She Goes By Jane

How quickly can someone just…disappear? One minute there, the next gone. How could someone leave a dorm party at a busy college campus and not make it to their own residence, just 300 yards away? In 1978, a 22 year old college sophomore, Judy Martins, stepped out of a dorm building at Kent State University and into darkness.  This week we’re joined by Stephanie Sy-Quia, a writer and broadcaster based in London. She is the presenter of Eccentric Circles, a podcast about cities and the influential oddballs who lived in them. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing was a pregnant woman. She’d been brutally stabbed, her body left in the dirt. Without identification on her, investigators set to work to find out who she was and who murdered her, but the answers wouldn’t come readily or easily. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly. a

Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked.  This week we’re joined by Award-winning actress Christine Solomon whose work has been exhibited, showcased, and displayed to millions of viewers in Egypt, Canada, and around the world on major television networks and movie studios such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, Rotana Group (the Arab World's largest entertainment company owned by the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talat), Ubisoft, as well as in print, online, and other advertising media. Solomon has received a nationally-recognized Madbakh Awards for her work as an actress; she is also an important contributor for the award-winning productions in which she played a leading or critical role (HELIOPOLIS, BASRA, and BAFTA nominated RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE). The theatre trained actor appreciates the opportunity to work for positive causes. She has joined as the lead host for GMC and renowned actor Josh Duhamelʼs campaign BUILDING FOR AMERICAʼS BRAVEST and has raised over 17 million dollars. The campaign reached an impressive 110 million viewers. She is also the spokesperson for the ACNE AND ROSACEA SOCIETY OF CANADA’s Rosacea Awareness Campaign. Solomon and her work have been the subject of numerous articles in major international publications and media throughout the world, including The National Post (monthly readership 6.95 million), The Globe and Mail (17 million readership), MSN Saudi Arabia (monthly readership 982 million), Variety (monthly readership 31.6 million), and Screen India (monthly readership 53.76 million), among others. On the other side of the camera, Christine has served on the 25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS (SAG AWARDS) TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE and has been an official juror at various prestigious film festivals across the country. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can welcome Iris’s boyfriend as he’s released. But the man is hiding a secret, he wants something else from Iris. This week we’re joined by two special guest readers. Marilyn Oliva is a medieval historian whose research focuses on medieval English religious women—anchoresses, nuns, and vowesses—and the ties these women created with their local communities. She has published on several aspects of religious life for women, including their literacy, the organization and administration of their convents, and the sacred spaces they created within their monastic and parochial enclosures. She is also the co-creator of “The Seventh Circle,” a DIY story published on Instagram about a secret society of women whose mission is to release from oblivion all the lost, forgotten, and ignored women of all the sciences and humanities across all time periods and from every geographical region.  Tom Gilroy is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work spans feature filmmaking, music, theatre, and haiku. His work has appeared at Sundance, Cannes, The Toronto Film Festival, and the Berlinale, and he has taught at Columbia and Davidson College. His work can be experienced and explained at www.tomgilroy.net. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In August 1949, friends of Mimi Boomhower arrive at Mimi’s home to find that despite the lights on inside and outside her Bel Air mansion and her car in her garage, the wealthy widow is nowhere to be found. Seven days later her purse is found inside a grocery store telephone booth with a cryptic message written in pen on its side sending police into a flurry as they work to find her. This week our guest reader is Amber Dawn Fox, a working actress based in the Southeast. She travels all around the US and beyond for work. She can be seen on Peacock TV, Hulu, discovery+, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen Network, AMC, Amazon Prime, and more! Although best known for portraying Officer Bello on "The Walking Dead", Amber has gone on to star in several feature films available on many streaming sites. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

One late afternoon in 1950, a mushroom hunter finds the body of a woman off a little used road in West Virginia. It is clear she was murdered and dumped in this remote location. Despite there being few clues to her identity, investigators get to work trying to identify her and her killer. Within the first year of discovering her body, investigators claimed to have identified her seven different times. None were correct. Now, almost 75 years later, the woman’s name and her killer are still unknown. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

