A Simpler Time True Crime
Join me each week as I discuss an unsolved case from the early 2000' and before. I discuss the illusion of safety in the days of lighter technology and explore the ways modern advancements could solve some of these cases.
Each episode will have you asking "It may have been a simpler time, but was it a safer one?"
Episodes
22 episodes
The Disappearance of Roger Ellison
A high school senior rides the bus to school, puts his books into his locker, talks to his friends, and never makes it to his first period class. He was on the verge of qualifying for the USA Ski Team, had put down his deposit for college, and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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42:36
The Mysterious Disappearance and Murder of Judy Smith
A woman travels with her husband from Boston to Philadelphia to attend his work conference. She decides to do a day of sightseeing while he works. When she fails to meet back at the hotel on their agreed upon time, alarm bells go off in her hus...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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38:02
The Murder of Henryk Siwiak
A man from Poland is in the United States trying to earn enough money to help his family back home. His job as a day laborer at a construction site in lower Manhattan is interrupted by the events of 9/11/2001. Desperate to not lose out on any m...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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27:56
The Solved Murders of Jasmine Porter and Donna Macho
This week I'm doing something a little different. In an effort to show that ice cold cases still have hope of being solved, I'm sharing two with that outcome from the past couple of years. But a big purpose of this episode is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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37:57
The Abduction of Gail Joiner
In the fall of 1972, a young girl in a rural community outside of Tampa couldn’t wait to get some fresh air after school. And for this walk, she had a unique companion: her pet raccoon whom she affectionally called Bandit. She walked out of the...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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51:07
The Murders of Valerie, Shontia, and Duana Pride
A devastated father faces tragedy one day when he loses his nine year old daughter to an accidental drowning. He returns home to be with his girlfriend and her two daughters, to try to catch some sleep and regroup on how to put the pieces of hi...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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31:33
The Murder of Nelson Jones
A little boy begs his family to stay home alone for the first time ever. His tiny midwestern town was nearly free of crime, with the last reported homicide being in 1928. But in the fall of 1990 that would change. After a day of playing with fr...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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30:38
The Disappearance of Joan Hansen
The Queen of True Crime, The late Ann Rule, cited Bob Milton Hansen as one of the meanest men she has ever written about. That is the person that Joan Hansen was trying to leave in the summer of 1962. While on the phone with her best friend, Jo...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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40:44
The Disappearance of Ann Miller, Renee Bruhl, and Patricia Blough
Three young women go sunbathing at the popular Indiana Dunes on 4th of July Weekend 1966. They are last seen getting on a boat with a man and never seen again. Theories run the gamut, from botched abortions to the dark underbelly of the horse i...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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40:40
The Unsolved Granite Bay Murders Part 2: The Murder of Cherilyn Hawkley
An elementary school teacher who stayed late in her classroom to clean up after her classrooms Halloween party. One minute, a school custodian saw her sweeping up popcorn and packing up her things, and the next she was just gone. A school...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:15
The Unsolved Granite Bay Murders Part 1: The Murder of Cindy Wanner
A mother is making a little extra money by cleaning her sister's house in an upscale neighborhood. She is feeding her eleven-month old daughter cereal in her high chair while cleaning each room. Somewhere in a small forty-five minute window, so...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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49:30
Mini Update Episode: Killer Identified in 1996 Shenandoah National Park Double Murder
Jumping on for just a few minutes for a mini update on the breaking news of the suspect identified in the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans. This case was discussed in episode 5: The Murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds and the mystery...
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6:19
The Murder of Jennifer Lin
A middle school latchkey kid gets home from school in her upscale neighborhood and goes about her routine of talking on the phone, watching TV, and playing her piano. But what she didn't know was that the whole time she was home, someone was th...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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39:08
The Disappearance of Shannon Sherrill
A kindergartner is playing hide and seek with neighborhood friends on an unseasonably warm fall day. She runs off barefoot to find a hiding spot, but her friends can't find her. In fact, nobody could. The neighborhood had plenty of people outsi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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44:51
The Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall
An honors student is two weeks out from graduation and working her after school job as an clerical assistant at the home office of a local businessman. What seems like an ordinary evening quickly takes a turn when she doesn't make the phone cal...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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29:50
The Murder of Tammy Jo Alexander
A teen girl is found shot dead in a cornfield in a rural community south of Rochester, NY. Days, weeks, and years would pass without any clues to her identity. Sheriff John York would dedicate his career to figuring out who the young girl was a...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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31:30
The Murder of Marjorie Dabney
An woman with Alzheimer's disease is left unattended by airline assistance personnel and wanders off after landing for her layover at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. What is thought for years to be negligence that resulted in a terribl...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:15
The Murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds and the Mystery of the Route 29 Stalker
An unknown man prowls the Route 29 corridor in Virginia, flagging down female motorists to pull over for supposed car trouble. He does this with nearly two dozen women, fulfilling his promise to bring them to a payphone for help. What these wom...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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43:55
The Mysterious Disappearance of Sandra Sollie
The notion of safety in the quiet suburbs of Rochester NY is shattered in May of 1994 when two people go missing in the same afternoon. While one case is solved, the other has more questions than answers. A pregnant woman who disappeared after ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:05
The Murders of Nick Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell
Highschool sweethearts survive the Columbine High School mass shooting only to die at the hands of gun violence less than a year later. Despite investigators having extensive evidence, very little information is available on the case and it rem...
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30:07
The Abduction of David Blockett
A woman poses as a social worker to deceive a sleep-deprived teen mom and abduct her newborn. In this episode, Megan discusses infant abductions and the modern measures that have been put in place to prevent these crimes in the hopes of bringin...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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43:58
The Abduction of Ilene Misheloff
An accomplished youth figure skater is able to leave school early to get to skating practice. She takes her usual walk home to get ready but never makes it to home or practice. An uptick of abductions in this California region leaves police que...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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45:13