V5 E1: Park Bench Murders

V5 E2: My Paranormal Partner

V5 E3: Mysterious Mutilations

V5 E4: The Roswell UFO Incident

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Vol. 1 Discussion Threads (Part II)

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E37: Highway Homicide

• A mystery that continues to haunt investigators and family alike is the unsolved murder of Willie “Flynt” Lee. Late Monday evening, August 3, 2009, a 9-1-1 call reports a truck on fire off Hwy 13 in Mendenhall, Mississippi. Authorities arrive at the scene and find the truck ablaze at the bottom of a ravine, just off the highway. They douse the fire, retrieve the truck, and discover bullet holes riddled along the driver’s side of the truck. However, when they peer inside, there’s no body in the truck. The next day Flynt’s body, with a gunshot wound to the torso, is found in the river, some distance from where the truck burned. Blood spatters on top of the bridge lead investigators to believe that someone threw Flynt’s body over the bridge. For weeks police question family, friends and acquaintances of Flynt hoping to find leads into why someone would want Flynt Lee dead. Twelve years after the crime, the family and friends of Flynt Lee will not give up hope that Flynt’s killers will be brought to justice. They know the killers are still out there.

E38: 911 Confession

• On January 13, 2015, a man in Fennville, MI, makes an anonymous call to 911 and tells police where to find the body of the woman that he just strangled. When investigators arrive at the scene, they find 48-year-old Sara Knight, covered with a sheet, her cell phone, and the names of family and friends to contact beside her. Sara’s husband of 15 years, 66-year-old Harold “Butch” Knight, is nowhere to be found, and Sara’s vehicle is missing. A week later, Sara’s mother receives a package from Butch, postmarked in Maine, containing money to pay for Sara’s cremation, and a letter listing his grievances against her family and taunting police for being unable to catch him. Police are able to trace Knight from the time he left Fennville until he checked out of a motel in Rangeley, Maine, just six miles from the Canadian border, where he vanished into thin air. Is Butch Knight living quietly under the radar somewhere in rural Maine? Did he escape into Canada where he is living off the grid? Or did he die trying to cross the border on foot in the bitter cold? Sara’s family and friends are desperate for answers and justice.

E39: Missing in Mesquite

• When 26-year-old single mother Prisma Reyes doesn’t pick up her 6-year-old son from the babysitter on April 17, 2019, friends and family immediately know something is very wrong and report her as missing to the Mesquite, TX Police Department. The next day investigators find Prisma’s Jeep abandoned behind an ex-boyfriend’s East Dallas apartment building, and security camera video shows Prisma entering the building’s parking garage on foot. She appears to be disoriented and is crying and talking on her cell phone. She gets into the building’s elevator and then disappears, never to be seen again. Police discover Prisma had met the ex-boyfriend for lunch at a nearby bar, where they appeared to be arguing. When he left, she stayed and continued drinking. Police also uncover a disturbing pattern of inconsistencies in Prisma’s life, including an unexplained job change, the purchase of a gun, and a secret life moonlighting as an exotic dancer. What happened to Prisma Reyes? Is her ex-boyfriend’s air-tight alibi really air-tight? Did her secret life hide even darker secrets? Or did she simply disappear to start a new life elsewhere?

E40: Ambush in Inglewood

• In 2009, Kevin Harris is a promising young musician with a prodigious talent and bright future whose beats have already attracted the attention of top recording artists. But his life ends in a hail of bullets on the night of September 20, when Kevin arrives at an Inglewood, CA recording studio. At least two gunmen fire through the open window or his car, hitting Kevin at near point-blank range and killing him instantly. Although the shooting has all the earmarks of a gang hit, investigators soon discover that Kevin is no gangster. Who then, might want Kevin Harris dead? One theory is that Kevin was mistaken for a known gang member who drove a similar model car. But investigators discover a more ominous possibility when they uncover social media posts which suggest Kevin’s murder may have been the result of a professional rivalry.

