{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Empty Seat: The Disappearance of Thora Chamberlain","description":"On November 2, 1945, fourteen-year-old Thora Chamberlain left school in Campbell, California, expecting to attend a football game that evening.\n\nHer friends saved her a seat.\n\nThora never arrived.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing her speaking with a man dressed as a serviceman before getting into his vehicle. Within weeks, investigators focused on Thomas McMonigle, a local laborer with a history of violence. Over the course of the investigation, McMonigle gave multiple confessions, led authorities to key pieces of evidence, and was ultimately convicted of Thora's murder.\n\nBut investigators never found the one thing that mattered most.\n\nThora herself.\n\nMore than eighty years later, Thora Chamberlain remains one of California's earliest no-body homicide victims. Her body has never been recovered.\n\nIn this episode, we examine the disappearance of Thora Chamberlain, the investigation that followed, and the evidence that secured a conviction despite the absence of a body.\n\nThis is a story about loss, memory, and the empty seat left behind when a child never comes home.\n\nšŸ“ Campbell, California | November 2, 1945\n\nšŸ“– Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker.\n\nāž”ļø Help bring attention to missing and unidentified womenā€”subscribe and share this episode.\n\nšŸ“ Find us on Instagram (https://instagram.com/she_goes_by_jane?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089745836263&mibextid=LQQJ4d) .\n\nšŸ“š Get Aimeeā€™s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press (https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/doe/) , Bookshop.org (http://bookshop.org/) , and Amazon (https://a.co/d/2ItYCjb) .\n\nšŸ“° For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimeeā€™s newsletter, GIRLHUNT (http://www.girlhuntmedia.com/) .","author_name":"She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166694-she-goes-by-jane-a-true-crime-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43710142/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}