Going West: True Crime

Leticia Martinez-Cosman // 405

15 May 2024

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In March of 2023, a 58-year-old woman headed to a Seattle Mariners game with a man she had met at Costco two weeks prior. But after enjoying their dat...

Rhonda Casto // 404

11 May 2024

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In March of 2009, a 23-year-old woman went hiking with her boyfriend on a beautiful trail in Oregon that included a narrow path along a cliffside. Whe...

Kassanndra Cantrell // 403

09 May 2024

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In August of 2020, a 33-year-old woman headed out for the day in Tacoma, Washington, but never returned home. An investigation quickly began in hopes ...

Crystal Pifer // 402

04 May 2024

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In August of 2015, a 28-year-old woman was enjoying a summer evening out on a boat when she supposedly jumped into the dangerous waters below and disa...

Rachel Hurley // 401

01 May 2024

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In March of 1990, a 14-year-old girl went missing while walking alone through a wooded area near the beach in Jupiter, Florida. Just hours after her d...

Sade Robinson // 400 (Happening Now)

27 Apr 2024

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In April of 2024, an incredibly bright and beloved 19-year-old woman went missing after going on a first date with a man in Milwaukee. When her dismem...

Sandra Cantu // 399

24 Apr 2024

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In March of 2009, a California girl headed out of her house to play with friends in her neighborhood, and was captured on surveillance footage skippin...

Robert Limon // 398

20 Apr 2024

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In August of 2014, a 38-year-old California man was shot at work in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. But as detectives dug deeper into his pe...

Sheila Davalloo // 397

13 Apr 2024

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In November of 2002, a married New York research scientist found herself embroiled in a workplace love triangle. But when a 911 call was made to alert...

Tanya Kach // 396

10 Apr 2024

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In the small town of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old girl went missing after leaving home. In a case where it seemed no attention was paid and...

Anna Maciejewska // 395

06 Apr 2024

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In April of 2017, a 43-year-old woman in Pennsylvania was getting ready to take a trip to her native Poland to visit her father for his birthday. Then...

Mercedes Vega // 394

03 Apr 2024

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In April of 2023, a 22-year-old woman was found dead in a burning vehicle in Arizona after being abducted from her apartment’s parking garage. As th...

Lisa Ziegert // 393

30 Mar 2024

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In April of 1992, a 24-year-old woman headed in to a night shift at work in Massachusetts. But when her co-worker arrived the next morning, she notice...

April Tinsley // 392

27 Mar 2024

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In April of 1988, an Indiana girl was abducted off the streets of her neighborhood while walking alone after hanging out with friends. After her body ...

Kim Medlin // 391

22 Mar 2024

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In March of 1997, a 26-year-old woman disappeared in the middle of the night while driving home from her job as a cocktail waitress in North Carolina....

Aliza Sherman // 390

20 Mar 2024

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In March of 2013, a 53-year-old nurse was stabbed to death by a hooded figure in broad daylight outside of her lawyer’s office in downtown Cleveland...

Heather Guerrero // 389

13 Mar 2024

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In February of 2003, a 15-year-old girl left her Nebraska home early in the morning to deliver newspapers, and never returned home. When her body was ...

Amy Billig // 388

08 Mar 2024

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In March of 1974, a 17-year-old girl in Coconut Grove, Florida, headed to her father’s workplace to collect a few dollars of lunch money. Last seen ...

Minerliz Soranio // 386

02 Mar 2024

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In February of 1999, a teenage girl went missing while heading home from school in the Bronx. When her body was found days later in a dumpster behind ...

Shaylanna Brown // 385

28 Feb 2024

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In March of 2020, a 23-year-old Indigenous woman went missing while taking a walk outside her Haida Gwaii, BC home. Despite the fact that she had conf...

Monique Baugh // 384

23 Feb 2024

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In December of 2019, a 28-year-old realtor headed to an appointment with a prospective client and vanished. When her body was found in an alleyway, po...

Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone // 383

21 Feb 2024

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In February of 2005, a couple went out for drinks with friends at a bar in Philadelphia, heading out just before midnight. But during their drive hom...

Jennifer Pandos // 382

17 Feb 2024

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In February of 1987, a 15-year-old girl went missing from her Virginia home, leaving nothing behind but a ransom note from her alleged captor. But whe...

The Knocker / Night Watch

16 Feb 2024

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Brooke Preston // 381

14 Feb 2024

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In March of 2017, a 21-year-old woman headed back to her old West Palm Beach home to gather her belongings and move up to Buffalo, New York. But after...

