The Final Trace

📍Herdon, Virginia. 🎧 Chapter 22 : The Final Trace of Tommy Burkett When 21-year-old Tommy Burkett was found dead, police told his parents the story was simple: suicide. But nothing about the scene felt simple. Or believable. His sweater was torn. His ear was bruised and bloody. There were signs of a struggle, blood on the stairs, and footprints leading toward a ravine where witnesses saw an ambu...

📍Terre Haute, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 21: The Final Trace or Erika Case August 1993 — Eighteen-year-old Erika Case was house-sitting for a friend when she was found brutally murdered in her sleep. For fifteen years, the case remained unsolved. Rumors spread. Two teenage boys were accused. Fear gripped the town. But the real killer was much closer than anyone imagined. A confession years later reveale...

📍Edmonds, Washington. 🎧 Chapter 20: The Final Trace of Tyler Christensen Not all disappearances are accidental. 🗓️ April 19, 2016 — 16-year-old Tyler Christensen walked out of his family’s home in Washington and vanished into the night. No phone. No note. Just the clothes on his back. Eight days later, a driver came forward: he’d picked up a teenage hitchhiker—one who looked exactly like Tyler—w...

It’s Halloween night… and the Darkcast Network is turning out the lights. The shows you love have gathered ’round the mic to share haunting tales, eerie encounters, and the mysteries that still keep us awake. Grab your blanket, pour the cider—because on the dark side of podcasts… the stories never sleep. 👻 🎧 Featuring: The Final Trace, Day by Day, Book of the Dead, Pod of Terror, Missing in the...

📍New York, New York. 🎧 Chapter 19: The Final Trace of Dear David - The Haunting of Adam Ellis Not all secrets stay buried… some crawl out of dreams. In 2017, cartoonist Adam Ellis tweeted something that sent the internet into a frenzy: “My apartment is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child, and he’s trying to kill me.” What followed was a months-long digital haunting—documented in real time...

📍Long Beach, New York. 🎧 Chapter 18: The Final Trace of Chaim Weiss ✨ On Halloween night, 1986, the real horror wasn’t outside… it was in his room. When 15-year-old yeshiva student Chaim Weiss was found dead in his dorm, the scene looked less like a crime—and more like a ritual. No forced entry. No screams. Just a body moved with care, a window opened to the cold, and a candle burning for a sou...

📍Sun Valley, California. 🎧 Chapter 17: The Final Trace of Peter Fabiano Halloween night, 1957. A doorbell rings in Los Angeles, and Peter Fabiano answers — expecting a harmless trick-or-treater. Instead, he’s met with a gunshot. What seemed like a random holiday killing soon unraveled into a tangled web of jealousy, betrayal, and a murder plot that still chills decades later. 🔪 A knock at the d...

📍Baltimore, Maryland. 🎧 Chapter 16: The Final Trace of Annie McCann At just 16 years old, Annie McCann vanished from her safe suburban home in Virginia… only to be found dead in Baltimore days later under circumstances that defy explanation. A missing car, a toxic substance, and a trail of unanswered questions leave her family—and investigators—wondering what really happened that Halloween weeke...

📍Asheville, North Carolina. 🎧 Chapter 15: The Final Trace of Zebb Quinn An eighteen-year-old leaves work on an ordinary night… and is never seen again. His car is found abandoned—covered in strange markings, filled with items that weren’t his. A page from a family phone line. A story that twists through lies, suspicion, and silence. 25 years later, one man confessed just enough to save himself—b...

📍 San Jose, California. 🎧 Chapter 14: The Final Trace of Erin Valenti Erin Valenti was a rising tech CEO when her trip to California took a terrifying turn. Her calls grew frantic—thoughts racing, words tumbling out. She spoke of the Matrix , of simulations, of reality not being real. When police reached her, she laughed it off—said she was “just joking around.” Days later, she was found dead in...

📍Arlington, Virginia. 🎧 Chapter 13: The Final Trace of Scott Ratigan On a cold January afternoon in 2020, 24-year-old Scott Ratigan was found dead in his Arlington, Virginia apartment. There were no signs of forced entry. No known enemies. Just a quiet room, a few drops of blood… and the unmistakable smell of bleach. Surveillance footage released a year later shows a shadowy figure in black leav...

📍 Champlin, Minnesota. 🎧 Chapter 12: The Final Trace of Georgia Smith On June 30, 1999, seventy-six-year-old Georgia Smith left her son’s home in Champlin, Minnesota, driving her dark blue Mercedes to her family’s lakeside cabin in Wisconsin. She never arrived. No wreck. No goodbye call. Just silence. Eight months later, a woman walked into a Walmart carrying a bizarre, cryptic letter that menti...

