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When 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez vanishes from a playground in New Jersey, the whole community pitches in to help search for her. But thousands of leads later - and nearly three years after her mysterious disappearance – law enforcement still isn’t sure where she is…or who took her.

MISSING: Dulce Maria Alavez

Cuando Dulce María Alavez, de 5 años, se desaparece de un parque infantil en Nueva Jersey, toda la comunidad colabora para ayudar a buscarla. Pero despues de miles de pistas, y casi tres años después de su misteriosa desaparición, la policía aún no está segura dónde está... o quién se la llevó.

DESAPARECIDA: Dulce Maria Alavez

When six young girls are found murdered, their similarities link them all to one killer. With no witnesses and no leads, investigators are still asking who is The Freeway Phantom over forty years later.

SERIAL KILLER: The Freeway Phantom

Investigative journalist, Delia D'Ambra, is back with a fourth season of CounterClock. She jumps right into investigating a teenager's mysterious death from 2003 in rural South Florida only to find that nothing is as it seems. Twists and turns are around every corner, and finding the truth of what really happened to 17-year-old John Welles proves to be Delia's most dangerous and difficult journey yet.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: John Welles

Polly Klaas was taken from her own home in the middle of the night back in 1993. But had the legal system worked like it was supposed to, the man who took her never should have been walking free that night to enter her home. Her case went on to spark an outcry in the country for harsher punishment on repeat offenders. But when her case set the precedent for the three-strikes rule there was backlash no one anticipated.

PRECEDENT: Polly Klaas

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When the bodies of eight missing sex workers are found in the home of a serial killer in Poughkeepsie, New York, one woman is noticeably absent: Michelle Eason. Decades after closing the case against Kendall Francois, police are still looking for Michelle - and they think there’s a good chance someone else may be responsible for her disappearance.

MISSING: Michelle Eason Part 2

When Michelle Eason is reported missing, she’s the fifth sex worker in one year to vanish from Poughkeepsie, New York. As police work to get to the bottom of all the disappearances, there’s no shortage of suspects.

MISSING: Michelle Eason Part 1

When 19-year-old Southern Illinois University student Pravin Varughese dies unexpectedly, police quickly rule his death a tragic accident and close the case. But for many, the facts just don’t quite add up. His mother’s years-long battle for justice is marked with soaring highs and dizzying lows – but even with so much progress, there are still unanswered questions.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Pravin Varughese

An anonymous letter-writer antagonized residents of Circleville, Ohio for years, singling out the school superintendent, Gordon Massie, and a local bus driver, Mary Gillispie, as the focus of much of the vitriol. When Mary finds a booby trap with a loaded gun in 1983, the gun is traced to her brother-in-law Paul Freshour – but the letters would continue long after Paul went to prison for attempted murder.

INFAMOUS: Circleville Letters

Karen Gregory dies a violent death in the hallway of her own home, on a quiet residential street in Gulfport, Florida. After a two-year search for justice, police find out that their killer was right in front of them all along.

MURDERED: Karen Gregory

When Erica Alonso disappears on Valentine’s Day after a night out with her ex-boyfriend, a months-long search turns up clue after clue before her body is found in the middle of nowhere. The case looks like a murder until some surprising evidence is found – and investigators come to a conclusion that, to this day, leaves many questions unanswered and has her family demanding more.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Erica Alonso

Marqueise Coleman had his whole life ahead of him when he was shot to death in a trailer in North Carolina – all because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Police say this horrific crime can be solved if someone just speaks up, and his family and friends won’t rest until he gets justice.

MURDERED: Marqueise Coleman

This is an update to the August 2020 episode "UNIDENTIFIED: Flathead County Doe." In the year and a half since the release of that episode, more people submitted their DNA to genealogical databases, and in February 2022 Flathead County Doe was identified as Steven Gooch.

