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  • The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years

    The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years
    Aug 16 2026
    The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years

    A single red size-four sneaker, double-knotted and standing upright, was found on a demolition site floor on September 4, 2019 - 34 years after eight-year-old Richard Bennett vanished on September 11, 1985. How could a shoe, soil in its tread, and a supervisor's handwritten logbook finally point to what had been buried beneath that floor for decades?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the overlooked details that reopened the Bennett case, from the original assumptions that pushed the search outward to the people who were actually in Harwick that morning; what did a routine review and one detective's lost photograph change about the story?

    Person: Richard Bennett
    Date: Disappearance on September 11, 1985
    Location: Aldren Textile plant (site), Harwick, Harrison County
    Investigator: Amanda Barnes (case review, January 2018)
    Witness/Person of Interest: Curtis Foster (Aldren maintenance technician, employed spring 1984-March 1986)

    - A child's red sneaker, size four with double-knotted laces, was found upright on the Aldren Textile plant floor on September 4, 2019.
    - Richard Bennett was eight years old when he disappeared on September 11, 1985, and his backpack was missing from home that day.
    - Forty to sixty workers were present at the Aldren plant on September 11, 1985; none were interviewed during the original investigation.
    - Detective Lou Harding kept the file open for four years after the active search was suspended and died in 2003 with the case unresolved.
    - Curtis Foster worked at Aldren from spring 1984 to March 1986 and was incarcerated in 2018 at Whitmore Correctional in Cambria County, Indiana.

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    18 min
  • The Note in Court, Two Bodies Missing, and the Van DNA Trail

    The Note in Court, Two Bodies Missing, and the Van DNA Trail
    Aug 15 2026
    The Note in Court, Two Bodies Missing, and the Van DNA Trail

    The wallet at a church door was laid out as if staged, six cards fanned and face-up on wet concrete while the owner had been missing six days; a truck was found with the seat set three inches farther back than the owner’s recorded position. What links a fraudulent HVAC callback, a white utility van with a magnetic sign, and two disappearances separated by forty miles and years apart?

    In this episode, we present the sequence of events and discoveries from both missing-person cases and the later cold-case review that brought them back into focus, asking how a single, small detail might rewrite years of official conclusions.

    Person: Harvey Murphy
    Date: August 8, 2003 (last confirmed sighting)
    Location: Dorado County, truck found behind Dorado County Fairgrounds
    Status: Case suspended after 14 months with no arrest
    Person: Dennis Foard
    Date: August 5, 2001 (neighbor saw him with a man), August 3, 2001 (fraudulent callback logged)
    Location: Portsmith / Gallatin County
    Status: Classified as voluntary disappearance by Portsmith police

    - Wallet found on August 14, 2003, with six credit and membership cards face-up and the wallet dry on wet concrete.
    - Harvey Murphy was 62 years old, taught shop for 31 years, last confirmed seen when he used his debit card at 2:22 PM on August 8, 2003.
    - A debit-card transaction at 4:47 PM the same day occurred at a gas station on Route Nine, 16 miles from Harvey’s home, amount $31.
    - Harvey’s truck seat was set three inches farther back than mechanic Roy Stanwick’s recorded preferred position, indicating a taller driver.
    - In 2001, Meridian Air logs recorded a callback visit on August 3 with a technician named Todd Brooks who did not exist on payroll; a white utility van with a magnetic sign was seen at Dennis Foard’s house on August 5.

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    21 min
  • The Stuff Sack in the Tree: How a Badge Broke Silence

    The Stuff Sack in the Tree: How a Badge Broke Silence
    Aug 14 2026
    The Stuff Sack in the Tree: How a Badge Broke Silence

    A hospital visitor badge with the name Steven Phillips was found perched on a stuff sack four feet up a tulip poplar-beneath it, a disposable camera and a wallet containing Craig Campbell’s Kentucky driver’s license. How did a badge issued at Dunbar Regional Medical Center end up tucked into a tree above evidence tied to a man later found murdered?

    In this episode, we recount the timeline from the July fourteenth discovery on Kessler Ridge Trail to Craig Campbell’s body recovery on July twenty-sixth, and follow how an overlooked camera and a forgotten badge reshaped the investigation. Who placed the sack in the tree, and why did that small act become the key that finally broke the silence?