📍Terre Haute, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 11: The Final Trace of Scott Javins In the early hours of May 24, 2002, 20-year-old Indiana State University student Scott Javins left a party and vanished without a trace. His brand-new silver Honda Civic was nowhere to be found. For five long years, his family searched—until a single tip led divers to the Wabash River. But even after his car and body were recov...

📍 San Antonio, Texas. 🎧 Chapter 10: The Final Trace of Julie Mott Julie Mott was only 25 when she passed away from complications of cystic fibrosis. Her funeral was held on what should have been her birthday — a final goodbye, surrounded by friends, family, and peace. But the next morning… her casket was empty. No forced entry. No tripped alarms. No sign of who came or went. In this episode, we...

📍 Duncan, British Columbia. 🎧 Chapter 9: The Final Trace of Granger Taylor On a stormy night in 1980, Granger Taylor — a mechanical genius from Duncan, British Columbia — left his family a handwritten note. It said he was boarding a spaceship for a 42-month interstellar journey. That night, he ate one last meal, said goodbye to a friend, and drove off into the rain. He was never seen again. Some...

📍Gumi, South Korea. 🎧 Chapter 8: The Final Trace of the Gumi Baby In Gumi, a seemingly ordinary life held an unimaginable secret. In early 2021, police discovered the mummified remains of a 3-year-old girl—starved and forgotten—for approximately six months,—inside a Gumi apartment. She had been sleeping on a mattress amid dusty chaos and isolation. No one had reported her missing. In a chilling...

📍Orlando, Florida. 🎧 Chapter 7: The Final Trace of Michelle Parker Hey True Crimers ! Mckenzie is on vacation this week, but I didn't want the week to go by without bringing you your True Crime fix! So today, I’m bringing you a quick hit — a bite-sized case that’s just as chilling as our longer episodes, but short enough to squeeze into your morning commute! Michelle Parker, a 33-year‑old Or...

📍Great Bend, Kansas. 🎧 Chapter 6: The Final Trace at the Dolly Madison Bakery On a quiet Sunday in 2002, 24-year-old Mandi Alexander arrived to open the Dolly Madison Bakery in Great Bend, Kansas. It was a simple routine—unlock the doors, start the coffee, prep for the day. But later that day., 79 year-old Mary Drake walked in, a customer, just there to buy a treat before heading home. They neve...

📍 Columbia, South Carolina. 🎧 Chapter 5: The Final Trace of Zelig Williams Zelig Williams was a force. A dancer. A teacher. A light in every room. But on a quiet October morning in 2024… something shifted. An SOS pinged to friends in New York. His phone, wallet, and keys were later found inside his car—abandoned near a trailhead. Zelig was nowhere to be found. There were no signs of struggle. No...

📍 Jackson, Mississippi. 🎧 Chapter 4: The Final Trace of Annie Hearin In the summer of 1988, Annie Hearin — a 72-year-old philanthropist and beloved wife of a Mississippi millionaire — vanished from her home without a sound. Her purse was still in the hallway. Her shoes and glasses, untouched. And by the front door… a typewritten ransom note, full of spelling errors and veiled threats. But this w...

📍 Vincennes, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 3: The Final Trace of Brent Brand In the summer of 1986, 18-year-old Brent Brand attended a party in Vincennes, Indiana — and never made it home. Eight days later, his body was found face down in a drainage ditch across state lines. No visible injuries. No clear cause of death. A Priest had the answers... But would he talk? What followed wasn’t just an investigati...

📍Sullivan, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 2: The Final Trace of Rick Whitehead He seemed to have it all - money, success a growing business. But just 2 months after finalizing a 5 million dollar life insurance policy... Rick Whitehead was murdered. A man dead. A fortune at stake. And a trail of lies that would take years to unfold. In this episode we follow the money trail, uncover what was happening behind...

📍Los Angeles, California. 🎧 Chapter 1: The Final Trace of Michael Negrete Michael William Negrete was 18 years old - a UCLA freshman, a talented musician, and by all accounts full of life. He played an online video game with a friend. Sent a quick email to his mom. Walked back to his dorm room down the hall and then... disappeared. No sign of foul play. No cries for help. It was like he slipped...

🎙️ Disappearances. Unsolved deaths. Cases that were technically “closed”… but never felt truly answered. The Final Trace i s a weekly true crime podcast that dives into the eerie, the unresolved, and the stories that still linger. Hosted by Hopper Dailey and McKenzie, each episode explores a case that never quite left us — told with curiosity, empathy, and just the right amount of chills. If you l...