True Crime in the 50

On April 13, 1999 at around 9 pm, Danny Schneider Jr., 20, told his parents and sister he was going to study at a friend's house in Chalmette, Louisiana, about a 20 minute drive from New Orleans. In reality, Danny was actually going to buy drugs in the seedy 9th Ward. On April 14, at around 2 am, Dan and Annie Schneider were awakened by a knock at their door telling them their son was dead. He had been shot in the head. Dan Schneider would take on his son's case, relentlessly seeking justice for him. His quest would lead him down a long, dark and winding road full of drug dealers, drug addicts, a false informant, a real eyewitness, illegal pill mills and a pediatrician-turned narcotics dealer doctor who was almost single-handedly helping along the country's opioid crisis. Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11600174/

The Murders of Bill and Peggy Stephenson are discussed.Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cincinnatis-crime-vault-beyond-the-broadcast/id1641626489https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-cincinnatis-crime-vault-be-101295692/episode/5-the-brutal-stephenson-murders-and-111015211/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-the-tip-sters-true-crime-podcast/id1335317858

On June 2nd, 2007, at 6:30 p.m.,18-year-old Kelsey Smith went to the local Target in Overland Park, Kansas, to buy a gift for her boyfriend, John. Kelsey had just graduated from High School days earlier, was planning on going to Kansas State University in the fall, and was planning on studying veterinary medicine. She and John had been dating for about six months.Once inside the Target store, she called her mom, Missy to ask where she might find gift wrap. Missy told her and Kelsey hung up the phone. At 7:30 John showed up at her house to take Kelsey on a date but Kelsey still was not home. Concerned, her father Greg and sister Lindsay set out to look for her. Eventually, at around 10 p.m. that evening, the worried father and sister found her car parked across the street from the Target at a Macy's store. There was still no sign of Kelsey.Until June 6th, in a wooded area some 20 miles away in Grandview, Missouri, two hikers found her body. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled with her own belt. What transpired to determine her killer would involve a non-cooperative phone company, more than 40 surveillance cameras, and one incredible citizen tipster. Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4219070/

On Friday, July 13th, 2012, in the tiny town of Evansdale, Iowa, two cousins and best friends, Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook, 10 set off on their bikes. Their grandmother told them to be back in an hour for lunch, but by late afternoon, the girls still had not returned. Concerned, family members called police who searched a nearby lake, where they found the girls' discarded bikes, but there was still no sign of the girls. The case went cold until almost six months later, in December of that year, a hunter found the remains of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook. The girls had been abducted and murdered. The police had a few suspects, but the case remains cold to this day. If you have any information on the murders of Collins and Cook please call the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at 515-725-6010 or email them at dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33035689/

The cases of David Camm and Richard Hoagland are discussed. Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mystery-on-lockhart-road/id1464919521?i=1000463343241https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/episodes/episode-514-re-release-richard-hoagland

The disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen and the suicide of Amy Frye Pitzen in Rockford, Illinois is discussed.Show Notes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJqFMVT-S8

On September 14, 2001, Amber Hoopes, a 20-year-old native of Idaho Falls, Idaho left her grandparents house where she was living, and went out to their auto body shop on the premises to check her email around midnight. Amber's grandmother woke up a few hours later and noticed Amber's TV and lights were on in her room. Her grandmother went out to check the auto body shop, but Amber was nowhere to be found. What followed her disappearance in the middle of the night led police to a man named Keith Hascock, who was a former employee of Amber's family's business. Keith Hascock had abducted a 14-year-old girl in a neighboring town, but the girl had escaped. As police narrowed in on Keith Hascock, another young girl in Challis, Idaho, 9-year-old Stephanie Crane, was also kidnapped and never seen again. Was Keith Hascock responsible for all of these abductions and possible murders? Or was it the work of other child kidnappers and killers in Idaho?Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/without-a-trace/id1766011211https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8350730/

On Monday, March 20th, 1977, 16-year-old Dawn Momohara received a call at the home she shared with her mother in Honolulu. It was an unknown male who asked to meet her at the local Ala Mohana shopping center. Telling her mother she would be back later, Dawn left without another word. When she hadn't returned home by midnight, her mother called the police. Dawn was found the next morning, dead, at her nearby High School. She had been raped and strangled. The case soon went cold. Nancy Anderson was born in Michigan, but, after High School, in 1971, wanted adventure. She soon moved to Oahu in Hawaii and found a roommate and a job at the local McDonald's, also at the Ala Mohana shopping center. Things were going well until the end of January 1972, a mere four months after moving to Hawaii, Nancy was found dead in her bathroom by her roommate. She had been stabbed. Her case also went cold. Two cases, 6 years apart that went cold, but, miraculously, and with the help of forensics, science, DNA and geneaology, were solved more than four decades later.Show Notes:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Y23FBwSO1a9UwZpssESCvhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt34912793/

