Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

The Dry Fuel Card: Why Someone Returned to Cynthia's Grave A dry fuel card found pressed to a woman's palm in a January drainage ditch defied four days of rain and set detectives on a trail that would unravel eight years and four murders. The laminated fleet card showed no water damage and had been processed by a handling agent who later appeared on truck-stop footage the night she vanished - who came back to place it, and why? In this episode, we tell the facts of Cynthia Bell's disappearance and the small, inexplicable evidence that focused the investigation on a fleet card and the person who last handled it. How did a deactivated commercial fuel card, logged by Robert Ward, end up dry in Cynthia's hand after days of rain, and what did that return mean for the case? Person: Cynthia Bell, age 38 Date: January 8, 2009 (disappearance) and January 14, 2009 (body found) Location: drainage culvert near Bluebell Truck Stop, eleven miles from her workplace Cause of death: manual strangulation Handling Agent: Robert Ward, age 41 - Cynthia worked front desk at Mercer Falls Physical Therapy for eleven years and arrived twelve minutes early to every shift. - Her dark green sedan was found locked at Bluebell Truck Stop on January 11 with her purse and a library book inside. - Her body, estimated to have been in the ditch since the night of January 8, was discovered on January 14 by a utility meter reader. - A laminated fleet fuel card, not belonging to Cynthia, was found pressed against her palm and showed no water damage despite four days of January rain. - The card was processed in its final cycle by Robert Ward, whose cab (number two) was filmed at the Bluebell fuel apron at 23:47 on January 8 and remained at the pump for 22 minutes. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

in maintenance closet accessible to user-group members A single black leather shoe tucked behind a shelving unit held a folded boarding pass dated December 4 - the Pelican Queen's exit scanner shows Amanda Carter boarded that night and never returned. How did a woman who left a book, her glasses, and a locked house simply vanish without a trace? In this episode, we lay out the sequence of small, verifiable details that linked Amanda Carter's disappearance to one man and to access points around the community hall, and we ask how those inconspicuous records and objects fit together to form a deliberate trail. Person: Amanda Carter Date: December 4 (boarding pass), December 5 (reported missing), December 11 (shoe found) Location: Merritt Landing (community hall, church storage room, municipal dock) Person: Keith West Agency: Cassin County Sheriff (Detective Duane Carlson) - Amanda Carter had lived in Merritt Landing for 19 years and chaired the Wednesday euchre club. - A folded Pelican Queen boarding pass dated December 4 was found inside a size eight black leather dress shoe behind a shelving unit. - Pelican Queen exit-scan records show Amanda Carter boarded at Merritt Landing on December 4 and recorded no exit. - Amanda's house showed no forced entry, her car was in the driveway, and her reading glasses rested beside an open library book. - Keith West, 47, a dock line handler and maintenance contractor for Cassin River Gaming, signed the community hall maintenance log once seven months earlier to retrieve a banner and had routine supply requisitions three weeks before Amanda disappeared. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Cairn and the Missing Shoe: How Paula Morris Vanished A single canvas sneaker, women’s size seven, laced and standing upright on three flat stones in a pine corridor led investigators to a shallow grave and a strangled woman found six to nine weeks after her last photograph; who left the shoe and where is the missing second shoe? The discovery unfolded in Harmon County on November 9, 2017, and revealed a pattern tied to a route Paula Morris once traveled - but what exactly connected that route to her death? In this episode, we tell the story of Paula Morris and the sequence of discoveries that followed a bystander's call, describing how the shoe, the burial site, and interviews with clinic staff shaped the inquiry and raised the unanswered question about the absent partner shoe. Person: Paula Morris Date: last confirmed photo September 21, 2017 Location: Ridgeback Loop trail, Harmon County Event: shallow grave found November 9, 2017 Cause: strangulation - The shoe was a single canvas sneaker, women's size seven, laced with the tongue neat and upright, placed on three stacked flat stones. - Paula was reported missing around September 23, 2017, after neighbors noticed her absence and her cat Biscuit's food bowl remained full. - Paula’s last confirmed image was a photograph of her cat dated Thursday, September 21, 2017. - The shallow grave was found about 300 yards from the county road connecting to Millhaven Road and contained Paula’s body buried in a pine stand. - Dental records confirmed Paula’s identity on November 13, 2017, after a dog walker named Wade Nelson and his vizsla found the shoe on November 9, 2017. