Best Ruth and Kristin Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 101: Merrian Carver 54:25

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In August 2004, 40-year-old Merrian Carver boarded a Celebrity Cruise ship in Seattle bound for Alaska. She was last seen the next day—and then she vanished. For a week, no one reported her missing. Her belongings were given away, her absence ignored, and her family left in the dark until they began searching for answers themselves. Merrian’s disap…

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Episode 100: Angela Allen with guest reader Chioma Umeala 1:00:09

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Angela Allen was just 28 years old when she vanished from Syracuse, New York, the day after Christmas in 1979. That morning, she called her mother, sounding tired but otherwise fine. Hours later, she was gone. Her last paycheck sat unclaimed — until her husband tried to pick it up. Investigators believe she was killed that day, possibly buried in o…

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Episode 99: Cynthia and Jackie Leslie with special guest Catherine McKenzie 53:50

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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 98: Pah Pow with guest Reader Rainbow Dickerson 40:34

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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 97: Carrie Lawson with guest reader Kristin Minter 51:10

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In September 1991, 25-year-old attorney Carolyn “Carrie” Lawson was living the life she’d worked so hard to build—newly married, just taken the bar exam, and settling into her new home in Jasper, Alabama. Then, in the middle of the night, the phone rang. A woman claimed a family member was sick and waiting at the hospital. When Carrie and her husba…

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Episode 96: Twyla Mickey and Belinda Norred 34:21

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In 1986, Rita Eubanks Creasman was found strangled in a Georgia creek. Three years later, Twyla Mickey left a desperate message for her parents: “I’ve got to get out of here.” Hours later, she was gone. Their connection? They both had a relationship with the same man. And then, in 1992, Belinda Norred vanished after an argument with the same man. F…

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Episode 95: Case Update: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Estrada 42:13

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For more than 30 years, they were nameless. One was called Bitter Creek Betty. The other, Sheridan County/I-90 Jane Doe. Both were found murdered on opposite ends of Wyoming in 1992. Both were young. And both were forgotten by the world—until DNA gave them back their names. Now we know who they were: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Arleen Estrada. This epi…

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Episode 94: Ruth Loader 1:01:55

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In August 1994, 79-year-old Ruth Loader was recovering from her cancer treatments at her rural Ohio farmhouse, ready for a quiet evening with her book. She never made it to the breakfast she had planned with her sister the next morning. When her daughter arrived at Ruth’s home, the back door was splintered, her glasses were left on the pillow, and …

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Season 4, Episode 8: Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls: Interview with Geneviève Barrette 30:00

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In this episode Jacinta speaks with Dr Geneviève Barrette, postdoctoral researcher at Mcgill University, about Marguerite Porete, a turn-of-the-fourteenth-century mystic thinker. We focus on the context and content of Porete’s only surviving work, an edification treatise entitled The Mirror of Simple Souls.…

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Episode 93: Amelia Zelko, Part 2 with guest reader Taylor Meskimen 29:21

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After newspaper owner and journalist Amelia Zelko vanished in 1957, the search for answers stretched from the streets of Joliet, Illinois, all the way to Washington, D.C. In this second part of our series, we uncover how Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI secretly joined the investigation, chasing leads that pointed to organized crime. We …

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Episode 92: Amelia Zelko, Part 1 with guest reader Taylor Meskimen 38:24

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Just before midnight on September 27, 1957, a quiet neighborhood in Joliet, Illinois, was jolted awake by the sound of a woman’s scream, a car door slamming, and tires screeching into the night. By morning, 47-year-old journalist and co-owner of The Joliet Spectator, Amelia Zelko, was gone. Known for her fearless reporting on organized crime and po…

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Episode 91: Nicole Russo with guest reader Elisa Donovan 47:25

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Sixteen-year-old Nicole Russo loved poetry, dreamed of becoming an auto mechanic, and had just started preparing for her GED. In March 1995, she left her Brick, New Jersey home to visit her new boyfriend’s mother on Long Island. She never came home. What followed was a deeply troubling investigation that would uncover bloodstains, a chilling confes…

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Episode 90: Arrilla Webb-Vaul with guest reader Cassandra Naud 40:27

