Best Meredith Mack Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 51: Evelyn Throsby 1:09:18

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Everyone knew Evelyn Throsby’s fifth husband wasn’t right for her. Everyone except Evelyn that is. But what they didn’t know was that he was a conman. He used his skills to isolate Evelyn from her friends and family, steal her money, and, ultimately, kill her while keeping everyone in the dark for months. Evelyn’s murder would go on to become a lan…

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Episode 50: Lola Celli 48:30

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It’s 1946. Twenty-four year old Lola Celli is visiting her parents in Grandview Heights, Ohio when she decides to take a bus into Columbus to buy some nylons. But her neighbors don’t report seeing her on the morning bus nor is there any record of her making a purchase at the store she planned to visit. Is it possible that something happened to Lola…

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Episode 49: Patricia Blough, Ann Miller, and Renee Bruhl with guest reader Meredith Garretson 58:08

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On the Fourth of July weekend in 1966, three young women head to Indiana Dunes State Park to enjoy the beach and swim in Lake Michigan. Despite the over 8000 other beach goers there that day, the women somehow vanish without a trace. They’re disappearances spawn many theories over the years, but none bring investigators closer to finding out what h…

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Episode 48: Rocio Sperry with guest reader Tonya Todd 1:00:01

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A serial killer sends investigators a series of notes, detailing his crimes. In them, he mentions a married woman who drove a white grand am. He claims he murdered her and that investigators should be able to use his clues to identify her. There’s one problem though, investigators can’t find any missing person or murder cases that match these clues…

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Episode 47: Donna Nelton with guest reader Devyn Dalton 50:12

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In 1990, a mushroom hunter finds the burned skeletal remains of woman in rural Arkansas. Due to the brutal treatment of these remains by her killer, she will become known as Bone Woman, and, less often, as Benton County Jane Doe. In 2022, Benton County authorities make a major announcement. Using investigative genetic genealogy, they were able to i…

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Episode 46: Joan Butler, Christine Rusch, and Theresa Brown Part 2 54:20

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It’s June 1989 and Kansas is rocked by a series of attacks on young women. Twenty-four year old Terri Maness was found murdered in her townhouse and eleven days later 24 year old Joan Butler goes missing from her apartment. Just days after that, two roommates, Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch are abducted as well. These abductions spur a manhunt a…

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Episode 45: Joan Butler, Christine Rusch, and Theresa Brown Part 1 38:05

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Summary In June 1989, Terri Maness is found murdered in her townhouse in Wichita Kansas. Over a week later and 200 miles away, Joan Butler doesn’t show up for work worrying her family and co-workers, but when they go to her apartment, she’s nowhere to be found. Initially, there’s nothing to connect these two cases, but within a week, investigators …

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Episode 44: Camden County Jane Doe with guest reader Shay Mack 42:18

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In 1979 the body of a woman was found on or under a porch in North Camden, New Jersey. Years later, her skull is found in another residence. Despite this shocking find, little information is known about her. This week we try to shine light on her story and the factors that have worked against her identification. This week our guest reader is Shay M…

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Episode 43: Sneha Philip with guest reader Sakina Jaffrey Part 2 52:14

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Though Dr. Sneha Philip, who lived just blocks from the World Trade Center, is last seen on September 10th, she is added to the list of 9/11 victims. That is until the NYPD starts investigating her personal history and this investigation leads to her removal. Over the years her family fights for her to be recognized as one of the victims and, in 20…

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Episode 42: Sneha Philip with guest reader Sakina Jaffrey Part 1 42:22

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New York City, September 10th, 2001. The day before the attacks on the World Trade Center is a day when most New York City residents are going about their regular business. The same was true for Dr. Sneha Philip who left her Battery Park apartment that evening to run some errands. It wasn’t unusual for her to spend the night out in the city, but wh…

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Episode 41: North Arlington Jane Doe with guest reader Crystal Balint. 48:27

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In December 1990, a woman accidentally drowned in the Passaic River in New Jersey. Despite these tragic circumstances, her story garners little media attention. She becomes one of the tens of thousands of individuals who are currently unidentified in the United States. Researchers call these tens of thousands of unidentified our “silent mass disast…

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Episode 40: Promila Mehta-Paul with guest reader Mouzam Makkar 49:03

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On March 22, 2011, employees at Dr. Promila Mehta-Paul’s medical office arrive and get ready for another busy day of patients and appointments. There’s one problem? The Doctor never arrives. Always reliable and communicative, they know it’s unlikely that she wouldn’t have called if something came up and soon they, along with Promila’s family and fr…

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Episode 39: Deanna Merryfield with guest reader Alison Arngrim 47:37