UPDATE: Flathead County Doe

the summer of 1992, the brutal rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker shakes the community of Waukegan, IL to its core. When Juan Rivera confesses to the crime, it seems like Holly’s family and members of the public might be able to breathe a sigh of relief. But that’s only the beginning of a case that would haunt the Illinois justice system for years.

INFAMOUS: Juan Rivera

From the moment her sister Erica’s phone went to voice mail, Emily Corbin knew something was wrong. But thanks to all those true crime shows – and countless episodes of Crime Junkie – she also knew exactly what she had to do to find her. Her tenacity not only led police to Erica, but helped solve her murder and two others -- and took the worst kind of serial predator off the streets. 

Anyone with information that may be helpful to investigators regarding Harold David Haulman III and other possible victims should call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov

MURDERED: Erica Gene Shultz

Emma Walker had what looked to the world like a picture-perfect high school relationship — until her football player boyfriend revealed the ugly truth. Mya Pena looked past the red flags and saw a guy in need of unconditional love. And when she couldn’t give that to him, he decided she wouldn’t be giving it to anyone else either.

MURDERED:  Emma Walker and Mya Peña

The January 2010 death of JoAnn Matouk Romain gets even more mysterious when her family learns of two other cases connected to hers. One, which seems to not even be real, and another that is all too real and shares some eerie similarities.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain Part 2

In January 2010 JoAnn Matouk Romain runs a quick errand to get gas followed by attending a 15-minute prayer service, then she walks into the freezing lake across the street to take her own life. Or at least that's what police say. But from the very moment they notify the family about her case they know something isn't right. And the deeper they look they learn that nothing is what it seems.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain Part 1

When Megan Kanka went missing in 1994 her case exposed one of the holes in the sex offender registry. Yes, people were registered but that was only known to government officials, not to those living among potential predators. Had her parents known who was living right down the street from them Megan’s story might have ended differently. Instead, it set a precedent for community reporting.

PRECEDENT: Megan Kanka

When Jacob Wetterling went missing in 1989 one of the first thoughts police had, was to track down all the local violent sex offenders in the area to see if they could be potential suspects. But this was easier said than done because back then there was no centralized database for this sort of thing. Jacob’s case went unsolved for decades and his mom always wondered if her son fell through the cracks of a system without enough regulation. So, she worked to set a precedent that would require all sex offenders to be registered. Though, she would later go on to regret that work.

PRECEDENT: Jacob Wetterling

Audiochuck’s newest weekly show, The Deck, is hosted by Ashley Flowers and takes true-crime listeners through a deck of playing cards that is unlike any other.

For years, state prison systems and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have replaced the face cards of queens, kings and aces in traditional playing card decks with images of missing and murdered people. Investigators have passed these modified decks out in jails and prisons hoping that they will make their way into the hands of someone with answers. These are the coldest of cases where investigators have no choice but to show their hand in the hopes of getting killers to fold.

Join Ashley Flowers every Wednesday as she works with investigators and victims’ families to recount the details of these cases in hopes that justice may finally be served.

Listen to The Deck wherever you get your podcasts or visit ﻿https://thedeckpodcast.com/

MURDERED: Linda Smith (9 of Hearts, Idaho)

A 12-year-old girl slips through the cracks…and exposes them in every system that should have protected her. Now her sister is fighting for justice, hoping to find out who murdered her sister nearly 25 years ago.

MURDERED: Georgia Leah Moses

When 17-year-old Chrystul Kizer is arrested for first-degree murder in Milwaukee, the investigation uncovers a connection between her and her victim that can’t be ignored. And it mirrors an eerily similar story -- that of Cyntoia Brown -- that played out over a 15-year span in Tennessee.

SURVIVED: Chrystul Kizer and Cyntoia Brown

A woman goes missing, leaving behind little evidence to help figure out when, how, where or why she disappeared. But her determined daughter has spent years piecing together every clue she can find.

MISSING: Diane Francis

When Lauren Dumolo disappeared, she left behind a ton of questions, a mystery that keeps unfolding and a family desperately searching for answers.