Summary “If it’s a kidnapping, I’d have a ransom note by now,” says private investigator Ernest Rizzo about the 1977 disappearance of candy heiress Helen Voorhees Brach. But despite his confidence that Helen Brach is still alive, no one has seen her. And as the days turn into months turn into years, it becomes more and more clear just how wrong Ernest Rizzo is about what happened to Helen. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

In 1994, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office enters a property in Loxahatchee, Florida and finds a chilling sight. Hundreds of exotic birds including parrots and macaws are dead or dying inside their enclosures. While they work frantically to save the remaining birds, their focus shifts to how they got in this state. Where is their caretaker, 36 year old Lilawattie Buerettan and her 31 year old nephew Moses Lall. Did they abandon the birds, or did something more sinister happen. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

In 1998, Suzanne Renee Richerson, a Texas A&M student at their Galveston campus, headed to work as a night clerk at a hotel and condo complex. She expects to study overnight and leave at 7am. At 6am, the security guard checks on her before he leaves, but by 6:15am, as a couple goes to check out, Suzanne is no longer at her desk.  This week we’re joined by born performer and one of Canada’s voiceover elite, Sonja Ball. Sonja has over 30 years experience and is well known for her tremendous versatility in Commercials, Animation, Narrations, Documentaries, Audiobooks, Video games, Talking Toys and more. Sonja has been nominated for ACTRA’s Best Voiceover Performance Award and has voiced principal roles in a host of award-winning animation series’ and films including: Arthur, Wimzie’s House, Madeline’s Christmas, Pinocchio 3000, Snowtime, Spookley and the Christmas Kittens, and many more, with lead or principal roles in each. Her versatility often lands her multiple roles in the same productions. She has voiced everything from gaming characters for Ubisoft, to ads for well recognized companies such as Lancôme and Vaseline. She brings her broad base of experience into play as a voiceover coach for up and coming young actors. To add to her list of credentials, Sonja is also a Montreal music scene veteran and singer/songwriter, singing the no.# 10 Billboard dance hit and number 1 England Dance Chart hit, “Can’t Live Without You” in 1986, as Suzy Q. Over the years she has performed in top venues throughout North America singing in several band scenarios opening for legends like Smokey Robinson, Glen Campbell and Charlie Bird. She has recorded theme songs and music c.d.’s related to the animation productions she has voiced, and continues to write and co-produce her own music. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

“Did you find the body?” a killer asks law enforcement 38 years after his wife went missing. When Gloria Kidder met her future husband at work, little did she know she was also meeting the man who would force her to experience an escalating pattern of violence ending only in her death. This week we’re joined by Patrisha McLean who started on her journey of activism for women’s rights upon the domestic violence arrest of her then-husband of 29 years, Don “American Pie” McLean. She is the founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices, a Maine sisterhood of survivors bringing light to domestic abuse and to each other, which can be found at FindingOurVoices.net Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In 1937, a young college woman, Ruth Baumgardner, says good night to her friends and heads to her dorm room. That’s the last anyone sees of her. The next day her friend finds Ruth’s car key on the dorm building staircase, but Ruth is nowhere to be found. The week we are joined by guest reader Mallory Kennedy. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mallory is a producer, writer, and the President of Margrette Bird Pictures, an independent film company. She is known for her work on the award-winning Price Is Right documentary, ‘Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much.’  She is also the author of Outslutted, Nutritional Exorcism, and the Energetic Athletics book series. Much of Mallory’s work focuses on developing your own brand of femininity, while finding the path to energetic heath, and wellness. Visit MalloryKennedy.com to find the latest news, books, and articles, as well as the upcoming release of 'Mad Mac: The Memory of Jim McMahon,' a new documentary film that explores the life, and post-NFL health challenges of the legendary Chicago Bears Quarterback. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In 2000, model Lourdes Gruart disappears. Her brother says that she told him she was leaving for Europe for a modeling job and left their shared apartment. But Lourdes doesn’t have an active passport, nor has she told anyone else of her travel plans. In the 24 years since, Lourdes’s disappearance has remained a mystery. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In 1928, Bessie and Glen Hyde take a scow down the Colorado River in their attempt to have Bessie become the first woman documented to have gone down the river through the canyon. Their plan is to leverage their experience into a career on the lecture and vaudeville circuit. They are last seen heading down the river in mid November. This week we are joined by Musetta Vander. A native South African, Musetta's no stranger to the entertainment world. She debuted on stage at the age of 4. One of her first jobs was anchor host for an MTV-like television show in South Africa. After her arrival to the USA she became part of the very world she used to host, appearing as the 'dream girl' in more than twenty music videos for top recording artists including Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Chris Isaak. But it was her critically acclaimed stage performance in the original South African play Soweto's Burning, that provided her transition to the big screen.  Since then Musetta has performed in numerous feature films, including Wild Wild West , O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Cell, Breaking Point, and Kicking & Screaming to name a few.  Additionally she's added a slew of television credits ti including Stargate SG-1, Frasier, NCIS and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.   Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