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At 3:30am, a 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield shows up at her uncle’s trailer and wakes her twin who is sleeping inside. The two talk for just a moment before Deanna, startled by her uncle waking up, bolts. This is the last confirmed time she was seen alive. Since 1990, the year she disappeared, until now, there are a few clues that she might be out t…

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Episode 38: Maria, or the Pyre Case with guest reader Dedee Pfeiffer 44:06

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In 1952, a man comes across the burned body of a woman in Cottonwood Gulch, just outside of Black Hawk, Colorado. He returns to this site several times before reporting what he found to the sheriff’s office, a fact that will immediately cloud his actions in suspicion. Without any identifying information, she becomes known as Maria to some, or more …

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Episode 37: Tara Calico with guest reader Lauren Robertson 52:04

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Perhaps you’ve seen the photo before. A young woman with her hands bound, tape over her mouth, laying in the back of a van with a similarly bound little boy. This photo has, for better or worse, become synonymous with the case of Tara Calico, a 19 year old young woman who disappeared while riding her bicycle in New Mexico in 1988. But beyond that p…

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Episode 36: Lisa Roberts with guest reader Heather Morris 47:00

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In 1977, a young female hitchhiker catches a ride from a man who offers to bring her to her home. Within an hour, the man murders her and leaves her body to be found by a group of blackberry pickers a few days later. She has no identification on her. Though it’s not long before they pinpoint him as the murderer, but he doesn’t know her name. Invest…

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Episode 35: Martha and Sandra Stiver with guest reader Kelsey Wang 50:06

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In 1968, the body of a young woman was found in rural Pennsylvania. She’d been shot to death. Months later, another young woman is found just a few miles away. Their only connection? They wore the same leather sandals. It will take nearly fifty years and an online database dedicated to missing and unidentified persons to identify who they are. But …

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Episode 34: Sequoya Vargas, part 2 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo 45:57

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In August 1993, a man walks into a police station and gives a statement about the disappearance of 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas. In it, he details the brutal assault and murder of the teenager, placing blame for these on his two friends. This statement of what happened to Sequoya will be just one of many that’s given over the years by the three men. …

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Episode 33: Sequoya Vargas, part 1 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo 34:27

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In 1993, 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas hitchhikes with a friend to her friend’s home. Later that evening, the man who gave them a ride asks her to go to his cousin’s house to watch movies. She never returns home. Despite this being out of character for her, the police brush aside her mother’s pleas to search for her daughter, sending her family and fr…

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Episode 32: Case Update: Shauna Harvey/Shauna Garber with guest reader Teryl Rothery 32:38

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Detective Lorie Howard was once told that the only way the case of the unidentified woman she was working on would be by the grace of god. This gave her the name Grace Doe and she was known by this for years until she was finally identified as Shauna Garber. A few weeks ago, investigators made public new information, filling in gaps in Shauna’s sto…

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Episode 31: The Texas Killing Fields: Tot Tran Harriman with guest reader Porter Duong 53:14

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Tot Tran Harriman survived the Vietnam War. She witnessed history when she was evacuated on the last boat out of Saigon before it fell. She lived through being held in a refugee camp in Pennsylvania along with 20,000 other refugees. And made a life for herself in Maine, raising three children, starting new businesses, and helping other refugees. Bu…

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Episode 30: Bessie Kutnak with guest reader Catherine Mary Stewart 40:05

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On a hot summer’s day in 1992, 63-year-old Bessie Kutnak goes to look for her missing cattle near her home in Cameron, Texas. Witnesses say she seemed disoriented and was seen asking for directions before she disappeared. When family members realized she was missing, a full-scale search of her began, but no trace of her was ever found. This week ou…

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Episode 29: Carma Purpura with guest reader Jann Karam 46:52

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On July 11, 2007, a 31-year-old Carma Purpura was last seen getting into the cab of a truck driver at a rest stop near Indianapolis. The next day, he’s arrested in Nashville under suspicion he’s involved in the murder of another woman. Inside his cab, investigators find Carma’s phone and credit card and so much of Carma’s blood detectives are certa…

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episode 28: Wanda Kirkum with guest reader Patricia Rae 37:36

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On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman is seen hitchhiking along US 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, a pair of windsurfers find her body in a densely wooded area. She’d been beaten to death before being strangled with her own bikini top. For years this young woman was known only as Valentine Doe, named for the last day she was seen alive…

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Episode 27: The Last Unidentified Victims of the Green River Killer with guest Tabitha Brownstone 49:49

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In 2001, the Green River Killer was finally caught, ending one of the most horrific eras in the Pacific Northwest and ending a decades long investigation dedicated to identifying this mnan. Convicted of 49 murders, this man confessed to even more, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. It would take over twenty more years to ide…

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Episode 26: The Texas Killing Fields: Shelley Sikes 41:50

