And Then They Were Gone

Cindy Anderson had been plagued by nightmares. Night after night, she would dream that someone would knock on her door, and then abduct and murder her. It didn't help that in the summer of 1981, people in Toledo, Ohio were turning up dead-- including some who worked in the same shopping center she did. But the 20-year-old legal secretary was getting ready to put all of this behind her. She had...

No one in Kristine Kupka’s life was a fan of her ex-boyfriend, Rudy Persaud. But on October 24, 1998, when she told her roommate she was going to meet up with him so he could show her his new apartment, she understood why Kristine was trying to maintain a friendly relationship— Kristine was five months pregnant with their child. But what was supposed to be a pleasant afternoon followed by brunch t...

Kristin Smart has been all over the news over the past few weeks, and in this week’s episode, we continue her story, while giving updates on major breaks in the case. We’re only a month shy of the 25th anniversary of the 19-year-old Cal Poly student’s disappearance from campus. Her family has been fighting for answers and justice this entire time, and now it looks like they are closer than ever to...

This week, we're veering away slightly from our regular cases and talking about a huge story in the true crime world: the disappearance of Kristin Smart. Kristin was a 19-year-old freshman at Cal Poly in 1996 when she went missing after a party over Memorial Day weekend. Though a suspect was quickly identified, early investigative mistakes and a lack of physical evidence has left this cas...

On May 26, 1992, 13-year-old Brandy Myers was collecting pledges for her school’s Read-A-Thon in her Phoenix, Arizona neighborhood. She didn’t return, and soon a search commenced. Though the body of a young girl was found two days later— it wasn’t Brandy’s. It was then that police realized something larger may have been going on in this neighborhood near the Central Arizona Project Canal. Over the...

On December 7, 2003, 19-year-old LaQuanta Riley was back home after having a fight with her college roommate. She stopped by her mother's house to grab a jacket before hanging out with a friend, but never came back. Even after a suspicious voicemail and a possible sighting in her home town of Stone Mountain, Georgia, police in Montgomery, Alabama made little headway in her case. Now, over...

When we left off last week, it was 1994 and Roanoke, Virginia teens Angela Rader and Tammy Akers had been missing for nearly two decades. The only person of interest in their disappearance, shop owner Earl Bramblett, has been brought in for police questioning— but not because of the girls. In this week’s episode, we delve into what happens to Earl, and new theories and leads in Angela and Tammy’s...

On February 7, 1977, 14-year-old friends Tammy Akers and Angela Rader were dropped off at school, but they never went in. The girls, who had a history of truancy, were just assumed to be off somewhere together having fun. But when they never returned home, their families became worried. What was initially written off as two teens running away, turned much darker when a drunken confession three yea...

13-year-old Kristopher Lewis got off the bus with a friend on February 4, 2014. He was only a block away from his house, in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, when his friend last saw him. But Kris never made it home. Kristopher’s mother, Nina Cancel, was thrust into every parent’s worst nightmare, which was compounded by the utter disinterest that the Boston Police and the local media showed towar...

6-year-old Morgan Nick was catching fireflies with her friends on a hot summer night in Alma, Arkansas. She was with her mother at a little league game, having the sort of summer that childhood memories are built on. But as the game ended and her friends returned to their parents, Morgan was gone. Only minutes had passed since Morgan had been seen, but there was no trace of the little girl. Despit...

After having his electronics taken away, 17-year-old Macin Smith skipped school and never returned home. Five years and several sightings and mysterious notes later, the Smith family is seemingly no closer to answers than they were on September 1, 2015, when Macin walked out of their home. Did their son who had run away before simply decide he was done living by his parents' rules? Or did...

On July 28, 2013, 50-year-old Robert “Hoagy” Hoagland ate bagels with his son, mowed the lawn, bought a map and disappeared. Did the husband and father of 3 simply walk away from his life? Or did his disappearance have something to do with the two drug dealers he had recently confronted in an abandoned factory? Over seven years later, questions still swirl around the missing family man who took no...

29-year-old mother of three, Bianca Carrasco, was making some changes in her life. Having recently graduated nursing school, she had a new job in San Antonio, five hours away from her hometown of Odessa, Texas. While the Carrasco family was starting their new life in a new town, Bianca was beginning to question whether or not this was the exact life she wanted. Her career was blossoming, while her...

