Episode 42: Sneha Philip with guest reader Sakina Jaffrey Part 1
New York City, September 10th, 2001. The day before the attacks on the World Trade Center is a day when most New York City residents are going about their regular business. The same was true for Dr. Sneha Philip who left her Battery Park apartment that evening to run some errands. It wasn’t unusual for her to spend the night out in the city, but when she doesn’t return home by the next day, her...
40m Jun 18, 2024
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41: Episode 41: North Arlington Jane Doe with guest reader Crystal Balint.
In December 1990, a woman accidentally drowned in the Passaic River in New Jersey. Despite these tragic circumstances, her story garners little media attention. She becomes one of the tens of thousands of individuals who are currently unidentified in the United States. Researchers call these tens of thousands of unidentified our “silent mass disaster.” This week our guest reader is award-wi...
46m Jun 11, 2024
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40: Episode 40: Promila Mehta-Paul with guest reader Mouzam Makkar
On March 22, 2011, employees at Dr. Promila Mehta-Paul’s medical office arrive and get ready for another busy day of patients and appointments. There’s one problem? The Doctor never arrives. Always reliable and communicative, they know it’s unlikely that she wouldn’t have called if something came up and soon they, along with Promila’s family and friends, are flooding the local police offices wi...
47m Jun 04, 2024
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Episode 39: Deanna Merryfield with guest reader Alison Arngrim
At 3:30am, a 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield shows up at her uncle’s trailer and wakes her twin who is sleeping inside. The two talk for just a moment before Deanna, startled by her uncle waking up, bolts. This is the last confirmed time she was seen alive. Since 1990, the year she disappeared, until now, there are a few clues that she might be out there somewhere: a collect call, a police comput...
45m May 28, 2024
45m
38: Episode 38: Maria, or the Pyre Case with guest reader Dedee Pfeiffer
In 1952, a man comes across the burned body of a woman in Cottonwood Gulch, just outside of Black Hawk, Colorado. He returns to this site several times before reporting what he found to the sheriff’s office, a fact that will immediately cloud his actions in suspicion. Without any identifying information, she becomes known as Maria to some, or more often as the Pyre Case for the way she was murd...
42m May 21, 2024
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37: Episode 37: Tara Calico with guest reader Lauren Robertson
Perhaps you’ve seen the photo before. A young woman with her hands bound, tape over her mouth, laying in the back of a van with a similarly bound little boy. This photo has, for better or worse, become synonymous with the case of Tara Calico, a 19 year old young woman who disappeared while riding her bicycle in New Mexico in 1988. But beyond that photo, many don’t know much about Tara or her di...
50m May 14, 2024
50m
36: Lisa Roberts: The Teen Once Known as Precious Jane Doe with guest reader Heather Morris
In 1977, investigators identified a young woman’s killer but could not identify the victim herself. More than forty years later, investigative genetic genealogy finally revealed her name: Lisa Roberts.
43m May 07, 2024
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35: Episode 35: Martha and Sandra Stiver with guest reader Kelsey Wang
In 1968, the body of a young woman was found in rural Pennsylvania. She’d been shot to death. Months later, another young woman is found just a few miles away. Their only connection? They wore the same leather sandals. It will take nearly fifty years and an online database dedicated to missing and unidentified persons to identify who they are. But even with this development in their case, th...
48m Apr 30, 2024
48m
34: Episode 34: Sequoya Vargas, part 2 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo
In August 1993, a man walks into a police station and gives a statement about the disappearance of 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas. In it, he details the brutal assault and murder of the teenager, placing blame for these on his two friends. This statement of what happened to Sequoya will be just one of many that’s given over the years by the three men. They’ll be full of contradictions and blame,...
43m Apr 23, 2024
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33: Episode 33: Sequoya Vargas, part 1 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo
In 1993, 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas hitchhikes with a friend to her friend’s home. Later that evening, the man who gave them a ride asks her to go to his cousin’s house to watch movies. She never returns home. Despite this being out of character for her, the police brush aside her mother’s pleas to search for her daughter, sending her family and friends on their own quest to find out what happe...
32m Apr 16, 2024
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32: Episode 32: Case Update: Shauna Harvey/Shauna Garber with guest reader Teryl Rothery
Detective Lorie Howard was once told that the only way the case of the unidentified woman she was working on would be by the grace of god. This gave her the name Grace Doe and she was known by this for years until she was finally identified as Shauna Garber. A few weeks ago, investigators made public new information, filling in gaps in Shauna’s story including an update to her name and revealin...