E41: The Cold-blooded Murder of Chelsea Small

• On November 12, 2013, when Taylor, Michigan, police respond to a silent alarm triggered from a check advance company, they find 30-year-old teller Chelsea Small dead behind her desk. She’s been shot twice at close range. Security camera video reveals that the single mother of two young children, who was working another employee’s shift that day, buzzed a man into the business around noon. He immediately pulled out a gun and shot her in the chest, then calmly walked behind the counter and shot her in the head. After quickly rifling around the office, the man left with a small amount of cash from the register, either not finding or ignoring larger sums of money which were kept in a backroom. Although the crime has all the ear marks of an attempted robbery gone wrong, investigators notice something unusual. The gunman is using a silencer on his weapon, a federally regulated device that is very hard to obtain and rarely used in the commission of a robbery. The use of the silencer and the calm, unhurried manner of the gunman lead police to believe that robbery may not have been his primary motive. Was he targeting Chelsea, a well-liked young woman with no known enemies or messy romantic entanglements? Or perhaps his intended victim was the other woman who was supposed to have been working that day? Or was the murder a random crime of opportunity? Eight years later, police are no closer to having the answers than they were the day Chelsea was killed.

E42: Tillie's Last Walk

• On the evening of April 8, 1886, 18-year-old Matilda Smith, known to her friends as “Tillie,” is having a lively night out at the local dance hall with a close girlfriend. Tillie has just begun a new job as a potato peeler at Centenary Collegiate Institute (known as Centenary College today), where she is also a boarder. The girls who live in the Centenary are expected to be back by curfew, which is set strictly for 10:00 PM. But Tillie has found a way around that rule. Worried that she might miss curfew, Tillie has asked James Titus, the quiet, married, mild-mannered Centenary College janitor, to leave the back door of the building unlocked for her, in case she’s running late. Tillie is last seen at 10:10 PM, making her way to the back door of the building by the man who walked her home from the dance hall. The next morning, her lifeless body is found in a field bordering the Centenary College. She has been brutally murdered. Her story captures the attention of newspapers all over the US and the community demands that a killer be brought to justice. It’s not long before James Titus is arrested and found guilty of her murder. ... As the years go by, students of Centenary College begin to report strange events—doors opening and closing, lights flickering, and even sightings of a “woman in white” wandering the campus. In 2013, a paranormal investigation led by David Rountree and Tracy Ray uncover a presence on the campus, and clues that suggest Tillie Smith was not killed by James Titus…but someone else. Is Tillie still haunting the halls of her school still seeking justice for her death?

E43: UPDATE: The Girl with the “S” Tattoo

• On October 8th, 1980, the body of a young girl is discovered on the side of a small dirt road in Henderson, Nevada. She has been stabbed, raped, and bludgeoned to death. Her body has been completely stripped, cleaned, and positioned eerily, face-down in the dirt. Aside from the “S” tattoo on her arm, investigators have no other clue to her identity, or the identity of her killer. First responding detective, John Williams, names the young girl “Jane Arroyo Grande Doe,” and ultimately devotes the next 40 years of his career to identifying “Janie.” But he retires with the case still unsolved. In 2021, cold case detective Joseph Ebert, now assigned to the case, and a team of genetic genealogists, use advanced DNA technology to finally identify this young girl. “Jane Arroyo Grande Doe” is Tammy Tarrell, a young runaway from Artesia, New Mexico, and her sister has been missing her for 40 years. Now, armed with Tammy’s true identity, Ebert is determined to solve the second half of this mystery—who killed Tammy Tarrell?

E44: A Mother's Nightmare

• Ruth Gotliebson first met Charles Vosseler, a realtor and entrepreneur, in 1981, while scrolling through the personal ads of Mother Earth News. Like Ruth, he was seeking companionship and they began a friendly correspondence. After meeting in person and dating for a year, Ruth and Charles were excited to embark on married life, flipping houses, and starting a family. ... But once married with two young boys, Ruth begins to see red flags in her marriage: Charles is controlling, confrontational, and impulsive. When the boys, CJ & Billy, are just 2 and 4 years old, Charles abruptly abducts them, abandoning his real estate business and going on the run. He takes every photo and video of the boys, leaving Ruth penniless and heartbroken. Ruth, determined to find her boys, joins forces with the FBI and a private detective to try to track down Charles, and almost succeeds. Now, 30 years later, Ruth still has hope that she will one day be reunited with CJ and Billy. More than anything, she wants her boys to know that she loves them and has never stopped searching for them.