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When 23-year-old Arrilla Webb-Vaul vanished from Bossier, Louisiana in 1979, all she left behind was a slashed tire and a silent car on a quiet road. Authorities said she walked away. Her family never believed it. In this episode, we investigate the unsolved disappearance of Arrilla Webb-Vaul, exploring the overlooked evidence, the eerily similar c…

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Episode 89: Laurie Partridge with guest reader Liz Vassey 34:11

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On December 4, 1974, 17-year-old Laurie Partridge left school early, saying she wasn’t feeling well. She never made it home. Missing with her were the pair of Beach Boys concert tickets her dad had purchased for her for a show scheduled a week later. The night of the concert, police watched for her, but in the sea of 4000 people, Laurie was nowhere…

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Episode 88: Barbara Glueckert with guest reader Natalie Moon 36:29

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On a summer night in 1976, 14-year-old Barbara Glueckert went to a rock concert on a farm in Huntley, Illinois—and never came home. Hours earlier, she was approached by a man using a fake name. By the end of the night, she’d vanished without a trace. The man she was last seen with had a violent past and left town days later. He was never charged. N…

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Borealis Mix X Vers Libre: KADAPAT 31:27

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A fantastic mix by KADAPAT – an experimental gamelan project consisting of Yogi and Barga, based on Bali in Indonesia, made for Borealis – a festival for experimental music in Bergen, Norway and community radio station Vers Libre. Indonesian duo KADAPAT is characterised by their hybrid identities between the balinese traditions and legends, the tec…

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Episode 87: Case Update: Tanya Jackson (Peaches) and Tatiana Dykes (Baby Doe) with guest readers Raven Goodwin and Coco Jones 28:42

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For years, they were known only by nicknames—Peaches and Baby Doe. A woman and her toddler, found miles apart in Long Island, unidentified and unnamed. But investigators never gave up hope. They believed that science would one day provide the answers they needed. And now, it has. This episode shares the story of Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes—thei…

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Episode 86: Yeda “Dede” Rosenthal with guest reader Laura Ault 54:07

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When 32-year-old Yeda "Dede" Rosenthal vanished without a trace, it shocked everyone who knew her. A dedicated professional at New Jersey’s Elywn Institute, Dede was known for her unwavering commitment to her work with autistic clients. But when she failed to show up for work one day, her coworkers grew immediately concerned. A visit to her apartme…

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Season 4, Episode 7: Hedwig Dohm's feminist philosophy: Interview with Katie Brennan 40:53

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In this episode, Jacinta speaks with Dr Katie Brennan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Salve Regina University, about the 19th-century German feminist philosopher Hedwig Dohm. Brennan speaks about Dohm’s diverse philosophical modes, from salon-hosting to political essays to novellas, and how her participation in the urgent and burgeoning femin…

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Episode 85: Barbara Ann Bockwith with guest reader Julia Reilly 48:32

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Barbara Ann Bockwith was just 20 years old when she vanished from her college campus in Pensacola, Florida.The University of West Florida student arrived early for her final exam, exhausted after an all-night study session. Realizing she’d left her notes in the car, she rushed out to retrieve them—just ten minutes before class. She never returned. …

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Episode 84: Masumi Watanabe with guest reader Erika Prevost 53:22

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What would you do to help your child grow in their self-confidence and independence? For 21-year-old Masumi Watanabe’s parents, the answer was sending her from their home in Japan to stay with family friends in Hawaii for an extended vacation. And the plan was working. Masumi was flourishing—gaining confidence, exploring new routines, and settling …

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Episode 83: Jeannette Kamahele and Sonoma County Jane Doe with guest readers Enya Flack and Megan Peta Hill 56:47

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A College Student, a Jane Doe, and a Decade of Unsolved Violence In 1972, Jeanette Kamahele left her home near Santa Rosa Junior College and never made it to class. She was last seen hitchhiking near a freeway onramp. In the years that followed, the region became synonymous with violence: multiple young women, many of them hitchhikers, were found m…

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Episode 82: Regina Brown with guest reader Gwendolyn Osbourne 58:52

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A Flight Attendant’s Fears, a Controlling Husband, and a Disappearance Ignored In 1987, Regina Brown—a devoted mother and flight attendant—was doing everything she could to escape. She had already sent two of her children to Texas for safety, and on March 26th, she put the last of her three on a plane. That was the last time anyone saw her. Before …

