Going West: True Crime

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...

Aranda Briones // 473

31 Jan 2025

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In January of 2019, a 16-year-old girl went missing, last seen at a community park near her Moreno Valley, California home. As police searched for any...

Lana Clarkson // 472

28 Jan 2025

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In February of 2003, a 40-year-old model and actress living in Los Angeles headed to her shift at the House of Blues Hollywood like any other Sunday. ...

Nicole Lovell // 471

24 Jan 2025

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In January of 2016, a 13-year-old Virginia girl snuck out of her bedroom in the middle of the night, headed to meet up with someone she had befriended...

The Dartmouth Murders // 470

21 Jan 2025

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In January of 2001, two wonderful and married German-born Dartmouth College professors were stabbed to death inside the study of their New Hampshire h...

Elaine Park // 469

17 Jan 2025

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In January of 2017, a 20-year-old aspiring actress in Los Angeles went missing after abruptly leaving her boyfriend’s Calabasas home in the early mo...

The San Francisco Doodler // 468

14 Jan 2025

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In the 1970s, shortly after the horrific reign of the Zodiac Killer, another serial killer wreaked havoc on San Francisco, killing as many as seventee...

Amie Harwick // 467

10 Jan 2025

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WE LOVE YOU LA. WE ARE SAFE from these fires right now, but staying aware here in Los Angeles of the developing chaos. Our hearts go out to the firefi...

Ylenia Carrisi // 466

07 Jan 2025

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In December of 1994, a 23-year-old Italian actress headed to New Orleans to explore the city and write a novel. But shortly after arriving, she myster...

Suzanne Simpson // 465

01 Jan 2025

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In October of 2024, a 51-year-old San Antonio mom went missing after visiting an exclusive supper club with her husband. When word spread of her disap...

The Butcher Baker of Alaska / Part 2 // 464

27 Dec 2024

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Between 1971 and 1983, an unknown perpetrator committed dozens of kidnappings, rapes, and murders, wreaking havoc on the state of Alaska. The assailan...

The Butcher Baker of Alaska / Part 1 // 463

24 Dec 2024

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Between 1971 and 1983, an unknown perpetrator committed dozens of kidnappings, rapes, and murders, wreaking havoc on the state of Alaska. The assailan...

Celina Mays // 462

20 Dec 2024

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In December of 1996, a 12-year-old girl went missing from her New Jersey home overnight. Her family fell under suspicion when they took 24 hours to re...

Burger Chef Murders // 461

14 Dec 2024

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In November of 1978, four young employees of the Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef restaurant mysteriously vanished at the end of their shift. When police...

Gretchen Fleming // 460

11 Dec 2024

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In December of 2022, a 27-year-old woman met a stranger in a bar in her small, West Virginia hometown, only to disappear after leaving with him. As an...

Fort Worth Missing Trio // 459

06 Dec 2024

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In December of 1974, just two days before Christmas, three girls, ages 17, 14, and 9, disappeared while shopping at a mall in Fort Worth, Texas. 50 ye...

The Killings of Two Portland Nurses // 458

04 Dec 2024

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In a strange and eerie coincidence, in autumn of this year, two young nurses working at the same hospital in Portland, Oregon were murdered by differe...

Joshua Guimond // 457

27 Nov 2024

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In November of 2002, a 20-year-old man left a party at his Minnesota university and seemed to vanish into thin air. Police originally believed that he...

Hannah Kobayashi // 456 (Happening Now)

23 Nov 2024

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On Friday, November 8, 2024, a 30-year-old Maui woman on her way to New York missed her connecting flight in Los Angeles. While attempting to get on a...

Yvonne Baldelli // 455

20 Nov 2024

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In the fall of 2011, a 41-year-old California woman set out for a new life on a beautiful island in Panama. But what seemed like an adventurous fresh ...

Kelsey Berreth // 454

16 Nov 2024

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On Thanksgiving, 2018, a 29-year-old woman went missing in Colorado after last being spotted in a grocery store with her daughter. When investigators ...

Michaela Garecht // 453

13 Nov 2024

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In November of 1988, a nine-year-old girl was abducted in broad daylight from the parking lot of her local corner store. Despite there being witnesses...

Dustin Kjersem / Update // 452

09 Nov 2024

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Part 1 posted on October 29, 2024 - Episode 449.On October 10, 2024, a 35-year-old Montana man was murdered in his tent while camping in a secluded Mo...

