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Hell and Gone: Murder Line
Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths.
Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly.
Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their…
Episodes
- Hell and Gone: Murder Line
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Karen Mitchell [From the Archives]
On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1997, 16-year-old Karen Mitchell vanished in Eureka, California. Originally from Whittier near Long Beach, she had moved…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Chaim Weiss
It was Friday night, 31 October 1986—Halloween night at the Torah High School yeshiva in Long Beach, New York. Chaim Weiss, a 15-year-old student was…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gloria Kowalewicz
On November 12, 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz walked over to her nearby Catholic church, St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Chicago. But she never made it to…
Hell and Gone: Murder LineIntroducing: Curse of Miss America
Hello, Hell and Gone Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, it’s Curse of: Miss America!!! About the Show: Miss America used to be a…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Double Homicide of Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Plaztman
In the early morning hours of Saturday October 31 - Halloween, 1981, 39-year-old Ronald Sisman and his new girlfriend, 20-year-old Elizabeth Platzman, were…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan [From the Archives]
Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Dermonds
In May 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found decapitated in the garage of his lakefront home in an exclusive Georgia community. His wife, Shirley, was…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rex Terrell [From the Archives]
In the early morning hours of on July 30 1977 in Wesley, Arkansas a 20-year-old University of Arkansas Student Rex Terrell, who worked the overnight shift was…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly
It was a really hot night in the middle of summer - July 4, 1988, in San Angelo, Texas. Seventeen-year-old Shane Stewart was gearing up for the Fourth of July…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Stephen and Carole Baxter
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, 21-year-old Ellie Baxter went to check on her parents at their home on Mersea Island, off the Essex coast, 64-year-old Carole…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maria Rodriguez
In the summer of 1980, sixteen-year-old Maria Rodriguez was living with her boyfriend Milton Colbert Jr. in Long Branch, New Jersey. When came home from his…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Eugene and Raymond Horsch
At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jenna Neilsen
At around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday, June 14, 2007, police found the body of 22 year old Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen behind an AmeriKing Food Mart in…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]
On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Anna Laura Costa Porsborg
It was December 28, 2022, a few days after Christmas, and Erbena Costa was beginning to get seriously worried about her daughter, 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Harris
On Sunday May 12, 2002, Mother’s Day evening, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris had spent the day with her family and at 6:30 pm that night, she arrived at her…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Caroline Herrling
In December 2020, the police received a call from a neighbor of 69 year old Charles Wilding, a reclusive man who lived by himself on Kingswood Road in Sherman…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [Update]
On Sunday October 17, 2021 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her home in West Los Angeles near Culver City, to head out to her 11 year old son’s football…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Dorothy and Buddy Little
On June 7, 1980, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office arrived at a green one story ranch-style home in southwest Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton [From the Archives]
On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Krystal Rivera
On June 5, 2025, 36-year-old Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were working patrol in the East Chatham neighborhood on…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line_ Clea Hall [From the Archives]
Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Beallis Family [UPDATE]
On December 3, 2025, deputies were called to the home of 57-year-old Dr. Randall Beallis, his 40 year old wife, Charity Beallis and their six year old twins on…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Alexander Murders
On the morning of April 8, 1981, 47-year-old Weldon Alexander finished his overnight shift at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas. When he got home that…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Aaron Hodge [From the Archives]
In October of 1995, something strange was going on inside the Flick home at 302 McNabb Street in Rector, Arkansas. This family was made up of 36-year-old David…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Oklahoma State Fair Murders
On September 23rd 1987 in Oklahoma City, two sisters, 25-year-old Cheryl Genzer and 16-year-old Lisa Pennington were hanging out together at the Oklahoma State…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ramona Gregory
Late in the afternoon on March 20, 1990, Jim Hannigan, a caretaker for the Carney property, was checking property lines and fences near Clayton Expressway in…
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Hell and Gone: Mary "Bobo" Shinn
On July 20, 1978, 25-year-old Mary Jimmie Shinn - who everyone knew by her nickname, Bobo, was getting ready to sell a house. That day, a man called her asking…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tarryn Trybus
On November 28, 2017, 34 year old Tarryn Baird, who lived in Swindon, a town in southwest England, about 80 miles from London, called the police non emergency…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Asha Degree
It was 3:45 in the morning on February 14, 2000—Valentine’s day, and a truck driver was barreling down Highway 18 right outside Shelby, North…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Paul Loyd
Sometime between seven and eight AM on Saturday January 15, 1994, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 31 year old David Ferrell knocks on his roommate Paul’s door…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Lori Murchison [From the Archives]
