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She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast
She Goes by Jane is a true crime podcast that focuses on the stories of missing women and unidentified women. Each episode explores unsolved disappearances and Jane Doe cases with deep research, historical context, and original poetry, featuring guest readings by actors and advocates. Unlike other true crime podcasts, we center the victims—not the killers. No gore. No gimmicks. Just the truth, told with care. Perfect for listeners who want ethical true crime storytelling about unsolved…
Episodes
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast41: Episode 41: North Arlington Jane Doe with guest reader Crystal Balint.
In December 1990, a woman accidentally drowned in the Passaic River in New Jersey. Despite these tragic circumstances, her story garners little media…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast40: Episode 40: Promila Mehta-Paul with guest reader Mouzam Makkar
On March 22, 2011, employees at Dr. Promila Mehta-Paul’s medical office arrive and get ready for another busy day of patients and appointments. There’s one…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 39: Deanna Merryfield with guest reader Alison Arngrim
At 3:30am, a 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield shows up at her uncle’s trailer and wakes her twin who is sleeping inside. The two talk for just a moment before…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast38: Episode 38: Maria, or the Pyre Case with guest reader Dedee Pfeiffer
In 1952, a man comes across the burned body of a woman in Cottonwood Gulch, just outside of Black Hawk, Colorado. He returns to this site several times before…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast37: Episode 37: Tara Calico with guest reader Lauren Robertson
Perhaps you’ve seen the photo before. A young woman with her hands bound, tape over her mouth, laying in the back of a van with a similarly bound little boy…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast36: Lisa Roberts: The Teen Once Known as Precious Jane Doe with guest reader Heather Morris
In 1977, a young hitchhiker accepted a ride from a man who promised to take her home. Within hours, she was dead. Investigators quickly identified her killer…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast35: Episode 35: Martha and Sandra Stiver with guest reader Kelsey Wang
In 1968, the body of a young woman was found in rural Pennsylvania. She’d been shot to death. Months later, another young woman is found just a few miles away…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast34: Episode 34: Sequoya Vargas, part 2 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo
In August 1993, a man walks into a police station and gives a statement about the disappearance of 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas. In it, he details the brutal…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast33: Episode 33: Sequoya Vargas, part 1 with guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo
In 1993, 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas hitchhikes with a friend to her friend’s home. Later that evening, the man who gave them a ride asks her to go to his…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast32: Episode 32: Case Update: Shauna Harvey/Shauna Garber with guest reader Teryl Rothery
Detective Lorie Howard was once told that the only way the case of the unidentified woman she was working on would be by the grace of god. This gave her the…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast31: Episode 31: The Texas Killing Fields: Tot Tran Harriman with guest reader Porter Duong
Tot Tran Harriman survived the Vietnam War. She witnessed history when she was evacuated on the last boat out of Saigon before it fell. She lived through being…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast30: Episode 30: Bessie Kutnak with guest reader Catherine Mary Stewart
On a hot summer’s day in 1992, 63-year-old Bessie Kutnak goes to look for her missing cattle near her home in Cameron, Texas. Witnesses say she seemed…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast29: Episode 29: Carma Purpura with guest reader Jann Karam
On July 11, 2007, a 31-year-old Carma Purpura was last seen getting into the cab of a truck driver at a rest stop near Indianapolis. The next day, he’s…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 28: Wanda Kirkum with guest reader Patricia Rae
On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman is seen hitchhiking along US 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, a pair of windsurfers find her body in a…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast27: Episode 27: The Last Unidentified Victims of the Green River Killer with guest Tabitha Brownstone
In 2001, the Green River Killer was finally caught, ending one of the most horrific eras in the Pacific Northwest and ending a decades long investigation…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast26: Episode 26: The Texas Killing Fields: Shelley Sikes
When he spoke of what happened to his daughter Shelley, Ed Sikes said, “It was a crash course in good and evil.” In 1986, when Shelley was 19, she was working…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast25: Episode 25: Shawna Garber/Grace Doe with guest reader Teryl Rothery
McDonald County, Missouri. In 1990, a woman and her husband find the remains of a woman near an abandoned house. She’s been bound, her hands and legs tied…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast24: Episode 24: The Lady of the Lake with guest reader Dee Wallace
Cleveland, 1934. A man collecting firewood along the shores of Lake Erie is startled to find the partial remains of a woman. Though investigators are able to…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast23: Episode 23: Linda and Lori Mae Peugeot with guest reader Liz Moore
In 1969, 21-year-old Linda Peogeot and her daughter, Lori Mae, leave a department store with all the supplies they need to celebrate the little girl’s third…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast22: Episode 22: Audrey Cook and Donna Prudhomme with guest reader Briana Evigan