    Person: Craig Allen Campbell
    Date: July 14, 2023 (sack found); July 18, 2023 (last seen); July 26, 2023 (body recovered)
    Location: Kessler Ridge Trail, Dunbar, Kentucky
    Event: Stuff sack with camera, grocery list, and wallet found in tree; body recovered from culvert drainage channel
    Status: Homicide; visitor badge catalogued; camera initially undeveloped

    - The stuff sack was found wedged four feet high in a tulip poplar on July 14, 2023.
    - Inside the sack were a disposable single-use camera, a folded notebook paper, and a leather wallet containing Craig Campbell’s Kentucky driver’s license.
    - The hospital visitor badge reading Steven Phillips was issued April 9, 2023, for a 47-minute visit at Dunbar Regional Medical Center.
    - Craig Campbell was last seen leaving the Hadley Brothers warehouse on July 18, 2023, and his body was recovered on July 26, 2023, three-quarters of a mile east of Kessler Ridge Trail.
    - Lead investigator Roy Altman spent eight months building a case around Curtis Brody before the prosecutor declined to charge him.

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    18 min
  • A watch still ticking underwater - belonging to a woman missing 23 years

    A watch still ticking underwater - belonging to a woman missing 23 years
    Aug 13 2026
    A watch still ticking underwater - belonging to a woman missing 23 years

    A stainless-steel watch with a champagne dial and a moving second hand was pulled from the Caswell River in June 2022 after twenty-three years underwater, and it belonged to a woman who vanished in 1999. How did a single object finally begin to tie two long-cold disappearances together?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from the watch to overlooked case files and invoices, and we trace the small, specific details that reopened investigations; can reading the raw evidence differently answer what decades of narrative could not?

    Person: Beverly Hensley
    Date: June 8, 1999 (last calendar mark)
    Location: Caswell River (watch found), Cord Street rental (home)
    Case: Disappearance of Beverly Hensley
    Person: Kathleen Doss

    - The watch was found on the morning of June 14, 2022, and its second hand was still moving.
    - Beverly Hensley was 47 years old in spring 1999 and worked eleven years as a billing coordinator at Dellwood Regional Medical Center.
    - Beverly marked each day on a paper desk calendar and the last red line was drawn through June 8, 1999; there was no line for June 9.
    - A plumbing invoice dated May 1999 listed a standard sink repair with an additional baseboard repair charge indicating work in rear hallway areas.
    - A gas station receipt dated June 7, 1999 recorded a fill-up on Route 61, which leads to a gravel turnoff and a boat access point on the Caswell River.

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    22 min
  • The Tied Shoe: Why Beverly Vanished on County Road Nine

    The Tied Shoe: Why Beverly Vanished on County Road Nine
    Aug 12 2026
    The Tied Shoe: Why Beverly Vanished on County Road Nine

    Fear and small, precise details collide: a woman’s canvas shoe, size seven, laces still tied, is found half-buried in a cedar thicket seventeen years after Beverly Bailey vanished from County Road Nine. A torn note reading “I can look at it tonight, Beverly” and a tow call from the night before her disappearance complicate a presumption of drowning-what really happened on May 9, 2002?

    In this episode, we lay out the facts of Beverly’s life, the timeline of her last known hours, and the anomalies that kept the case open for nearly two decades, asking whether the accepted theory of accidental drowning fits the evidence or if those details point elsewhere.

    Person: Beverly Bailey
    Date: May 9, 2002
    Location: County Road Nine, seven miles outside Granton
    Event: Disappearance; case classified as accidental drowning in October 2002
    Discovery: Canvas shoe found by surveyor Jennifer Hayes in May 2019

    - Beverly was 31 years old at the time she vanished and worked at the county agricultural cooperative since age 24.
    - She called friend Angela Pruitt at about 6:40 p.m. on May 8, 2002, confirming she was heading to choir practice and never arrived.
    - A tow truck driver, Kevin Weaver, reported a breakdown at 7:15 p.m. the night before on County Road Nine but found no vehicle when he arrived.
    - Beverly’s gray car was found with the driver’s door unlocked, wallet on the passenger seat, and keys in the ignition the morning of May 9, 2002.
    - A torn strip of paper with seven words-“I can look at it tonight, Beverly.”-was recovered with her wallet and filed as evidence.

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    18 min
  • The Forged Permit That Hid a Nurse for Twenty Years

    The Forged Permit That Hid a Nurse for Twenty Years
    Aug 11 2026
    The Forged Permit That Hid a Nurse for Twenty Years

    Cold and ordinary paperwork concealed a twenty-year-old secret: a laminated septic permit dated April 14, 2003, hung at eye level and kept inspectors away from a crawl space where human remains lay undisturbed until April 2023-how did a forged county document lock a disappearance in place for two decades?

