Last Seen in the Twilight Zone

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Close your eyes for a moment. Picture yourself standing along the banks of the Susquehanna River just after sunrise. The air is cool. Mist hangs over the water. You hear birds waking up. The occasional splash of a fish. Traffic hums quietly across nearby bridges. It feels peaceful. Safe. Beautiful. Now imagine taking one step closer to the edge. The river barely seems to move. There are no crashin...

Scott Wright Jr. was only nineteen years old when he was shot and killed on July 4, 2015. Nineteen. It's an age that almost exists in its own category of life. You're old enough that people begin asking what you're going to do with your future, but young enough that the future still feels almost limitless. Graduation has just happened. College is on the horizon. Careers exist mostly as ideas rathe...

There are some cases where investigators know exactly how a person died—but have no idea who was responsible. This is one of those cases. On February 17, 2024, 29-year-old Tyler Beschorner was struck and killed on Route 363 in Binghamton, New York. Someone driving that night knows exactly what happened. They drove away. And more than two years later, Tyler's family is still waiting for the person...

If you've spent any time in Central New York, there's a good chance you've passed through Cortland. Maybe you were headed north toward the Adirondacks for a weekend on the lake. Maybe you were driving Route 81 on your way to Syracuse. Maybe you stopped for coffee, filled the gas tank, and continued on without giving the city much thought. Like many other small communities across the Southern Tier...

It was a Sunday evening in March of 1964 when 12-year-old Mary Theresa Simpson disappeared from the streets of Elmira, New York. Mary had spent the evening visiting family. Nothing about the night seemed unusual. She was a quiet young girl described as friendly and responsible, and at some point that evening, she left to walk home alone — something that, in a small city like Elmira in the 1960s, p...

32 year old Brandon Williams was last seen on March 5th 2019. It’s always been said that his last sighting was at the Speedway gas station on Route 26N in the town of Maine, NY. He was dropped off in the town of Maine by his parents where he was picked up at that Speedway by a female acquaintance. And while that story has always been widely reported, anyone local who speaks about this case hears t...

In July of 1991, 48-year-old Diane L. Hoppert left her home in Owego, New York, planning to travel east on Interstate 88 toward Albany. She was headed to New York’s capital city to attend a work-related seminar. The route would take her through quiet rural stretches of upstate New York—past towns like Oneonta, Cobleskill, and areas near Howes Cavern and Schenectady. At the time, Interstate 88 was...

I lost Robert in 2003, but I never really lost him. I’m sharing my story because I know so many others out there are grieving someone they love. I also that someone out there has been feeling crazy because they can still sense their loved ones with them, long after they’ve passed.  To this day, my guardian angels still find a way to have my jaw dropping to the floor. I know others out there have s...

Welcome to Season 2 of Last Seen In The Twilight Zone. We’re starting off this season with an incredible and very clarifying conversation we got to have with Bethanie Dougherty’s brother, John.  We’re deeply appreciative of John and the story he shared with us about his sister who’s been missing from Killawog, NY since April 2nd 2008. 

First and foremost we just wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to all of our listeners and Patreon supporters. Having your support truly means the world to us. We're going to batch our episodes into seasons, with this episode being the last for season 1. We will be back releasing episodes on Monday June 1st and we'll be back even sooner, here on Patreon recording those episodes live. We love the live...

Today, we go to a small rural town in upstate New York.  Tucked into the rolling hills of Dryden, the town was founded in 1797 on land that was once part of the Central New York Military Tract — territory taken from the Onondaga and Cayuga Nations and later granted to veterans of the Revolutionary War. Some people like to frame that kind of history as the beginning of a curse, taking land from the...

On the morning of Tuesday, March 6th, 1962, Binghamton General Hospital felt like any other maternity ward in America. Dozens of newborns lined up behind glass. Nurses moving quickly. Parents resting upstairs, believing their babies were safe in the nursery. It was admittedly busy, but nothing about that morning suggested that anything was amiss. The earliest signs were subtle. A baby refusing a b...