In southern Texas, there’s a strip of highway that runs between Houston and Galveston. From the 1970s until today, it’s a place where many women and girls have…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast21: Episode 21: Dorothy Arnold with guest reader Sharon Lawrence
Dorothy Arnold, a young socialite, vanished without a trace in 1910. Born into wealth and privilege, Dorothy's life seemed idyllic, but her family didn’t…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime PodcastEpisode 20: Pah Pow with guest reader Rainbow Dickerson
When 30-year-old Pah Pow leaves her apartment, the only witness is her young son who says she left with a man he recognized but whose name he didn’t know. Her…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast19: Episode 19: Keiosha Felix with guest reader McKenna Roberts
Keiosha Felix is just fifteen years old when she disappears from Duson, Louisiana. Out on a weekend pass from a facility for pregnant and parenting teens…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast18: Episode 18: Beverly Sharpman with guest reader Susan Bennett
“Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.” That’s what the telegram read that Beverly Sharpman’s parents received the night of September…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast17: Episode 17: Unpacking Missing White Woman Syndrome With The hosts of Fruitloops Beth and Wendy
In Ohio, a black woman’s body is found beneath a bridge and labeled Victim #8. In New York, a black woman found dead inside a storage tote will become known as…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast16: Episode 16: Eklutna Annie with guest reader Kelly Moneymaker
There are more than 57 million miles of Alaskan wilderness. Between the 1970s and 1983, a serial killer used this vast expanse to hunt his victims like wild…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast15: Episode 15: Cynthia and Jackie Leslie with special guest Catherine McKenzie
They said they were going to go babysit, but secretly had other plans to meet up with a friend. When teenagers Cynthia and Jackie Leslie left their Mesa…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast14: Episode 14: Special Episode : Aimée Baker’s interview on Who Killed...?
Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins Bill Huffman, host of Who…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast13: Episode 13: Bitter Creek Betty with guest reader Ginger Strand
In 1992, a truck driver pulls onto an interstate turnout on I-80 in Wyoming. There, she spots the body of a woman laying face down in the snow. The…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast12: Episode 12: Cynthia Hernandez with guest reader Gabrielle Ruiz
When a teenager disappears from a movie theater in Covina, California, police initially believe she’s run away. In the decades to come, Cynthia Hernandez stays…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast11: Episode 11: Norma/Bexar County Jane Doe with guest reader Jeané Coakley
What if a serial killer has the only clues to an unidentified woman’s identity? When a serial killer on death row begins talking about his crimes…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast10: Episode 10: Nahida Khatib with special guest reader Kathy Najimy
Who or what scares witnesses so much that many of them ask to remain anonymous when speaking to investigators? That’s what happened in the disappearance of…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast9: Episode 9: Pierce County Does
What happens to unidentified remains when their cases go cold? Most often, they’re held in evidence or buried. That’s not the case for three unidentified…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast8: From “Buckskin Girl” to Marcia King: A Jane Doe Identified
As one of the most recognizable unidentified persons cases in the United States, she was known for decades as “Buckskin Girl.” For 37 years, her identity…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast7: Episode 7 : Theresa Bier with guest reader Lauren Ash
Bigfoot took her. That’s the explanation a 43-year-old man gives after he takes 16-year-old Theresa Bier out hiking and doesn’t return with her. But despite…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast6: Episode 6: Girly Chew with special guest Raven Goodwin - Part 2 of 2
Alien queens, evidence planting, witness threatening: just three ways in which the trials for Girly’s murder become so outlandish that the media starts to lose…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast5: Episode 5: Girly Chew with guest reader Raven Goodwin - Part 1 of 2
What if everything you believed about your partner wasn’t true at all? Not where they went to school. Not their job. Not even their name. That’s what happened…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast4: Honolulu Jane Doe: The Unidentified Woman Found Alive in Hawaii | Unsolved Case with guest reader Louise Penny
In 2004, an unidentified woman was found living in a beach park in Honolulu, Hawaii—alive, but unable to say who she was. Known as the Honolulu Jane Doe, she…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast3: Episode 3: Mary Shotwell Little with guest reader Paige McKenzie
When Mary Shotwell Little doesn’t show up for work the morning of October 15, 1965, her boss immediately knows something must be wrong. That afternoon, police…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast2: Episode 2: Brianna Maitland with guest reader Marypat Farrell
On the night of March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland left her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, VT. Shortly after, witnesses saw her car less…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast1: Episode 1: Lattingtown Jane Doe with guest reader Erica Wong
In 2013, a woman was walking her dog on a beach in Lattingtown, NY, along the Long Island Sound when she found the skeletal remains of a woman. Today, this…
She Goes by Jane: A True Crime PodcastTrailer
Each week co-hosts, author Aimée Bake and film maker Vanessa Cicarelli, will bring you a story of a missing or unidentified woman. And each episode they will…