A Simpler Time True Crime

Send us a text A woman travels with her husband from Boston to Philadelphia to attend his work conference. She decides to do a day of sightseeing while he works. When she fails to meet back at the hotel on their agreed upon time, alarm bells go off in her husbands head. Police eager to show that this is a city safe for tourists urgently hit the streets but come up empty, shifting focus back to her...

Send us a text A man from Poland is in the United States trying to earn enough money to help his family back home. His job as a day laborer at a construction site in lower Manhattan is interrupted by the events of 9/11/2001. Desperate to not lose out on any money, he finds a job mopping floors overnight at a grocery store that night. But a wrong subway stop would prove deadly for him, and he would...

Send us a text This week I'm doing something a little different.  In an effort to show that ice cold cases still have hope of being solved, I'm sharing two with that outcome from the past couple of years.  But a big purpose of this episode is to show that nothing is like its shown on TV, and answers do not tie everything up in a neat bow for the surviving families.  I want to share the messy and c...

Send us a text In the fall of 1972, a young girl in a rural community outside of Tampa couldn’t wait to get some fresh air after school. And for this walk, she had a unique companion: her pet raccoon whom she affectionally called Bandit. She walked out of the house and told her father she would be back in time for dinner. But her family would never see her again. Her family vowed to stay in the Th...

Send us a text A devastated father faces tragedy one day when he loses his nine year old daughter to an accidental drowning. He returns home to be with his girlfriend and her two daughters, to try to catch some sleep and regroup on how to put the pieces of his life back together. But just hours after losing his daughter, he walks in the door to a horrifying scene. A scene that still haunts everyon...

Send us a text A little boy begs his family to stay home alone for the first time ever. His tiny midwestern town was nearly free of crime, with the last reported homicide being in 1928. But in the fall of 1990 that would change. After a day of playing with friends and riding his bike around town, Nelson would be murdered in his own home just before his family arrived home. Nearly 34 years later, h...

Send us a text The Queen of True Crime, The late Ann Rule, cited Bob Milton Hansen as one of the meanest men she has ever written about. That is the person that Joan Hansen was trying to leave in the summer of 1962. While on the phone with her best friend, Joan suddenly realizes her estranged husband is in the house with her and coming to kill her. The phone went dead and Joan was never heard from...

Send us a text Three young women go sunbathing at the popular Indiana Dunes on 4th of July Weekend 1966. They are last seen getting on a boat with a man and never seen again. Theories run the gamut, from botched abortions to the dark underbelly of the horse industry to a mob hit. Nearly sixty years later the fate of these women remains as unknown as the day they vanished.  Follow on Instagram: @si...

Send us a text An elementary school teacher who stayed late in her classroom to clean up after her classrooms Halloween party. One minute, a school custodian saw her sweeping up popcorn and packing up her things, and the next she was just  gone. A school and community would be left heartbroken when she was found dead on Halloween night. After more than thirty years, investigators might be closer t...

An arrest has been made in the 1991 Killing of Cindy Wanner. Here you'll hear the original episode plus the updates.  A mother is making a little extra money by cleaning her sister's house in an upscale neighborhood. She is feeding her eleven-month old daughter cereal in her high chair while cleaning each room. Somewhere in a small forty-five minute window, someone would gain access to the house a...

Send us a text Jumping on for just a few minutes for a mini update on the breaking news of the suspect identified in the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans. This case was discussed in episode 5: The Murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds and the mystery of the Route 29 stalker. https://www.instagram.com/simplertimecrimepod/?hl=en Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/p...

Send us a text A middle school latchkey kid gets home from school in her upscale neighborhood and goes about her routine of talking on the phone, watching TV, and playing her piano. But what she didn't know was that the whole time she was home, someone was there with her, watching and listening to her every move from the second floor. When she went upstairs she would be ambushed and brutally murde...

Send us a text A kindergartner is playing hide and seek with neighborhood friends on an unseasonably warm fall day. She runs off barefoot to find a hiding spot, but her friends can't find her. In fact, nobody could. The neighborhood had plenty of people outside to witness something happening, but nobody saw anything. The case has haunted locals and led through a maze of terrifying leads involving...

Send us a text An honors student is two weeks out from graduation and working her after school job as an clerical assistant at the home office of a local businessman. What seems like an ordinary evening quickly takes a turn when she doesn't make the phone call home to her mother to come pick her up when her shifts end. Even worse, when her mother calls her daughter's boss, he claims she left hours...

Send us a text A teen girl is found shot dead in a cornfield in a rural community south of Rochester, NY. Days, weeks, and years would pass without any clues to her identity. Sheriff John York would dedicate his career to figuring out who the young girl was and who took her life. A gifted web sleuth and an old best friend would be the key components to giving a name known only as Cali Doe for 35 y...

Send us a text An woman with Alzheimer's disease is left unattended by airline assistance personnel and wanders off after landing for her layover at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. What is thought for years to be negligence that resulted in a terrible accident is turned upside down, when Margie Dabney is found murdered.  https://charleyproject.org/case/margie-louis-dabney https://www.wfaa...

Send us a text An unknown man prowls the Route 29 corridor in Virginia, flagging down female motorists to pull over for supposed car trouble. He does this with nearly two dozen women, fulfilling his promise to bring them to a payphone for help. What these women didn't know is that there was nothing wrong with their car and that they narrowly escaped danger. In March of 1996, one woman wouldn't and...

Send us a text The notion of safety in the quiet suburbs of Rochester NY is shattered in May of 1994 when two people go missing in the same afternoon. While one case is solved, the other has more questions than answers. A pregnant woman who disappeared after a day of running errands underlines the tragic reality that sometimes the most joyous time in a woman's life is also the most dangerous.   ht...

Send us a text Highschool sweethearts survive the Columbine High School mass shooting only to die at the hands of gun violence less than a year later. Despite investigators having extensive evidence, very little information is available on the case and it remains unsolved to this day. Megan discusses the early 2000's workplace vulnerabilities that could have created the backdrop for the crime and...

Send us a text A woman poses as a social worker to deceive a sleep-deprived teen mom and abduct her newborn. In this episode, Megan discusses infant abductions and the modern measures that have been put in place to prevent these crimes in the hopes of bringing David home to his loved ones. https://charleyproject.org/case/david-ezell-blockett https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/David_Blockett https...

Send us a text An accomplished youth figure skater is able to leave school early to get to skating practice. She takes her usual walk home to get ready but never makes it to home or practice. An uptick of abductions in this California region leaves police questioning who could be responsible for her disappearance. To this day, that question remains unknown.   I’m Megan. I’m a millennial and I grew...