Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

On a Friday morning in July of 2014, Dan Markel dropped his sons at daycare, went to the gym, and pulled into his garage in Tallahassee. A neighbor heard two shots and called 911 within two minutes. Because Dan Markel was a law professor in the middle of a custody fight. One his ex-wife's family very much wanted to end. This episode Sabrina and Kaelyn follow the clues: a rented Prius that didn't b...

On a Saturday morning in May of 1990, Marlene Warren's doorbell rang in Wellington, Florida. On the step was a clown with face paint, an orange wig, a red nose, holding two balloons and a bouquet of flowers. Marlene took them, then the clown raised a gun. Because the costume wasn't a party favor, it was a disguise, and it worked for twenty-seven years. This episode Kaelyn and Sabrina follow the cl...

Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Clues. Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable...

Today's episode features an appearance by Connor Tomlinson, star of Love on the Spectrum and the new co-host of the Rewind Original What the Fact. As a special segment, Connor and Kaelyn will go over some of history's most botched investigations. Be sure to follow What the Fact wherever you listen to podcasts, with new episodes dropping every Wednesday! For more: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/sm...

On a January night in 2023, Patrick Clancy left his house in Duxbury, Massachusetts to pick up takeout and a medication. What he came home to would put his wife at the center of the most watched trial this summer. Because Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse who'd spent years guiding other mothers through the hardest hours of their lives, and who knew the warning signs better than almost...

In September 2012, 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment outside Chapel Hill, NC, hours after a night out with her roommate. Beside her body was a fast-food bag with a message scrawled across it: "I'm not stupid b****, jealous." Over the next nine years, police DNA-tested hundreds of people and cleared every one. Now, Morgan and Kaelyn follow the clues i...

Their stories don’t end when the episode does. This bonus episode brings together every Missing Person of the Week featured on CLUES in September 2026, giving these cases another moment of focus and another chance to be seen. Inside this compilation: Roxanne Paltauf (Episode: She Found Her Own Way Out: The Abduction of Jayme Closs) Wesley Dale Morgan (Episode: Brandon Swanson: The Call That Ended...

In October 1999, retired Austin TV executive Steven Beard woke in his home to a shotgun wound in his stomach. When police traced the bullet, it led somewhere nobody expected: a local bookstore manager with no connection to Steven at all, but a very close one to his wife, Celeste. Morgan and Kaelyn follow the clues in one of Texas's most jaw-dropping murder cases: a bond forged in a psychiatric tre...

Just before 2 a.m. on May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents from a gravel road in southwestern Minnesota. His car was stuck in a ditch and he needed a ride. His parents drove out to find him but they were actually 25 miles apart. Forty-seven minutes into the call with his father, Brandon said two words and the line went silent. Brandon was never found. This week, Kaelyn is j...

Around 1 a.m. on October 15, 2018, a 911 call came from a house on a rural stretch outside Barron, Wisconsin. Deputies arrived four minutes later to a kicked-in front door and found James and Denise Closs shot dead inside. But their 13-year-old daughter Jayme was gone. Thousands of tips and volunteer searchers turned up nothing. Until, 88 days later and 70 miles north, a woman walking her dog foun...

Their stories don’t end when the episode does. This bonus episode brings together every Missing Person of the Week featured on CLUES in August 2026, giving these cases another moment of focus and another chance to be seen. Inside this compilation: Ashley Summers (Episode: How Can A College Student Disappear On Halloween, After Making It Home!?) Sarah Burton (Episode: One Brother Killed Her. The Ot...

In April 2024, 13-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez vanished from Lake Elsinore, California. Seventeen months later, her remains were found in the trunk of an impounded Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard—registered to rising R&B star David Burke, known as d4vd. Prosecutors allege he began sexually abusing Celeste at 13 and killed her to protect his career. After a preliminary hearing, a judge ordere...

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted three young women — Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus — from neighborhoods near his home in Cleveland, Ohio, and held them captive for nearly a decade. On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry escaped with her daughter, born in captivity, and called 911. Castro was arrested, sentenced to life plus 1,000 years, and died by suicide in his cell in Septem...