39-year-old scientist Lucas Horan went out on a boat with his neighbor on Christmas Eve of 2020. What seemed like an ordinary night between friends turned bizarre when Lucas allegedly jumped ship while wearing all of his clothes and attempted to swim back to shore in frigid waters. Although the neighbor allegedly saw Lucas make it to shore, he never made it home and no one saw him alive again. Soo...

In this bonus episode, Kona and Ethan discuss the Netflix documentary, American Murder: The Family Next Door, the story of the Shannan, Bella, and Cecelia Watts murders. Join us for an unscripted conversation about the documentary, the investigation, marriage, and what an utter garbage person Chris Watts is. . Our Sponsors: * Check out Factor and use my code factormeals.com/attwg50off for a great...

This is the conclusion to our two-part story on Heather Teague, who went missing from Newburgh Beach in Kentucky on August 26, 1995. In this episode, we discuss questions surrounding the actual identity of her abductor. Was Marty Dill actually as good of a physical match as he seemed? We also delve into the other person in the trailer with Marty Dill, his uncle, former police officer Ernest Green....

On August 26, 1995, 23-year-old Heather Teague was sunbathing on Newburgh Beach in Henderson County, Kentucky. She was enjoying her Saturday afternoon when all of a sudden a man in cut-off jeans and no shirt appeared and grabbed her by the hair, dragging her backwards into the woods. The only witness to the abduction? A man across the river watching through the lens of a telescope. This may sound...

Zachary Bernhardt was a sweet, smart eight-year-old boy living with his mother, Leah Hackett in Clearwater, Florida. Though they didn’t have the most stable life, Leah was known to be a loving mother, and the pair was close. But on September 11, 2000, Leah couldn’t sleep so she took a 4 am walk around her apartment complex. Despite saying she was only gone for 15 minutes, when she returned, her so...

14-year-old Ashley Summers was getting interested in boys, rebelling, and just trying to find herself in the summer of 2007. The Cleveland, Ohio native came from a large, supportive family with whom she was close. But after attending a pool party at an uncle’s house and saying she was going to her aunt’s house nearby, Ashley disappeared. The 13 years that followed have brought up more questions th...

Imagine that you’re on the phone with your pregnant fianceé, just chatting about normal stuff— and then you hear a horrific scream. That’s what happened to Rob Shafer on April 4, 1991, when an unidentified man kidnapped his fianceé, Angela Hammond, from a payphone in Clinton, Missouri. The brazen abduction shocked the small town, while many wondered if Angela’s case was related to two other recent...

On March 22, 2010, 23-year-old Nokesville, Virginia resident Shane Donahue was having a good day. He had just gotten paid $5,000 in cash for installing ceiling tiles at a local business. He was with his buddy, Timothy Hickerson, who helped him with the job. The friends went over to Shane’s parents’ house for a while before getting into Timothy’s truck and heading off. But no one ever saw Shane aga...

Danica Childs was a typical 17-year-old girl growing up in Federal Way, Washington. But when she met a community college student on the bus, her life went down a path no one in her family expected. What started as normal teenage rebellion, turned into staying out all night and problems in school. But when Danica failed to show up to go Christmas shopping with her sisters in 2007, her mother knew s...

In 2009, Toni Sharpless was a young mother with a demanding job working as a nurse in Lancaster General Hospital's infectious disease unit. Though she had experienced ups and downs in her life over the years, she was in a good place and looking toward the future. So when an old friend invited her out to let loose and go dancing in nearby Philadelphia, Toni accepted. But their girls night...

Ten years ago, 7-year-old Kyron Horman and his step-mother Terri Horman, attended a science fair at his Portland, Oregon elementary school. A photo Terri took shows Kyron beaming in front of his project about tree frogs. That would be the last photo ever taken of Kyron, who never made it to class that morning and hasn’t been seen since. In the intervening years, there have been accusations, arrest...

When 16-year-old Edison, New Jersey teenager Daniel Yuen started staying out all night and stopped going to school, his parents tried everything to help him. When a series of medical doctors and therapists didn’t help with his depression or behavior issues, the parents turned to The CEDU School in Running Springs, California. Recommended by one of Daniel’s therapists, the exclusive therapeutic boa...