Lost Girls

The Lost Girls Podcast | The Disappearance of Trudy Leann Appleby | The 1996 Illinois Cold Case That May Finally See Justice In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast , hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the heartbreaking disappearance of Trudy Leann Appleby , an 11-year-old girl who vanished from Moline, Illinois , on August 21, 1996 . For nearly three decades, Trudy's family search...

In July 1981, 20-year-old Audrey Chin left her family's home in East Norwich, New York, for what should have been a quick trip to the grocery store. She never returned. More than four decades later, her disappearance remains one of Long Island's enduring unsolved mysteries. In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast , Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine the life of a young woman whose fu...

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast , hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the heartbreaking case of Angel Carlick, a 19-year-old Indigenous woman whose disappearance and death continue to haunt her family, community, and investigators nearly two decades later. Angel was just weeks away from graduating high school when she vanished from downtown Whitehorse, Yukon, on May 26, 2007. Kn...

On December 3, 1989, five-year-old Melissa Brannen attended a Christmas party with her mother at their apartment complex in northern Virginia. Surrounded by neighbors, holiday decorations, and families celebrating the season, no one could have imagined that Melissa would disappear without a trace. What began as an ordinary holiday gathering quickly became one of the most haunting child abduction c...

For this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast , LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith examine the troubling death of Isabelle Sam, a forty-four-year-old Indigenous woman who was found deceased inside an SUV in Juneau, Alaska, in January 2023. Authorities ruled Isabelle’s death accidental, citing combined drug intoxication involving fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and alcohol. But the circumstances surrounding he...

Tonight on Lost Girls , hosted by LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith, we are bringing you the story of Bonnie Three Irons—a Native American mother whose life was taken in 2017, and whose case still sits without answers. Bonnie’s body was found near the Wolf Mountains on the Crow Reservation in Montana, a place that should have held familiarity and safety, not violence and loss. She was more than a nam...

In late November 2015, 21-year-old Megan Renee Foglesong was last seen in Alden, Kansas. By the time anyone realized she was missing, weeks had already passed—and critical evidence was gone. Megan’s case is layered with red flags: a volatile relationship, a final message placing her at a man’s home, and a chilling warning she gave friends—if anything ever happened to her, they should know where to...

This episode of Lost Girls , hosted by LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith, focuses on the disappearance of 32-year-old Madison Renae Allen, who was last seen on November 29, 2023, near Ash Street in Zachary, Louisiana. Described as 5’2”, approximately 115 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, Madison has several distinctive tattoos, including “Allen” with a bow on her wrist, angel wings on her back,...

On July 17, 2017, 24-year-old Brianna Jayde Vibert was last seen in Flint Township. Surveillance footage from a gas station shows her anxious—possibly panicked—with visible injuries to her arm. In the early morning hours, she accepted a ride from a man in a red Pontiac Aztek. Over the next few hours, she would appear at multiple locations—disoriented, unsteady, and clearly in distress. Then, she v...

On December 6, 1997, 33-year-old LaVon Jo Miller was last seen in Marmaduke, a small town where people believe they know one another—and where disappearances are supposed to be rare. According to her husband, LaVon returned home that day after visiting a friend. At some point, he fell asleep on the couch. When he woke up, she was gone. He would later say he never saw her again. In the days that fo...

On in 1990, fourteen-year-old Rachel Hurley set out on what should have been a simple walk back to her mother. Just hours earlier, she had been laughing with friends on a boat near Jupiter Inlet—a carefree afternoon that felt like any other. But somewhere between Dubois Park and Carlin Park, everything changed. When Rachel’s friends stopped briefly, she ran ahead alone, less than a mile from where...

In this episode of Lost Girls , hosts Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey begin a deep-dive series into a case that has remained unsolved for more than four decades—the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Barbara “Barb” Louise Cotton. On April 11, 1981, Barb vanished from Williston, North Dakota after leaving a local restaurant just blocks from home. She was a teenager with a job, close friends, and plan...

For more than three decades, she had no name. On October 24, 1994, the body of a woman was discovered along railroad tracks near U.S. Highway 64 between Morrilton and Plumerville, Arkansas. She had been murdered, but investigators didn’t know who she was. No identity. No clear answers. Just a life reduced to a case file and a label: Jane Doe. For 30 years, she remained that way. In this episode of...

