He wasn’t supposed to be there. That’s the detail that stays with you long after you’ve heard everything else about this case. Carmen J. DeLuca III — CJ — was twenty-three years old, recently engaged, and the manager of a 24-hour gas station just off Interstate 91 in East Windsor, Connecticut. He was covering the […]
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On the morning of June 27, 2000, Molly Bish drove with her mother to a pond in rural Massachusetts. By the time anyone realized something was wrong, she had been gone for less than ten minutes — and despite witnesses reporting screams from the direction of the beach, investigators would find no blood, no torn
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On a Friday morning in December 1995, John and Shelly Markley helped their five children get ready for school in their Bristolville, Ohio, home. Shelly put the youngest, eight-year-old Johnny, on the bus around 8:30 AM. By the time those kids came home that afternoon, both parents had vanished. The doors were unlocked. The coffee
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There is a version of this story that most of America never heard. A sixteen year old girl. Straight-A student. Athlete. The kind of teenager who made everyone around her believe the future was going to be just fine. She traveled from her hometown in North Carolina to Baltimore to spend Christmas with her older
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Room 260: The Unsolved 1980 Double Murder at the Amana Holiday Inn On September 12, 1980, two people checked into Room 260 at the Amana Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa. They had driven 265 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, for a secret weekend together. By the next afternoon, both were dead — killed in one
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The Murder of Brandy Renee Dyson: 20 Years Without Justice in Lake Charles, Louisiana On November 5th, 2005, in the aftermath of two catastrophic hurricanes, 32-year-old Brandy Renee Dyson was found dead in the water behind the Lake Charles Civic Center in Louisiana. She had been strangled. A man was arrested, indicted, and jailed for
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She Was Fine: The Disappearance and Unsolved Death of Mitrice Richardson A deep dive into one of the most infuriating unsolved cases in Los Angeles County history. On September 17, 2009, at 12:28 in the morning, a 24-year-old woman walked out the front doors of the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station in Calabasas, California. She had
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One Dollar: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler Greenville, Alabama · June 6, 1984 WRITTEN BY: CRIME CLUELESS STATUS: UNSOLVED · CASE OPEN MISSING SINCE: JUNE 6, 1984 AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 12 YEARS OLD On the morning of June 6th, 1984, a twelve-year-old girl named Sherry Lynn Marler rode twelve miles into town with her
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On July 8th, 2014, a 28-year-old German man named Lars Mittank walked into an airport doctor’s office in Varna, Bulgaria. He sat down. Someone else walked in. And then Lars stood up, said six words — “I don’t want to die here” — and ran. He sprinted through the terminal. He crossed the tarmac. He
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Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music and all streaming platforms Thirty Years. No Arrest. No Body. No Answers. If you haven’t listened to or read Part One yet, start there. It covers who Jodi Huisentruit was, the morning she disappeared, the physical evidence left behind in that parking lot, and the context that
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