Known to the courts as a glamor girl, 26 year old Jean Spangler was trying to make her way in Hollywood as an actress and dancer while raising her young daughter as a single mom. And then the unthinkable happens, on the night of October 7, 1949, Jean Spangler left her home telling her family she would be doing a bit part at one of the studios. She was never seen again. This week our guest reader is Sara Tomko. Sara is a Film and Television actress based in LA and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Series Regular, Asta Twelvetrees, in the hit show Resident Alien which is produced by Amblin and NBCU. Her career began in experimental theatre and musicals in Virginia and Ohio, later moving to Los Angeles to pursue Film and TV. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer and mental health advocate. Sara can be found on Instagram @saratomko19 Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

Summary Known to the courts as a glamor girl, 26 year old Jean Spangler was trying to make her way in Hollywood as an actress and dancer while raising her young daughter as a single mom. And then the unthinkable happens, on the night of October 7, 1949, Jean Spangler left her home telling her family she would be doing a bit part at one of the studios. She was never seen again. This week our guest reader is Sara Tomko. Sara is a Film and Television actress based in LA and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Series Regular, Asta Twelvetrees, in the hit show Resident Alien which is produced by Amblin and NBCU. Her career began in experimental theatre and musicals in Virginia and Ohio, later moving to Los Angeles to pursue Film and TV. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer and mental health advocate. Sara can be found on Instagram @saratomko19 Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In 1998, an unidentified woman’s remains are found near a highway truck stop in Weatherford, Texas. It is believed that she died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but in the past 26 years no one has come forward to claim her. Today, little has been publicized about her case, making her one of the many unidentified women whose stories aren’t told. This week our guest reader is Kate Roman, a teenage actor, dancer, and singer from Toronto, Canada who's been performing on stage and screen since age 4. She is a highly skilled, technically trained dancer in 7 genres with 12 years professional level training. Credits include a leading role as Ariana on The Next Step season 9 (BBC, CBC, YTV), Netflix films 13:The Musical and Feel The Beat, Amelia Parker/The Parker Andersons, Charlotte Cardin’s Sad Girl music video, The Big Fun Crafty Show, and Gerry Dee's Kids That Are Amazing at Stuff. Musical Theatre experience includes community productions of: The Lion King (Nala) and Aladdin (Narrator). Awards include: Joey Award winner for Best Actress and Young Artist Award nomination for the short film Butterfly. In dance, Kate is the recipient of several first overall solo awards over many years, is ranked top 10 in North America (The Dance Awards Orlando and Las Vegas) and received team gold in Germany (IDO World Show Dance). Kate understands the importance of giving back by mentoring young girls in the arts and in life, to ensure a balance in both physical and mental health by promoting a positive outlook and self-care in what can be a challenging time growing up. IG: @k8roman Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

