-year-old girl vanished while walking home from summer school in a quiet Southern California suburb. Her belongings were scattere...

The Love County Disappearances // 514

24 Jun 2025

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In July of 2013, three friends wound up in the woods of rural Oklahoma after a high-speed police chase - but only one of them emerged. Following a flu...

Amber Spradlin // 513

20 Jun 2025

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In June of 2023, a 38-year-old woman was found dead in a quiet Kentucky neighborhood, shortly after purchasing a house and beginning a promising new j...

Margaret Fox // 512

17 Jun 2025

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In 1974, a 14-year-old New Jersey girl disappeared after meeting up with a man regarding a babysitting job. She had placed an ad in the paper, and the...

Going West is Going on Tour!

17 Jun 2025

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In September, we're going on our first-ever tour! Find us in Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago alongside Love Murder for five mysteriously ...

The Keddie Cabin Murders // 511

13 Jun 2025

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In April of 1981, a mother and her children -along with two of her children's friends- were spending a quiet Saturday night in their rural California ...

Sabrina Kahler // 510

10 Jun 2025

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In June of 2002, a 20-year-old woman vanished after a swim by Lake Erie. Last seen with her boyfriend’s friend, she was reportedly dropped off safel...

LaNell Barsock // 509

06 Jun 2025

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In June of 2010, a 29-year-old nurse was found shot to death in her California home with a note that seemed to point to a particular person embedded i...

Carol Kennedy // 508

03 Jun 2025

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In July of 2008, a 53-year-old mother, artist, and counselor was found bludgeoned to death in her Arizona home, just 35 days after finalizing her divo...

Sheila Von Wiese // 507

30 May 2025

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In August of 2014, a 62-year-old American woman was found brutally murdered and stuffed inside a suitcase at a luxury resort in Bali. What began as a ...

Darwin Vest // 506

27 May 2025

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In June of 1999, a brilliant entomologist vanished into the night after walking home in Idaho Falls. And when police looked into his vanishing, they f...

Kiplyn Davis // 505

23 May 2025

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In May of 1995, a 15-year-old vanished in broad daylight after attending half of her high school classes in the quiet town of Spanish Fork, Utah. She ...

Prom Night Murders // 504

20 May 2025

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In April of 1989, an intruder wiped out nearly an entire family inside their Indiana home on prom night. With little evidence left behind at the scene...

Nicole VanderHeyden // 503

16 May 2025

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In May of 2016, a 31-year-old woman went out for a night of music and drinks in Green Bay, Wisconsin. But the next morning, her body was found in a fa...

Jodi Huisentruit // 502

13 May 2025

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In June of 1995, a 27-year-old morning news anchor vanished outside her Iowa apartment complex as she rushed to go to work in the dark, early morning ...

Cody Johnson // 501

09 May 2025

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In June of 2013, a 25-year-old newlywed vanished in the picturesque mountains of Montana, just days after saying "I do." What began as a missing perso...

Summer of Hell (ft Holly Madison) // 500

06 May 2025

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Tensions were high during the summer of 1983 in Saint Petersburg, Florida, leading it to become known as the “summer of hell” after a rash of murd...

Sheri Coleman // 499

02 May 2025

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In May of 2009, the 31-year-old wife of a televangelist’s security guard was murdered in her Illinois home alongside her two sons. For months prior,...

Murder at Carolands Chateau // 498

29 Apr 2025

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In February of 1985, two teenage girls headed out for an unofficial tour of a historic abandoned mansion outside of San Francisco. But once they arriv...

Emily Pike // 497

25 Apr 2025

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In January of 2025, a 14-year-old Indigenous girl went missing without a trace from her home in Mesa, Arizona. Just weeks later, her dismembered remai...

The Freeway Phantom // 496

22 Apr 2025

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Between April of 1971 and September of 1972, six girls, between the ages of 10 and 18, were abducted from Washington DC and found murdered. After some...

The Unabomber / Part 2 // 495

17 Apr 2025

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Part 2 of 2. Starting in 1978, a Montana man murdered three people and injured 23 others during a nationwide bombing campaign. Hiding behind a comfort...