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Episode 81: Joanna Otto with guest reader Elizabeth Saunders 53:27

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A Mother’s Grief, a Missing Daughter, and a Legacy of Remembrance When 19-year-old Joanna Otto vanished after a party in Pensacola, Florida, the world barely noticed. Police dismissed her case, assuming she left on her own. But her loved ones knew better. Joanna had last been seen getting a ride from a man later convicted of kidnapping and assaulti…

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Episode 80: The Martin Family 1:08:08

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The 1958 Christmas holiday was quickly approaching, and the Martin family of five set out on a quiet Sunday drive to collect greenery for their holiday decorations. They waved goodbye to their neighbors, never to return. Months later, the bodies of two of the children, Susan and her older sister Virginia, were found in Oregon’s Columbia River, but …

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Episode 79: Virginia Pictou-Noyes with guest read Althea Sam 39:00

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On April 24th, 1994, police respond to a call at a bar in Bangor, Maine. Outside they find Virginia Pictou-Noyes who claims her husband and brother-in-law had just beat her outside the bar. With her husband under arrest and her brother-in-law charged in the assault, Virginia is taken to an area hospital for her injuries. There, around 1am, she quie…

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Season 4, Episode 6: Sophie de Grouchy's Moral Philosophy: Interview with Getty Lustila 36:41

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Welcome to this episode of the podcast. Today, we’re discussing the work of Sophie de Grouchy, an 18th and early 19th century philosopher whose contributions to moral and political thought have often been overlooked. Best known for her translation of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Grouchy didn’t just translate—she developed her own id…

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Episode 78: Maria Bozo with guest reader Ann Pirvu 47:02

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In the summer of 1999, 46-year-old Maria Bozi, a Romanian immigrant living in the United Kingdom, met and married a man after a whirlwind romance. Within months, she would move to the United States to live with him. And soon after, she would disappear. This week we’re joined by guest reader Ann Pirvu. Ann is a Romanian-Canadian actress and producer…

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Introduction to Nara by Tze Yeung Ho 16:47

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Composer Tze Yeung Ho gives an insight in to the story, motivation and process of the making of his new opera Nara – imperial decline, belonging, and composing in a «third space» all feature in this behind the scenes conversation with artistic director Peter Meanwell. Nara premieres 12th March 2025, at Borealis – a festival for experimental music i…

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Episode 77: Heather Elvis 46:40

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On the night of December 17, 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis goes on a first date with a former high school classmate. The two eat dinner, look at Christmas decorations together, and he tries to teach her to drive a stick shift. And then, after he says goodnight to her, Heather gets a call. It’s her ex. He says he’s leaving his wife and he wants he…

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Episode 76: Audrey Moate with guest reader Janet Kidder 42:19

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In 1956, the brutal murder of family man Thomas Hotard at a Louisiana lover’s lane leaves a trail of unanswered questions. Investigators quickly discover a mysterious connection to Audrey Moate, a woman whose sudden disappearance raises even more chilling suspicions. Was Audrey a victim, or does her vanishing hide a darker secret? As the investigat…

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Episode 75: Paula Weldon 46:41

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Summary In 1946, Paula Welden, a college student at Bennington College, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind a chilling unsolved case that has haunted the region for decades. As her disappearance unfolds, it sparks a dark fascination that even inspired famous writers like Donna Tartt and Shirley Jackson as well as spurred the creation of the Ver…

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Episode 74: Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 2) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley 1:06:32

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Barbara Newhall Follett had published her first novel at 12, traveled the world by 14, and regularly corresponded with scientists, artists, and sailors. So at age 15, when she ran away for the first time, it was because she couldn’t understand why she would be forced into a life not created wholly on her own. It won’t be the first time, Barbara dis…

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Episode 73: Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 1) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley 56:04

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By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home to travel to Barbados, Tahiti, and Samoa chasing new story ideas and escaping the turmoil of her parents’s di…

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Episode 72: Etta Riel with guest reader Marsha Mason 55:56

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In November 1934, new mother Etta Riel mysteriously disappears just hours before she’s set to attend a crucial paternity hearing. Her family believes she was preparing to reconcile with the man she claimed was the father of her baby, and that they were planning to elope to New York for a fresh start. But the man in question insists they were never …