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Fake DD-214: How a Laminated Lie Led to Double Murder Cold creek water, a laminated DD-214 in a breast pocket, and a name on a blank military form that should not exist - Christine York never served a day in the military, yet someone tucked a readable discharge certificate into her shirt before she died. That laminated lie connects a missing-woman file closed as voluntary departure, a pawnshop purchase for three dollars, and a document processor with access to service records - who made that DD-214, and why did it end in murder? In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the March 24, 2011 discovery in Sulphur Fork to the leads that tied Christine's death to the Delvane Boulevard ecosystem and the man who supplied blank forms. Follow the clues from the creek to Apex Pawn to Forward Step and ask: what did the DD-214 really represent? Person: Christine York Date: March 24, 2011 Location: Sulphur Fork, behind Ridgeline Motor Court, Harwick County Person: Donna Ferris Person: Keith Whitfield - Christine York was 48 years old when her body was found face down in eighteen inches of water. - The DD-214 in York's breast pocket was sealed inside a plastic laminate sleeve and remained legible after more than a day in the creek. - Donna Ferris had been reported missing fourteen months before York's body was discovered and her case was filed under voluntary departure. - A blank DD-214 form could be purchased on Delvane Boulevard for about three dollars at Apex Pawn. - Keith Whitfield, 39, ran document processing for Forward Step and had worked there for six years with access to blank DD-214 forms and service histories. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The man who searched for her body had already chosen where to put it The jacket was hung deliberately on a ladder rung above Diane Lewis, her wallet still in the pocket and forty-three dollars in cash found on the body - a staged scene that left no fingerprints and a wiped metal rung. How could someone travel to a remote culvert, hang a jacket with care, leave no trace, and vanish - and what did the man who later described his intent mean by it? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Diane's last text on September 4, 2009, through the discovery on September 11 and the cold trail that followed, to the later disappearance of another woman in 2012 - a pattern that raises the question: who knew these roads, and what did the jacket actually signify? Person: Diane Lewis Date: September 11, 2009 (discovery), disappearance September 4, 2009 Location: Culvert beneath Forest Service Road 14-C, near Creekside Loop off Route 9 Cause: Manual strangulation Status: One related case unresolved - Diane Lewis was 31 years old and worked as a billing coordinator in Morrow Crossing. - Diane sent a last text at 5:47 PM on September 4, 2009, saying she was heading to the Creekside Loop. - Her orange Marmot women's shell, size medium, was hung on the second rung of the culvert ladder with the collar loop over the rung. - Investigators estimated Diane had been dead 48 to 72 hours before discovery; no sexual assault and wallet/debit card with $43 found in the jacket pocket. - A trail runner saw a dark blue pickup at the Route 9 trailhead and later near Forest Service Road 14-C on the afternoon of September 4; the truck had no plate in his memory. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Shoe in the Tank: Why Only One Left, and No Body A single, clean, polished black oxford-size 10½, left foot-stood upright on the dry concrete shelf of a sealed septic tank in Crestford, New Jersey, on August 13, 2009, with no body, no blood, and no obvious explanation; how did it get there and where was the man whose DNA matched the lining? What deliberate act left one shoe alone in a tank that hadn’t been serviced in 18 months? In this episode, we follow the facts as presented in reports and interviews: the discovery by a waste technician, the immediate identification by the missing man’s wife, and the investigative trail that centered on a phony work order and access to the yard-could those details explain the single shoe and the missing person? Person: Alan Baker Date: August 13, 2009 (discovery); missing reported August 7, 2009 Location: Crestford, New Jersey Item: One black oxford, size 10½, left foot Work order name: R. Peterson (Clearview Utility Services; no record of employee) - Dale Hamilton lifted a ~60-pound concrete septic tank lid at 7:42 a.m. and photographed a single, clean black oxford standing upright on the dry concrete shelf. - The shoe was identified the same afternoon by Deborah Baker and confirmed by DNA from the lining as belonging to Alan Baker. - Alan Baker was last seen alive on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, missed his regular Wednesday dinner, and was reported missing on Friday, August 7, 2009. - The septic tank’s last scheduled service was November 2007-18 months before the August 13, 2009 discovery. - A utilities inspection work order dated August 3, 2009, listed access through the side gate and the name R. Peterson; Clearview Utility Services had no record of that employee or the order. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