30m Apr 09, 2024
30m
31: Episode 31: The Texas Killing Fields: Tot Tran Harriman with guest reader Porter Duong
Tot Tran Harriman survived the Vietnam War. She witnessed history when she was evacuated on the last boat out of Saigon before it fell. She lived through being held in a refugee camp in Pennsylvania along with 20,000 other refugees. And made a life for herself in Maine, raising three children, starting new businesses, and helping other refugees. But in 2001, she also became one of America’s mis...
51m Apr 02, 2024
51m
30: Episode 30: Bessie Kutnak with guest reader Catherine Mary Stewart
On a hot summer’s day in 1992, 63-year-old Bessie Kutnak goes to look for her missing cattle near her home in Cameron, Texas. Witnesses say she seemed disoriented and was seen asking for directions before she disappeared. When family members realized she was missing, a full-scale search of her began, but no trace of her was ever found. This week our guest reader is actress Catherine Mary St...
38m Mar 26, 2024
38m
29: Episode 29: Carma Purpura with guest reader Jann Karam
On July 11, 2007, a 31-year-old Carma Purpura was last seen getting into the cab of a truck driver at a rest stop near Indianapolis. The next day, he’s arrested in Nashville under suspicion he’s involved in the murder of another woman. Inside his cab, investigators find Carma’s phone and credit card and so much of Carma’s blood detectives are certain Carma is no longer alive. Four years later, ...
44m Mar 19, 2024
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28: episode 28: Wanda Kirkum with guest reader Patricia Rae
On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman is seen hitchhiking along US 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, a pair of windsurfers find her body in a densely wooded area. She’d been beaten to death before being strangled with her own bikini top. For years this young woman was known only as Valentine Doe, named for the last day she was seen alive. But investigators never give up on her case, ...
35m Mar 12, 2024
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27: Episode 27: The Last Unidentified Victims of the Green River Killer with guest Tabitha Brownstone
In 2001, the Green River Killer was finally caught, ending one of the most horrific eras in the Pacific Northwest and ending a decades long investigation dedicated to identifying this mnan. Convicted of 49 murders, this man confessed to even more, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. It would take over twenty more years to identify three of his young victims with the most ...
47m Mar 05, 2024
47m
26: Episode 26: The Texas Killing Fields: Shelley Sikes
When he spoke of what happened to his daughter Shelley, Ed Sikes said, “It was a crash course in good and evil.” In 1986, when Shelley was 19, she was working as a waitress at a popular restaurant in Galveston. The night she disappeared, she left work and headed to her boyfriend’s house, but Shelley never made it there. Based on eyewitness accounts and, eventually, the confessions of her killer...
39m Feb 27, 2024
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25: Episode 25: Shawna Garber/Grace Doe with guest reader Teryl Rothery
McDonald County, Missouri. In 1990, a woman and her husband find the remains of a woman near an abandoned house. She’s been bound, her hands and legs tied behind her back. With no identification on her, and no one coming forward to claim her, she becomes one of America’s unidentified women and is given the name Grace Doe, because it will be only through the Grace of God that her identity will b...
47m Feb 20, 2024
47m
24: Episode 24: The Lady of the Lake with guest reader Dee Wallace
Cleveland, 1934. A man collecting firewood along the shores of Lake Erie is startled to find the partial remains of a woman. Though investigators are able to determine that she was brutally murdered, they are unable to identify the woman, naming her the Lady of the Lake instead. What they didn’t know yet was that the next four years the Cleveland area would be terrorized by a man they called th...
55m Feb 13, 2024
55m
23: Episode 23: Linda and Lori Mae Peugeot with guest reader Liz Moore
In 1969, 21-year-old Linda Peogeot and her daughter, Lori Mae, leave a department store with all the supplies they need to celebrate the little girl’s third birthday party happening the next day. And there, in the parking lot, they’re abducted by a man in broad daylight with witnesses just feet away. This abduction spurs a nationwide manhunt as investigators race to get Linda and Lori Mae back ...
51m Feb 06, 2024
51m
22: Episode 22: Audrey Cook and Donna Prudhomme with guest reader Briana Evigan
In southern Texas, there’s a strip of highway that runs between Houston and Galveston. From the 1970s until today, it’s a place where many women and girls have gone missing or were murdered. Most of these crimes are unsolved and this area has become known as the Texas Killing Fields. But nestled along Interstate 45 in League City, Texas, is a 25 acre field where this name originated. There, bet...