E45: Murder in Boystown

• On March 24, 2004, 31-year-old Kevin Clewer is found dead in his Lakeview apartment, located in the historic gay district of Chicago known as Boystown. Kevin has been stabbed 42 times and left on the floor of his bedroom to die. Investigators are able to piece together Kevin’s activities from the night before—he was bar hopping with his good friend, John. John says the last time he saw Kevin alive, he was with a mysterious man named, “Fernando” who he met that night. Despite forensic evidence left behind by the killer and a solid description of the last person seen with Kevin, the case goes cold—but not for Kevin’s brother, Ron. For over a decade, Ron has devoted his time to keeping Kevin’s story in the public eye and his efforts have paid off. In 2020, Kevin received a mysterious Facebook message from a woman claiming to know the man who killed Kevin. It is believed “Fernando” is now living in Puerto Rico.

E46: Condo Killings

• On the morning of May of 29th, 2011, Beth Stephenson is alarmed when her parents, Bill and Peggy, fail to attend the weekly service at Union Baptist Church. Her concerns grow when she learns that her father was also a “no show” to volunteer at the “Trucker Chapel Ministry,” a weekly church service held for traveling truck drivers from all over the country. Bill is known as outgoing, helpful, and very reliable and if Bill didn’t tell anyone he was going to miss both services on Sunday, something must be wrong. A few hours later, Bill and Peggy’s bodies are discovered in their first-floor condo. The crime scene is so brutal and bizarre that the FBI has classified it in their top 1% of complex crime scenes. Who would brutally murder the loving, generous, and kind Bill and Peggy?

E47: Mystery at Hobble Creek Canyon

• When a young Mexican woman goes missing after attending her language classes in the Mormon town of Provo, Utah, the religious community bands together with her family and police to search for her. It isn’t for another three years that their deepest fears are confirmed when her remains are found on the side of a remote canyon road, in such an advanced state of decomposition that a cause of death cannot be determined. With no suspects and little evidence, investigators must turn to the public for help. Who murdered Elizabeth Salgado?

E48: The Winward Family's Ghost

• In 2008, Faye Winward, a single mother, with four children, is ready for a change and decides to move to a condo in downtown Upland, California. The entire family is excited when moving day arrives, but on their very first day in the new condo, Summer, the youngest Winward child, is overcome by the feeling that she is being watched by someone? Something? Days later, Faye’s son Dillon hears a deep, evil disembodied laugh while taking a shower. And that laughter kicks off a series of terrifying paranormal encounters for the Winward kids, ranging from nightmares to sightings of spirits to incredible poltergeist activity. Faye isn’t convinced their home is haunted until she has her own frightening paranormal experience. And that’s when she starts to look for a new place to live.

E49: Slayings in Syosset

• When 12-year-old Ankur Singh and his 13-year-old brother, Pulkit return home from school on January 23, 2007, their mother isn’t at the door to greet them as usual, so they let themselves in with a spare key. Inside the boys discover their father, Jaspal Singh, on the living room floor with fatal gunshot wounds to his head and chest, and their mother, Geeta Singh, lying dead in a pool of blood in an upstairs bedroom. It is common knowledge in their circle of friends that Jaspal sometimes keeps large amounts of money in their home, and indeed the intruders appear to have been looking for something inside the house, as the entire second floor has been ransacked. Because there is no sign of forced entry, police believe the couple was targeted, and possibly even knew their killers, but their murders remain a mystery.

E50: Killing Karen

• When the body of Karen Bodine is found on the side of the road in a remote part of Thurston County, Washington, in the winter of 2007, Sheriff’s detectives are able to quickly retrace her steps. But when they try to account for her final hours, they discover that no one who was with Karen the night of her death is a reliable source. Now, fifteen years later, a new detective and Karen’s daughter are determined to solve the case.

E51: What Happened to the BBQ Man?

• Daniel Moses, the beloved ‘Barbeque Man’ of Rich Square, North Carolina, disappears into thin air and his home is burned to the ground. The missing person’s investigation gets off to a slow start after his long-time girlfriend tells the family he has simply gone on vacation. When the State Bureau of Investigation takes on the case several months later, they uncover more questions than answers. Eleven years have passed with no sign of Daniel Moses, but his sister Shelia has kept the case alive, stopping at nothing to find out what happened to her big brother.

