Episodes

  • Episode 178: Jasmine Block | A Disappearance into the Night

    Episode 178: Jasmine Block | A Disappearance into the Night
    May 5 2024
    On the night of August 8, 2017 15 year old Jasmine Block seemingly disappeared into thin air. When her mother returned home after only being gone an hour that night Jasmine’s cell phone was near the couch which she had left her daughter sitting on. Join me as I tell John the case of Jasmine Block.

    Trigger Warning: Sexual assault and descriptions of extreme violence

    Correction: John told me to let you know he was wrong about St. Paul and he apologizes to all Minnesotans!

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    Sources:
    https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/jasmine-blocks-mom-shares-kidnapping-story/89-472038358#:~:text=%22Sleep%20is%20hard%2C%22%20Sarah,daughter%2C%20Jasmine%2C%20was%20missing.
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/442436194/?match=1&terms=jasmine%20block
    https://frankweberauthor.com/blog/alexandria-teenager-jasmine-block
    https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/jasmine-blocks-mom-shares-kidnapping-story/89-472038358
    https://frankweberauthor.com/blog/alexandria-teenager-jasmine-block
    https://www.echopress.com/news/barker-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison
    https://www.echopress.com/news/holby-sentenced-to-less-than-eight-years-second-man-in-jasmine-block-case-sent-to-prison#:~:text=Sarah%20Block%20said%20she%20is,has%20already%20spent%20in%20jail.
    https://www.echopress.com/news/powers-pleads-guilty-in-kidnapping-case-sentencing-set-for-january
    https://www.twincities.com/2018/11/21/third-man-pleads-guilty-to-abducting-alexandria-girl-holding-her-captive-till-she-escaped/
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/retired-farmer-gives-reward-money-to-kidnapped-teen

    Polaris Project
    ​​https://polarisproject.org/blog/2020/08/what-we-know-about-how-child-sex-trafficking-happens/
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode 177: Roylynn Rides Horse | Three Miles on Castle Rock Rd

    Episode 177: Roylynn Rides Horse | Three Miles on Castle Rock Rd
    Apr 21 2024
    On April 17, 2016 A motorist found the burned, beaten, and frostbit body of a woman on a desolate stretch of Highway 212 in the Crow Reservation in Montana. Miraculously she was still alive. Join me as I tell John the case of Roylynn Rides Horse and the senseless act of violence that left her in the condition in which she was found.

    Trigger Warning: domestic violence, extreme violence

    ** Correction: the time between the murder of Hanna Harris and Roylynn Rides Horse was 3 years not 9, I apologize.**

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    Sourcing:
    Map showing distance from Kirby Saloon to Castle Rock Road
    https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-sanchez-1064
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/busby-man-sentenced-life-murder-woman
    https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3642&context=mulr#:~:text=Misprision%20of%20felony%20is%20defined,respect%20of%20the%20other's%20crime.
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/480228813/?match=1&terms=roylynn%20rideshorse
    https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2018/12/21/man-gets-life-sentence-burning-woman-crow-reservation/2393219002/
    Investigation Discovery Show: Dead Silence Season 4 Episode 8
    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-woman-dies-after-being-beaten-burned-on-crow-2016jun28-story.html
    https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/slain-womans-last-words-cant-be-used-in-trial-judge-rules
    https://www.niwrc.org/restoration-magazine/february-2018/call-action-declare-may-5-2018-national-day-awareness-missing
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 176: Nadia Kajouji and Mark Drybrough | The Chatroom

    Episode 176: Nadia Kajouji and Mark Drybrough | The Chatroom
    Apr 7 2024
    Today’s case spans three countries and the course of ten years. It begins as separate tragic cases of young individuals who are in crisis, but when a 64 year old self-admitted armchair detective got involved she slowly began to connect all the dots…something horrible was happening on the internet.

    Trigger Warnings: Today’s case deals with discussions surround suicide and suicide ideations

    Resources:
    Suicide Prevention resources
    The national suicide prevention lifeline is now 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline)
    You could also call 1800-273- TALK (8255)
    Learn the warning signs for suicide
    International Suicide prevention hotline lists
    Yourlifecounts.org

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    Sources:
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kajouji-s-video-diary-shows-path-to-suicide-1.802270
    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/parents-plea-for-help-to-find-missing-daughter-1.282736
    https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/angels/melchert_dinkel/1.html
    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/mn-supreme-court/1660689.html
    Newspaper.com archives from the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Windsor Star, Battle Creek Enquirer, and New York Times
    Death on the Web miniseries
    Web of Lies (ID)
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Episode 175: Gabriella Doolin | Allen County's Angel

    Episode 175: Gabriella Doolin | Allen County's Angel
    Mar 24 2024
    On November 14, 2015 the most unthinkable crime was committed in the midst of a youth football game in Scottsville, KY reaffirming the scary truth that it is not the unknown we should fear, but those closest to us. Join me as I tell Johnny the case of seven year old Gabriella Doolin.