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Season 4, Episode 5: Literature and moral philosophy: Interview with Lauren Kopajtic 40:09

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In this episode, we are happy to welcome Lauren Kopajtic, whose work explores the profound connection between literature and moral philosophy. Lauren shares her insights into how novels and plays—from the works of Joanna Baillie to Jane Austen—stimulate moral imagination and contribute to moral education. Together, we discuss key ideas like “sympat…

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Episode 71: Olga Schultz Mauger with guest reader Susan Ruttan 52:05

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September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then, she simply vanished. Now, 90 years later, Olga is considered Wyoming’s oldest known missing persons case. Thi…

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Episode 70: Stepha Henry 47:31

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Memorial Day weekend in 2007 was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Henry sisters. They traveled from New York City to Miami to see friends, family and celebrate the younger sister’s birthday. But by the weekend’s end, only one of them would return home. The other, 22-year-old Stepha Henry, an aspiring lawyer, would be missing. Join us…

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Episode 69: Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13 16:31

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Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13. Aimee and Vanessa talk about the inspiration and process of writing the poem Battle Lines, about the unidentified person known as Bitter Creek Betty.By She Goes By Jane

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Episode 68: God of the woods, Book Talk 36:37

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Special episode, Vanessa and Aimée discuss God of the woods, by Liz Moore.By She Goes By Jane

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Episode 67: Judy Martins with guest reader Stephanie Sy-Quia 1:04:10

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How quickly can someone just…disappear? One minute there, the next gone. How could someone leave a dorm party at a busy college campus and not make it to their own residence, just 300 yards away? In 1978, a 22 year old college sophomore, Judy Martins, stepped out of a dorm building at Kent State University and into darkness. This week we’re joined …

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Episode 66: Ventura County Jane Doe 54:18

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In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing…

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Episode 65: Texas Killing Fields: Michelle Doherty 42:54

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Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked. This week we’re joi…

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Episode 64: Iris Brown with guest readers Marilyn Oliva and Tom Gilroy 56:25

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In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can …

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Episode 63: Mimi Boomhower with guest reader Amber Dawn Fox 1:01:01

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In August 1949, friends of Mimi Boomhower arrive at Mimi’s home to find that despite the lights on inside and outside her Bel Air mansion and her car in her garage, the wealthy widow is nowhere to be found. Seven days later her purse is found inside a grocery store telephone booth with a cryptic message written in pen on its side sending police int…

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Season 4, Episode 4: Catharine Trotter Cockburn's Moral Philosophy: Interview with Ruth Boeker 39:04

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In this interview, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ruth Boeker, a leading scholar in early modern philosophy, focusing on the often-overlooked contributions of women philosophers. The discussion centers around Catharine Trotter Cockburn, an influential moral philosopher from the early modern period. Dr. Boeker will introduce us to Cockbur…

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Episode 62: Morgan County Jane Doe 46:45

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One late afternoon in 1950, a mushroom hunter finds the body of a woman off a little used road in West Virginia. It is clear she was murdered and dumped in this remote location. Despite there being few clues to her identity, investigators get to work trying to identify her and her killer. Within the first year of discovering her body, investigators…

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Episode 61 : Helen Brach 56:32

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Summary “If it’s a kidnapping, I’d have a ransom note by now,” says private investigator Ernest Rizzo about the 1977 disappearance of candy heiress Helen Voorhees Brach. But despite his confidence that Helen Brach is still alive, no one has seen her. And as the days turn into months turn into years, it becomes more and more clear just how wrong Ern…

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episode 60: Lilawattie Buerettan 52:52

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In 1994, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office enters a property in Loxahatchee, Florida and finds a chilling sight. Hundreds of exotic birds including parrots and macaws are dead or dying inside their enclosures. While they work frantically to save the remaining birds, their focus shifts to how they got in this state. Where is their caretaker, 36 year o…

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Episode 59: Suzanne Richerson with guest reader Sonja Ball 47:11

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In 1998, Suzanne Renee Richerson, a Texas A&M student at their Galveston campus, headed to work as a night clerk at a hotel and condo complex. She expects to study overnight and leave at 7am. At 6am, the security guard checks on her before he leaves, but by 6:15am, as a couple goes to check out, Suzanne is no longer at her desk. This week we’re joi…

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