51m Jan 30, 2024
51m
21: Episode 21: Dorothy Arnold with guest reader Sharon Lawrence
Dorothy Arnold, a young socialite, vanished without a trace in 1910. Born into wealth and privilege, Dorothy's life seemed idyllic, but her family didn’t support her aspirations to become a writer nor her budding romance with a man named George Griscom Jr., both of which she kept hidden from her family. With her disappearance, a tangled web of theories emerges, including rumors of elopement, a ...
58m Jan 23, 2024
58m
Episode 20: Pah Pow with guest reader Rainbow Dickerson
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 lived with her husband and children in Aberdeen, ...
37m Jan 16, 2024
37m
19: Episode 19: Keiosha Felix with guest reader McKenna Roberts
Keiosha Felix is just fifteen years old when she disappears from Duson, Louisiana. Out on a weekend pass from a facility for pregnant and parenting teens, she’s set to visit her paternal aunt on the weekend of April 28-29th, 2012. On April 30th, she’s reported missing. Her paternal aunt and cousin said she left the night before with someone they didn’t see. Later, her cousin will say that she h...
52m Jan 09, 2024
52m
18: Episode 18: Beverly Sharpman with guest reader Susan Bennett
“Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.” That’s what the telegram read that Beverly Sharpman’s parents received the night of September 11, 1947. But, according to her mother, there was one problem: Beverly wasn’t seeing anyone at the time. This, and the unanswered questions surrounding her disappearance send one mother on a decades long quest to find her daughter.This w...
36m Jan 02, 2024
36m
17: Episode 17: Unpacking Missing White Woman Syndrome With The hosts of Fruitloops Beth and Wendy
In Ohio, a black woman’s body is found beneath a bridge and labeled Victim #8. In New York, a black woman found dead inside a storage tote will become known as Peaches for the heart shaped peach tattoo on her breast. And in Georgia, a black woman’s bones are found in the underbrush by a man walking his dog. Like many women of color who came before and after them, their stories fade from news co...
55m Dec 26, 2023
55m
16: Episode 16: Eklutna Annie with guest reader Kelly Moneymaker
There are more than 57 million miles of Alaskan wilderness. Between the 1970s and 1983, a serial killer used this vast expanse to hunt his victims like wild animals, knowing they could never escape.In 1980, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found in Eklutna, Alaska. Her murderer claimed she was his first victim and may have been a topless dancer or a sex worker. He suspected she came f...
46m Dec 19, 2023
46m
15: Episode 15: Cynthia and Jackie Leslie with special guest Catherine McKenzie
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 now almost 50 years old. In this episode we cov...
53m Dec 12, 2023
53m
14: Episode 14: Special Episode : Aimée Baker’s interview on Who Killed...?
Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins Bill Huffman, host of Who Kills..?, to discuss various cases. Were they touch on the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, who went missing in 2004 in Vermont. Despite the efforts of her family and detectives, the case remains unsolved. In this episode, we als...
1hr Dec 05, 2023
1hr
13: Episode 13: Bitter Creek Betty with guest reader Ginger Strand
In 1992, a truck driver pulls onto an interstate turnout on I-80 in Wyoming. There, she spots the body of a woman laying face down in the snow. The unidentified woman becomes known as Bitter Creek Betty or Rose Doe for her rose tattoo. The only clue to her identity is a tattoo artist from Tucson who remembers giving her the distinctive tattoo. In this episode we discuss what investigators have ...
41m Nov 28, 2023
41m
12: Episode 12: Cynthia Hernandez with guest reader Gabrielle Ruiz
When a teenager disappears from a movie theater in Covina, California, police initially believe she’s run away. In the decades to come, Cynthia Hernandez stays a missing person despite her remains being found just a month after her disappearance. We cover one of our rare solved cases to talk about what happened in those years and why it took so long for Cynthia to come home.This week, we’re joi...
41m Nov 21, 2023
41m
11: Episode 11: Norma/Bexar County Jane Doe with guest reader Jeané Coakley
What if a serial killer has the only clues to an unidentified woman’s identity? When a serial killer on death row begins talking about his crimes, investigators are shocked to learn of the 1986 murder of a woman in Texas that indicates his killings began much earlier than they thought. Despite this confession, that woman, whose name he thinks could be Norma, remains unidentified even now.This w...
44m Nov 14, 2023
44m
10: Episode 10: Nahida Khatib with special guest reader Kathy Najimy
Who or what scares witnesses so much that many of them ask to remain anonymous when speaking to investigators? That’s what happened in the disappearance of Nahida Khatib who suddenly vanished from her home one October morning in 1976.This week we’re joined by award-winning actress and activist Kathy Najimy. Kathy Najimy is well-known for her over 40 film roles including Sister Act and Hocus Poc...