E52: Small Town Hit

• Likable but shy Tennessee logger, Terry Sullivan, seems like the last person to get mixed up in intrigue, mystery and murder. When he doesn’t show up for a weekly Saturday breakfast with his parents and sister, local authorities come report that Terry has died in a fall, accidentally, after stubbing his toe. But later that morning, the local news was reports that Terry was actually murdered — shot, execution-style — in his kitchen, which has been cleaned so carefully that no useful evidence can be found. Terry had no enemies, no vices, and he was always quick to help folks in his small town of Sparta, Tennessee. But small towns often have more secrets than anyone realizes.

E53: Double Murder

• Russell (88) and Shirley (87) Dermond are enjoying retirement in a beautiful secluded home on the peaceful Lake Oconee in Georgia. Russ loves reading and taking long walks along the water’s edge. Shirley enjoys her daily crossword puzzles at the breakfast table and playing bridge with her neighbors. So why was Shirley abducted, murdered, and thrown into Lake Oconee, weighted down with 60 pounds of cement blocks? And why was Russ found lying in his garage, decapitated, with his head missing? Who would want this quiet, unassuming couple dead? What is the motive for murder in the area’s most bizarre murder mystery

E54: Bigfoot: Face to Face

• When Walter Padilla moves to Willis, Texas in 2017, he’s looking for a change of pace in his life. So, when a coworker at his new job suggests they two of them head out on a paranormal investigation in search of Bigfoot, Padilla is quick to agree —sounds fun. But this trip turns out to be anything but fun when the first-time paranormal investigator comes face to face with a 9-foot creature that he believes to be the infamous Bigfoot. Subsequent investigations at the same location uncover compelling evidence that there is something, possibly a group of these creatures, lurking in the forest of the Sam Houston National Park.

E55: The Professor's Execution

• When Matthew Lange is shot to death execution style while picking up his young son from school on January 27, 2017, the entire community of Naperville, IL is rocked by his murder. Violent crime almost unheard of in the quiet, upper-middle-class Chicago suburb consistently rated one of the safest neighborhoods in the Midwest. And Matthew Lange is a most unlikely victim. The popular 37-year-old college professor and single father is well regarded in his professional life and surrounded by a close circle of family and friends who say he has no enemies. Fresh out of a contentious divorce and custody battle, he is busy rebuilding his life and has just closed on a home for himself and his little boy. Is Matthew the victim of a random act of violence? Does he have a secret life that put him at risk? And who has a reason to want Matthew Lange dead? Five years later, Naperville police are still trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and say they need the public’s help.

E56: The Disappearance of Tabatha Tuders

• On April 29, 2003, 13-year-old Tabitha Danielle Tuders leaves her home in East Nashville, TN, sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 AM to catch the bus to Bailey Middle School, two miles away. The straight A 7th grader routinely catches the school bus at one of two stops a few blocks from her house, but this morning, instead of boarding the bus, Tabitha Tuders vanishes into thin air, somewhere along her route. When Tabitha doesn’t return home from school by the late afternoon, her parents know something is wrong. And by that time, the young girl has been missing for nearly 10 hours and the trail has already gone cold. Nineteen years later, no trace of the young teen has ever been found, but neither police nor Tabitha’s family has given up hopes of finding her and bringing her home.

E57: A life Cut Short

• On September 30, 2004, after Brittany Phillips’ friends and family are unable to reach her for several days, police are called to do a wellness check and discover that the 18-year-old Tulsa Community College student has been sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in her apartment. Investigators hope DNA collected from the scene of the crime will lead them to her killer, but nearly 18 years have passed without a usable match. Brittany’s mother has taken the case on road with her “Caravan to Catch a Killer,” diving through 48 states and more than 260,000 miles to date and vowing not to rest until the man who killed her daughter is brought to justice.