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When he spoke of what happened to his daughter Shelley, Ed Sikes said, “It was a crash course in good and evil.” In 1986, when Shelley was 19, she was working as a waitress at a popular restaurant in Galveston. The night she disappeared, she left work and headed to her boyfriend’s house, but Shelley never made it there. Based on eyewitness accounts…

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Episode 25: Shawna Garber/Grace Doe with guest reader Teryl Rothery 49:18

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McDonald County, Missouri. In 1990, a woman and her husband find the remains of a woman near an abandoned house. She’s been bound, her hands and legs tied behind her back. With no identification on her, and no one coming forward to claim her, she becomes one of America’s unidentified women and is given the name Grace Doe, because it will be only th…

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Episode 24: The Lady of the Lake with guest reader Dee Wallace 57:48

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Cleveland, 1934. A man collecting firewood along the shores of Lake Erie is startled to find the partial remains of a woman. Though investigators are able to determine that she was brutally murdered, they are unable to identify the woman, naming her the Lady of the Lake instead. What they didn’t know yet was that the next four years the Cleveland a…

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Episode 23: Linda and Lori Mae Peugeot with guest reader Liz Moore 53:04

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In 1969, 21-year-old Linda Peogeot and her daughter, Lori Mae, leave a department store with all the supplies they need to celebrate the little girl’s third birthday party happening the next day. And there, in the parking lot, they’re abducted by a man in broad daylight with witnesses just feet away. This abduction spurs a nationwide manhunt as inv…

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Episode 22: Audrey Cook and Donna Prudhomme with guest reader Briana Evigan 53:06

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In southern Texas, there’s a strip of highway that runs between Houston and Galveston. From the 1970s until today, it’s a place where many women and girls have gone missing or were murdered. Most of these crimes are unsolved and this area has become known as the Texas Killing Fields. But nestled along Interstate 45 in League City, Texas, is a 25 ac…

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Episode 21: Dorothy Arnold with guest reader Sharon Lawrence 1:00:27

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Dorothy Arnold, a young socialite, vanished without a trace in 1910. Born into wealth and privilege, Dorothy's life seemed idyllic, but her family didn’t support her aspirations to become a writer nor her budding romance with a man named George Griscom Jr., both of which she kept hidden from her family. With her disappearance, a tangled web of theo…

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Episode 20: Pah Pow with guest reader Rainbow Dickerson 39:49

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When 30-year-old Pah Pow leaves her apartment, the only witness is her young son who says she left with a man he recognized but whose name he didn’t know. Her family thought she was with family, her family thought she was with friends. This mistake meant nearly a week passed before anyone realized Pah was missing. An immigrant from Thailand, Pah li…

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Episode 19: Keiosha Felix with guest reader McKenna Roberts 54:51

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Keiosha Felix is just fifteen years old when she disappears from Duson, Louisiana. Out on a weekend pass from a facility for pregnant and parenting teens, she’s set to visit her paternal aunt on the weekend of April 28-29th, 2012. On April 30th, she’s reported missing. Her paternal aunt and cousin said she left the night before with someone they di…

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Episode 18: Beverly Sharpman with guest reader Susan Bennett 38:17

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“Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.” That’s what the telegram read that Beverly Sharpman’s parents received the night of September 11, 1947. But, according to her mother, there was one problem: Beverly wasn’t seeing anyone at the time. This, and the unanswered questions surrounding her disappearance send one mother on a…

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Episode 17: Unpacking Missing White Woman Syndrome With The hosts of Fruitloops Beth and Wendy 57:02

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In Ohio, a black woman’s body is found beneath a bridge and labeled Victim #8. In New York, a black woman found dead inside a storage tote will become known as Peaches for the heart shaped peach tattoo on her breast. And in Georgia, a black woman’s bones are found in the underbrush by a man walking his dog. Like many women of color who came before …

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Episode 16: Eklutna Annie with guest reader Kelly Moneymaker 48:02

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There are more than 57 million miles of Alaskan wilderness. Between the 1970s and 1983, a serial killer used this vast expanse to hunt his victims like wild animals, knowing they could never escape. In 1980, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found in Eklutna, Alaska. Her murderer claimed she was his first victim and may have been a topless…

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Episode 15: Cynthia and Jackie Leslie with special guest Catherine McKenzie 55:24

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They said they were going to go babysit, but secretly had other plans to meet up with a friend. When teenagers Cynthia and Jackie Leslie left their Mesa, Arizona home in 1974, no one was worried. After all, everyone assumed they were exactly where they said: babysitting. When they didn’t return home, though, their family was plunged into a mystery …

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Episode 14: Special Episode : Aimée Baker’s interview on Who Killed...? 1:03:26

