Buried Bylines

We're back with a very special guest! This week our friend and former colleague, Angela Brauer joins us to talk about the 2019 disappearance of 8-month-old Amiah Robertson in Indianapolis. This was a case the three of us continuously covered during our time in the newsroom. Despite having evidence, a timeline, and eyewitness accounts, investigators have yet to locate the baby girl's body....

Fresh off her first college spring break in 1992, Amanda Davies was excited to develop photos from her trip. As soon as she returned to her Michigan home, she headed right back out the door to show off her pictures to some friends, but this time she never came home. Two weeks later, Amanda’s body was found brutally murdered and dumped under a highway overpass. In the year that followed, her family...

For 45 years, two murder victims in rural South Carolina were left unidentified. Police and the public were only able to refer to them as Jock and Jane Doe, making it nearly impossible to solve their crime. In 2021, thanks to advancements in DNA testing, the duo were finally given their names back. However, the 1976 murders of Pamela Buckley and James Freund are still unsolved today. No one even k...

Imagine being in middle school and finding out that someone in your neighborhood was found dead in their car. Not only that, but they were DECAPITATED. It would probably give you nightmares for the rest of your childhood, right? Well, it actually happened to Mallory, and it may be the very catalyst for her true crime obsession. This week, we're unraveling the 2005 cold case murder of Phuong Tr...

It's our first cult case, but we promise it won't be our last! This week Megan takes a terrifying deep dive into a Canadian doomsday cult. Its members were forced to do things like break their own legs with hammers, all because they believed they would be saved from the end of the world. This stuff is bananas, even for the '70s, and it went on for more than a decade. How in the world d...

Guys, we have a guest!! For our fifth episode we are joined by Pat Enright, who spent more than two decades in the news industry working in the Dayton, Ohio market. We asked Pat to pick the case that stood out to him the most over his 23-year career. After researching the murder of Samantha Ritchie, we can understand why it made such an impact. The 4-year-old girl was initially reported missing in...

Episode four is a hometown case for Megan with a unique personal tie. The Speedway bombings were a series of eight random bombings that occurred over the span on six days in September of 1978. The bombs were placed in trash bins, parking lots and even under a police car. 27-year-old Brett Kimberlin was arrested and convicted for the bombings, but the investigation into the political activist only...

In our third episode Mallory covers the disappearance of Najah Ferrell, a mother of five who vanished on her way to work. A month after she went missing, fisherman found Najah’s severed foot in a pond more than 100 miles away. Despite a huge break in the investigation, there has never been an arrest or even a person of interest in Najah’s case. Where is she? What happened to her? And how did her c...

For our second episode we decided to trade-off on the story telling of cases. Megan examines a disappearance that took over timelines in the summer of 2021. Gabby Petito's case is something we covered extensively in our own newsroom. Why did Gabby's disappearance go global? Together, Megan and Mallory discuss the viral murder investigation while diving into TikTok theories. At the same tim...

In the first episode of "Buried Bylines," Mallory and Megan are breaking down two of the biggest cases they covered while working in Indianapolis as local news producers. Mallory walks us through the complex timeline and evidence in the murders of two teenaged girls in Delphi, Indiana. Megan then takes a deep dive into the Flora arson case, a tragic house fire ending the lives of four yo...

Buried Bylines is a new true crime podcast brought to you by two former television news producers. Together, Megan DeLucenay and Mallory Wilson are taking their years of newsroom experience to examine true crime cases through a new lens. The duo aims to spotlight lesser-known cases and ensure they get the recognition they deserve while also examining why some cases seemingly blow up in the media....