MISSING: Lauren Dumolo

Just before Valentine’s Day in 2001 a New Jersey housewife goes missing. For almost a decade her case remains unsolved until a bizarre connection is made to a clue that washed ashore years before.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Patricia Viola

When Mary Lynn Witherspoon doesn’t show up to work at the South Carolina school where she taught, her friends and family immediately know something must be wrong. And they immediately suspect the involvement of a person who had been stalking and harassing Mary Lynn for more than twenty years. There’s just one problem: that person is supposed to be in jail.

MURDERED: Mary Lynn Witherspoon

A 16-year-old vanishes from England’s Isle of Wight. And the quest for answers leads us deeper and deeper into an underbelly most didn’t even know existed on the island.

MISSING: Damien Nettles

Well hello there and Happy Holidays! Ashley Flowers teams up with comedians Holly Laurent and Greg Hess to imagine the hilarious “truth” hidden in your holiday newsletters on audiochuck's short-form comedy podcast, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE!
They come via mail, email, and Facebook post. The ubiquitous “holiday newsletter” from friends and family reminding you just how great life has been for them over the past year. From boring to bragging, and always chock full of BS. Of course, we’re reading between the lines— but that’s the fun of the podcast. It's a Wonderful Lie is for anyone who has rolled their eyes at receiving a Christmas update.
You can find It's a Wonderful Lie wherever you get your podcasts or at www.itsawonderfulliepodcast.com

NEW SHOW: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE

The investigation into Sherese Walker Bingham’s death points police in one direction: toward her husband, Eugene Bingham Jr. But all of their evidence isn’t enough to make a murder charge stick.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Sherese Walker Bingham (Part 2)

A woman takes her dogs for their nightly walk and is shot and killed with her own gun in a downtown Indianapolis state park. Is it a tragic accident or cold-blooded murder?

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Sherese Walker Bingham (Part 1)

When young mother goes missing from the reservation border town of Mobridge, South Dakota, investigators struggle to find any leads in the case. A chance discovery along the muddy banks of the Missouri River answers one question. But it’ll take 15 years and a whole lot of chance to finally unravel the mystery of what happened – and why – on one fateful night in 1980.

MURDERED: Candace Rough Surface

Two women. Two cities. Two years apart. Both of them – vanished without a trace. Both are mysteries that need to be solved. 

If you have information on the disappearance of Kierra Coles please contact the Chicago Police Special Victim’s Unit at 312-747-8274. And if you have any information on the disappearance of Keeshae Jacobs please contact Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000 or text I-TIP to 274637 to submit tips anonymously.

MISSING: Kierra Coles and Keeshae Jacobs

After 25-year-old Janet Abaroa is discovered brutally murdered in her North Carolina home, her family suspects her husband’s involvement. But a lack of direct evidence means the case goes cold for years, leaving Janet’s family without closure and potentially putting another woman in danger.

MURDERED: Janet Abaroa

Ellen Rae Greenberg had everything going for her when she was found dead in the apartment she shares with her fiancé. Police are quick to say she died by suicide – despite the 20 stab wounds she sustained. But her heartbroken parents are sure she was murdered and their search for answers has raised serious questions about the investigation.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Ellen Greenberg

Audiochuck's new true crime podcast Strangeland is available to binge right now wherever you get your podcasts! Or visit the website strangelandpodcast.com

NEW SHOW: STRANGELAND

A young soldier vanishes during a camping trip. His partial remains wash up on the beach 10 days later.

MURDERED: Enrique Roman Martinez

This year’s Halloween’s special is the story of a woman whose tragic murder almost went unsolved… until a tip came in from the last person police expected.

CAPTURED: Allan Showery

A strange phenomenon keeps occurring where young men go missing from their cars and then seem to vanish into thin air. It happened in 2008 to Brandon Swanson, 2020 To Jason Landry, and 2021 to Daniel Robinson. It seems impossible that they could walk away from their vehicles, sometimes even leaving their clothes behind and never be seen again. Their families need your help to find their loved ones!