At the time of her death, Eva Kay Wenal, who went by Kay, was 60 years old and living with her millionaire fourth husband, Hal, in a large rental home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Kay had been a former beauty queen, playboy bunny and showgirl and had been married four times before. On Thursday, May 1st, 2008, Kay was home from work because she was not feeling well, and reading a book when she went to open the door for a mysterious stranger. A few minutes after that, Kay was brutally murdered in broad daylight.Police interviewed everyone they knew to be associated with Kay, and even Hal, her husband was ruled out. They also released a sketch of the assumed murderer, which a neighbor had seen on two occasions. Nothing. Kay's murder remains unsolved to this day.Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13440300/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-help-solve-this-case-who-killed-kay-wenal/Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta: 404-577-TIPS

Lois and Dave Reiss lived in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and raised a family. Lois ran a daycare business for awhile out of the couple's home and Dave ran a successful wax worm farm. Everything was good, from the outside. From the inside, the couple was plagued by mental illness and abuse. Lois was also suicidal and addicted to gambling. On March 12, 2018, Lois came down to the wax worm farm to ask another employee to run payroll, something Dave always did. This strange request would set off a chain of events that included evading the law, a fugitive from justice, multiple murders and complete mayhem in The Great State of Florida. Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33481557/

Charles Robert "Bobby" Steele had not had the best childhood. He got into a serious accident when he was 13 and became addicted to drugs not long after. But he was finally trying to turn his life around when he went to stay with his sister in Claymont, Delaware. Until April 11, 2014, he left to run a few errands, made a strange phone call to his sister and was never seen again.Benjamin Archer grew up in New Jersey and traveled out West for years. He got into a bad car accident and wanted to go live with his mother in Delaware City, Delaware. On March 2nd, 2016, Ben walked to nearby DuPont park in just a t-shirt and pants. Shivering, his family found him by a lake talking to himself. While they couldn't convince him to come home, they left some warmer clothes for him by the lake. When they returned to check on him, Ben had vanished and was never seen or heard from again.Show Notes:https://www.audible.com/podcast/Charles-Robert-Bobby-Steele/B0CSWH593Hhttps://www.audible.com/podcast/Episode-234-Benjamin-Morse-Archer-Vision-Quest/B08TGK9HH3

Robert "Hoagy" Hoagland lived in Newtown, Connecticut, with his wife, Laurie, and one young adult son. The couple had two other sons. Hoagy was a part-time paralegal, former chef and had his real estate appraiser's license. He was your all-around, average and average-looking 50-something-year-old guy. Until Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hoagy got up early, went to get bagels for him and his son and then paid some bills. He went out to mow the lawn and was seen by a neighbor around 11 am. At noon, his son Max asked to use the car and Hoagy let him. When Max returned a few hours later, his Dad was gone.Hoagy was supposed to pick up his wife at JFK airport the next day, Monday, July 29th, but he never showed. When he still wasn't back by Tuesday, Laurie reported him as a missing person. All of the family vehicles were accounted for, and Hoagy had left behind his keys, wallet, thousands of dollars in cash in a home safe and his daily medication. Hoagy's family never heard from him again. It was as if he literally just disappeared. Until 10 years later, when his wife, his sons and investigators would get the shock of their lives.Show Notes: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/wicked-deeds/

On Mother's Day, 2020, a mother of two, Suzanne Morphew, received texts from her daughters and husband wishing her a happy holiday. Suzanne, who lived in Salida, Colorado, never responded. Soon, her husband Barry had put out a reward for her safe return and all of her loved ones were searching for her, but to no avail. What would come from her disappearance was a story of betrayal and lies. Kelsey Berreth lived in Woodland Park, Colorado with her one-year-old daughter, Kaylee. Kaylee's Dad and Kelsey's boyfriend, Patrick Frazee lived in nearby Fluorescent, Colorado. Kelsey was a flight instructor and was looking in to finally moving in with Patrick. But on Thanksgiving Day, 2018, Kelsey suddenly vanished. Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17507508/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11673730/

On Sunday, October 17, 2021, Heidi Planck, a 39-year-old divorced mother of one left the townhome that she rented in the Palms area of West LA near Culver City and got into her silver Range Rover. She brought along her Labradoodle dog, Seven, and set out for her son, Bond's football game in Downey, California, about 17 miles away. But Heidi left the game early, and after texting with her son that evening, suddenly went radio silent. Her last known whereabouts were at a luxury high rise residential building called the Hope and Flower in downtown LA at 6:30 that night and then Heidi Planck simply...vanished. Her dog was found by residents of the Hope and Flower building on the 29th floor wandering aimlessly. Heidi Planck has never been heard from or seen again. Joseph McStay and his wife, Summer, along with their two little boys, Gianni and Joe Jr had just moved into a new house in November of 2010. On February 4, 2011, Joseph left to go have lunch with a business partner and friend named Chase Merritt in the early afternoon. By February 13, when Joseph's mother had not heard from him, she had his brother, Michael, go check on the family. What Michael found in their home was fruit rotting on the counter and a half eaten bowl of popcorn on the table. The family's two dogs were out in the yard. It was as if, on that day, February 4, 2011, the whole McStay family had simply...vanished.Show Notes:https://blood-money.simplecast.com/https://dateline-missing-in-america.simplecast.com/https://www.oxygen.com/killer-motive/season-2/episode-1/the-mcstay-family-mystery