Carla Vicentini // 380

10 Feb 2024

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In February of 2006, a 22-year-old Brazilian woman was seen leaving a New Jersey bar with an unknown man. Days later, her boss received a mysterious p...

Lena Chapin // 379

07 Feb 2024

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In 1999, a Missouri teenager’s stepfather disappeared. Four years later, in February of 2003, she told her uncle that her mother had murdered him an...

Jesse Lee Calhoun // 378

02 Feb 2024

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In the early months of 2023, six women turned up dead in and around Portland, Oregon, sparking rumors of a serial killer. Though police originally cla...

Deanne Hastings // 377

31 Jan 2024

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In November of 2015, a 35-year-old woman left her Spokane, Washington home late one night to run an errand, leaving a note behind for her fiancé. Whe...

Jane Britton // 376

27 Jan 2024

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In January of 1969, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student headed out for dinner and ice skating with her boyfriend. After returning home to her Cambr...

Kadie Major // 375

24 Jan 2024

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In January of 2008, a 26-year-old pregnant woman and her young daughter were found dead along a railroad track in South Carolina, leading investigator...

Cajairah Fraise // 374

20 Jan 2024

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In February of 2023, a 22-year-old pregnant woman headed to a California drive-thru with her parents late one night, weeks before her due date. When t...

Margaret Kilcoyne // 373

17 Jan 2024

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Christopher Thompkins // 372

12 Jan 2024

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In January of 2002, a 20-year-old man was working a surveying job in a Georgia forest when he vanished without a trace. When his co-workers realized h...

Camp Keller Murders // 371

09 Jan 2024

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In April of 2012, a mom and her daughter were murdered in their home by someone they thought they could trust. A self-proclaimed survivalist, the kill...

Sarah Yarborough // 370

06 Jan 2024

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In December of 1991, a 16-year-old Washington girl was found murdered in a field next to her high school by a couple of boys, who also got a look at t...

Natalie Bollinger // 369

29 Dec 2023

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Just before New Year’s Eve, 2017, a 19-year-old woman was found murdered in a wooded area of a Colorado farm. When police took note of her recent Fa...

Cheyann Klus // 368

26 Dec 2023

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In November of 2017, a 22-year-old woman went missing in Chicago after sending a string of urgent text messages to a friend. Nearly two weeks later, a...

Maggie Long // 367

23 Dec 2023

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In December of 2017, a 17-year-old girl headed home to change before volunteering at a holiday concert at her high school. A short while later, a diff...

Lady of Lake Crescent // 366

20 Dec 2023

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In the summer of 1940, a woman’s blanketed and hogtied body surfaced in Lake Crescent, Washington, her body having turned to soap in a strange chemi...

Judy Nilan // 365

15 Dec 2023

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In December of 2005, a 44-year-old woman headed out for a routine jog at dusk in her rural Connecticut town, disappearing into the night. After her fa...

Mei Li Haskell // 364

12 Dec 2023

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In November of 2023, partial human remains were found in a Los Angeles dumpster, and it was quickly connected to the recent disappearance of a 37-year...

Brandon Lawson // 363

08 Dec 2023

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In August of 2013, a 26-year-old man disappeared from the side of a highway in Texas after running out of gas. In what has become an infamous phone ca...

Sabine Buehler // 362

05 Dec 2023

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In November of 2008, a 49-year-old resort motel owner went missing from a Florida island. When her car was pulled over two weeks later, the man drivin...

Hannah Rose Walker // 361

02 Dec 2023

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In October of 2022, a 31-year-old woman headed out for a swim in beautiful Trout Lake, Washington, with an older friend. But after getting separated t...

Kyle Fleischmann // 360

28 Nov 2023

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In November of 2007, a 24-year-old man went missing after attending a popular comedy show with his family and friends in Charlotte, North Carolina. Af...

Murder on the Bluebelle // 359

26 Nov 2023

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In November of 1961, five passengers on a luxury sailboat bound for Florida were murdered, one by one, by someone on board – with a single occupant ...

Sarah Saganitso // 358

21 Nov 2023

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In June of 1987, a 40-year-old Navajo woman left to work a night shift at an Arizona medical center, and never returned home. When her body was found ...

Carol Stuart // 357

18 Nov 2023

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In October of 1989, a 30-year-old pregnant woman was murdered after being apprehended at a stoplight in Boston. When her injured husband called police...

Arlis Perry // 356

10 Nov 2023

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In October of 1974, a 19-year-old woman headed to her church at midnight after she and her husband got into an argument. But when she didn’t return ...

