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  • 107: Mackenzie Michalski: Budapest, Hungary

    107: Mackenzie Michalski: Budapest, Hungary
    Dec 4 2025
    On the night of November 5, 2024, Mackenzie Michalski was spotted dancing in a Budapest nightclub, carefree and alive. Hours later, that night ended in shattering silence. A man she left the club with - met only hours before - would end her life. This is the story of Mackenzie Michalski - and the darkness she never saw coming. Listen as we dive into Budapest, the case of Mackenzie Michalski, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to lasttrippodcast@gmail.com We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://abcnews.go.com/International/american-tourist-mackenzie-michalski-missing-hungary-killed/story?id=115654592 https://rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com/?p=3259 https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/service-held-wny-killed-in-hungary/71-14e55bc8-6f22-48b0-9427-9841d624f3fd https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/1ht0ftd/on_november_5th_2024_31yearold_kenize_michalski/ https://news.sky.com/story/mackenzie-michalski-irish-man-allegedly-admits-killing-us-nurse-at-budapest-flat-and-dumping-body-near-lake-say-police-13251900 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/mackenzie-michalski-portland-tourist-killed-hungary#:~:text=The%20suspect%2C%20whom%20police%20identified,and%20placing%20her%20body%20inside. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1188058235596116/ https://telex.hu/belfold/2024/11/07/eltunt-amerikai-no-31-eves-mackenzie-michalski https://24.hu/belfold/2024/11/07/mackenzie-elizabeth-michalski-eltunt-budapest-no-keresik-31-eves/ https://news.sky.com/story/mackenzie-michalski-irish-man-allegedly-admits-killing-us-nurse-at-budapest-flat-and-dumping-body-near-lake-say-police-13251900 https://24.hu/belfold/2024/11/07/mackenzie-elizabeth-michalski-eltunt-budapest-no-keresik-31-eves/ https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/buffalo/deeply-missed-fredonia-native-mackenzie-michalski-remembered-one-year-after-death-in-hungary https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/american-tourist-mackenzie-michalski-missing-hungary-killed/story https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/western-new-york/chautauqua-county/fredonia/western-new-york-community-gathers-to-honor-life-of-local-woman-killed-in-budapest/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/american-tourist-31-dismembered--34119153 https://dailynewshungary.com/irish-man-release-after-murder-american-woman/
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  • 106: Death Not Yet Collaboration - Terri Jentz: Cline Falls State Park, Oregon

    106: Death Not Yet Collaboration - Terri Jentz: Cline Falls State Park, Oregon
    Nov 27 2025
    This past summer I had the opportunity to join some amazing podcaster's for the Death Not Yet Series. This episode of Survivor || TERRI JENTZ || The Last Trip for Death Not Yet first aired on July 4th.
    This is a Podcaster’s Give Back collaboration. All podcasters have donated their time and research to help advocate for victims of domestic violence. And we are raising money to give back to non profits which are standing with survivors. To donate, please visit buymeacoffee.com/youshouldbehere.
    In 1977, Terri and her college roommate, Avra Goldman, biked across America in search of freedom, adventure, and a little time to figure life out. They were students, dreamers - two women finding their place in the world. And then, one night in a quiet Oregon park, that journey turned into something unspeakable. A truck. A man with an axe. No motive. No warning. And somehow... Terri survived.
    This isn’t just a story of what happened that night. This is about what came after - the silence, the unanswered questions, the system that failed. And it’s about how Terri, years later, went back - not just to that campsite, but into the shadows of her own memory, determined to face the monster who tried to kill her.
    This is a Fire Eyes Media, LLC production www.fireeyesmedia.com

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/08/rowlands.jentz/

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-30-bk-dolan30-story.html

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/24121534/

    “Strange Piece of Paradise” by Terri Jentz

    https://moonmagazine.org/terri-jentz-my-journey-to-justice-2014-02-01/

    https://www.crimevictimsunited.org/news/2006/jentz.htm

    https://www.nuggetnews.com/story/2007/07/31/news/author-returns-to-the-scene-of-the-crime/14728.html

    https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/avra-goldman/
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    34 m
  • 105: Death Not Yet Collaboration - Colleen Stan: Northern California