Sonya Ivanoff // 451

06 Nov 2024

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In the early night hours of August 11, 2003, a 19-year-old Indigenous woman set off on a walk through the rain alone after spending time with friends ...

Murder in the Hamptons // 450

01 Nov 2024

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In October of 2001, a 52-year-old man was found bludgeoned to death in his East Hampton home after missing a work meeting in the city. Just days befor...

Dustin Kjersem // 449 (Happening Now)

30 Oct 2024

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On October 12, 2024, the friend of a 35-year-old Montana man stumbled upon his body in a tent when he didn’t show to their agreed meeting spot for a...

Cherilyn Hawkley // 448

26 Oct 2024

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On October 31st, 1993, a beloved 39-year-old teacher was found strangled to death inside her car in a quiet suburb of Sacramento. As police investigat...

Arelie Garcia // 447

22 Oct 2024

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On an early morning in September of 2022, a 25-year-old woman vanished without a trace after leaving her Salinas, California apartment. Later, her bel...

The Phantom Killer // 446

15 Oct 2024

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In the winter and early spring of 1946, a series of moonlight attacks and murders occurred along Lovers Lanes in Texarkana, Texas, leaving the small c...

The Menendez Murders / Part 2 // 445

10 Oct 2024

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In August of 1989, two brothers entered their parents’ Beverly Hills mansion, and shot them multiple times, killing them almost instantly. When poli...

The Menendez Murders / Part 1 // 444

08 Oct 2024

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In August of 1989, two brothers entered their parents’ Beverly Hills mansion, and shot them multiple times, killing them almost instantly. When poli...

Mengqi Ji // 443

04 Oct 2024

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In October of 2019, a 28-year-old engineer vanished from her Missouri home, prompting her parents to fly to the United States from China to begin look...

Stephanie Condon // 442

02 Oct 2024

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On a misty October evening in 1998, a 14-year-old girl arrived at her cousins Oregon home to babysit her twins. But when she returned from a night out...

Corey Wieneke // 441

28 Sep 2024

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In October of 1992, a 22-year-old man was found brutally murdered inside his Iowa home. Years passed with no answers, until a witness, who had been ju...

Tara Calico // 440

24 Sep 2024

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In September of 1988, a 19-year-old woman went missing while riding her bike near her New Mexico home. With signs of a struggle left behind, suspicion...

Kelley Stage Clayton // 439

20 Sep 2024

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In September of 2015, a 35-year-old woman was beaten to death by a masked man inside her secluded home in the woods of Upstate New York. Her young chi...

The Route 29 Stalker // 438

18 Sep 2024

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In 1996, a woman vanished along Route 29 in Virginia, and dozens of others came forward to say they had been followed in their cars by a man in a dark...

Pamela Vitale // 437

13 Sep 2024

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In October of 2005, a 52-year-old woman was brutally murdered in her home in suburban San Francisco, bludgeoned and disemboweled. As police investigat...

Heather Teague // 436

11 Sep 2024

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In August of 1995, a 23-year-old woman was sunbathing on a Kentucky riverside when an unknown man grabbed her by the hair and dragged her off into the...

Danielle Houchins // 435

07 Sep 2024

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In September of 1996, a 15-year-old girl was found assaulted and drowned near a fishing access site in Montana. Though they initially suspected it to ...

Kenneka Jenkins // 434

30 Aug 2024

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In September of 2017, a 19-year-old woman headed to a party at a Chicago hotel, only to be found dead in one of their unused hotel freezers under susp...

Andrea DelVesco // 433

27 Aug 2024

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In September of 2015, a Los Angeles apartment building full of UCLA sorority sisters caught on fire. Luckily, no one was killed in the flames, but to ...

Henry McCabe // 432

24 Aug 2024

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In September of 2015, a 31-year-old man spent his evening at a Minnesota nightclub before being dropped off at a gas station by a friend. Shortly afte...

Shadow McClaine // 431

21 Aug 2024

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In September of 2016, a 25-year-old Private in the Army suddenly vanished from Tennessee. Weeks later, her skeletal remains were found, with all signs...

Sara Anne Wood // 430

14 Aug 2024

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In August of 1993, a 12-year-old girl vanished while riding her bicycle home from the Upstate New York church where her father worked as a pastor. Pol...

Torrey Pines State Beach Murders // 429

10 Aug 2024

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In the 1970s and 1980s, two teenage girls were brutally murdered on a San Diego beach six years apart, mere yards away from each other. An investigati...

Chelsea Grimm // 428

07 Aug 2024

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In September of 2023, a 32-year-old woman left California to embark on a solo cross-country road trip, headed for a wedding in Connecticut. When the j...

Michele Harris // 427

03 Aug 2024

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On September 11, 2001, amongst the unforgettable terrorist attacks, a 35-year-old mother went missing under suspicious circumstances across the state ...

Bryce Laspisa // 426

31 Jul 2024

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In August of 2013, a 19-year-old man drove down the state of California allegedly heading to his parent’s house. After speaking to his mom numerous ...

The Shenandoah National Park Murders // 425

27 Jul 2024

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In May of 1996, two women set off into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains for a hike, and never came back out again. Strange details at the s...

Patrick Mullins // 424

23 Jul 2024

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In January of 2013, a 52-year-old high school librarian from Florida headed out on his boat for a quick afternoon ride. When he didn’t return home, ...

Nikki Saelee-McCain // 423

19 Jul 2024

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In May of 2024, a 39-year-old California woman vanished without a trace, and no one, including her husband, seemed to be able to account for her where...

The Spotsylvania Killer // 422

17 Jul 2024

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If you asked his coworkers, his family, or his wife, they would have told you that Richard Evonitz was a stand-up guy; a Navy veteran, a hard worker, ...

Jan Roseboro // 421

13 Jul 2024

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In July of 2008, a 45-year-old woman was found dead in the swimming pool of her rural Pennsylvania home, having been savagely beaten and strangled. Be...

Christie Wilson // 420

10 Jul 2024

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In October of 2005, a 27-year-old woman vanished after leaving a California casino. But when police pored over surveillance footage from the property,...

Rinette Riella-Bergna // 419

07 Jul 2024

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In June of 1998, a 49-year-old woman and her husband were out for a late-night drive when their car careened off a Nevada cliffside, killing her. To e...

Marlene Warren // 418

03 Jul 2024

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In May of 1990, a 40-year-old woman was murdered by a person in a clown costume after opening the door for them during breakfast. While police initial...

Haley Anderson // 417

25 Jun 2024

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In March of 2018, a 22-year-old nursing student in New York was found strangled to death in off-campus housing after her friends tracked her phone’s...

Dia Abrams // 416

22 Jun 2024

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In June of 2020, a 65-year-old woman disappeared from her idyllic California ranch, leaving behind all her essential belongings. Those closest to her ...

Mike Williams // 415

19 Jun 2024

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In December of 2000, a 31-year-old man headed out for a duck hunting trip on a Florida lake, and seemingly drowned, with his body believed to have bee...

DeOrr Kunz Jr / Part 2 // 414

13 Jun 2024

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In July of 2015, a family headed out for a camping trip in the woods of Idaho only for their two-year-old to vanish on the first day. The parents call...

DeOrr Kunz Jr / Part 1 // 413

12 Jun 2024

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In July of 2015, a family headed out for a camping trip in the woods of Idaho only for their two-year-old to vanish on the first day. The parents call...

Mary Vincent // 412

08 Jun 2024

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In September of 1978, a 15-year-old girl was hitchhiking from the Bay Area to Los Angeles to see her grandfather when an older man offered her a ride....

Brandon Swanson // 411

05 Jun 2024

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In May of 2008, a 19-year-old man left his friend’s house in rural Minnesota, taking the back roads instead of the highway. Shortly afterwards, he a...

Anita Knutson // 410

01 Jun 2024

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In June of 2007, the family of an 18-year-old woman in North Dakota was having trouble reaching her over the weekend, leading her father to visit her ...

Branson Perry // 409

29 May 2024

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In April of 2001, a 20-year-old man seemed to vanish into thin air from the yard of his father’s house after heading out to the shed to get somethin...

Vanessa Marcotte // 408

25 May 2024

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In August of 2016, a 27-year-old woman was on a run in a rural area of Princeton, Massachusetts and never returned home. When her body was found that ...

Noah Presgrove // 407

21 May 2024

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In September of 2023, a 19-year-old man allegedly left a friend’s birthday party after a weekend of fun in Oklahoma. But when someone stumbled upon ...

Rachel Morin // 406

17 May 2024

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In August of 2023, a 37-year-old woman headed out for a beautiful summer hike two hours before sunset. When darkness fell upon the day and she hadn’...