MISSING: Young Men From Their Cars

A 21yo British woman is less than a month into a foreign exchange in Perugia, Italy when she is brutally murdered in her apartment. Everyone’s world is turned upside-down. And for the woman who found herself in the center of the storm -- and on trial for murder -- it has stayed that way ever since. My question is: Why, all these years later -- long after the courts have spoken -- are we still talking about Amanda Knox?

MURDERED: Meredith Kercher

A violent marriage ends in a bloody murder. Police solve the case -- but it’s the victim who ends up on trial in a case that thrust the issue of domestic violence into the public conversation and made it impossible for law enforcement to ignore.

MURDERED: Billy Stafford

Spooky Season is here! So you know what that means. Full Body Chills is back with 20 brand new stories in season 3 and 10 more episodes added to season 2. These are creepy fiction stories that are sure to send a chill down your spine.
This season is better than ever with more immersive sound fx and digital art every Monday and Friday to accompany the episodes. New episodes come out every weekday until Halloween so don't wait - go binge RIGHT NOW!
You can find Full Body Chills wherever you get your podcasts or at FullBodyChillsPodcast.com

Full Body Chills IS BACK!

For years, David Hendricks was the walking embodiment of the true crime trope "The Husband Did It." After his family was brutally murdered in their Illinois home back in 1983, police were quick to zero in on him as their main suspect despite the lack of evidence and mostly because... nothing else made any sense. Decades later some still believe in his guilt but knowing what we know now can you still be so sure?

MURDERED: The Hendricks Family

In the 1980s the Denver area was terrorized by a hammer-wielding mad man. But as fast as the attacks started, they suddenly stopped. Leaving the area to wonder if the mad man was dead or had moved on to another place. Once answers came, decades later the public would learn that the truth was much more concerning.

CAPTURED: Denver Hammer Killer

One woman’s promising career in Washington, D.C. is cut short when she mysteriously vanishes one night on her way home from work.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang

Summary: Gabby Petito is missing after a cross-country trip with her fiancée. He returned home alone with her van and since has refused to speak with her family or police. 
 
The Family’s approved GoFundMe page can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-find-gabby
NOTE: Be aware of other pages as they may be scams.
 
Like Gabby, Lauren “El” Cho went missing this summer as well after her friends say she walked out towards the mountains and was never seen again. Police have found no trace of her yet there has been very little media coverage. Anyone with information about Lauren Cho is asked to call detective Shaunna Ables at the sheriff’s station at (760) 366-4175. and reference DR 092101115.

Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/missing-gabby-petito/

MISSING: Gabby Petito

Robbing an armored truck is one of the most difficult and dangerous crimes someone can commit. These illegal acts take patience, precision and planning...skills most run-of-the mill robbers don’t possess. If a suspect is successful, the payoff can be millions of dollars all at once, which is why throughout the decades some men and women have tried to execute the perfect plan to net one of these mobile money pots. In this 10-part series host of Disgraceland, Jake Brennan details some of the most daring and deadly armored truck heists in history that left lasting marks on society and law enforcement agencies across the world. From Audiochuck and executive producer Delia D’Ambra, Armored is an in-depth, research-based original podcast and the first two episodes are out RIGHT NOW!

INFAMOUS: Armored Truck Heists

For decades after she was mysteriously murdered and left on the side of a busy interstate, she was known only as Orange Socks Doe. But after years of investigations, law enforcement learns that her case may be even more complicated than they first thought.

MURDERED: Debra Jackson (Orange Socks Doe)

When a young man vanishes in a small resort town, the question is: does someone know something, or does no one know anything?

MISSING: Ryan Shtuka

Two notorious murder cases stay ice cold for decades, until a mysterious clue helps bring a killer to justice.