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Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins Bill Huffman, host of Who Kills..?, to discuss various cases. Were they touch on the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, who went missing in 2004 in Vermont. Despite the efforts of her family and detectives, the…

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Episode 13: Bitter Creek Betty with guest reader Ginger Strand 43:25

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In 1992, a truck driver pulls onto an interstate turnout on I-80 in Wyoming. There, she spots the body of a woman laying face down in the snow. The unidentified woman becomes known as Bitter Creek Betty or Rose Doe for her rose tattoo. The only clue to her identity is a tattoo artist from Tucson who remembers giving her the distinctive tattoo. In t…

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Episode 12: Cynthia Hernandez with guest reader Gabrielle Ruiz 43:32

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When a teenager disappears from a movie theater in Covina, California, police initially believe she’s run away. In the decades to come, Cynthia Hernandez stays a missing person despite her remains being found just a month after her disappearance. We cover one of our rare solved cases to talk about what happened in those years and why it took so lon…

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Exercise Variations We Love and Hate 52:20

9M ago52:20

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In this episode of Peach Pit Fitness hosts Meredith and Jenn discuss exercises that are often overhyped and may not be the best for everyone. They share a story about a client who experienced a back spasm during a single arm fly exercise and discuss the importance of choosing exercises that are appropriate for an individual's goals and physical con…

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Episode 11: Norma/Bexar County Jane Doe with guest reader Jeané Coakley 46:52

10M ago46:52

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What if a serial killer has the only clues to an unidentified woman’s identity? When a serial killer on death row begins talking about his crimes, investigators are shocked to learn of the 1986 murder of a woman in Texas that indicates his killings began much earlier than they thought. Despite this confession, that woman, whose name he thinks could…

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Episode 10: Nahida Khatib with special guest reader Kathy Najimy 52:26

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Who or what scares witnesses so much that many of them ask to remain anonymous when speaking to investigators? That’s what happened in the disappearance of Nahida Khatib who suddenly vanished from her home one October morning in 1976. This week we’re joined by award-winning actress and activist Kathy Najimy. Kathy Najimy is well-known for her over …

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Episode 9: Pierce County Does 35:31

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What happens to unidentified remains when their cases go cold? Most often, they’re held in evidence or buried. That’s not the case for three unidentified people who were found in Washington’s Pierce County in the 1970s. Instead, two were sent to a local landfill and one was lost. This week, we’re joined by one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, singer…

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Episode 8: Marcia Sossoman King/Buckskin Girl with guest reader Mercedes Rose 47:59

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As one of the most recognizable Jane Does, she was known as Buckskin Girl for 37 years, until one day, that changed. We talk about who she is and what it took to give her her name back. This week we’re joined by actress and voice actor Mercedes Rose. Mercedes has appeared in films such as What the Bleep Do We Know? and television shows like Portlan…

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Episode 7 : Theresa Bier with guest reader Lauren Ash 50:37

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Bigfoot took her. That’s the explanation a 43-year-old man gives after he takes 16-year-old Theresa Bier out hiking and doesn’t return with her. But despite extensive ground and air searches for the teenager, there’s little evidence about what truly happened to Theresa in 1987. If you know anything about the disappearance of Theresa Bier contact th…

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Episode 6: Girly Chew with special guest Raven Goodwin - Part 2 of 2 47:09

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Alien queens, evidence planting, witness threatening: just three ways in which the trials for Girly’s murder become so outlandish that the media starts to lose sight of Girly Chew and the fact that she’s still missing. In this second part to Girly’s story, we talk about what happened during the trial and what was done to try to bring Girly home to …

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Episode 5: Girly Chew with guest reader Raven Goodwin - Part 1 of 2 48:29

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What if everything you believed about your partner wasn’t true at all? Not where they went to school. Not their job. Not even their name. That’s what happened to Girly Chew when she left her home in Malaysia and married the monster who would eventually murder her. This week, we’re joined by Raven Goodwin as we shine light on Part 1 of Girl’s story.…

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Episode 4: Honolulu Jane Doe with guest reader Louise Penny 36:37

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What happens when a living person is found but unable to identify themselves? In 2004, an older woman is found living in a beach park in Honolulu, Hawaii. Diagnosed with both dementia and schizophrenia, she is unable to provide her own name. We talk about her case as well as what happens with living Does and why it’s often difficult to identify the…

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Episode 3: Mary Shotwell Little with guest reader Paige McKenzie 45:19

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When Mary Shotwell Little doesn’t show up for work the morning of October 15, 1965, her boss immediately knows something must be wrong. That afternoon, police find her car at the shopping center she visited the evening before with a friend. Inside the car are her groceries and a small amount of blood. What happened to Mary? And did a mysterious adm…

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