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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: Shannon Lee Collins Part 2
On March 11, 2021, Shannon Lee Collins, a 48-year-old veteran, came back from a work trip to his home in Pottsville, Arkansas. Then, he seemed to vanish into…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shannon Lee Collins Part 1
On March 11, 2021, Shannon Lee Collins, a 48-year-old veteran, came back from a work trip to his home in Pottsville, Arkansas. He was working a part time job…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Thomas Hayden
On January 18 2012, a contractor was walking along a road In Dover Township Pennsylvania, called Schoolhouse road in York County when he noticed a plastic bag…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jay Slater
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: Victor Collins
On the night of Saturday, November 21, 2015, Victor Collins, a 47-year-old former police officer who worked in loss prevention at Walmart, was hanging out with…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Karyn Kupcinet
On November 30, 1963, just eight days after president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas - across the country in Los Angeles, friends of a…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tyler Smith Part 2
On September 14, 2018, in Galesburg, Illinois, a 23-year-old graduate of Western Illinois University named Tyler Smith headed out to party with some friends…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tyler Smith Part 1
On September 14, 2018, in Galesburg, Illinois, a 23-year-old graduate of Western Illinois University named Tyler Smith headed out to party with some friends…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Pauline Storment
It was April 12, 1971, a 27-year-old woman named Pauline Storment was walking down South Duncan Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas, just a few blocks from her…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck
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: Interview with Crime Scene Expert
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been covering two cases in Arkansas: the murder of Gail Vaught, whose body was found on March 17, 1980, and Dennis Flowers…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Lee Dickson, Karen Dickson, and Dennis Flowers
On the morning of March 22, 1984, at around 6:30 am, police came to the one-story nondescript home in Fayetteville, Arkansas that belonged to a quiet…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught Part 2
Catherine Townsend continues her investigation into the death of Gail Vaught. On the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught Part 1
On the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving his truck down Highway 16 that runs between Siloam Springs, Arkansas near the…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: John Forsyth
On May 21, 2023, Dr. John Forsyth, a 49-year-old ER doctor, was due to work the evening shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Missouri. He had already worked…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Justin Gaines
It was Thursday night, November 1, 2007, and 18-year-old Justin Gaines was getting ready for a night out with his friends at Wild Bill’s, a club in Duluth…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton
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: Audrii Cunningham
On February 15, 2024, 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, a fifth grade student at Creekside Elementary in Livingstone, Texas, never made it to the bus stop. And…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 2
This episode continues the investigation into the disappearance of Ieshia Jackson. It was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia was getting ready to go…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 1
It was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia Jackson was getting ready to go to a party. She lived in El Dorado, Arkansas just a short distance away…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 2
Catherine continues her investigation into the disappearance of Jason Lierl. In January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 1
In January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas when he disappeared off the face of the earth. Jason was last seen in Madison…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Billie Jean Phillips Part 2
Sometime between the evening of September 2 in the early morning hours of September 3, 1994, 35-year-old Billie Jean Phillips was brutally beaten to death at…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Billie Jean Phillips Part 1
On Saturday September 3, 1994, a federal poultry inspector named Chic Philips was taking his seven-year-old son MacKenzie back to the home of his mother and…
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Introducing: Blindspot Season 3
In this season of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan
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: Christina Pipkin Part 4
In Arkansas, some people think that a slew of child deaths in the early 1990s are related. Those children are Christina Pipkin, who went missing in May of…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Natalie Bollinger
On December 28 2017, 19-year-old Natalie Bollinger was at home in her apartment in Broomfield, Colorado. But when her boyfriend Joey got home from work that…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 3
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 2
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 1
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell costume jewelry for her school fundraiser. Her father gave her strict instructions: Stay on your…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Thanksgiving Break
Hello, Hell and Gone listeners! Catherine is headed back to Arkansas this week to investigate a slew of child deaths that have never been solved. We'll be back…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shirley Reine
It was May 10, 2005 when police in the tiny town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, a sleepy picturesque little town on Cape Cod, got a horrifying phone call…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Robert Wayne Cox
In winter of 2011, something was very wrong with 57-year-old Robert Wayne Cox. Robert had always been healthy and athletic, and according to his sister Lydia…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cass County Three
It was July 29, 2022, just another quiet summer night in Atlanta, Texas. The sun had just gone down when 28-year-old Shommaonique Oliver got a panicked phone…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Brooke Allensworth
On July 12, 2017, somewhere in the tiny town of Oil Trough, Arkansas, a 37-year-old mother of three named Brooke Allensworth vanished. Two weeks later, the…
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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: Jarrod Green Part 2
Just weeks after Jarrod Green was missing, police find out that the people he allegedly owed money to, Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb, had left town and that…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jarrod Green Part 1
Shannon Green remembers her baby brother Jarrod as the kid who was always laughing and smiling with a mischievous sense of humor. She said Jarrod was a little…
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Clea Hall
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: Melissa Witt
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: Rebekah Gould Update
The Hell and Gone team has launched a new series, Hell and Gone Murder Line…but investigator Catherine Townsend can’t start something new without returning to…
Hell and Gone: Murder LineHell and Gone Murder Line Trailer
Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend knows that there is no such thing as a small town where murder…
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S1 UPDATE: Waiting for the Case File
Larry Gould was supposed to meet with the prosecutor, but that meeting got postponed...indefinitely. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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S1 UPDATE: Contaminated
Catherine learns new information about the Arkansas State Police's investigation and explores the concept of contamination in confessions. See…
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S1 UPDATE: Victim Statement
Catherine talks with Rebekah’s father Larry Gould about his victim statement and meeting Rebekah’s killer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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S1 UPDATE: Confession, But Questions Remain
A man has finally been convicted for the murder of Rebekah Gould. But his confession leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Catherine Townsend attends a…
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Coming Forward
In the last episode of season 4, Catherine learns a theory about how Ebby's body was discovered and confirms details about Ebby's call with Trevor. See…
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The Phones
Catherine looks into an incident involving Guy Hooper and talks to Ebby's friend who switched phones with her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
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Burns Park
Catherine talks to a toxicology expert and identifies another person Ebby was in contact with in the days, and maybe even hours, leading up to her…
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Incident Report
Catherine tries to figure out why there are inconsistencies in the security guard's stories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Pattern of Life
Catherine talks to one of Ebby's close friends and gets some shocking information from the LRPD. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Down the Drain
Catherine and Mike go down the drain where Ebby was found and track down one of the guys from the party. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Chalamont Park
Ebby's family searches for her everywhere. Catherine talks with private investigator Monty Vickers and former LRPD detective Tommy Hudson. See…
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The Little Rock Girl
Catherine Townsend heads to Little Rock, Arkansas to investigate the death of 18-year-old Ebby Steppach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hell and Gone Season 4 Trailer
On October 30, 2015, the Little Rock Police Department searched an abandoned car in a small residential park. The keys were in the ignition and the car was out…
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Buried Secrets
Catherine follows the trails at the back of the Malibu Canyon Ranch. As season three comes to an end, we reflect on a tumultuous year in Los Angeles and what…
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Dark Creek
Catherine goes back to the trail to look for more access points to Dark Canyon. Catherine also discusses Mitrice’s family’s legal battle against the LASD, Los…
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Murders in the Mountains
With the pandemic in mind, Catherine does some cyber sleuthing. She discovers that the area where Mitrice's remains were found has seen a variety of other…
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LA Confidential
In an attempt to find out what happened to Mitrice while she was at the police station, the team attempts to track down one of the most crucial pieces of…