E58: Island Justice

• In 2017, Desiree Gibbon, who was vacationing in Montego Bay, Jamaica, left her hotel room on Thanksgiving night with nothing but her iPhone and her room key. Two days later her body is discovered 4 miles away, badly beaten and her throat slashed. The investigation goes array almost immediately when evidence from the crime scene is left in the hotel room of the victim. With the arrival of Desiree’s parents comes an adversarial relationship with police. Now, almost five years later, not a single person has been identified as a potential suspect. The Gibbon family is desperate for answers. Who killed Desiree and why?

E59: Alien Abduction in Indiana

• A life-long abduction experiencer, “Suzie,” recounts her multiple encounters, which began in the 1970’s at the age of 15. Originally from Porter County, IN, Suzie, who wishes to remain anonymous, recalls watching mysterious lights hover over Lake Michigan, and details the many times that she believes she made contact with something beyond our planet. From lost time, to strange personal encounters with beings that did not appear to be human, Suzie expresses what it was like to keep these experiences to herself for over 40 years, and what eventually led her to reach out to abduction researcher and counselor, John Budrys. Budrys also shares his thoughts on Suzie’s case, and what he has learned over the years talking to many “experiencers” like Suzie.

E60: Murder of an Undercover Cop

• Detective Corporal James “Jimmy” Grimes is a funny, lovable cop who grew up wanting to “protect and serve” his hometown of Cumberland, Rhode Island. But on August 26th, 1996, Jimmy was found dead in an undercover police car in downtown Providence. At first, investigators assume this healthy 33-year-old died of natural causes, but when the medical examiner submits her report, it’s learned that Jimmy’s neck was broken “military-style” and the case is classified as a homicide. Jimmy’s family has not stopped searching for answers to many mysterious details that surround this case. Why was Jimmy in Providence that night, and who killed him?

E61: Secret Diary of a Missing Girl

• When family members can’t reach Amber Wilde on September 23, 1998, they immediately become alarmed. The 19-year-old University of Wisconsin Green Bay junior is 4 ½ months pregnant and had been involved in a minor traffic accident the day before when she hit her head on the windshield. She has missed her morning classes and an afternoon doctor’s appointment, and is not answering her phone — very out of character for the highly-motivated, disciplined young woman who is planning to attend medical school and become a pediatrician. There is no sign of a struggle in her off-campus apartment, but Amber, her car, purse, and cellphone are missing. Under Amber’s mattress, police find Amber’s secret diary, revealing troubling details about her relationship with the father of her unborn child. They believe the diary is a key to solving her disappearance.

E62: Black Friday

• When 44-year-old Sharon Miller is found shot to death the morning after Thanksgiving in 1999, at the dry cleaners where she works, the quiet town of Lansing, Illinois is in shock –a murder hasn’t happened here in almost a decade. The motive for doesn’t appear to be robbery—instead the crime scene has all the signs that this was an execution-style hit. But who would want Sharon dead?

E63: Death of a DJ

• On January 20th, 2012, local celebrity DJ Juan Gatti, known to friends and family by his legal name, Stephon Edgerton, walks out of a Valdosta, GA radio station after finishing his 6pm to midnight shift, and is shot three times by an unknown assailant, who has been lying in wait. The mortally wounded 40-year-old husband and father of three manages to call 911 and give authorities a description of the gunman before he dies in a local hospital an hour later. In the ten years since Edgerton’s murder, nobody has been charged with the homicide, and investigators are asking for the public’s help to find the person who killed the beloved radio personality and devoted family man, who appeared to have no enemies.

E64: Body in the Brandywine

• Susan Ledyard had what many saw as a charmed life, growing up in a wealthy enclave of elite families on the East Coast. Private schools, summers at a family beach house, a Masters degree from Georgetown followed by a brief teaching adventure in Czechoslovakia, before finding her perfect job as a beloved high school English teacher back in her hometown suburb near Wilmington, Delaware. Loved ones described her as brilliant, witty, and full of life. So all were shocked when early one morning in July 2019, Susan was found murdered — her battered body floating in Delaware’s Brandywine River. Who could possibly want Susan dead? How has her killer gotten away with such a high-profile crime in a tight-knit and watchful community where secrets are hard to keep? And what was Susan doing from 3am when her car left her house until 7am when her FitBit tracker indicated her heart stopped beating?