CAPTURED: Rocky Mountain Killer

When a 38-year-old woman leaves her home - and a violent marriage - without saying goodbye, her two adult daughters suspect her husband. By the time police take interest in the file and begin investigating, years have passed and the case is cold. 

If you have any information regarding the disappearance and possible homicide of Mary Badaracco please contact the Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crime Squad at #800-376-1554 or email WDIST.MCS.Sec@po.state.ct.us

MISSING: Mary Badaracco

A young woman’s shocking murder forces residents to question the very people who are supposed to keep them safe.

If you have any information about the murder of Lisa Au, please call the Honolulu Police Department at 808-529-3111, or you can go online and submit your tips anonymously at www.honolulucrimestoppers.org.

MURDERED: Lisa Au

Police in Cleveland enter a home in Mount Pleasant to arrest a man on sexual assault charges. But they don’t find their suspect. And what they do find sends an already struggling community into chaos.

SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

A teenage girl finds community online, but her family believes she also found something much more sinister.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Alicia Navarro, please call the Glendale Police Department at (623) 930-3000.
You can go to www.AntiPredatorProject.org to make a tax-deductible donation or you can buy something from their clothing line at www.getapparel.org with all of the profits going directly to the organization.

MISSING: Alicia Navarro

Una joven encuentra una comunidad en línea, pero su familia cree que ella se encontró con algo más siniestro.
Si usted tiene información sobre la desaparición de Alicia Navarro, por favor llame al Departamento de la Policía de Glendale al (623) 930-3000.
Si desea hacer una donación deducible de impuestos, puede visitar la página de www.AntiPredatorProject.org. O también, puede comprar mercancía en www.GetApparel.org. Todas las ganancias irán directamente a la organización.

DESAPARECIDA: Alicia Navarro

Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store in 1976. He’s still on death row today - 45 years later. But did he do it? And could DNA evidence exonerate him?

INFAMOUS: Tommy Zeigler

Audiochuck’s founder and CEO, Ashley Flowers, has founded a new non-profit called Season of Justice. Season of Justice (SOJ) is dedicated to providing funding to law enforcement agencies and families to help solve cold cases. SOJ provides grants to law enforcement for advanced DNA analysis solutions, such as forensic genealogy and next-generation sequencing. The organization also awards grants to families to support awareness campaigns, search teams and other initiatives that can assist in pushing their cold cases forward. SOJ’s goal is to provide financial resources for both law enforcement and families in order to bring closure to those impacted by unsolved violent crimes.
Though Season of Justice is completely separate from audiochuck, it’s because of Crime Junkie listeners that we have been able to fund the organization so far. Every time you’ve ordered merch, signed up for the fan club or just listened to one of our ads on Crime Junkie we have donated to SOJ.
Because of you we have already been able to award $145,000 in grants to assist with 25 cold cases. And that’s JUST the beginning. We expect to award another $75,000 to $100,000 through the rest of this year and hopefully much more in the years to come.
At audiochuck, we believe we have a responsibility to do more than just tell these stories. We believe you as listeners have a responsibility to do more than just listen. We really wanted to be able to move the needle in the true crime space and create responsible true crime content and we are doing that together. Because of you and because of this show, we will all be directly responsible for making a difference. For making sure justice is served. For doing right by the people whose stories we tell.
Whether you’ve been here since day one or you just found our show – THANK YOU. Thank you for being a part of this journey. And thank you for helping us making a lasting responsible impact in the true crime space.
Audiochuck will always continue to use the funds brought in by our fans to support Season of Justice and other non-profits and cases that are important to us and our listeners, but if you want to donate directly you can visit the website Seasonofjustice.org. Season of Justice is a 501(c)(3) and all donations are tax-deductible. 
Law enforcement, victims and families can also submit grant applications on the website for funding.
One day we hope to wake up and say there are no more cold cases… That won’t be tomorrow, but there is a future where that’s possible. And thank you for making that happen.

SEASON OF JUSTICE!!!

A family’s brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questions.