    105: Death Not Yet Collaboration - Colleen Stan: Northern California
    Nov 20 2025
    This past summer I had the opportunity to join some amazing podcaster's for the Death Not Yet Series. This episode of Survivor || COLLEEN STAN || The Last Trip for Death Not Yet first aired on July 4th.
    This is a Podcaster’s Give Back collaboration. All podcasters have donated their time and research to help advocate for victims of domestic violence. And we are raising money to give back to non profits which are standing with survivors. To donate, please visit buymeacoffee.com/youshouldbehere.
    In this episode, we’re traveling back to 1977 - to a quiet California highway
    where 20 year old Colleen Stan made a simple, trusting choice to hitch a ride.
    What followed was a seven-year ordeal so disturbing, it shocked investigators, psychologists, and the public alike. She was held captive in a coffin-like box. Controlled, isolated, manipulated. But this isn’t just the story of what was done to her - it’s about what she did next.
    This is a Fire Eyes Media, LLC production www.fireeyesmedia.com

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/colleen-stan-the-girl-in-the-box

    https://people.com/crime/girl-in-the-box-how-janice-hooker-helped-colleen-stan-escape/

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/girl-in-the-box-colleen-stan

    https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/colleen-stan-kidnapping-told-in-snapped-notorious-girl-in-the-box

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exclusive-woman-imprisoned-in-coffin-for-7-years-has-special-message-for-jaycee-dugard/

    https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/seven-years-of-torture-a-survivors-story/291-316456285

    https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/colleen-stan-kidnapping-everything-you-need-to-know/

    https://people.com/where-is-colleen-stan-now-girl-in-the-box-kidnapping-8648943

    https://barrieshelter.com/how-to-stay-safe/

    https://celebnowthen.com/what-is-colleen-stan-doing-now/

    https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-brainwashing-and-torture-of-colleen-stan-a-kidnapping-survivor-ec6e2410503a

    https://medium.com/%40lisariggio1994/surviving-abduction-colleen-stan-9f9b5261d919

    https://murderintheblack.com/colleen-stan-the-girl-in-the-box.html
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  • 104: Ani Ashekian: Hong Kong

    104: Ani Ashekian: Hong Kong
    Nov 13 2025
    In November 2008, 30-year-old Ani Ashekian landed in Hong Kong—jet-lagged, excited, and ready for her next adventure. She sent a quick birthday text to her niece, withdrew cash from an ATM… and then vanished without a trace.
    No calls. No bank activity. No confirmed sightings. Just a few seconds of CCTV showing Ani standing calmly in a crowded terminal—moments before she disappeared into a city of seven million people.
    Was she the victim of a robbery, a scam, or something far darker? Or did Ani choose to disappear on her own terms?
    Her journal, later discovered in Canada, hinted at secret plans—but also a growing undercurrent of fear.
    Listen as we dive into Hong Kong, the case of Ani Ashekian, and how to stay alive on vacation.

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/54077259736/

    https://truecrimediva.com/ani-ashekian/

    https://websleuths.com/threads/china-ani-ashekian-31-hong-kong-11-nov-2008-canadian-tourist.104205/

    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1065968/ani-ashekians-journal-offers-new-clues-after-four-years-silence

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-woman-feared-missing-in-china-1.714555

    https://www.toronto.com/news/search-continues-for-missing-toronto-woman-in-hong-kong/article_8b549fea-1aa7-5482-b643-1d303e5ada6f.html

    https://web.archive.org/web/20151105180831/http://www.findani.com/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/18b64d1/where_is_ani_ashekian/

    https://time.com/archive/6948538/u-s-crime-writer-tackles-a-real-hong-kong-cold-case/

    https://windsorstar.com/news/sister-to-pick-up-search-in-china
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  • 103: John Allen Chau