- established normalcy before disappearance The ordinary can be the last thing you see: three women vanished from fairgrounds parking lots, each leaving behind a locked car and a routine life, and each was found later strangled - so who was moving through county fairs in the summers of 1994-1997 and never in the same town twice? What link did a dry green canvas tote, a carnival company, and a pattern of Friday-night disappearances create that only a task force could begin to unravel? In this episode, we lay out the timeline and connections that tied Denise Price, Sharon Dent, and Beverly Sims to the same traveling carnival circuit and the same cause of death. We trace the specific evidence that shifted investigators from missing-persons cases to a multi-county murder inquiry, and ask whether the patterns in dates, locations, and the carnival operator point to a single killer. Person: Denise Price Date: July 8-19, 1994 Location: Pelham County Fairgrounds; body recovered off Tanner Mill Road Case: Strangulation; bag found dry at Sallow Creek culvert mouth on July 12 Person: Sharon Dent Date: July, 1996 Location: Coleville County Agricultural Exposition; body found behind a salvage yard Case: Strangulation; same carnival company (Starlight Midways) Person: Beverly Sims Date: July, 1997 Location: Waxler Tri-County Exposition; body found in a retention pond behind fairgrounds Case: Strangulation; same carnival company (Starlight Midways) - Denise’s green canvas tote contained wallet, house keys, lipstick, and a grocery receipt dated July 8. - Gordon McCarthy found the upright, dry tote at a culvert mouth on July 12, 1994, 48 hours after a six-foot flood. - Medical examiner determined Denise’s time of death fell within 12 hours of her disappearance on the night of July 8, 1994. - Sharon Dent disappeared from a Friday night fair in 1996 and her body was found 10 days later; cause of death strangulation. - Beverly Sims disappeared Thursday night in July 1997; her body was found 8 days later in a retention pond; cause of death strangulation. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Repairman's Notebook: How a Pelargonium Exposed Five Deadly Gifts A sealed pink pelargonium left on a doorstep led to a discovery that connected five deaths across retirement communities - one plant, one notebook, and a repairman named on multiple work orders. How did a harmless houseplant and a clipboard tie a forty-one-year-old maintenance worker to lethal digoxin poisoning? In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning the plant was found to the toxicology that reclassified a young man's death, and the records that linked a repairman to multiple elderly victims. What made the notebook and service records the thread Detective Russell Brown needed to see a pattern? Person: Michael Slater Date: June 11, 2014 Location: 44 Verbena Court, Suncreek Flats Person: James Keller Cause of death: Acute digoxin toxicity - The pelargonium was sealed inside a one-gallon clear plastic bag with thin even condensation on June 11, 2014. - Harvey Henderson, age 14, found the bagged plant 37 minutes into his delivery route. - Michael Slater, age 28, was found dead in his unit and initially listed as cardiorespiratory failure; toxicology later showed lethal digoxin levels. - James Keller, age 41, worked as a repairman for Keller Home Services and had clean signed work orders at multiple units. - Service records show Keller was inside Robert Fenn’s unit 9 days before Fenn’s 2012 death, inside Edna Watts’ unit 7 days before her 2013 death, and inside Virginia Casler’s unit 12 days before her death. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Shoe in the Mud: How a Green Smear Unraveled a Killer A single white canvas shoe, size seven with double-knotted laces and a pink chevron, stood upright in graded mud after a flood-found by a road-grader operator at 6:20 a.m. on May 14. A cracked driver’s-side mirror with a smear of dark green paint and a three-quarter-ton tire impression would link that shoe to a missing camp cook and set off a two-year unraveling that ended in three consecutive life terms-so how did a smear of paint become the case’s hinge? In this episode, we follow the sequence of concrete evidence found at Lacklin Basin and in Darro that guided investigators from a single shoe to a conviction. We cover the discovery timeline, the forensic match to the missing person, the gate logs and fuel card trail, and the investigative choices that kept