    Trigger warning: sexual abuse and murder of a minor

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    Sources:
    https://www.scribd.com/document/293042050/Timothy-Madden-Indictments
    https://www.wbko.com/content/news/Sentencing-for-Timothy-Madden-begins-in-Allen-County-563706761.html
    https://vocal.media/criminal/the-gruesome-murder-of-gabbi-doolin
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/663596265/?terms=Gabriella%20Doolin&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/663596330/?terms=Gabriella%20Doolin&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/140911235/?terms=Gabriella%20Doolin&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/463094782/?terms=Gabriella%20Doolin&match=1
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode 174: The Murder of Cindy Monkman

    Episode 174: The Murder of Cindy Monkman
    Mar 10 2024
    30 year old Cindy Monkman went missing in the hours before she was supposed to catch a flight home with her sister for Christmas. Join me as I tell John the heartbreaking case of Cindy and how falling in love can sometimes be a very dangerous thing to do.

    Kathy Monkman Higham’s links:
    Blog
    Youtube Channel

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    Sources:
    Source 1
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168356499/dorothy-june-monkman
    https://casetext.com/case/state-v-apelt
    Clip from American Monster (Season 9 and Episode 4)
    https://middlechildbook.com/2022/04/27/gone/
    Newspaper.com access to the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star archives
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Episode 173: Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg | Wrong Turn

    Episode 173: Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg | Wrong Turn
    Feb 25 2024
    The case that we have for you today will take us on a scenic road trip from the beautiful Vancouver Island through the majestic pacific northwestern state of Washington, with our final destination being Seattle. But somewhere along the way a wrong turn was taken, and the vast and dense forests around us, once beautiful and intoxicating, will take on a new sinister light. And very quickly the trip that was supposed to be fun for a young, new couple, just beginning to map out their own lives, would send them on the path towards their brutal murders…because a killer was now following them. Join me as I tell John the case of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg

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    Sources:

    The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder By Edward Humes
    Penguin Random House 2022
    Purchase book

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njKHQNyEXaY
    https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/tracing-the-last-steps-of-saanich-couple-killed-in-1987-4661130
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tanya-van-cuylenborg-jay-cook-cold-case-timeline/
    https://casetext.com/case/state-v-talbott-15#:~:text=William%20Earl%20Talbott%20II%20appealed,reversal%20and%20affirm%20his%20convictions.
    https://bjs.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/combined-dna-index-system-codis
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/515711914/?terms=tanya%20van%20cuylenborg&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/488387258/?terms=tanya%20van%20cuylenborg&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/488386250/?terms=tanya%20van%20cuylenborg&match=1
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/488383043/?terms=tanya%20van%20cuylenborg&match=1
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 172: The Murder of Brad Dodd

    Episode 172: The Murder of Brad Dodd
    Feb 11 2024
    In New Washoe City, Nevada two armed gunmen stormed into the trailer of the Dodd Family in late December of 2012. In their wake they would leave the head of the household dead and a family reeling from the seemingly senseless act of violence. But as the investigation fell into the lap of investigators the family would only be further torn apart by devastating secrets and betrayals. 

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    Sources:
    Reno-Gazette Journal archives accessed through Newspapers.com (2012-2015)
    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/crt-app-nev/2131406.html
    https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/nevada/nvdce/2:2021cv01398/151484/41/0.pdf
    Source 3
    https://www.washoesheriff.com/outreach/archive/1300001.php
    https://casetext.com/case/dodd-v-state-121
    Snapped Season 19 Episode 6 (Interviews)
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Episode 171: Gary Larson | The Peeping Tom Murder

    Episode 171: Gary Larson | The Peeping Tom Murder
    Jan 28 2024
    Detective Scott Day had been on the Edmond Police Force for just about 20 years. Close to his retirement, he could reflect back on his career and be proud of the work that he had done…all except for that one case from 18 years prior. He had been a rookie officer then, and the first to respond to the scene of a murder and a violent sexual assault. The case had gone unsolved and haunted the community. It was something that he thought about often. The house, the details, he could see the only survivor standing in the doorway of the house battered and covered in blood sobbing as he ran to her. That’s why it was odd that there he was in 2004 and he stood again in front of a brick house with a large bush in front of a window on a suburban street. It was like deja vu….he got his bearings and looked around. He was actually only steps away from the house he responded to back in 1986. Had he done it again…

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    Sources:
    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2004/05/01/edmond-peeping-case-leads-to-break-in-86-killing/61991753007/
    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1987/08/16/woman-cant-forget-terrifying-night-memories-of-rape-murder-linger/62680656007/
    https://casetext.com/case/graham-v-pettigrew
    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2005/01/06/murderer-gets-life-in-edmond-cold-case/61959645007/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfA_CyKWFIk
    https://tulsaworld.com/news/peeping-tom-arrest-could-revive-86-murder-case/article_06487f54-f78d-5ad8-a493-723a3bbeac65.html
    Oklahoman articles accessed through Newspapers.com


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    1 hr and 13 mins