    103: John Allen Chau
    Nov 6 2025
    In November 2018, a young man vanished into the gray sea night, stepping across the forbidden line that separated two worlds.
    His name was John Allen Chau - twenty-six years old, an American with a quiet resolve, a missionary’s conviction burning in his chest. He sailed toward North Sentinel Island - a place sealed off from the modern world, where the Sentinelese have refused all contact for centuries.
    But he wasn’t a tourist. He saw himself as a messenger with a message no one else dared deliver. He carried in his pack a waterproof Bible, gifts, hopes, and a deep certainty that he would either be welcomed or die trying.
    What followed is part tragedy, part mystery. The fisherman who dropped him off
    claimed they saw islanders dragging a body across the sand and a burial at dusk. But exactly what happened in the hours between his arrival and his death - no one knows. His body was never recovered.
    Was he a martyr? A fool? A man haunted by divine urgency? Or someone who crossed the ultimate boundary - between the known and the unknowable - and paid the price?
    Listen as we dive into North Sentinel Island, the case of John Allen Chau, and how to stay alive on vacation.

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.instagram.com/johnachau/

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46345231

    https://allnations.international/john-chau

    https://www.alex-perry.com/the-last-days-of-john-allen-chau/

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/asia/north-sentinel-island-john-allen-chau-diary-intl

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/john-chaus-death-roils-the-missionary-world

    https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747368557/the-story-behind-john-allen-chau-an-american-missionary-who-was-killed-while-wor

    https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/john-allen-chau-noble-savages/

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-allen-chau

    https://frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-culture/a-national-geographic-documentary-examines-the-life-and-death-of-john-allen-chau/article67807254.ece

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46336355

    https://sojo.net/articles/john-allen-chau-was-product-missions-marketing-system

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/john-allen-chau-detailed-efforts-convert-islanders-christianity/story?id=59401238
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  • 102: Eloi Rolland: Auckland, New Zealand

    102: Eloi Rolland: Auckland, New Zealand
    Oct 30 2025
    In March 2020, 18 year old Eloi Rolland left his homestay on Auckland’s North Shore just before dawn. He was a French exchange student - curious, soft-spoken, and enchanted by New Zealand’s beauty. That morning he opened Google Maps and searched the word Piha. A remote black-sand beach known for its cliffs, its isolation… and its danger. He caught a bus, then a train. CCTV caught him walking alone as the city woke up. By 9:18am, his phone pinged one final time along Piha Road in Waitakere Ranges - and then… nothing.No more messages. No more movement. No more Eloi. Police scoured the bushland - dense, silent, and endless - but no trace of him was ever found. What happened in the misty hills outside Auckland? Did Eloi wander off the track? Fall off the cliffs? Or was something - or someone - waiting for him there? Listen as we dive into New Zealand, the case of Eloi Rolland, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to lasttrippodcast@gmail.com We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360759600/parents-missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-take-search-south-island https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/124382819/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-friends-and-family-still-have-no-answers-a-year-on?_ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120283016/french-national-eloi-jean-rolland-18-missing-in-auckland https://www.police.govt.nz/missing-persons/listings/eloi-rolland https://www.facebook.com/MISSINGELOIJEANROLLAND/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120409689/french-teen-missing-from-auckland-had-troubled-state-of-mind https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120511116/sister-of-fit-smiley-french-teen-missing-in-auckland-desperate-for-answers https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120860887/chances-of-finding-missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-alive-becoming-more-slim https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/family-of-french-teen-eloi-jean-rolland-missing-in-auckland-since-march-reveal-more/5GVRVY5ZNGMZMKKHJGV4YDB3R4/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300097890/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-family-say-theyve-lost-hope-six-months-after-disappearance https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300189370/the-missing-people-of-piha-25-years-six-cases-no-answers https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300201475/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-reportedly-sighted-13km-from-last-known-location https://www.20minutes.fr/faits_divers/4096164-20240621-disparition-eloi-rolland-nouvelle-zelande-va-declarer-mort-jeune-homme https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/malgre-labsence-de-corps-la-nouvelle-zelande-va-prononcer-le-deces-deloi-rolland-18-ans-disparu-en-2020-24-06-2024-W2572J4WSNHH7F4NG2S7VJ573M.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwbEs-Xku8Y
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  • 101: Jim Sullivan: Santa Rosa, New Mexico