WANTED: The Keddie Cabin Killer

When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montana, her family and friends hold their breath waiting for answers. As the months pass, the story that starts to emerge is one so inconceivable, it will have you wondering: what exactly is going on in Big Horn County?

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Kaysera Stops Pretty Places

For years, the LGBTQ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. Police disagreed and downplayed their concerns -- and all the while, more men vanished into thin air. But the truth, when it was finally revealed, showed just how complicated a relationship still exists between Toronto Police and the LGBTQ community.

SERIAL KILLER: Bruce McArthur

The Pan Family seemed to have it all until a shocking home invasion upended their lives in the most vicious way imaginable.

CAPTURED: Jennifer Pan

In 2001, a young man vanished without a trace and more than 20 years later the only thing law enforcement is sure of is that someone in Skidmore, Missouri knows something. 

If you have any information about the disappearance of Branson Perry, please contact the Community United Effort Center 24-hour tip line at 910-232-1687, the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office at 660-582-7451, or the Missouri State Highway Patrol Hotline at 1-800-525-5555.

MISSING: Branson Perry

Two teenage girls in love are forced to endure an unimaginable trauma that rocks their south Texas town.

MURDERED: Mollie Olgin

A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tennessee.

INFAMOUS: The Signal Mountain Murders

A Catholic priest is found savagely beaten to death in an Odessa, TX motel room in 1981. A man confessed to the crime -- but instead of closing the case, people are still left wondering: Was justice served in the murder of Father Patrick Ryan?

MURDERED: Father Patrick Ryan

A Tokyo family is slaughtered in their home, leaving behind a brutal and baffling mystery.

INFAMOUS: The Setagaya Family Murders

A little girl vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night only to be found brutally murdered, forcing her community to recognize that the worst really IS possible.

If you have any information about the murder of Rosie Tapia, please call the Salt Lake City police department at 801-799-3455.

MURDERED: Rosie Tapia

A woman leaves her sister’s home one April day in 1998 and never returns. But she doesn’t vanish into thin air, because over the next several years, there are sightings, phone calls, even physical signs that she might be out there somewhere. 
If you have any information about Diane Augat’s disappearance, contact Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS.

May is Mental Health Month. Please take care of yours. 

The National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine 
Open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. ET
1-800-950-6264 
info@nami.org. 

National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Open 24/7
By phone: 1-800-273-8255 (1-800-273-TALK) 
By text: send HELLO to 741741

Special thanks to Dr. Claire O’Donovan, MB, FRCPC for speaking to our team about bipolar disorder and to our friend Sarah who shared her personal story with us.

MISSING: Diane Louise Augat

In 1989 the small town of Lakeville, Indiana was rocked by the massacre of a pastor and his family. The pastor's only surviving son was ultimately convicted of this infamous crime but there is more to this twisted story than has ever been told before. On April 29th, 2021 (the 32nd anniversary of the crime) the audiochuck original podcast CounterClock will be releasing 20 episodes on this case to binge! Listen and determine for yourself if Jeff Pelley is guilty and right where he should be, serving a life sentence in prison. OR... if a pastor's secret past caught up to him and his son was wrongfully convicted for the crime.

INFAMOUS: Prom Night Murders

A beautiful young woman's brutal murder at the height of Midwestern summer shatters her community's sense of safety forever and exposes a monster hiding right there in plain sight. 

Please join us in supporting www.justiceforsierah.org

MURDERED: Sierah Joughin

When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing issue of femicide in Turkey. The campaign takes off -- but while it gains momentum, it loses its original meaning. This is the real story behind the viral #ChallengeAccepted campaign that flooded your Insta feed in the summer of 2020.

INFAMOUS: #ChallengeAccepted

When a mother of three walks out her front door and into the New York morning, she leaves a trail of heartbreak, suspicion, and unanswered questions in her wake. It takes almost 15 years for investigators to finally untangle the truth about her disappearance –and the unimaginable reason behind it all.
For resources on child sexual abuse, including what to look for and how to file a report, visit www.d2l.org

MURDERED: Peggy Reome

When Esther Hollis goes missing after a conversation with her husband, her best friend and sister try to get justice in what they believe is a no body homicide.

