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Just before 2020, Troy Hoggle, 36, was working at a bar as a bouncer in Rockville, Maryland, and met Catherine, a pretty waitress who was only 22. The two started dating, and within four or five months, Catherine was pregnant. They had a son, and then had a girl, Sarah, and another son, Jacob, in quick succession. The five moved into an apartment outside of Rockville but money was tight.  And ther...

Hey there Holiday fans: Have you ever wondered what Christmas was like, not just in your neck of the woods, but in Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Africa, the Middle East, even India? Introducing Christmas Around the World, a new podcast coming this holiday season. With Christmas Around the World, I take a look at not just how Christmas is celebrated everywhere, but other holidays like Kwanz...

By the age of 17, Krystal Lee Higgins of Harrington, Maine, had been through more than most kids. She and her brother and sister were put into foster care when they were young and Krystal had been emancipated from her parents at only 16 years old. In August of 2004, right before she was due to start her senior year of High School, was living with a friend and was holding down two jobs. But on Augu...

On April 13, 1999 at around 9 pm, Danny Schneider Jr., 20, told his parents and sister he was going to study at a friend's house in Chalmette, Louisiana, about a 20 minute drive from New Orleans. In reality, Danny was actually going to buy drugs in the seedy 9th Ward. On April 14, at around 2 am, Dan and Annie Schneider were awakened by a knock at their door telling them their son was dead. He had...

The Murders of Bill and Peggy Stephenson are discussed. Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cincinnatis-crime-vault-beyond-the-broadcast/id1641626489 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-cincinnatis-crime-vault-be-101295692/episode/5-the-brutal-stephenson-murders-and-111015211/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-the-tip-sters-true-crime-podcast/id1335317858

On June 2nd, 2007, at 6:30 p.m.,18-year-old Kelsey Smith went to the local Target in Overland Park, Kansas, to buy a gift for her boyfriend, John. Kelsey had just graduated from High School days earlier, was planning on going to Kansas State University in the fall, and was planning on studying veterinary medicine. She and John had been dating for about six months. Once inside the Target store, she...

On Friday, July 13th, 2012, in the tiny town of Evansdale, Iowa, two cousins and best friends, Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook, 10 set off on their bikes. Their grandmother told them to be back in an hour for lunch, but by late afternoon, the girls still had not returned. Concerned, family members called police who searched a nearby lake, where they found the girls' discarded bikes, but there...

The cases of David Camm and Richard Hoagland are discussed.  Show Notes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mystery-on-lockhart-road/id1464919521?i=1000463343241 https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/episodes/episode-514-re-release-richard-hoagland

The disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen and the suicide of Amy Frye Pitzen in Rockford, Illinois is discussed. Show Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJqFMVT-S8

On September 14, 2001, Amber Hoopes, a 20-year-old native of Idaho Falls, Idaho left her grandparents house where she was living, and went out to their auto body shop on the premises to check her email around midnight. Amber's grandmother woke up a few hours later and noticed Amber's TV and lights were on in her room. Her grandmother went out to check the auto body shop, but Amber was nowhere to b...

On Monday, March 20th, 1977, 16-year-old Dawn Momohara received a call at the home she shared with her mother in Honolulu. It was an unknown male who asked to meet her at the local Ala Mohana shopping center. Telling her mother she would be back later, Dawn left without another word. When she hadn't returned home by midnight, her mother called the police. Dawn was found the next morning, dead, at...

At the time of her death, Eva Kay Wenal, who went by Kay, was 60 years old and living with her millionaire fourth husband, Hal, in a large rental home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Kay had been a former beauty queen, playboy bunny and showgirl and had been married four times before. On Thursday, May 1st, 2008, Kay was home from work because she was not feeling well, and reading a book when she went t...

Lois and Dave Reiss lived in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and raised a family. Lois ran a daycare business for awhile out of the couple's home and Dave ran a successful wax worm farm. Everything was good, from the outside. From the inside, the couple was plagued by mental illness and abuse. Lois was also suicidal and addicted to gambling.  On March 12, 2018, Lois came down to the wax worm farm to a...

Charles Robert "Bobby" Steele had not had the best childhood. He got into a serious accident when he was 13 and became addicted to drugs not long after. But he was finally trying to turn his life around when he went to stay with his sister in Claymont, Delaware. Until April 11, 2014, he left to run a few errands, made a strange phone call to his sister and was never seen again. Benjamin Archer gre...

Robert "Hoagy" Hoagland lived in Newtown, Connecticut, with his wife, Laurie, and one young adult son. The couple had two other sons. Hoagy was a part-time paralegal, former chef and had his real estate appraiser's license. He was your all-around, average and average-looking 50-something-year-old guy. Until Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hoagy got up early, went to get bagels for him and his son and then...

On Mother's Day, 2020, a mother of two, Suzanne Morphew, received texts from her daughters and husband wishing her a happy holiday. Suzanne, who lived in Salida, Colorado, never responded. Soon, her husband Barry had put out a reward for her safe return and all of her loved ones were searching for her, but to no avail. What would come from her disappearance was a story of betrayal and lies.  Kelse...

On Sunday, October 17, 2021, Heidi Planck, a 39-year-old divorced mother of one left the townhome that she rented in the Palms area of West LA near Culver City and got into her silver Range Rover. She brought along her Labradoodle dog, Seven, and set out for her son, Bond's football game in Downey, California, about 17 miles away. But Heidi left the game early, and after texting with her son that...

Colleen Nick took her oldest daughter, Morgan Nick, to watch a Little League baseball game at 9 pm in Alma, Arkansas on June 9th, 1995. Morgan ran off to play with some other little kids to catch fireflies in the parking lot of baseball field at 10 pm, but by 10:30, Morgan had disappeared. What transpired after that is one of the most elaborate searches in a child abduction case, ever, and Morgan...

Ira Pomeranz was a playboy about Scottsdale, Arizona; he was a nightclub owner, restaurant owner and twice-divorced bachelor. Until he met Valerie Pape. Valerie was a beautiful blond woman in her mid-forties, who had come to Scottsdale from the French countryside. She had also recently been divorced and was looking for love. The two started dating, hit it off, and were soon married. Ira continued...

You have probably heard of the Bermuda Triangle, but have you heard of the Alaska Triangle? It is the area between Utqiagvik, Anchorage and Juneau, where, in the past four decades, people have gone missing at a rate of 4 per 1,000 individuals. That is more than twice the national average. The cases covered today include: traveling nurse Thomas Anthony Nuzzi, Congressman Hale Boggs, Congressman Nic...

On January 12th, 1983, the police department in Brattleboro, Vermont, got a strange call from some colleagues at a local company about a case of what they thought to be false identity. The woman in question worked as a secretary at the company and called herself Teri Martin. Martin claimed to be the twin sister of a woman named Robbie Hannon, who had recently died and who had been married to her b...

The Mysterious Death of Robert Wone Show Notes: https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/who-killed-robert-wone/8330027078016478112/seasons/1

High –powered Hollywood agent Mackenzie Monroe has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend Nick Tenenbaum and they are planning what else? A Christmas wedding in the tiny town of Evergreen Ohio where they first met... oh and where they first solved two murders. After putting the perpetrators away for life, Mackenzie is looking forward to returning to Evergreen, seeing all of her friends and getting m...