    101: Jim Sullivan: Santa Rosa, New Mexico
    Oct 23 2025
    In 1975, a musician named Jim Sullivan got into his car and left Los Angeles behind. He was heading east, chasing a new beginning - or maybe running from something he couldn’t name.
    He was tall, handsome, magnetic - and his music carried that same restless energy.
    Songs about highways, lost souls, and vanishing into the unknown.
    The kind of lyrics that feel like they’re trying to tell you something… if you’re really listening. Somewhere along that long stretch of desert road, Jim stopped - and from that moment on, no one knows what happened next.
    His story faded into rumor, mystery, and myth - tangled up in the same strange beauty that filled his songs.
    Today, we’re going to follow the same road Jim Sullivan took - the one that led him deep into the desert… and out of the world we know.
    Listen as we dive into New Mexico, the case of Jim Sullivan, and how to stay alive on vacation.

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/arts/music/jim-sullivan.html

    https://archive.ph/20190215195820/https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/11/10/the-strange-tale-of-jim-sullivans-u-f-o/

    https://ultimateclassicrock.com/missing-ufo-singer-songwriter/

    https://waxidermy.com/jim-sullivan-ufo/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/153yeuj/jim_sullivan_was_an_american_singersongwriter_and/

    https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/searching-for-sullivan/

    https://www.ripleys.com/stories/jim-sullivan

    https://floodmagazine.com/71829/mystery-and-history-the-strange-music-and-stranger-tale-of-jim-sullivan/

    https://lightintheattic.net/products/jim-sullivan?srsltid=AfmBOor1gs0JjBwiuB7MVBI_bdkadqzkjsUnhjMldXJDv9D5AP5a0PJg

    https://therodeomag.com/2019/10/22/the-night-jim-sullivan-disappeared/

    https://vocal.media/fyi/whatever-happened-to-musician-jim-sullivan
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  • 100: Max DeVries: Aruba

    100: Max DeVries: Aruba
    Oct 16 2025
    May 12, 2004 - a day that began like any other for the Devries family. They were on vacation in Aruba, seeking a moment’s peace, maybe a bit of hope, after a great loss. Fourteen year old Max, eager for an adventure, asked to go out on a jet ski with a man they recently befriended.
    By afternoon, that simple request would become the portal to a mystery no one has solved. The man returned - alone. Max did not.
    What’s astonishing is how quickly questions outpaced answers. The man’s story would shift - from jet ski trouble, to a tow gone wrong, to Max slipping away in the waves, to even claiming he was swimming for shore.
    Yet no one was ever charged. Max was declared “lost at sea”.
    What really happened to Max Devries on that Aruban ocean. Was it a tragic accident, or something far more sinister? Listen as we dive into Aruba, the case of Max DeVries, and how to stay alive on vacation.

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    Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter

    Sources:
    https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/a-metro-detroit-teen-disappeared-in-aruba-in-2004-his-mom-is-still-fighting-for-answers

    https://maxtothemillions.com/

    https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Never-Seen-Again/0FJCILZ3O8D0LOPN4JLLSENIO6

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1h4sw4i/what_really_happened_out_in_the_aruban_ocean_to/

    https://www.shoresofstrength.org/featuredcases/maxdevries

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/62321359000/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaC8f965qc

    https://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/brighton-township/2024/03/12/docuseries-investigates-2004-disappearance-of-brighton-teen-in-aruba-max-devries/72941075007/

    https://www.chipchick.com/2024/12/his-mom-saw-him-ride-off-on-a-jet-ski-in-aruba-with-an-older-man-and-then-he-vanished

    https://thecinemaholic.com/max-devries-found-or-missing-is-he-dead-or-alive/

    https://thecinemaholic.com/max-devries-mom-sister/
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