She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast

There are more than 57 million miles of Alaskan wilderness. Between the 1970s and 1983, a serial killer used this vast expanse to hunt his victims like wild animals, knowing they could never escape. In 1980, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found in Eklutna, Alaska. Her murderer claimed she was his first victim and may have been a topless dancer or a sex worker. He suspected she came fro...

They said they were going to go babysit, but secretly had other plans to meet up with a friend. When teenagers Cynthia and Jackie Leslie left their Mesa, Arizona home in 1974, no one was worried. After all, everyone assumed they were exactly where they said: babysitting. When they didn’t return home, though, their family was plunged into a mystery now almost 50 years old. In this episode we cover...

Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins Bill Huffman, host of Who Kills..?, to discuss various cases. Were they touch on the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, who went missing in 2004 in Vermont. Despite the efforts of her family and detectives, the case remains unsolved. In this episode, we also l...

In 1992, a truck driver pulls onto an interstate turnout on I-80 in Wyoming. There, she spots the body of a woman laying face down in the snow. The unidentified woman becomes known as Bitter Creek Betty or Rose Doe for her rose tattoo. The only clue to her identity is a tattoo artist from Tucson who remembers giving her the distinctive tattoo. In this episode we discuss what investigators have rel...

When a teenager disappears from a movie theater in Covina, California, police initially believe she’s run away. In the decades to come, Cynthia Hernandez stays a missing person despite her remains being found just a month after her disappearance. We cover one of our rare solved cases to talk about what happened in those years and why it took so long for Cynthia to come home. This week, we’re joine...

What if a serial killer has the only clues to an unidentified woman’s identity? When a serial killer on death row begins talking about his crimes, investigators are shocked to learn of the 1986 murder of a woman in Texas that indicates his killings began much earlier than they thought. Despite this confession, that woman, whose name he thinks could be Norma, remains unidentified even now. This wee...

Who or what scares witnesses so much that many of them ask to remain anonymous when speaking to investigators? That’s what happened in the disappearance of Nahida Khatib who suddenly vanished from her home one October morning in 1976. This week we’re joined by award-winning actress and activist Kathy Najimy. Kathy Najimy is well-known for her over 40 film roles including Sister Act and Hocus Pocus...

What happens to unidentified remains when their cases go cold? Most often, they’re held in evidence or buried. That’s not the case for three unidentified people who were found in Washington’s Pierce County in the 1970s. Instead, two were sent to a local landfill and one was lost. This week, we’re joined by one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, singer-songwriter Stephanie Quayle, who is one of the mo...

As one of the most recognizable unidentified persons cases in the United States, she was known for decades as “Buckskin Girl.” For 37 years, her identity remained unknown. In 2018, she was finally identified as Marcia Sossoman King through advances in forensic DNA and genetic genealogy. In this episode, we explore Marcia’s life, the circumstances that led to her becoming unidentified, and the inve...

Bigfoot took her. That’s the explanation a 43-year-old man gives after he takes 16-year-old Theresa Bier out hiking and doesn’t return with her. But despite extensive ground and air searches for the teenager, there’s little evidence about what truly happened to Theresa in 1987.  If you know anything about the disappearance of Theresa Bier contact the Fresno Police Department at (559) 621-7000. Thi...

Alien queens, evidence planting, witness threatening: just three ways in which the trials for Girly’s murder become so outlandish that the media starts to lose sight of Girly Chew and the fact that she’s still missing. In this second part to Girly’s story, we talk about what happened during the trial and what was done to try to bring Girly home to her family. If you are experiencing intimate partn...

What if everything you believed about your partner wasn’t true at all? Not where they went to school. Not their job. Not even their name. That’s what happened to Girly Chew when she left her home in Malaysia and married the monster who would eventually murder her. This week, we’re joined by Raven Goodwin as we shine light on Part 1 of Girl’s story. If you are experiencing intimate partner violence...

In 2004, an unidentified woman was found living in a beach park in Honolulu, Hawaii—alive, but unable to say who she was. Known as the Honolulu Jane Doe, she was diagnosed with dementia and schizophrenia, leaving her without a name, a history, or a way to return to whatever life she once had. In this episode of She Goes by Jane , we examine her case and the broader, often overlooked reality of liv...

When Mary Shotwell Little doesn’t show up for work the morning of October 15, 1965, her boss immediately knows something must be wrong. That afternoon, police find her car at the shopping center she visited the evening before with a friend. Inside the car are her groceries and a small amount of blood.  What happened to Mary? And did a mysterious admirer who sent her roses at work have something to...

On the night of March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland left her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, VT. Shortly after, witnesses saw her car less than two miles away, crashed into an abandoned farmhouse. Despite this, days pass before anyone realizes that Brianna is missing. What happened to Brianna that night and what will it take for someone to finally come forward with answers? Th...

In 2013, a woman was walking her dog on a beach in Lattingtown, NY, along the Long Island Sound when she found the skeletal remains of a woman. Today, this unidentified woman is known only as Lattingtown Jane Doe or Nassau County Jane Doe, and the strongest clue to her identity is the 24k gold pig necklace found with her body. Who is she? What happened to her? And is she connected to the Long Isla...

Each week co-hosts, author Aimée Bake and film maker Vanessa Cicarelli, will bring you a story of a missing or unidentified woman. And each episode they will be joined by a special celebrity guest reader, to read one of Aimée's poems written in honor of the person they are discussing. Guests like singers, Kelly Moneymaker and Stephanie Quayle. Actors, Coco Jones, Marypat Farrell and Gabrielle Ruiz...