The Unabomber / Part 1 // 494

15 Apr 2025

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Starting in 1978, a Montana man murdered three people and injured 23 others during a nationwide bombing campaign. Hiding behind a comfortable upbringi...

The Suitcase Suffocation // 493

11 Apr 2025

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 In February of 2020, a 42-year-old Florida man suffocated to death after being zipped into a suitcase during what allegedly started as an innocent g...

Death House Landlady // 492

08 Apr 2025

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In 1988, Dorothea Puente, an elderly and seemingly sweet landlady in Sacramento, California, was arrested after a series of mysterious disappearances ...

Kay Parsons // 491

04 Apr 2025

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In March of 2009, a 41-year-old woman living in Grovetown, Georgia was found beaten nearly to death in her home after she and her neighbor were robbed...

Sister Margaret Ann Pahl // 490

01 Apr 2025

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In April of 1980, a nun was found murdered on the floor of a Toledo, Ohio chapel. She had been brutally murdered, her body found with clear signs of s...

Ashley Pegram // 489

28 Mar 2025

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In April of 2015, a 28-year-old mother of three went missing in South Carolina after meeting up with a man from a dating app. Initially, the only susp...

Anjelica Hadsell // 488

25 Mar 2025

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In March of 2015, an 18-year-old college freshman in Virginia went missing after returning home for spring break. Weeks later, her body was found on a...

Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? // 487

21 Mar 2025

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In April of 1943, a group of teenagers walking through the woods near Birmingham, England made a chilling discovery: a human skull hidden inside the h...

Angela Craig // 486

18 Mar 2025

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When a 43-year-old mother in Colorado slipped into a coma in March of 2023, her grief-stricken loved ones struggled to make sense of it. Otherwise act...

Samantha Josephson // 485

14 Mar 2025

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In March of 2019, a 21-year-old student at the University of South Carolina went out to a local bar with friends. Leaving the rest of her group behind...

Melissa Jenkins // 484

11 Mar 2025

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In March of 2012, a beloved 33-year-old high school science teacher went missing from Vermont after heading out to help someone with apparent car trou...

Hailey Owens // 483

07 Mar 2025

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In February of 2014, a Missouri girl was abducted off the street in her own neighborhood by a strange man in a truck. Three witnesses watched it happe...

Kelsie Schelling // 482

04 Mar 2025

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In February of 2013, a 21-year-old woman mysteriously disappeared during a visit to see her on-again, off-again boyfriend after he told her he had a “...

Becky Bliefnick // 481

28 Feb 2025

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In February of 2023, a 41-year-old woman failed to pick her kids up from school in Quincy, Illinois. When her father went to her home to check on her,...

David Glenn Lewis // 480

25 Feb 2025

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In late January of 1993, over Super Bowl weekend, a 39-year-old Texas man vanished while his wife and daughter were on a girls weekend in Dallas. Just...

The Au Pair Murders // 479

21 Feb 2025

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In February of 2023, a 37-year-old pediatric nurse was stabbed to death inside her suburban Virginia home, alongside a stranger from a dating app. But...

Morgan Bauer // 478

18 Feb 2025

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In February of 2016, a 19-year-old woman departed her home state of South Dakota bound for Atlanta, Georgia. She had arranged to stay at the home of a...

Tarrant County Killer // 477

14 Feb 2025

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In March of 2017, a 36-year-old Navajo woman left her aunt’s house in New Mexico after visiting Arizona, but she never made it to her destination. F...

John O'Keefe // 476

11 Feb 2025

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In January of 2022, a Boston police officer was found dead in a snowbank outside the home of a friend. When his cause of death was discovered to be bl...

Malvina Krutz // 475

07 Feb 2025

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In January of 1958, a 41-year-old Indiana mother went missing from her home, only to be found dead in her bathtub. Still mostly clothed and submerged ...

Sandra Birchmore // 474

04 Feb 2025

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In February of 2021, a 23-year-old aspiring police officer in Massachusetts was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. After poli...