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- 0:05Speaker 1: On October two fifteen, the Little Rock Police Department searched
- 0:10Speaker 1: an abandoned car in a small residential part. The keys
- 0:15Speaker 1: were in the ignition and the car was out of
- 0:18Speaker 1: gas as if it had been left running. The car
- 0:22Speaker 1: belonged to eighteen year old Ebbie Steppa. And then the
- 0:26Speaker 1: fact that they found her makeup in her car, her
- 0:30Speaker 1: phone in her car, her wallet, her keys in her car,
- 0:33Speaker 1: and that right there tells me someone planned this. Ebbie
- 0:39Speaker 1: had vanished without a trace. I'm Catherine Townsend, journalist, private investigator,
- 0:48Speaker 1: and host of the true crime podcast Hell and Gone,
- 0:52Speaker 1: and I'm back in Arkansas trying to find out what
- 0:56Speaker 1: really happened to Ebby Steppa. It seems like every one
- 1:00Speaker 1: in Arkansas knows about Ebby. They know she disappeared in
- 1:03Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, and that her body was found in
- 1:07Speaker 1: a storm drain three years later. They know that there
- 1:10Speaker 1: have been multiple investigations that have led nowhere. And even
- 1:15Speaker 1: though Ebbie's case has been one of the most extensively
- 1:18Speaker 1: covered cold cases in Arkansas, so much of her life
- 1:23Speaker 1: and what really happened to her remain a mystery. We
- 1:27Speaker 1: didn't know anything that was going on with her, Where
- 1:30Speaker 1: she was going. None of her friends knew any of
- 1:33Speaker 1: the people she was hanging out with or where she
- 1:36Speaker 1: met him. I didn't know any of the people she
- 1:38Speaker 1: was hanging out with at the time. I mean, there's
- 1:40Speaker 1: a million scenarios that played through my head every day.
- 1:44Speaker 1: After all this time, no one has been ruled out
- 1:48Speaker 1: or in. Everybody's on the radar. Why are they on
- 1:52Speaker 1: the radar? They've been on the radar for years. I
- 1:55Speaker 1: feel for these people too, because like they're not cleared,
- 1:59Speaker 1: but they're not prosecuted. I didn't want to get involved,
- 2:03Speaker 1: and they're saying at all I said, I don't need
- 2:05Speaker 1: to interfere with a BRACE part. I regret that. Now
- 2:10Speaker 1: I'm falling up on old leads, chasing new leads, and
- 2:13Speaker 1: doing anything that can get us closer to the truth.
- 2:17Speaker 1: No one would be able to see what I was
- 2:19Speaker 1: doing from the street side. If I was putting the
- 2:22Speaker 1: body in here, no one would see that happen. Did
- 2:25Speaker 1: she take somebody there with her? Did somebody kill her
- 2:28Speaker 1: or put her down there? Did something else happen? And
- 2:31Speaker 1: then somebody panic and they put her down there. All
- 2:33Speaker 1: those things are on the table. We're going to get close.
- 2:38Speaker 1: We're gonna figure out if he's home or not. We're
- 2:40Speaker 1: gonna go knock on the door, and we're gonna try
- 2:42Speaker 1: to just talk to him. I just started shaking. It's
- 2:46Speaker 1: like this, I'm never gonna I'm never gonna win. Nothing's
- 2:50Speaker 1: ever gonna happen. Some people tell me to just leave
- 2:55Speaker 1: things to law enforcement. I know from experience that once
- 2:59Speaker 1: you start digging up dark secrets, life can get messy
- 3:03Speaker 1: and things can get complicated. But I also know that
- 3:07Speaker 1: sometimes digging is the only way to get answers and justice.
- 3:12Speaker 1: From School of Humans and I Heart Radio, I'm Catherine Townsend.
- 3:16Speaker 1: This is Helen Gone. Listen to Helen Gone on the
- 3:21Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you
- 3:25Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Season four is out March