MISSING: Esther Hollis

We’re dropping in your feed again today to share some exciting news! Audiochuck has teamed up with well-known journalist and podcaster Justine Harman for audiochuck’s newest 10-part series, O.C. Swingers! When Newport Beach Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Grant Robicheaux and his fresh-faced girlfriend are accused of drugging and raping many women, the attractive young couple claims the prosecution simply has a problem with their party lifestyle. But you can’t spell “lifestyle” without “lies”.
You can listen to the first TWO episodes right now, and be sure to follow O.C. Swingers for a new episode every Monday.
For episode information and sources, please visit https://www.ocswingers.com

NEW SHOW: O.C. Swingers

In 1995 a new mother is killed after being attacked by a man who'd been harassing her. Or at least, that's what everyone believed. But years later investigators learn there might be much more to the story.

MURDERED: Donnah Winger

When a woman is murdered in a small Rust Belt town, the quest to find her killer gets turned upside down.

MURDERED: Heather Bogle

Two different people have one terrible thing in common: they were both brutally murdered but despite evidence left at the scene no one has been able to identify them in decades, leaving many still wondering who they are and what really happened to them.

UNIDENTIFIED: St. Louis Doe // Beth Doe

Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint in the middle of the night from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002. She was 14 years old. For more than 9 months, she was held captive by a predator – one who kept her hidden in plain sight.
To learn more about the programs and services Elizabeth mentioned please visit https://www.elizabethsmartfoundation.org

SURVIVED: Elizabeth Smart

After Mark Lundy was convicted of viciously slaying his wife and daughter, another story started to emerge, leading many people in New Zealand to wonder…was the wrong man behind bars?

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 2

When a woman and her young daughter are found brutally murdered in their home, the investigation leads to the person who was supposed to have loved them more than anyone else in the world.

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 1

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball was one of our most popular episodes ever! And it's more terrifying than we even knew because after our episode many women from all over the country wrote in and said they experienced the exact same thing! With the help of Delia D'Ambra we tracked down the bartender and witness from our original story and spoke to a number of other survivors along with an agent from the FBI to figure out what's really going on!

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball 2.0

On a cold day in March 2010, workers discovered a woman lying unconscious under the MacKay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - barely breathing and clinging to life. It was 31-year-old Holly Bartlett. Police say she walked almost a quarter of a mile from the front door of her condo building, where she crawled through a hole in a barbed wire fence, climbed a 20ft concrete cable abutment, and fell to the frozen ground below. But that theory makes no sense to Holly’s friends and family, who spend the next ten years trying to understand what happened to Holly Bartlett.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Holly Bartlett

A child's mysterious disappearance sparks tough questions about his adoptive family and the system that placed him there.
If you know anything about the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker, please contact the Cambridge-Greenwich police at 518-677-3044.

For more information on how you can support the nonprofit Child Advocates, check out their website www.childadvocates.net

MISSING: Jaliek Rainwalker

Have you ever thought about whose job it is to track international fugitives, hunt child abductors, conduct espionage, or pull human remains from concealed mass graves? Every day thousands of good and decent people work in these Dark Arenas. They’ve chosen professions that grapple with the grotesque, deal with the deviant, and dodge the dangerous. 
In audiochuck’s newest original series, Dark Arenas, you will hear first-hand accounts of what it's like to investigate the darkest crimes and most violent criminals in society. 
This Episode: Devil in the Details
Some federal agents' nine-to-five job is reviewing thousands of images and videos of child sex abuse material. Their meticulous work in this dark arena exposes details hidden within the images that help track and catch predators. In today's episode, we talk one-on-one with the FBI agent whose best tool against child sex predators is the predator.
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NEW SHOW: Dark Arenas

A shockingly brutal crime rocks a rural New Zealand community, but the fallout has bigger consequences than anyone could ever have imagined.