    In this episode, we walk through the timeline from Dawn West’s last routine Wednesday visit to her mother in April 2003 to the moment a septic inspector found the fake permit in April 2023, asking whether the forged document was the key piece that allowed a crime to stay hidden and who made it possible.

    Person: Dawn West
    Date: April 19, 2003 (missing reported)
    Location: Fenwick Drive, Vance County, Indiana
    Case: Unresolved until remains identified in April 2023
    Person: Mark Turner

    - A laminated septic permit dated April 14, 2003, was mounted beside the crawl space access on Fenwick Drive.
    - Human remains were recovered from the farmhouse crawl space on April 18, 2023, after a permit raised suspicions.
    - Dawn West had been missing for exactly twenty years when DNA identified the remains as hers in April 2023.
    - Mark Turner photographed an official permit in March 2003, rebuilt and laminated a forged copy, then placed it at the crawl space.
    - Dawn West was a 51-year-old licensed practical nurse who worked 14 years at Crestfield Care and never missed Wednesday visits to her mother.

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    20 min
  • Shoe Left at the Water's Edge: The Murder of Jessica Andrews

    Shoe Left at the Water's Edge: The Murder of Jessica Andrews
    Aug 10 2026
    Shoe Left at the Water's Edge: The Murder of Jessica Andrews

    A dry burgundy leather flat stood upright in the mud beside Jessica Andrews's body at Peller Marsh - dry inside, on the wrong side of her, and unmoved by the water that had soaked everything else. That single forensic detail was recorded in 2001 but ignored for two decades; how could a shoe carried separately from the body point to a killer who never left the case?

    In this episode, we walk through the timeline from Jessica's routine morning walks to the discovery at dawn and the omissions in the original investigation, following the threads that were missed for years and the clue that finally reopened the file: was the answer hidden in a dry insole and an unlocked gate?

    Person: Jessica Andrews
    Date: March 9-11, 2001
    Location: Peller Marsh Preserve; Sutter Lane, Cullerton
    Investigator: Detective Sergeant Hank Pruitt
    Forensic Examiner: Barbara Elms

    - Jessica Andrews was 46 years old and took the same two-mile morning walk every day, stopping ten minutes on a bench outside the Tulloch County Library.
    - Her boyfriend Tom Alvarado reported her missing at 6:40 p.m. on March 9, 2001; her body was found 48 hours later at dawn on March 11, 2001.
    - Raymond Long, age 61, found the shoe and Jessica’s body before seven a.m. on March 11, 2001 while on his usual visit to Peller Marsh.
    - Forensic examiner Barbara Elms noted the shoe’s insole was dry with no marsh sediment, concluding the shoe had been carried to the bank separately from the body.
    - Neil Henderson, age 44, was assigned and signed a work order to install a lock on the 30-inch utility gate between Jessica’s backyard and the adjacent duplex in September 2000, but the lock was never installed.

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    19 min
  • A Fresh Carnation on a Dead Woman's Dashboard: The Marcia Larsen Case

    A Fresh Carnation on a Dead Woman's Dashboard: The Marcia Larsen Case
    Aug 9 2026
    A Fresh Carnation on a Dead Woman's Dashboard: The Marcia Larsen Case

    The single fresh white carnation on the dashboard was a detail that haunted witnesses and sat in evidence for sixteen years; there was no flower shop within fourteen miles and the car was found 2.5 miles the wrong way down Calloway Road - so who placed it there, and why? What connection ties a nursery at the north end of Calloway Road to a dead woman found facing the opposite direction?

    In this episode, we present the sequence of events, timelines, and evidence surrounding Marcia Larsen's disappearance and death, and how family advocacy and advances in DNA and cold-case work reopened the file to ask the question that was missed for years: could the road itself point to the answer?

    Person: Marcia Larsen
    Date: February 7, 1993
    Location: Calloway Road, Trent County
    Age: 28
    Evidence: single fresh white carnation found on dashboard

    - Marcia Larsen was last seen leaving Trent County Animal Shelter at approximately 8:40 p.m, on February 5, 1993.
    - The car was found on Calloway Road pointing the wrong direction, 2.5 miles south of Marcia's apartment which was 1.3 miles north of the shelter.
    - There was no flower shop within fourteen miles of where the car was found.
    - In 2009 reprocessing produced two DNA profiles from the car: Marcia's and a partial male profile not in the state database.
    - Fenwick Nursery, located at the north end of Calloway Road, had cut white carnations in its February cooler and was operated by Duane Long.

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    21 min