In this episode of Lost Girls , we tell the story of 25-year-old Chyna Danielle Crawford — known to her loved ones as “Chay-Chay” — who disappeared from Southeast Washington, D.C., on October 23, 2023. That day, Chyna spoke with her mother and made plans for the weekend, something that was part of their daily rhythm. She was supposed to meet a friend to go shopping but never arrived. Calls went un...

For this episode of Lost Girls , we go back to a freezing December night in 1990, when 25-year-old Donna Lee Ingersoll ran out the back door of a house in Wabasha, Minnesota — and seemingly vanished into the cold. 4 Donna had been drinking with friends that evening. Witnesses say she argued with her boyfriend, Gary Murphy, shortly before 11:45 p.m., then bolted into the night without her purse, gl...

Rickisha Renee Bear — Kisha — is a 19-year-old Native woman who disappeared from Pablo, Montana on February 4, 2024. She is an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy’s Reservation. At the time she vanished, she had bright red dyed hair with dark roots, braces on her teeth, and visible tattoos — including one on the right side of her neck and another reading “Baby Girl” near her co...

Fifteen years old. That’s how young Cassie Compton was when she vanished. It was a quiet Sunday — September 14, 2014 — the day after Sydney attended the Arkansas County Demolition Derby with a friend in DeWitt, Arkansas. It should have been an ordinary weekend for a teenager — full of laughs, late-night snacks, and small-town memories. Instead, it became the last day anyone ever heard from her. No...

In September of 2019, Cheyenne Stannard vanished from Huntsville, Arkansas, under circumstances that raised far more questions than answers. Known for her consistent communication with family, Cheyenne's sudden silence was immediately alarming. The story offered by those closest to her didn’t add up—claims of her leaving on foot, heading to far-off states with no transportation or resources, d...

Tonight’s episode of Lost Girls takes us back to 1955 Los Angeles and the mysterious disappearance of wealthy socialite Evelyn Throsby Scott. What began as an ordinary afternoon outing with her husband would become one of the earliest and most groundbreaking no-body murder cases in American history. In this episode, we trace the red flags, the conflicting stories, the disturbing physical evidence,...

In this episode of Lost Girls , hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith take listeners back to New York City in 1976 — into the subway tunnels of lower Manhattan and the Bronx — where a 14-year-old girl vanished just five stops from home. Cesilia Peña was a shy, responsible student who followed the rules. She wore her school uniform. She took the same train every day. And on October 6, she never made...

Today on Lost Girls , we’re talking about Angel Rose Avery , a woman who disappeared from Kennett, Missouri, and whose case has remained largely untouched by time, attention, or answers. Angel was thirty-five years old when she was last seen on September 1, 2018. She didn’t leave behind a public trail of clues or a well-documented timeline. There were no headlines that followed her disappearance,...

On today’s episode of The Lost Girls , we’re talking about Julie May Hill , a young woman whose disappearance in the summer of 1980 left behind a scene so unsettling it still raises questions more than four decades later. Julie was just twenty-one years old when she vanished from her apartment in Duluth, Minnesota. She didn’t pack a bag. She didn’t leave a note. Her purse and belongings were still...

On this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast , we’re telling the story of a woman who seems to have slipped quietly out of sight—leaving behind questions that were never answered and a family still searching decades later. Her name was Delores Marie Whiteman , known to those who loved her as Lolly . Delores was a Native woman born on the Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan. She was 4...

On August 17, 2018, the Anchorage Police Department opened a case that would ultimately expose one of the most disturbing crimes in Alaska’s recent history. It began with a Crime Stoppers tip that was impossible to dismiss. A woman named Alicia Youngblood contacted police with a chilling claim: a man she knew had confessed to murdering a woman in Anchorage — and had shown her a video of the killin...

We are sharing something deeply important — and we want to give full credit to the journalist who made this possible. This episode features Alicia’s first full interview with the Anchorage Police Department , originally published by investigative writer Amber Batts on November 7, 2025 . The recording is an unedited, two-hour interview in which Alicia sat down with APD, turned over her phone, and t...