Jasmine Pace // 355

08 Nov 2023

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In November of 2022, a 22-year-old woman went missing after visiting her mom’s house in Tennessee. After curiously texting her mom her location in t...

Gitchie Manitou Murders // 354

03 Nov 2023

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In November of 1973, five teenage friends were attacked while they sat around a campfire at a local state reserve. After killing four of them, the fin...

Addie Hall // 353

31 Oct 2023

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In October of 2006, police responded to a call about someone jumping from the roof of a New Orleans hotel. When they arrived, they found a note in the...

Sister Tadea Benz // 352

28 Oct 2023

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On Halloween night, 1981, a nun was murdered by a mysterious intruder in the Saint Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas. Scrambling to put someone behin...

Davina Buff Jones // 351

24 Oct 2023

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In October of 1999, a police officer reported near a lighthouse on a North Carolina island, when she was killed after arrival. With her fellow officer...

Natalee Holloway // 350

20 Oct 2023

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In May of 2005, a large group of Alabama high school students headed off to Aruba for an unofficial graduation trip. The day before they were all set ...

The Slender Man Stabbing // 349

17 Oct 2023

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In May of 2014, two young girls lured their friend out to the woods during a game of hide-and-seek, and stabbed her 19 times, after claiming a fiction...

Jennifer Pentilla // 348

13 Oct 2023

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In October of 1991, an 18-year-old woman left California bound for Mexico on a bicycle, hoping to volunteer along the way. But after a sudden lack of ...

Joan Risch // 347

11 Oct 2023

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In October of 1961, police reported to the home of a 31-year-old Massachusetts woman after a neighbor spotted blood inside her house. When police bega...

David Carter // 346

06 Oct 2023

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In October of 2018, dismembered remains of a male body started turning up along the highway in Ohio. At the same time, a 39-year-old father from Michi...

Jeremiah Lexer & Lizzie Borden // 345

03 Oct 2023

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In July of 1902, a wealthy Tennessee plantation owner went on a murderous rampage in the middle of the night, killing his entire family with an ax. Bu...

Evelyn Hartley // 344

29 Sep 2023

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In October of 1953, a 15-year-old girl went missing while babysitting in her Wisconsin neighborhood. A cursory search of the home revealed blood, maki...

Kiera Bergman // 343

27 Sep 2023

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In August of 2018, a 19-year-old woman went missing from her home in Arizona. As police began digging deeper into her case, it became more and more cl...

Kayelyn Louder // 342

22 Sep 2023

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Christine & Christa Belusko // 341

20 Sep 2023

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In September of 1991, a 30-year-old woman vanished from a lodge in Pennsylvania. Although she was found shortly after, badly beaten, strangled, and bu...

Ola Salem // 340

15 Sep 2023

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In October of 2019, a 25-year-old woman who volunteered at a shelter helping victims of domestic violence was found murdered in a Staten Island park. ...

Jeannette DePalma // 339

12 Sep 2023

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In August of 1972, a 16-year-old girl went missing in New Jersey. Although police initially insisted she had run away, her body was found six weeks la...

Brandon Embry // 338

08 Sep 2023

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In September of 2019, a 33-year-old man was found dead in his North Carolina apartment. Despite the scene suggesting a brutal attack and murder, his d...

Alexis Scott // 337

06 Sep 2023

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In September of 2017, a 20-year-old woman went missing after a house party in Illinois. Just three weeks earlier, she had been a victim of human traff...

Oklahoma State Fair Murders // 336

01 Sep 2023

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In September of 1987, two sisters headed to their local state fair in Oklahoma to commemorate the end of summer. But after they failed to meet their b...

Eliza Fletcher // 335

29 Aug 2023

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In September of 2022, a well-known Memphis mom, heiress, and kindergarten teacher disappeared during an early morning run. As police scrambled to find...

Yuba County Five // 334

25 Aug 2023

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In February of 1978, a group of five men went missing in the lush wilderness of Northern California while on their way home from a college basketball ...

Dana Laskowski // 333

22 Aug 2023

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In August of 2001, a 36-year-old mom of three was found murdered in her own home in Washington. No one could understand who would kill her and why, bu...

The Boys on the Track // 332

19 Aug 2023

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In August of 1987, two teenage boys were hit by a freight train in the woods of Arkansas. What was originally believed to be a tragic accident quickly...

Savanna Greywind // 331

15 Aug 2023

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In August of 2017, a 22-year-old North Dakota woman headed to a neighbor’s apartment to help with a sewing project, and never returned home. When he...

Regina Krieger // 330

12 Aug 2023

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In February of 1995, a 14-year-old girl went missing from her Idaho basement bedroom, leaving behind a trail of blood. Despite police believing she ha...

Cory Barron // 329

08 Aug 2023

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In July of 2014, a 22-year-old man went missing during a massive country music concert in Ohio. As police reviewed surveillance and interviewed patron...

Jacqueline Vandagriff // 328

06 Aug 2023

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In September of 2016, a 24-year-old woman’s body was found burning in a kiddie pool in the woods near a lake in Grapevine, Texas. She was last seen ...

Crystal McDowell // 327

01 Aug 2023

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In August of 2017, a 37-year-old realtor and mother went missing the day before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. In the wake of the disaster, as the state ...

Michael Vaughan // 326

29 Jul 2023

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In July of 2021, a boy went missing from his own neighborhood in Idaho. After over a year of active searching with no clues, an arrest was made. But a...

Storm & Adagio Talifero // 325

25 Jul 2023

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In June of 2018, a vegan blogger and his son allegedly set sail from California, bound for Hawaii on a three month excursion. After they failed to con...

Caitlyn Case // 324

21 Jul 2023

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In August of 2022, a 33-year-old woman traveled to her hometown in Louisiana from Colorado to purchase a car. But on the road trip back, she called he...

Suzanne Morphew // 323

18 Jul 2023

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In May of 2020, a Colorado woman went missing after she allegedly left her home alone for a Sunday bike ride. That same day, police discovered her bik...

Gilgo Beach Murders Update / L.I.S.K // 322

15 Jul 2023

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On July 13, 2023, a 59-year-old Long Island architect was arrested in connection to three of the Gilgo Beach Murders. With the release of an indictmen...

Lost Boys of Bucks County // 321

12 Jul 2023

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In July of 2017, four young men from a small Pennsylvania farming town mysteriously vanished in the span of just one week. It was soon uncovered that ...

Diana Davis // 320

07 Jul 2023

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In July of 2020, a Washington woman went missing after leaving her community garden. The next day, her car was found in downtown Tacoma on fire, and d...

John Forsyth // 319

04 Jul 2023

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In May of 2023, a beloved father and doctor in Missouri failed to show up for his shift at the hospital he worked at. He was last spotted on surveilla...

Susana Morales // 318

30 Jun 2023

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In July of 2022, a 16-year-old girl went missing during her walk home from a friend’s house in Georgia. Over seven months later, her remains were fo...

Zkira Kemp // 317

28 Jun 2023

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In July of 2022, a 20-year-old woman was killed in a car crash in Maryland during a road trip with her friends. After receiving a disturbing phone cal...

The California Missing Five // 316

23 Jun 2023

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Between 2010 and 2013, five young men went missing from San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. But are the cases connected? All five families a...

Courtney Holden // 315

20 Jun 2023

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In July of 2018, a 26-year-old Washington woman attempted to flee her adoptive mother’s house, but was carried back inside by her brother. She hasn’...

The Pinnacle Lake Murders // 314

16 Jun 2023

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In July of 2006, a 27-year-old woman and her mother set out for a four-mile hike around an idyllic Washington lake. Hours after they started their tre...

Shannan Gilbert / Long Island Serial Killer // 313

13 Jun 2023

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In May of 2010, a 23-year-old woman went missing after meeting at a client’s house on Long Island. Her last known interaction can be heard on a stra...

Jessica Johnson // 312

09 Jun 2023

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In June of 2017, a mail carrier in Mississippi came upon a shocking and disturbing scene when they found a 37-year-old woman hanging from a mailbox. A...

Amy Bechtel // 311

07 Jun 2023

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In July of 1997, a 24-year-old woman went missing during a solo jog in the Wyoming mountains. Last spotted at a local photo shop in her new town, empl...

Eric Richins // 310

02 Jun 2023

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In March of 2022, a 39-year-old father was found dead in his Utah home from a suspected fentanyl overdose. But in the midst of the investigation, and ...

Brian Egg // 309

30 May 2023

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In 2018, a San Francisco man was found dismembered in a fish tank inside his own home. After strange reports from the neighbors, investigators began s...

Paige Birgfeld // 308

26 May 2023

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In June of 2007, a newly single mother of three vanished from her Colorado home. Shortly after, her car was found burned out, but it would take years ...

Chance Englebert // 307

24 May 2023

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In July of 2019, a 25-year-old man and new father left his wife’s grandparents’ Nebraska home on foot after an argument, and never returned. He wa...

Linda Stoltzfoos // 306

19 May 2023

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In June of 2020, an 18-year-old Amish girl went missing during the walk home from her Pennsylvania church. Within the first few weeks of her disappear...