Everyone knew Evelyn Throsby’s fifth husband wasn’t right for her. Everyone except Evelyn that is. But what they didn’t know was that he was a conman. He used his skills to isolate Evelyn from her friends and family, steal her money, and, ultimately, kill her while keeping everyone in the dark for months. Evelyn’s murder would go on to become a landmark case in what happens when prosecutors move forward with a murder trial when a victim’s body has never been located. This week we’re joined by Nadia Hatta who is best known for her recent role as ‘Mei Chen’ in the Netflix series AWAY, which has been listed in Netflix’s Top 10. She starred in Discovery Channel’s Golden Bell award-winning travel show, FUN TAIWAN, which reached over 2 billion views. Hatta can be seen recurring in the drama-mystery series HEAD ABOVE WATER. At MTV ASIA in China, she was a VJ and wrote, produced, directed, and hosted a seven-part miniseries on New York Fashion Week. Nadia has also starred in BA BI LUN MI WU as well as BABYLON FOG by acclaimed Chinese director, Lu Chuan. In 2012, she won Best Actor for A PART APART in National Film Challenge, USA. Nadia currently resides in Canada and has a BFA in Acting and Theatre from New York University’s famed Tisch program. She has also studied at Amsterdam’s International Theatre School and the Roy Hart International Arts Centre in France. While English is her native language, she speaks Mandarin with a native tongue and is fluent in French and Italian. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our August 2024 selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction book Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

It’s 1946. Twenty-four year old Lola Celli is visiting her parents in Grandview Heights, Ohio when she decides to take a bus into Columbus to buy some nylons. But her neighbors don’t report seeing her on the morning bus nor is there any record of her making a purchase at the store she planned to visit. Is it possible that something happened to Lola in the two blocks between her parents’ home and the bus stop?  Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our August 2024 selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction book Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

On the Fourth of July weekend in 1966, three young women head to Indiana Dunes State Park to enjoy the beach and swim in Lake Michigan. Despite the over 8000 other beach goers there that day, the women somehow vanish without a trace. They’re disappearances spawn many theories over the years, but none bring investigators closer to finding out what happened to Ann Miller, Patricia Blough, and Renee Bruhl that day. This week our guest reader is Meredith Garretson. Meredith will star in the World Premiere play BLOOD OF THE LAMB Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in NY this fall. She is currently starring as Kate Hawthorne in the hit TV show RESIDENT ALIEN (Peacock, Netflix, Syfy, coming soon to USA). Past TV credits include: Ali MacGraw in THE OFFER (Paramount Plus), FOSSE/VERDON (FX), STARGIRL (CW), Chicago Med (NBC), NEW AMSTERDAM (NBC), PRODIGAL SON (Fox), THE GOOD FIGHT (Paramount+), ELEMENTARY (CBS). Starring in the upcoming feature film FRIENDSHIP opposite Paul Rudd (director: Andrew DeYoung).Theater credits include: Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT, Maid Marian in ROBIN HOOD (The Old Globe), Christina Mundy in DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Two River Theater), PAINT MADE FLESH (The Cell). She is a founding member of SOCIETY THEATRE COMPANY. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our August 2024 selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction book Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

A serial killer sends investigators a series of notes, detailing his crimes. In them, he mentions a married woman who drove a white grand am. He claims he murdered her and that investigators should be able to use his clues to identify her. There’s one problem though, investigators can’t find any missing person or murder cases that match these clues. This week our guest reader is Tonya Todd. Tonya is a writer, director, actress, and activist invested in fair representation in the literary and cinematic worlds she inhabits. When not writing or filmmaking, she works as a DEI instructor, a sensitivity reader, and co-host of Femme On Podcast. She served as co-editor and contributor for the forthcoming essay collection Comics Lit, Volume 1, which highlights the value of comic books as a form of high art. Her anti-censorship series Banned Books Conversations is available on her YouTube channel and her directorial debut “Mourning Sacrifice” is slated to hit the festival circuit this year. Learn more about Tonya across social media @mstonyatodd and her website www.mstonyatodd.com. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our August 2024 selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction book Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.