50m Nov 07, 2023
50m
9: Episode 9: Pierce County Does
What happens to unidentified remains when their cases go cold? Most often, they’re held in evidence or buried. That’s not the case for three unidentified people who were found in Washington’s Pierce County in the 1970s. Instead, two were sent to a local landfill and one was lost.This week, we’re joined by one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, singer-songwriter Stephanie Quayle, who is one of the ...
33m Oct 31, 2023
33m
8: From “Buckskin Girl” to Marcia King: A Jane Doe Identified
As one of the most recognizable unidentified persons cases in the United States, she was known for decades as “Buckskin Girl.” For 37 years, her identity remained unknown. In 2018, she was finally identified as Marcia Sossoman King through advances in forensic DNA and genetic genealogy. In this episode, we explore Marcia’s life, the circumstances that led to her becoming unidentified, and the...
45m Oct 24, 2023
45m
7: Episode 7 : Theresa Bier with guest reader Lauren Ash
Bigfoot took her. That’s the explanation a 43-year-old man gives after he takes 16-year-old Theresa Bier out hiking and doesn’t return with her. But despite extensive ground and air searches for the teenager, there’s little evidence about what truly happened to Theresa in 1987. If you know anything about the disappearance of Theresa Bier contact the Fresno Police Department at (559) 621-7000.Th...
48m Oct 17, 2023
48m
6: Episode 6: Girly Chew with special guest Raven Goodwin - Part 2 of 2
Alien queens, evidence planting, witness threatening: just three ways in which the trials for Girly’s murder become so outlandish that the media starts to lose sight of Girly Chew and the fact that she’s still missing. In this second part to Girly’s story, we talk about what happened during the trial and what was done to try to bring Girly home to her family.If you are experiencing intimate par...
45m Oct 10, 2023
45m
5: Episode 5: Girly Chew with guest reader Raven Goodwin - Part 1 of 2
What if everything you believed about your partner wasn’t true at all? Not where they went to school. Not their job. Not even their name. That’s what happened to Girly Chew when she left her home in Malaysia and married the monster who would eventually murder her. This week, we’re joined by Raven Goodwin as we shine light on Part 1 of Girl’s story.If you are experiencing intimate partner violen...
46m Oct 03, 2023
46m
4: Honolulu Jane Doe: The Unidentified Woman Found Alive in Hawaii | Unsolved Case with guest reader Louise Penny
An unidentified woman found living in Honolulu in 2004 remains without a name—exploring the rare and overlooked reality of living Jane Doe cases in the U.S.
34m Sep 26, 2023
34m
3: Episode 3: Mary Shotwell Little with guest reader Paige McKenzie
When Mary Shotwell Little doesn’t show up for work the morning of October 15, 1965, her boss immediately knows something must be wrong. That afternoon, police find her car at the shopping center she visited the evening before with a friend. Inside the car are her groceries and a small amount of blood. What happened to Mary? And did a mysterious admirer who sent her roses at work have something ...
43m Sep 19, 2023
43m
2: Episode 2: Brianna Maitland with guest reader Marypat Farrell
On the night of March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland left her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, VT. Shortly after, witnesses saw her car less than two miles away, crashed into an abandoned farmhouse. Despite this, days pass before anyone realizes that Brianna is missing. What happened to Brianna that night and what will it take for someone to finally come forward with answers?...
44m Sep 12, 2023
44m
1: Episode 1: Lattingtown Jane Doe with guest reader Erica Wong
In 2013, a woman was walking her dog on a beach in Lattingtown, NY, along the Long Island Sound when she found the skeletal remains of a woman. Today, this unidentified woman is known only as Lattingtown Jane Doe or Nassau County Jane Doe, and the strongest clue to her identity is the 24k gold pig necklace found with her body.Who is she? What happened to her? And is she connected to the Long Is...
46m Sep 05, 2023
46m
Trailer
Each week co-hosts, author Aimée Bake and film maker Vanessa Cicarelli, will bring you a story of a missing or unidentified woman. And each episode they will be joined by a special celebrity guest reader, to read one of Aimée's poems written in honor of the person they are discussing. Guests like singers, Kelly Moneymaker and Stephanie Quayle. Actors, Coco Jones, Marypat Farrell and Gabrielle R...
1m Aug 08, 2023
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