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Roland and Maram Hanel lived a quiet life in the tiny town of Jay, Vermont, just five miles from the Canadian border. Roland was retired from the plastics business and had done very well in life. Maram was his Egyptian-born second wife and the two were homebodies who loved nature and biking, hiking and skiing. On Thursday, September 20th, 1984, the two were found brutally murdered; each shot 8-11...

Eric Richins grew up on a cattle ranch in Kamas, Utah and was close with his family. When he was in his early 20s, he started a masonry business with a friend and became quite successful. Becuase of his business, he had to go to the Home Depot quite frequently, and that is where he met a cashier named Kouri. Kouri was working her way through college and the two soon started dating and eventually m...

Nesreen Ursan and her siblings grew up in Conro, Texas, a small rural town just north of Houston and were raised by their father, Ali, and their stepmother, Shmu. Ali was a devout and strict Muslim and did barely allowed his two daughters, Nesreen and Nadia out of the house. Until Ali had a heart attack and Nesreen convinced him to allow her and Nadia to attend college so they could be doctors and...

Alex Campbell is the kind of High School Sociology teacher that students actually listen to. Alex has been the sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee for the past 18 years. And, in 2018, Alex Campbell got an idea for a lesson plan. He wanted his class to look into The Redhead Murders, a series of unsolved Jane Doe cases whose victims were young, redheaded sex work...

Darlene VanderGiesen was born in July 1963 in Osborn, Kansas. She and her sister were born completely deaf to hearing parents. Darlene went to the prestigious School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs, Iowa and then on to community college. After graduating, she moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where there was a huge hearing impaired community. Darlene made friends easily, and found a community in S...

Samantha Josephson, who everyone called Sami, was a senior at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina and was looking forward to attending Drexel University for law school in the fall. But on March 28th, 2019, with only one month until graduation, she and some friends decided to go to the Five Points area of Columbia to go bar hopping. Five Points was a crowded area with many...

On Friday, July 21st, 2006, 35-year-old Shawn O'Brien left his roofing job in Cranston, Rhode Island and went to meet his ex-girlfriend Amy, and their 13-year-old daughter Natalia to give Amy some child support money. The three made plans to meet up later that afternoon to attend the St. Mary's Feast festival. But by 6 pm, Natalia had a headache so the three planned to take a rain check and meet a...

On January 26th, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania experienced a huge blizzard in the early afternoon hours. That is why Ellen Greenberg, an elementary school teacher at Juniata Park Academy, was sent home early to the Venice Lofts apartment that she shared with her fiance Sam Goldberg in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia.  She and Sam had been engaged for about six months, but it seemed as if Elle...

On the night of June 25th, 2001, Eric Tamiyasu, a 41-year-old third generation fruit farmer from Hood River, Oregon, had his friend Diane Anderson over to his house on a rural plot of land, for a date. Eric and Diane had been friends for years and were exploring the possibility of growing their relationship. At around 11 pm, the two heard strange tappings on the windows and also heard the doorbell...

On Sunday, July 7th, 17-year-old Molly Miller wanted to go to a house party in Wilson, Oklahoma to see her new crush, 21-year-old Colt Haynes. Molly had started to fall in with the wrong crowd and had begun experimenting with drugs. Also at the house party was a man named James Con Nipp who went by the nickname Con. Somehow, Molly Miller and Colt Haynes ended up in Con's car driving around.  When...

On Sunday March 24th, 2013, 53-year-old Aliza Sherman told her son Jeremy that she had some errands to run and needed to stop by her divorce attorney's office, but that she would be home later with pizza. When 7:45 rolled around, Jeremy got concerned and called his sister who lived a few miles away. But when his sister got to their house, they were met by a police officer who told them the devasta...

The case of Nikki Entzel is discussed. Show Notes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26421694/

Zebb Quinn was a 17-year-old senior in High School who lived in Asheville North Carolina. He was a proud member of ROTC and worked a full-time job at Wal-Mart. On the evening of January 2nd, 2000, Zebb wanted to buy a new car and Robert Jason Owens, who went by Jason, a fellow employee at the Wal-Mart, offered to show Zebb a used Mitsubishi. Zebb followed Jason in his car toward the dealership unt...

On Sunday, June 26th, 2004, a 17-year-old rising High School senior named Craig Frear left his friend's house and went home and grabbed his shirt for his shift at the Price Chopper, a local grocery store in Glenville, New York. Craig had been working at the Price Chopper for two years and had recently been promoted from bagger to working at the dairy counter. But when Craig's mom stopped in to say...

The cases of Sarah Beard and Tara Calico are discussed Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/cr/podcast/unresolved-sarah-beard/id1484748807?i=1000538808554 https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Tara_Calico https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Detective/dp/B09RJTPKMC

On May 5th, 2004, a fisherman named Chris Henkle and his buddy Don took their kids out of school for the day to go fishing on Chesapeake Bay by the Bay Bridge Tunnel, an 18-mile long bridge that connects Eastern Virginia to Virginia Beach. In the water, they spotted a Kenneth Cole suitcase floating by. Opening the case, they found a set of human male legs cut off from the knee wrapped in a black t...

The crimes of Emily Long and Julianne McCrery are discussed Show Notes: https://wondery.com/lawandcrime/?lg=en https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/truecrimene/episodes/Episode-93-Julianne-McCrery-e245v20

The case of Ash Armand is discussed Show Notes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35708730/

In the early morning hours of February 5th, 1985 a 68-year-old grandmother named Helen Wilson was raped and murdered in her apartment in the 600 block of North 6th Street in Beatrice Nebraska. No one could solve the case until a girl named Lisa Puttendorf went to the cops and told them that a friend of hers, JoAnn Taylor had confessed to the crime along with her boyfriend Joseph "Lobo" White and T...

The Episodes of Patricia Meehan and Nicole Waller are discussed Show Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDYnrLUBgQ https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-america-nicole-waller-n307146 https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/full-episode-under-the-prairie-sky-1127895619573

On October 6, 2002, 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck asked his mom if he could go bike riding in his hometown of Richwoods, Missouri. His mom said yes, because Shawn had ridden his bike alone hundreds of times before. She told him to be home by dinner. But, when he wasn't, and it got dark out, the Hornbecks were extremely worried. Shawn was always home for dinner and was deathly afraid of the dark. Turn...

Mississippi: The Murder of Presh Campbell Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devil-in-the-ditch/id1715007204

Christmas Around the World: The United States of America Show Notes: WhyXmas.com History.com/articles of Christmas RottenTomatoes100BestXmas What is Hannukah GoodHousekeeping.com

Christy and Steve, an interfaith couple are interviewed

Christmas Around the World: Latin America Show Notes: Spanishacademy.com JourneyMexico.com Weareconcina.com History.com/LA Holiday Traditions NatGeo.com SpanishPanic.com