the case alive-what finally broke the case open? Person: Kelly Quinn Date: May 14 (shoe found at 6:20 a.m.) Location: west access road into Lacklin Basin / Darro Investigator: Harvey Moore, 38 years old Outcome: three consecutive life terms, no parole - Shoe description: white canvas, size seven, pink chevron along the sole, laces double-knotted, standing upright in graded mud. - Discovery details: found by road-grader operator Nicole Hughes at 6:20 a.m. on May 14 after the road had been underwater three days earlier. - Vehicle evidence: driver's-side mirror cracked with a long smear of dark green paint; keys left on seat in Kelly Quinn's white pickup. - Tire impression: heavy-duty tread consistent with a three-quarter-ton truck pressed into soft earth at a drainage culvert ten feet from the shoe. - Forensic match: DNA from the inner heel liner matched missing person Kelly Quinn eleven days after the shoe was found. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

He Placed Their Items: The Van, The Daisies, The Locker Key Cold, deliberate placement: a daisy-emblazoned sneaker tucked under an insole, a library card with no road grime, a photo keychain found clean in a culvert - each left where only certain people could or would find them. What drove a man who worked the interstate maintenance corridor to leave these personal items as breadcrumbs, and why did he make sure they would be discovered? In this episode, we follow the timeline and evidence that links four women across Illinois and Indiana to the same service routes and one white Chevy Express cargo van, and we outline how a civilian analyst and detectives pieced together work orders, toll-cam footage, and locked utility access to ask the question that never fully closed: why did he want them found? Person: Heather Harrison Date: March 27, 2011 (last confirmed sighting) Location: Caldwell County rest area off Interstate 74 Event: Three women found strangled near I-74 facilities Person: John Johnson (service technician driving white Chevy Express) - Heather Harrison’s size seven yellow canvas sneaker with an embroidered daisy was found wedged at the base of a concrete power pole on April 9, 2011, roughly 40 yards from where her body was discovered on April 11, 2011. - A Calhoun Township Public Library card with Heather Harrison’s name, clean and dry, was tucked under the sneaker’s insole and showed no signs of road grime or moisture. - Tracy Elwell disappeared in August 2011; her body was found about six days later near the northbound rest area at the Arlen Road overpass on I-74, and her daughter’s photo keychain was recovered clean in a drainage culvert nearby. - Christine Albee was found in April 2012 near the Dunmore interchange facility; her workplace safety badge was later recovered inside a locked utility access tunnel requiring a contractor-issued key. - A white Chevy Express cargo van registered to Allied Site Services, driven by service technician John Johnson, appeared on toll cameras within 72 hours of three disappearances (April 4, 2011; August 2011; late March 2012) along the I-74 corridor. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Dry Badge in a Soaked Shoe: How a Sneaker Broke the Killer's Alibi A dry laminated clinic badge tucked into a soaked, size seven white sneaker found upright in tidal mud ignites a single unnerving image: someone deliberately placed dry evidence inside a shoe that had been in the water. How did a badge warm to the touch end up inside a shoe that should have filled with water - and who would stage that contradiction at Hewitt Landing? In this episode, we present the sequence of discoveries and official observations that tied a missing clinic administrator to a staged scene at a local landing, and we follow the unanswered question about why the badge was placed where the tide would reveal it. Person: Amanda Jenkins Date: March 8-9, 2014 Location: Hewitt Landing, Pelican Trace Road Case: Missing person, Amanda Jenkins Officer: Leon Stroud - The sneaker was a white canvas, left-foot, size seven, found upright in tidal mud at approximately 5:00 a.m. - Inside the shoe was about 18 inches of orange braided dock line coiled around itself. - Clipped to the dock line on a yellow lanyard was a laminated clinic badge reading "Amanda Jenkins, Destreaux Regional Clinic." - The badge was dry and warm to the touch while the shoe and laces were soaked through to the insole. - Amanda Jenkins, age 38, lived alone, left her gray Honda Civic in the driveway, and had not fed her two cats per their strict schedule on the morning she was reported missing. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Ski Boots on the Counter: How a Clinic Masked a Killer A retired librarian found dead on a lodge floor; her ski boots buckled and placed on the kitchen counter the way she never arranged them. Two years later another winter visitor dies after the same kind of clinic visit and the same predictable drug interaction - what connects the intake forms, the unlocked doors, and the precise way someone handled other people's gear? In this episode, we detail the sequence of events across two winters, the medical examiner findings, and the investigative thread that links routine clinic visits to unexpected deaths - could a pattern hidden in intake paperwork and small domestic details reveal deliberate harm? Person: Nancy Foster Date: February 9, 2011 Location: Pinecrest Lodge, Harrow Valley Cause of death: Acute cardiac arrhythmia from drug interaction noted by medical examiner Person: Raymond Kowalski - Nancy Foster was 61 and had been spending eleven seasons at Harrow Valley before her death. - Nancy’s last routine call to her daughter occurred at 6:45 AM on February 1, 2011. - Nancy’s body was found on February 9, 2011, by meter reader Dennis Graham; the side door was unlocked though she used a deadbolt. - Raymond Kowalski, 58, died on the evening of February 14, 2012; his intake form listed a blood thinner and the ME cited a hemorrhagic event from interaction with an anti-inflammatory. - Detective Philip Hoffman kept the Nancy Foster notebook open and later compared intake forms across cases, linking pharmacologically foreseeable interactions in both deaths. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Bowling Bag That Broke Three Missing Men's Silence A worn black Ebonite bowling bag with a broken zipper and a name written inside turned up at a Wyoming work camp and reopened three separate disappearances spanning Colorado and New Mexico; how did one bag travel nearly nine hundred miles and connect files no one had read together? The bag’s leather strap bore initials burned in with a woodburning tool, a detail that eventually traced back to a mother’s gift and a lineup of intake and discharge logs that raised new questions. In this episode, we follow the events that began when a church volunteer found the bag at Harwick North in Blaine County, Wyoming, and how that discovery brought together records from three camps and three sheriff’s offices; what did the intake and discharge signatures reveal, and why had no one compared these cases before the bag appeared? Person: Scott Smith Location: Harwick North camp, Blaine County, Wyoming Date: January 14, 2010 Case: Missing persons linked by one bowling bag Person: Dale Porter - The bowling bag was an Ebonite brand, black canvas, with a broken main zipper and worn soft with use. - Dale Porter checked into Harwick Creek camp in Cibola County, New Mexico on January 3, 2009 and a discharge form was recorded on January 19, 2009. - The discharge signature for Dale Porter was neat, deliberate, and slower than his check-in signature, appearing like someone trying to remember how to write his own name. - Troy Neff disappeared from a camp in Eddy County, New Mexico in March 2009 at age thirty. - Eddie Boone vanished in November 2007 from a camp in Delta County, Colorado at age twenty-eight. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Lanyard: How a Casino Card Unmasked a Serial Killer A loyalty-card lanyard, laminated and looped twice around a wrist, led to a dead woman who had no official record of dying - and a trail that crossed tribal casinos, rental properties, and an ungated fire road. How did a loyalty account flagged as "deceased" because of returned mail become the single thread that opened an investigation into who had access to the eastern gaming corridor? In this episode, we follow the discovery, the evidence chain, and the data search that connected a body found on December 9, 2019 to a loyalty account processed on December 22, 2019 - and ask what the lanyard reveals about the people who moved between those roads, properties, and women. Person: Erin O'Connor Date: December 9, 2019 Location: Arrowhead Flats recreation corridor Case: Body found wrapped in canvas tarpaulin, time-of-death window Nov 27-29, 2019 Account: Loyalty card registered to Diane Kettler, processed Dec 22, 2019 - Body found at 7:45 AM on December 9, 2019, with a Painted Sky Resort loyalty-card lanyard looped twice around the right wrist. - Erin O'Connor, 48, last seen leaving work on November 27, 2019; cause of death determined as manual strangulation. - Erin's own loyalty card was found in her purse at home when her apartment was searched on December 11, 2019. - The loyalty-card account matched Diane Kettler, 51, last recorded Painted Sky activity March 2019 and flagged deceased after mail was returned undeliverable. - The burial site sat within 80 yards of an ungated fire road that allowed vehicle access without being noticed. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Red Lantern: Why a Stolen Vest Exposed a Hidden Killer A red lantern rated for eleven hours was still burning when Gina Hall pulled it from Sullen Fork at 6:42 a.m. on November 8, 2014 - even though the man wearing it had been dead at least thirty-six hours. That impossible battery life, a stolen extra-large CRRL railroad safety vest, and a missing lantern from an upstream depot became the first threads of an investigation that refused simple answers: who dressed Frank Peterson before dumping him in the river? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Frank Peterson’s last known clock-out on November 5 to the discovery of his body three days later, the serial numbers that tied equipment to a freight yard supply locker and a depot twelve miles upstream, and the questions that those mismatched records raised about where he actually died. Person: Frank Peterson Date: November 5-8, 2014 Location: Sullen Fork near Grade Crossing 44 on Route 9 Status: Body recovered; cause listed as blunt-force trauma to posterior skull, no water in lungs Item: CRRL railroad safety vest (size extra-large) stolen August 2014 - Time recovered: 6:42 a.m., November 8, 2014 - Lantern battery rating: 11 hours; body estimated dead at least 36 hours - Vest theft: reported stolen from Millhaven freight yard supply locker in August 2014 - Lantern serial trace: matched to Sullen Fork Junction depot; 40 units shipped in Sept 2013, 38 on hand at inventory - Investigator on case: Christine Thorpe, Aldrich County Sheriff's Office, 11 years on force Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Dry Coat at Peller Lake: Clues No One Could Explain Dry wool in a drowned world: a navy coat found perfectly dry on a birch by Peller Lake after 2.5 inches of rain stopped a county surveyor cold - the soil, bark and canopy were wet but the coat smelled of cedar and felt fresh from a dryer. Who left it, how did it stay dry, and how does that single impossible object tie to a missing woman whose car appeared three miles away with doors unlocked and purse inside? In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries and official actions: the surveyor Curtis Bailey finds the dry coat on June 3, 2019; Amanda Clark’s routine last known movements and her missing-persons report; and the Kessler Point camera outage that overlapped her disappearance. What do these concrete details together suggest about what happened? Person: Amanda Clark Person: Curtis Bailey Date: June 3, 2019 Event: Camera battery died October 7, 2018; Amanda disappeared October 9, 2018 Location: Kessler Point Launch, three miles north of Amanda’s cottage - Amanda Clark was 53, lived on Peller Lake for 22 years, and volunteered three mornings a week at Peller Junction Free Clinic. - On October 9, 2018 Amanda texted her son at 6:58 p.m. saying “Talk tomorrow, heading home soon, love you.” - A gas station camera captured her gray Subaru Forester at 7:22 p.m.; she left the station at 7:31 p.m., with no confirmed sightings after that. - Amanda’s car was found four days later at Kessler Point: engine off, doors unlocked, purse and phone on the passenger seat, cracked left tail lens noted. - A solar-powered camera at Kessler Point had its battery die on October 7, 2018; maintenance ticket filed but not serviced before Amanda’s disappearance. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Manos en el Papel: cómo un ID desenterró cuatro asesinatos A laminated government ID placed inside a sealed wellhead casing led to a discovery that tied four disappearances to one document processor - and the card was issued thirteen months after the first man vanished. Who placed that ID in an isolated steel housing, and why did it finally break a pattern that had let multiple cases slip through county lines? In this episode, we follow the discovery and the records that connect missing persons across jurisdictions, showing how a single bureaucratic thread forced investigators to ask whether these disappearances were linked. How did one ID inside a wellhead become the clue that pulled four cold cases together? Person: Gary Crawford Date: October 9, 2017 Location: Greyhound terminal, West Congress Street, Tucson Person: Janet Casey - The laminated ID found in the wellhead was issued in November 2018, thirteen months after Gary Crawford disappeared. - Janet Casey, a well-service technician with eleven years' experience, found the card in September 2019 and paused for four minutes before calling 911. - Gary Crawford was 44 years old, disappeared after being seen on terminal footage at 2:22 p.m., and his phone last pinged at 2:31 p.m. two blocks from the terminal. - Detective Paul Tate flagged Borderline Compliance Services LLC, whose sole employee was Earl Fleming, 52, within weeks of Crawford's disappearance. - Dennis Schiff made eleven calls from his number to Borderline Compliance in the nine months before he vanished in June 2018. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Hood Up: How a Staged Breakdown Hid a Killer's Trail Fear that something ordinary was a trap: a Kia parked with the hood up, keys in the ignition, purse on the seat, and a woman vanished-Julie Hensley, last seen leaving First Grace Fellowship at 9:20 p.m, on August 7, 2014. A waterlogged Bible wedged four feet high in a willow and a staged car scene became the only visible trail-who put the Bible there and why? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Julie’s last known movements at trivia night to the abandoned Kia on Redbud Road and the discovery at Calloway Creek. We reconstruct the physical clues, the detective work that mapped sightlines and property names, and the single item that tied the scene to Julie-so what sequence turned a small-town routine into a led-to clue? Person: Julie Hensley Date: August 7-8, 2014 Location: Redbud Road; First Grace Fellowship; Calloway Creek Detective: Mark Brown Finder: Gregory Harris - Julie’s last outgoing phone call was at 9:17 p.m.; Patsy Greer saw her drive away at approximately 9:20 p.m. - The abandoned gray two-door Kia was found with the hood up and the keys in the ignition, two and a half miles from First Grace Fellowship. - The mechanic reported the car had no mechanical problem: battery charged and engine started on the first try. - A Bible was found wedged four feet above the current waterline in a willow fork at Calloway Creek, pages swollen but inscription legible. - Detective Mark Brown drove Redbud Road forty times in the first month and logged sightlines to a corrugated metal shed on the Tatum property. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

Badge on the Rail: How a Mossfield Tag Linked Three Fairground Murders The first image is a laminated badge dangling on a fence rail above a drainage ditch - HAMILTON V., category SH-4, dated July fourteenth, Mossfield County Fair - while the man it should not belong to lies dead six feet below. A dead sheep farmer found during Keldrick fair week, a badge from Mossfield 112 miles north, and a single question that ties them together: why was that badge left where it could only have been placed deliberately? In this episode, we follow the discovery and early steps of the investigation, from the paperboy who found the badge to the detective who catalogued the scene. You’ll hear how a sign-in log entry and a company schedule pointed detectives toward a traveling route technician - and what those records fail to explain. Person: Vernon Hamilton Age: 54 Location: Keldrick County Fairgrounds Cause: Manual strangulation Evidence: Mossfield County Fair badge dated July 14 - Badge text: HAMILTON V., category SH-4, dated July fourteenth, Mossfield County Fair, found looped on a lanyard on a fence rail - Time last seen: approximately 9:20 PM on July 12, wearing his fair wristband and good plaid shirt - Time of death: estimated between 36 and 48 hours before discovery on the morning of July 15 - Sign-in log entries: three entries signed R. BENNETT for "EQUIPMENT CHECK - GENERATOR" on July 10, July 11, and July 12 (8:47 PM) - Distance between fairs: Mossfield is 112 miles north of Keldrick, and the badge date predates Mossfield Fair opening Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

The Hand, the Bus Transfer, and the Man Called "Meter Man" A severed hand with coral nail polish and a stamped bus transfer tucked between its fingers was found at 2:47 a.m. on June 14, 2003 - the transfer stamped 11:47 p.m. the night before, forty-five minutes after the last Line Nine northbound had run. Who placed a dry, undecomposed hand and an impossible transit slip in an industrial corridor, and why did a neighbor remember a “meter man” near the diner the night the victim vanished? In this episode, we tell the story contained in the police reports and scene notes: a missing 22-year-old waitress, the strange sighting of a man with a long flashlight at a utility box, a hand found in gravel holding a transfer that should not have existed, and the early investigative details that tied those facts together. How did a routine shift, a bus schedule, and a lone paper slip become the thread that might link two counties? Person: Lori Weber Date: June 7, 2003 (disappearance); June 11, 2003 (estimated death); June 14, 2003 (hand found) Location: Prospect Street diner, Dunmore, Dellwood County; hand found on Kellner Avenue off the Marne River Case: Hand found holding Dellwood City Transit transfer stamped 11:47 p.m. June 13 Witness: Susan Farley saw a man with a long aluminum flashlight at the corner utility box two or three times prior - Hand discovered at 2:47 a.m. on June 14, 2003 by road grader operator Lori Erickson - Transfer stamped 11:47 p.m., June 13 - 45 minutes after the last northbound Line Nine ran at 11:02 p.m. - Victim Lori Weber was 22 years old and reported missing on the morning of June 8, 2003 - Medical examiner estimated Lori’s death around June 11, 2003 - approximately 72 hours before the hand was found - Witness Susan Farley reported seeing the “meter man” at the Prospect and Eighth corner two or three times in preceding months, always at night and near a gray metal utility box Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7188005 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.