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On November 12, 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz walked over to her nearby Catholic church, St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Chicago. But she never made it to morning mass. And sixty-four years later, we'd finally get answers as to what happened to little Gloria.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-...

Hello,  Hell and Gone Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, it’s Curse of: Miss America !!! About the Show: Miss America used to be a national icon. At its peak, the pageant was appointment television, drawing TV audiences that rivaled the Superbowl. But now, the crown is slipping.  The organization is at the center of a tabloid courtroom drama. Two people are cla...

In the early morning hours of Saturday October 31 - Halloween, 1981, 39-year-old Ronald Sisman and his new girlfriend, 20-year-old Elizabeth Platzman, were hanging out at his apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.  Later that day, police were called to the building by one of Ronald’s neighbors and when they went in, they found Ronald and Elizabeth’s bodies were in the midd...

Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned when their newspapers started piling up outside. The neighbor called Mina’s daughter, and the pair of them went inside the house. What they found was horrific. David and Mina were at the kitchen table slumped over in pools of blood. T...

In May 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found decapitated in the garage of his lakefront home in an exclusive Georgia community. His wife, Shirley, was missing. Ten days later, her body surfaced in Lake Oconee. More than twelve years later, no one knows who killed the Dermonds – or why. This week, Catherine Townsend digs into the theories, new DNA evidence, and the questions that still...

In the early morning hours of on July 30 1977 in Wesley, Arkansas a 20-year-old University of Arkansas Student Rex Terrell, who worked the overnight shift was found lying in a pool of blood and gasping for breath. It looked like he had been shot multiple times.   The whole community wanted to know, who would want to shoot a likable, kind and hard-working young man with seemingly no enemi...

It was a really hot night in the middle of summer - July 4, 1988, in San Angelo, Texas.  Seventeen-year-old Shane Stewart was gearing up for the Fourth of July holiday celebrations by picking up his girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly, and they were going to watch the fireworks.  After that, Shane and Sally disappeared. They never made it home.  That was almost forty ye...

On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, 21-year-old Ellie Baxter went to check on her parents at their home on Mersea Island, off the Essex coast, 64-year-old Carole Baxter and 61-year-old Stephen Baxter.  She knocked on the door, but no one answered. Ellie looked through the living room window and saw her parents sitting in their usual reclining chairs. But they weren’t moving – they we...

In the summer of 1980, sixteen-year-old Maria Rodriguez was living with her boyfriend Milton Colbert Jr. in Long Branch, New Jersey.  When came home from his work shift - he looked around for Maria for a few minutes, and when he opened the closet door, he saw Maria’s body. She had been strangled to death with a belt.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into,...

At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia when he noticed a black BMW parked behind him. Little did the Ranger know this routine encounter was about to open the door to an investigation involving multiple missing women, a deteriorating house in North Phil...

At around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday, June 14, 2007, police found the body of 22 year old Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen behind an AmeriKing Food Mart in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jenna was covered in blood, and had been stabbed multiple times. She was also eight and a half months pregnant with her third child.  Her father later remembered answering the phone that night, thinking that he would...

On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, was taking a walk through the woods behind the complex. The man liked taking nature walks, and he was also following up on a report that he had made to the apartment management about a missing manhole cover. He later told...

It was December 28, 2022, a few days after Christmas, and Erbena Costa was beginning to get seriously worried about her daughter, 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa Porsborg.  Before Christmas she had gone on leave and headed out on a vacation in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, 36-year-old Luis Gomes Akay.  What started out in sunny Hollywood would end with a body in a suitcase.  If you h...

On Sunday May 12, 2002, Mother’s Day evening, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris had spent the day with her family and at 6:30 pm that night, she arrived at her friend Kristy Farr’s house in their hometown of Bonham Texas. Suddenly, Jennifer told Kristy that she had to go.  But Jennifer never came home. Six days later, a fisherman found Jennifer’s naked body floating in the Red Riv...

In December 2020, the police received a call from a neighbor of 69 year old Charles Wilding, a reclusive man who lived by himself on Kingswood Road in Sherman Oaks, California. It seemed Charles disappeared from the neighborhood. But neighbors soon noticed someone new. A woman had moved into Charles’s house. Investigators would eventually uncover a conspiracy involving forged wills, false id...

On Sunday October 17, 2021 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her home in West Los Angeles near Culver City, to head out to her 11 year old son’s football game and was never seen again.  And it didn’t take long for the rumors to start flying - about her past struggles with drugs, her, boss, his links to big money and powerful people in Los Angeles – and there are a LOT of new upd...

On June 7, 1980, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office arrived at a green one story ranch-style home in southwest Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside, they would discover one of the most brutal double homicides in Arkansas history. If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.  IG:@hellandgonepo...

On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in Stuttgart, Arkansas...and never came back. At least that’s the official story.  We know a few things for sure: Cassie had been spending the weekend with a friend of hers named Hunter, and Cassie slept over there on Saturday night...

On June 5, 2025, 36-year-old Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were working patrol in the East Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. They saw an armed man outside of an apartment building and began to chase him. Moments later, Baker fired his weapon. But instead of striking the suspect, he hit Rivera — the officer beside him, his patrol partne...

Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What happened to Clea in those few short blocks between work and home? Did she get into a car with a stranger? Did someone unknown to her family pick her up? Or could something have happened at her job - something that meant that she never left...

On December 3, 2025, deputies were called to the home of 57-year-old Dr. Randall Beallis, his 40 year old wife, Charity Beallis and their six year old twins on South 1st Avenue in Bonanza, Arkansas.  The bodies of Charity, and her two children, a boy and a girl were in the home - all of them had been fatally shot. On March 4, 2026, there was a shocking twist in the case.  According to th...

On the morning of April 8, 1981, 47-year-old Weldon Alexander finished his overnight shift at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas.  When he got home that morning, the first thing that he noticed was the door, which was left open. When he walked inside he found his two children, Karen and Gordon, aged 14 and 13, brutally stabbed to death.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team...

In October of 1995, something strange was going on inside the Flick home at 302 McNabb Street in Rector, Arkansas.  This family was made up of 36-year-old David Flick, his wife 34-year-old Barbara, their daughter 11-year-old Andria Flick, and Barbara’s son 17-year-old Aaron Michael Hodge, who she had from a previous relationship.  Barbara was a nurse, and her husband David had a tr...

On September 23rd 1987 in Oklahoma City, two sisters, 25-year-old Cheryl Genzer and 16-year-old Lisa Pennington were hanging out together at the Oklahoma State Fair. The girls didn't come home that night and were never seen alive again.    If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.  IG: @...

Late in the afternoon on March 20, 1990, Jim Hannigan, a caretaker for the Carney property, was checking property lines and fences near Clayton Expressway in Fort Smith, Arkansas when he saw something in the distance. At first, he thought it might be a dead animal. But when he got closer, he realized it was not an animal. It was a body.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team...