On Sept. 1, 1995, a police officer in Fort Smith, Arkansas pulled over a vehicle. A man named Jerry Cogan was driving and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Lori…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tripp Brazeale [From the Archives]
On Saturday, November 2, 2024 15-year-old Tripp Brazeale headed out of his house in Forrest City, Arkansas on a four wheeler. He was thrust into a high-speed…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Larry and Josh Schulman
On August 21, 2017 seventy year old Larry Schulman was home alone sleeping in his upstairs bedroom at his home on Outer Bridge Lane in the Providence Commons…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maud Crawford
On March 2nd 1957, 65 year old Maud Crawford, who was one of the most well-known women in her hometown of Camden Arkansas community after she made history as…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Matthew Stewart
On June 9, 2009, Angela Stewart pounded on her neighbor, Mark's, door at around 12:40 AM in Mooresville, North Carolina. They lived in a quiet, suburban…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Carol Morgan [From the Archives]
It was around 7 pm on August 13, 1981, and 36-year-old Carol Morgan was working the till at her corner shop in a town called Leighton Buzzard in the county of…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Twilight Crooks Part 2
Late at night on August 28, 2001 when 15-year-old Jessie Marie Twilight Song Crooks, who went by Twilight, took a late night phone call at her home on Larmon…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Twilight Crooks
On August 28, 2001, 15-year-old who everyone knew as Twilight, was hanging out at her home in Plano, Kentucky - when she got a phone call late at night…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jill Lyn Euto
On January 28, 2001 Super Bowl Sunday, 18-year-old Jill Lyn Euto was getting ready to go watch the big game with her family. The game started and the halftime…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Judd Pt. 2
On May 11, 1992 20 year old newlywed Jeninfer Judd was viciously attacked and murdered at home on North Park Avenue in Baxter Springs, Kansas. At 2:30 that…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Judd
May 11, 1992 started out as an ordinary day for 20-year-old newlyweds Justin and Jennifer Judd. Until Justin came home from work one afternoon to discover…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Paige Autumn White
On Saturday, March 27, 2021, a hiker was taking her dogs through the woods in Hot Springs National park near the intersection of Whittington and Blacksnake…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Melissa Witt [From the Archives]
Thursday December 1, 1994 started out as just a normal day for Melissa Witt. She was a 19-year-old college student, who lived at home with her mom, Mary Ann…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rhonda Hinson
On December 22 1981 around 1 to 1:15 am, a driver was going down a dark road MINERAL SPRINGS MOUNTAIN ROAD near the town of Valdese, North Carolina. It was a…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [From the Archives]
On Sunday October 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, a 39-year-old mother of one named Heidi Planck went to watch her 11-year-old son Bond play football. When Heidi left…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Charity Beallis Pt. 2
On December 3 2025, 40 year old Charlity Beallis and her six year old twins, a daughter and a son, were fatally shot at their home in Bonanza, West Arkansas…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Charity Beallis Pt. 1
On December 3 2025, at around 9:30 AM, deputies in Sebastian County, Arkansas were called to a home Bonanza, Arkansas to do a welfare check on a family. When…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Triple Russellville Murder
On the night of December 2nd, 1976, three girls - 13 year old Teresa Williams, 14 year old Crystal Donita Parton, and 13 year old Cynthia Mabry were hanging…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Amy Mihaljevic
On Friday, October 27, 1989, 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic rode her bike to Bay Middle School in Bay Village, Ohio. She was excited about yearbook photo retakes…
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[From the Archives] Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shannon Hercutt
On August 3, 2009, police found Shannon Hercutt dead inside her car, which had plunged off a cliff just off of Walker Trail in Sevier County, Tennessee. At…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jonelle Matthews
On December 20, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews returned home from a Christmas choir concert in Greeley, Colorado, and appeared to settle in for the…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Karen Mitchell
On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1997, 16-year-old Karen Mitchell vanished in Eureka, California. Originally from Whittier near Long Beach, she had moved…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christopher Revak
On June 10, 2006, 21-year-old Deidre Harm was headed to a night out with friends. She had a four-month-old daughter, Vegas, and had hired a babysitter to watch…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jay Slater (Archive Episode)
On Sunday June 17, 2024, Jay Slater, a 19-year-old bricklayer’s apprentice who lived in Lancashire, England was on his first ever foreign holiday. And he…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Brittany Phillips Part 2
On Monday September 30, 2004, 18-year-old college student Brittany Phillips was found dead in her apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was a student at Tulsa…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Brittany Phillips Part 1
On Monday September 27, 2004, 18-year-old Brittany Phillips, a student at Tulsa Community College, drove home from campus with her friend Lydia. They just took…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Wix Part 2
This week, we continue with the disappearance of Jennifer Wix and her daughter Adrianna. Could Jennifer have left voluntarily and started a new life? Could she…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Wix Part 1
On March 25, 2004, 21-year-old Jennifer Wix was in crisis. Jennifer lived in Robertson County, Tennessee and was a single mother to her two-year-old daughter…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Etan Patz
The morning of Friday May 25, 1979, started out like just another day for Julie Patz; her husband Stan, a photographer; and their children, eight-year-old…