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The Flathead County Sheriff's office and the DNA Doe Project are so close to identifying a man who’s been a doe for almost 17 years, but they need your help get this case across the finish line. Could you be related to the Flathead County Doe? Based on his DNA, the DNA Doe Project believes that his family lineage could be linked to one of 11 family names in one of 3 different counties. Please keep...

When 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered in 1975, no one could have imagined that the search for her killer might lead right to the doorstep of American royalty.  For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit htt...

In 1996 there was one apartment complex in Texas that was home to two brutal killings, just months apart. It would take police years and several more innocent victims before they captured their killer. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list o...

When a young woman falls 12 floors down a garbage chute to her death only questions remain. Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could something more sinister happened to Phoebe Handsjuk?   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, pleas...

In 2014 Rico Harris left Los Angeles to drive north for a new life in Seattle, only to vanish somewhere along the way.  For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/missing-rico-harris   Don’t...

For over 20 years young college-aged men have been going missing, only to turn up dead in local waterways. Police think these cases are tragic accidents, but a small group of investigators have long believed there’s something else at work…something much more sinister that all leads back to one huge question. Are the Smiley Face Killers real?   For current Fan Club membership options and policies,...

In 2006 Rey Rivera was found dead at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore. Did he die by suicide, or was something more sinister at play? Following the release of this episode, representatives of Porter Stansberry contacted Crime Junkie to inform us of information regarding Rey Rivera’s case that had not yet been made public, and we want to alert our listeners to that information for the sake of being...

In the last few years two people died under very mysterious circumstances. Though their cases aren't connected they were each quickly ruled an accident or suicide. But if you take a closer look, there might be much more to their stories and their families need your help to find the truth about what really happened.  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a...

After Asenath Dukat, 11 more young girls in Ohio were kidnapped and murdered. Many under eerily similar circumstances. Is this the work of one or two predators or are there many monsters still on the prowl in Ohio?   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. Fo...

In the 1980s something strange was going on in Ohio. Almost a dozen young girls were kidnapped and murdered, many of the killers still unknown to this day. And it all started in June of 1980 with the case of Asenath Dukat. **** All ad-sales profits from this episode are being donated to the NAACP To learn more check out these podcasts: 1619 (New York Times) About Race Code Switch (NPR) Intersectio...

This very special episode for Pride Month tells the stories of three people joined together not just by the desire to live peaceful happy lives as their authentic selves, but also because they faced a similar indignity in how our legal system allowed injustice in their cases.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this...

In 2017 the FBI released a chilling recorded phone call that may be the only clue as to what happened to Margaret Ellen Fox back in 1974.    For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/missin...

In February 1978, five young men headed from their home in Yuba County, California to catch a college basketball game – and never came home.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ . Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit  https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/myst...

In February 2005 Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone had been broken up for a number of weeks. But on February 19th the two met up spontaneously for a couple drinks and then were never seen again. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sourc...

Mitrice Richardson disappeared after being released from an LA County Sheriff's station, leaving behind questions about mental health, police bias, and much more. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimeju...

In 2016 a young girl went missing from her home in the middle of the night. It would take four excruciatingly long years before her family would get solid answers about what happened to her. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources,...

In October 2008, Johnny Altinger headed out to meet up for the first time with Jen, a woman he’d met on a popular online dating site. They had plans to meet at her place for a casual hook-up, and Johnny diligently followed the driving directions she’d emailed him earlier that day. But when he walked through the door of her detached garage in Edmonton, Alberta, it wasn’t love he found but something...

Two Indianapolis women have been murdered. Though the cases aren't connected they both have eerie parallels and both remain unsolved. Are you the person out there who can help IMPD and Avon Police solve these murders? For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. F...

A young Chicago girl's brutal murder in 1946 led police to a dangerous criminal with more blood on his hands than anyone could have imagined. However, decades later those who re-examine the facts wonder if they got the wrong man.    For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character...

In December 2017, a realtor touring the mansion of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman made a gruesome discovery: the bodies of 75-year-old Barry and 70-year-old Honey semi-seated and hanging from the railing around their pool deck. Police believe the deaths were targeted, and many feel the motive was money. Who killed Barry and Honey Sherman? And why?   For current Fan Club membership options an...

In 1989, Allan Legere was serving a life sentence for the murder of an elderly shopkeeper in a rural part of New Brunswick, Canada. Until he escaped. For seven months, he evaded capture, living in the woods around the Miramichi river, only coming out at night to steal food, rob houses, and murder the community’s most vulnerable citizens. More than 30 years later, people still remember the fear and...

When Texas fitness instructor Missy Bevers was murdered in 2016, police and the public seized on an unusual clue that could lead them to her killer.    For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast...

In 1992 Lisa Ziegert felt like someone was watching her at a gift shop where she worked. People would tell her no one was there; it was just in her head. But when she goes missing from that very same gift shop, everyone begins to wonder if Lisa had been right.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot b...

Jessica Heeringa was a young mom in her mid-20’s who was trying to provide for her family. She was smart, loving, a hard worker… and then, in 2013, she vanished from her job at a local gas station.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of...

This week we bring you two mysterious disappearances. Why did it take 18 days for people to notice 8-year-old Relisha Rudd was missing? And how did 24-year-old Unique Harris vanish from her apartment without the glasses that were critical to helping her see? Please join us in supporting  blackandmissinginc.com   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunki...