The Final Trace

📍Gumi, South Korea. 🎧 Chapter 8: The Final Trace of the Gumi Baby In Gumi, a seemingly ordinary life held an unimaginable secret. In early 2021, police discovered the mummified remains of a 3-year-old girl—starved and forgotten—for approximately six months,—inside a Gumi apartment. She had been sleeping on a mattress amid dusty chaos and isolation. No one had reported her missing. In a chilling...

📍Orlando, Florida. 🎧 Chapter 7: The Final Trace of Michelle Parker Hey True Crimers ! Mckenzie is on vacation this week, but I didn't want the week to go by without bringing you your True Crime fix! So today, I’m bringing you a quick hit — a bite-sized case that’s just as chilling as our longer episodes, but short enough to squeeze into your morning commute! Michelle Parker, a 33-year‑old Or...

📍Great Bend, Kansas. 🎧 Chapter 6: The Final Trace at the Dolly Madison Bakery On a quiet Sunday in 2002, 24-year-old Mandi Alexander arrived to open the Dolly Madison Bakery in Great Bend, Kansas. It was a simple routine—unlock the doors, start the coffee, prep for the day. But later that day., 79 year-old Mary Drake walked in, a customer, just there to buy a treat before heading home. They neve...

📍 Columbia, South Carolina. 🎧 Chapter 5: The Final Trace of Zelig Williams Zelig Williams was a force. A dancer. A teacher. A light in every room. But on a quiet October morning in 2024… something shifted. An SOS pinged to friends in New York. His phone, wallet, and keys were later found inside his car—abandoned near a trailhead. Zelig was nowhere to be found. There were no signs of struggle. No...

📍 Jackson, Mississippi. 🎧 Chapter 4: The Final Trace of Annie Hearin In the summer of 1988, Annie Hearin — a 72-year-old philanthropist and beloved wife of a Mississippi millionaire — vanished from her home without a sound. Her purse was still in the hallway. Her shoes and glasses, untouched. And by the front door… a typewritten ransom note, full of spelling errors and veiled threats. But this w...

📍 Vincennes, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 3: The Final Trace of Brent Brand In the summer of 1986, 18-year-old Brent Brand attended a party in Vincennes, Indiana — and never made it home. Eight days later, his body was found face down in a drainage ditch across state lines. No visible injuries. No clear cause of death. A Priest had the answers... But would he talk? What followed wasn’t just an investigati...

📍Sullivan, Indiana. 🎧 Chapter 2: The Final Trace of Rick Whitehead He seemed to have it all - money, success a growing business. But just 2 months after finalizing a 5 million dollar life insurance policy... Rick Whitehead was murdered. A man dead. A fortune at stake. And a trail of lies that would take years to unfold. In this episode we follow the money trail, uncover what was happening behind...

📍Los Angeles, California. 🎧 Chapter 1: The Final Trace of Michael Negrete Michael William Negrete was 18 years old - a UCLA freshman, a talented musician, and by all accounts full of life. He played an online video game with a friend. Sent a quick email to his mom. Walked back to his dorm room down the hall and then... disappeared. No sign of foul play. No cries for help. It was like he slipped...

🎙️ Disappearances. Unsolved deaths. Cases that were technically “closed”… but never felt truly answered. The Final Trace i s a weekly true crime podcast that dives into the eerie, the unresolved, and the stories that still linger. Hosted by Hopper Dailey and McKenzie, each episode explores a case that never quite left us — told with curiosity, empathy, and just the right amount of chills. If you l...