March 22nd, 2013. A quiet residential street in Binghamton. Lisi Lane. Inside one home on that street, police would discover a crime scene so brutal that even seasoned investigators were shaken. This is the story of betrayal, domestic violence, obsession, and a case that would take six years — and two trials — to bring justice.

By the summer of 1913, Binghamton, NY was booming. It was the fastest-growing city in New York State. Fifteen thousand people had arrived in just three years. New neighborhoods appeared almost overnight. Factories lined the rivers. The local economy was boosted. Downtown hummed with streetcars, storefronts, the sound of industry and the sidewalks were packed with people. On Tuesday morning, July 2...

On September 29th, 2015, a 40-year-old woman named Kelley Clayton was found brutally murdered in her own home in Elmira, New York. She was stabbed more than a dozen times while her children slept upstairs. At first glance, it looked like a nightmare scenario: an unknown intruder, a violent home invasion, a family torn apart. But as investigators would soon discover, the truth wasn’t hiding in the...

It’s been difficult for me to write about this case because it seems like each time I've sat down to write, I pull up my sources and I’m hoping to find something that simply isn’t there. I want to know more about Keisha but there is so little information out there about her or about her death that it’s been frustrating trying to figure out how to tell her story–because there isn’t a story here. Th...

Some disappearances don’t fade. They linger — because they are unresolved. In small towns, especially, when a missing child becomes part of the landscape. A name whispered. A memory that refuses to settle. This is the story of two teenage girls who vanished within a year of each other — in towns just miles apart — along the New York–Pennsylvania border. One girl was never found. The other was foun...

In the early morning hours of April 2nd, 2008 police received a call that a woman’s screams were heard near the 500 Block of Jennings Creek in Killawog, NY. Killawog is located just north of Whitney Point, NY and only about 15 minutes north of Binghamton. When the police arrived at the location they did their due diligence, but found nothing out of the ordinary. What the police were unaware of, at...

In the quiet hours before dawn on March 17th, 2011 — St. Patrick’s Day — the city of Binghamton was asleep. Then, at 3:30 a.m., flames erupted on the front porch of a home at 20 Milford Street. Inside were seven members of the Aissa family. Six would escape. One would not. Seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Aissa — a twin, a brother, a son — never made it out. And for nearly fifteen years, the truth about...

It was January 11th, 2006. Binghamton was cold that night, quiet in the way only a small town can be when it’s hoping to keep its secrets. Bambi Madden left her house just before 11 PM. This should have just been a quick walk to the gas station. She had told her mother she was “going to get a drink”. But Bambi was never seen again. She never made it to the store. And nearly 20 years later, this co...

She was the kind of kid who did everything right. Cheri Lindsey — just 12 years old — was known throughout her Binghamton, New York neighborhood as the girl next door. Friendly. Athletic. Dependable. She was a seventh grader at East Middle School. Bright, kind, and always lending a hand, especially to her dad, a Binghamton police officer. During Little League games, you could find her behind the s...

April 21st, 2022 was a day that was cool but seasonable, typical of upstate New York in April. Temperatures hovered in the 50s (°F) during the day and dipped into the 40s or upper 30s by night. People were starting to get outside again, walking, biking, preparing gardens. Sunset occurred around 7:50 PM. The East Side of Binghamton was a quiet, largely residential neighborhood with modest homes and...

When Nicole Marranca stopped calling her family in the summer of 2017, they knew something was wrong. Nicole had struggled, yes—but she was very open about her struggle with addiction. At the time she was without stable housing, engaging in sex work to get her basic needs met. But she always stayed in touch. She saw her mother regularly and called her father regularly, no matter what. Until she di...

Today’s story is one of hate, heartbreak, and horror. But it's also a call to remember those we lost. Today, we go to Buffalo, New York—a proud Rust Belt city known for its snowstorms, football team, and the blue-collar resilience of its people. But on May 14, 2022, something happened that would fracture this community... a hate-fueled act of domestic terrorism. An 18-year-old man from the quiet t...