The Red Dirt Missing

Between 1976 and 1986, a calculating predator stalked a single, one-square-mile grid in East Oklahoma City. Targeting vulnerable individuals navigating the shadows of the streets, this unidentified killer subjected three young women to a level of gruesome, calculated cruelty that left homicide detectives completely reeling. By the time the press sensationalized the horrors under a single headline-...

On May 16, 1984, 22-year-old Lisa Karen Addington was standing on the precipice of a brand-new life. With her Tulsa wedding just ten days away, her bridal gown hanging in the closet, and friends gathered around her, she celebrated her bachelorette party at East Tulsa's booming nightlife hub, The Great Escape Club. But when the music stopped and the neon lights faded, Lisa chose to stay behind....

Every victim deserves justice, but what happens when a case file contains little more than a name, a date, and an unanswered question? 💔 In today’s episode, we are shining a light on multiple cold cases that are at serious risk of being completely lost to time. These aren't the mysteries with massive headlines, endless evidence, or dramatic twists. Instead, they are defined by a sudden, heavy...

On Christmas night, 2005, 42-year-old mother Karen Faye Heim stepped out of her parents' home in West Tulsa, Oklahoma. She left the porch light on and promised she would be right back. She was never seen alive again. Less than 48 hours later, her tan 1988 Buick Electra was found abandoned on a remote, rural farm road outside Clarksville, Texas—miles from her life, with no logical reason for he...

On Saturday, May 10, 1986, forty-year-old Frankie Lyvonne "Bonnie" Duvall stepped out of the Loco Café in Loco, Oklahoma, to take a routine, short walk home for dinner supplies. Her personal car remained parked outside, her keys left on the counter. She reached her residence, where she was last seen alive by her husband—and then, she vanished without a trace into the empty expanse of the...

In October 1961, 26-year-old mother of six Maxine Beatrice Green vanished from Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The town whispered that she simply walked away from her life. They were wrong. For 25 years, a terrifying secret lay buried in her daughter’s memory. She hadn't run—she was taken. In this gripping episode, we unearth the chilling eyewitness account of Maxine’s own child, who watched her father, H...

On the chilly night of November 3, 2007, 35-year-old Angie Denise Tucker stepped off her mother’s porch near Apache Street and Yale Avenue in North Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was walking to a local store to pick up a pack of cigarettes. She wore casual capris and her black hospital work jacket from the Oklahoma State University Medical Center, walking with a very distinct, slight limp. She told her fami...

When 52-year-old special education teacher Peggy Anne Sweeten vanished from her lakefront home in Grove, Oklahoma, in January 1998, her husband spun a convenient web of lies. According to her husband, Jim—a prominent former school superintendent—Peggy had simply packed her bags and abandoned her family for an online lover she met in an internet chat room. But Peggy didn't even know how to use...

What happens when the systems designed to protect us become the very barriers to finding justice? Moving beyond simple timelines, we dissect cases through a deep investigative, structural, and social work lens. We expose the raw lack of local law enforcement resources, the historical jurisdictional battles over tribal sovereignty, and the generational trauma left behind in the wake of systemic neg...

On September 29, 1996, the quiet community of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, was shattered when two fishermen discovered the body of 18-year-old Joannie Goodwin bound with electrical wire and submerged in Bird Creek [oklahomacoldcases.org]. She had been brutally executed, leaving behind a seven-month-old son and an entire town buried in secrets. For over two decades, Joannie's file sat on a shelf gatheri...

How far can a killer run when their only head start is time? On March 2nd, 1982, 22-year-old Donna Lee Newberry stepped out of her Duncan, Oklahoma home for a routine morning errand—to buy a newspaper. She never returned. The following day, her body was discovered bound with electrical cords inside the trunk of her own vehicle, abandoned in a grocery store parking lot in nearby Marlow, Oklahoma. F...

On January 29, 2001, 18-year-old Jeffrey Lee Ben left his uncle’s house in Clayton, Oklahoma, after a Super Bowl party. He never made it home. Hours later, his white pickup truck was found wrecked against a tree on Nine Pines Road with minor damage, zero blood, and completely clean of fingerprints—but Jeffrey was gone. For five grueling years, his family searched for answers. Then, in 2006, logger...

On the morning of March 11, 2020, as the world began to shutter under the weight of a global pandemic, the body of 29-year-old Jennifer Janelle Jesse was discovered along a quiet rural road in Union City, Oklahoma. The devoted mother of three and proud member of the Seminole Nation had been shot multiple times. Four years later, her killer remains at large. In this episode, we retrace Jennifer's f...

Two disappearances. One fractured household. Forty years of absolute silence. On August 3, 1984, 36-year-old mother Nancy Jean Medina dropped her youngest children off with a babysitter in Choctaw, Oklahoma, intending to meet her eldest daughter for a movie night. She never arrived. Weeks later, her brown 1974 Chevrolet Impala was found stripped and abandoned near the old Springlake Amusement Park...

On October 13, 2011, the quiet community of Bethany, Oklahoma, was shattered by a gruesome discovery in an overgrown field. This episode explores the tragic death of 19-year-old Carina Saunders, exposing a dark, hidden underworld of human trafficking, narcotics, and a strictly enforced wall of silence that remains unbroken to this day. A Condensed Overview : This 30-minute episode serves as an int...

On the early morning of Labor Day 2023, 19-year-old high school graduate Noah Presgrove was found dead on the side of Highway 81 in rural Terral, Oklahoma. He was entirely naked, except for a pair of mismatched shoes, curled in the fetal position. Scattered nearby lay a metal chain, a clump of hair, and several of his own teeth. Just hours earlier, the beloved local star athlete had been celebrati...

On March 3, 2016, 60-year-old ranch hand Billy "Wild Bill" Lange followed his everyday morning routine in Hinton, Oklahoma. He bought his regular coffee, placed an order for new tires, and called his daughter to promise he would see her that evening. He was never seen again. The very next day, his gold Chevy truck was found abandoned on the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 40 near the Ca...

On Mother’s Day morning—May 12, 2024—26-year-old Oklahoma cowboy and livestock transporter Austin Winn pulled into the Pilot Travel Center off I-20 and FM 1788 in Midland, Texas. Moments later, he was shot and killed next to his rig in broad daylight. In today's episode of The Red Dirt Missing Podcast , host Candace uses her background as a Licensed Social Worker to look at the tragic, unsolved ho...

The tragic, unsolved 2001 homicide of Sarah Ida Cox is a case filled with bizarre tips, systemic silence, and a family still desperate for justice 25 years later. On the evening of Friday, April 6, 2001, 20-year-old mother Sarah Ida Cox wrapped up her shift at the 7-Eleven on Southwest 119th and May Avenue in Oklahoma City. She stepped out into the night, intending to head home to her children and...