On June 27, 1996, Delaware Governor’s secretary Anne Marie Fahey had dinner with prominent attorney Thomas Capano and was never seen again. Her body was never recovered, and investigators had no murder weapon, but Anne Marie’s diary, Capano’s own family and a crucial piece of evidence recovered from the ocean slowly revealed what happened. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episo...

On Halloween night in 2001, 21-year-old Penn State senior Cindy Song was dropped off at her apartment shortly before 4 a.m., still dressed in her bunny costume. Evidence suggested she made it inside: her fake eyelashes were on the counter, and her backpack and phone were left behind. But her costume, wallet, keys and ID were missing—and Cindy was never seen again. Head over to our Clues YouTube ch...

Their stories don’t end when the episode does. This bonus episode brings together every Missing Person of the Week featured on CLUES in May 2026, giving these cases another moment of focus and another chance to be seen. Inside this compilation: Stacey Chatman (Episode: Betsy Faria: The Terminal Cancer Patient Murdered By Her Best Friend) Devin "Sacoya" Cooper ( Episode: She Vanished… Her Body Was...

In August 2010, MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams was found dead inside a padlocked North Face duffel bag in the bathtub of his London safe house. No fingerprints. No signs of struggle. No DNA. His phone and computers had been wiped, and weeks had passed before anyone even reported him missing. Investigators couldn't determine how the bag was locked from the inside — and a coroner ruled it would hav...

In July 2017, British model Chloe Ayling traveled to Milan for a photoshoot and was kidnapped, drugged, and held captive for six days by a man claiming to represent the dark web group Black Death. When he suddenly released her at the British consulate, the case captivated Europe; and sparked intense scrutiny of Chloe’s story. Morgan and Kaelyn examine the timeline, evidence, and lingering question...

On April 10th, 1997, 50-year-old Judy Smith stepped out of her honeymoon hotel in Philadelphia while her husband attended a conference. She never returned. Five months later, her partial remains were found in a shallow grave deep inside the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, 600 miles away. She was wearing clothing no one recognized. Her own belongings were gone. Items left at the scene may...

Wanted by the FBI and Interpol for a string of sexual assaults, Rhode Island native Nicholas Rossi didn’t just run away. He faked his death, fled to Scotland, disguised himself as a wheezing British academic called Arthur Knight, and made wilder and wilder TV appearances across international news. Before the story finally wrapped up earlier this year, Rossi’s winding tale had covered satanic ritua...

On the night of December 27, 2011, Russ Faria came home to find his wife Betsy dead on the living room floor in Troy, Missouri — stabbed over fifty times. He called 911. He was convicted of her murder. Then he was freed. Then prosecutors tried again. The case of Betsy Faria is not just a murder mystery — it's a story about tunnel vision, a justice system that locked onto the wrong man, and the rea...

Their stories don’t end when the episode does. This bonus episode brings together every Missing Person of the Week featured on CLUES in May 2026, giving these cases another moment of focus and another chance to be seen. Inside this compilation:April Pennington (Episode: Helle Crafts: The Woodchipper Murder That Made Connecticut Legal History (ft. Annie Elise)Mayushi Bhagat (Episode: Honeymoon in C...

On November 20, 2012, nineteen-year-old Sage Smith left their home in Charlottesville, Virginia to meet someone they'd connected with online. They were never seen again. Sage was Black, transgender, and young and for a long time, their story received none of the urgency it deserved. No body has ever been found. A person of interest was identified but never charged. Morgan and Kaelyn examine the in...

Crime House’s Murder: True Crime Stories presents a special series for America’s 250th Birthday: The Crimes That Built America. Listen every Monday until July 6th on Murder: True Crime Stories. Join Crime House+ to get all 4 episodes right now ad-free. To subscribe, go to crimehouseplus.com or if you are listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. 250 years ago, a b...

In January 2023, Ana Walshe was reported missing from her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Within days, investigators searching a trash transfer station made a discovery that shocked the nation. Her husband Brian Walshe, who had told police he didn't know where she was, led a trail of evidence straight back to himself a trail built from bloody items, a hacksaw, and purchases made at a Home Depot t...