MURDERED: Harvey and Jeannette Crewe

As of 2pm ET on January 21, 2021 The Sumter County Sheriff's office has identified the Sumter County Does as 25-year-old Pamela Buckley of Colorado Springs, CO and 30-year-old James Freund of Lancaster, PA. 

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UPDATE: Sumter County Does - IDENTIFIED!!!

When Michaela Garecht was abducted in 1988, no one was prepared for the heartbreaking investigation to drag on for over 30 years. But just when the case seems to be ice-cold forever, police make a stunning announcement.

CAPTURED: Bay Area Predator

Late one night in 2007, Jeramy Burt left his home to meet up with a friend but never made it. His disappearance opened up a mystery made even more complicated by love triangles, secret recordings, an arrest, and a connection to another missing local man years before.

MISSING: Jeramy Burt

A normal Saturday morning at the bowling alley takes a shocking and brutal twist that shakes a New Mexico town all the way to its very foundations.

If you know anything about the Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre, you can report tips to Crime Stoppers anonymously by calling 1-800-222-8477 or by visiting their website at www.nmcrimestoppers.org.

INFAMOUS: Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

A young college student never comes home after a night of dancing. All the evidence suggests she's been murdered, but if her body is never found, can her killer ever be brought to justice?

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MURDERED: Gina Hall

Crime Junkie OFFICIALLY turns 3 today, and we decided to give ourselves and YOU a little birthday gift...we’re still the same pod, but with a NEW LOOK! And to celebrate we are giving you a very different kind of bonus episode! Join us as we take a look back at some of the most bizarre moments in criminal justice history - Crime Junkie style!
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AUDIO EXTRA: Bizarre Crime History

Even though they're strangers who've never met, two women suffer through similar patterns of fear and intimidation, praying for help that doesn't come until it's too late.

STALKED: Dorothy Jane Scott // Cynthia Jane Anderson

When a young mother fails to show up at her scheduled shift at the bank, her friends and colleagues are immediately suspicious. The investigation into her disappearance uncovers a truth so twisted, it’s almost impossible to believe -- and shows us all how tangled people can become in the web of a con-man’s lies.

MURDERED: Girly Chew Hossencofft

We're dropping in your feed on an unusual day of the week to tell you an unusual Crime Junkie story. Thanks to the podcast Something Was Wrong, Ashley stumbled across a story that shook her to her core. She's convinced that a bigger operation is going on undetected and she needs you to listen and write in to help solve this mystery! This story is also a good reminder to always be weird, be rude, watch out for one another, AND STAY ALIVE!

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BWBRSA: Operation Fireball

The investigation into one man reported missing from South Bend, Indiana, uncovers four dead bodies and many uncomfortable truths, and shines a light into one of the darkest corners of America.

INFAMOUS: Manhole Murders

Madeleine McCann was just three years old in 2007 when she disappeared from her family’s room during a resort vacation in Portugal. The whole world watched with bated breath for the last 13 years while authorities searched, chased leads and named potential suspects. Most assumed we’d never know the truth about what happened to Madeleine. But you know what they say about assumptions…

MURDERED: Madeleine McCann

In 1992, a teenage girl disappears from her home during Hurricane Andrew, leaving behind only a few gruesome clues and kicking off a search for answers that hits closer to home than anyone could ever have expected.

MISSING: Leigh Occhi

When a 20-year-old soldier goes missing from one of the largest military bases in the country, her tight-knit family is determined to find her and bring her home. But the investigation into her disappearance uncovers more than anyone bargained for - secrets, lies, and a system that failed to protect the people within it. And it has left everyone asking: what is going on at Fort Hood, Texas?

CONSPIRACY: Fort Hood

When Tamika Huston goes missing and leaves everything behind, her family is sure from the very start that something terrible has happened, because she never would have left without her dog. It will take dedicated police work and vital clues for them to learn the truth.