Colleen Nick took her oldest daughter, Morgan Nick, to watch a Little League baseball game at 9 pm in Alma, Arkansas on June 9th, 1995. Morgan ran off to play with some other little kids to catch fireflies in the parking lot of baseball field at 10 pm, but by 10:30, Morgan had disappeared. What transpired after that is one of the most elaborate searches in a child abduction case, ever, and Morgan Nick's case remains one of the most elusive and infamous True Crime cases of all time.Danick Adams was an 18-year-old mother of one who lived in Jacksonville, Arkansas. She was outgoing, friendly, and held down two part time jobs while she cared for her infant daughter, Nivea. On August 14th, 2008, Danick went with a friend to the fitness center where she worked to get ready to go out for the night. When they were leaving the gym, a masked man brandishing a gun ran up to them and demanded their wallets and car keys. While her friend escaped, Danick was mortally shot five times and her killer has never been found. Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/voices-for-justice/id1469338483https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11595808/https://navigatingadvocacy.com/For information on the Danick Adams' murder please call the Jacksonville Police at:501-533-6477 or message them on Facebook.

Ira Pomeranz was a playboy about Scottsdale, Arizona; he was a nightclub owner, restaurant owner and twice-divorced bachelor. Until he met Valerie Pape. Valerie was a beautiful blond woman in her mid-forties, who had come to Scottsdale from the French countryside. She had also recently been divorced and was looking for love. The two started dating, hit it off, and were soon married. Ira continued with his nightclub business, and even gave Valerie the money to start her own upscale hair salon with a partner from France named Michel. Everything was good, until it wasn't.In the wee morning hours of January 27th, 2000, a delivery truck driver saw something strange. He saw a petite woman wearing heels and a jumpsuit pop the trunk of her car and struggle to lift a heavy object into a dumpster behind a supermarket. The delivery truck driver would start a chain of events that would bring to the surface a marriage and life full of infedility, debts, divorce, and, ultimately, death.Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17493708/

You have probably heard of the Bermuda Triangle, but have you heard of the Alaska Triangle? It is the area between Utqiagvik, Anchorage and Juneau, where, in the past four decades, people have gone missing at a rate of 4 per 1,000 individuals. That is more than twice the national average. The cases covered today include: traveling nurse Thomas Anthony Nuzzi, Congressman Hale Boggs, Congressman Nick Begich, political aide Russ Brown, pilot John Jonz and a young mother by the name of Jael Tiara Hamblen. Show Notes:https://www.trailwentcold.com/e/the-trail-went-cold-episode-380-thomas-nuzzi/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14457788/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jael-hamblen-pretty-in-pink/id1151955197?i=1000455701559https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/states-alaska-and-wisconsin/id1547117573?i=1000630901489For information about Thomas Anthony Nuzzi:Anchorage PD: 907-786-8900For information about Jael Hamblen:http://www.anchoragecrimestoppers.com/sitemenu.aspx?P=MissingPersons&ID=124&SID=1134#:~:text=Hamblen%20was%20last%20seen%20the,for%20her%20safety%20and%20wellbeing. to submit an anonymous tip on this website

On January 12th, 1983, the police department in Brattleboro, Vermont, got a strange call from some colleagues at a local company about a case of what they thought to be false identity. The woman in question worked as a secretary at the company and called herself Teri Martin. Martin claimed to be the twin sister of a woman named Robbie Hannon, who had recently died and who had been married to her brother-in-law, John Greenleaf Hannon III. Except there was no Teri Martin. And there was no Robbie Hannon. There was only Marie Hilley.Audrey Marie Hilley, who preferred to go by Marie, was born and raised in Anniston, Alabama. That is where she grew up, got married the first time and raised her two children. She also had multiple affairs with her bosses, tried to poison both of her children with arsenic, and succeeded in doing so with her first husband. Marie Hilley would go on to wreak havoc all over the South and the NorthEast, leaving a trail of false identities and dead bodies in her wake. Show Notes:https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/season-27/episode-8/marie-hilley

High –powered Hollywood agent Mackenzie Monroe has just gotten engaged to her boyfriend Nick Tenenbaum and they are planning what else? A Christmas wedding in the tiny town of Evergreen Ohio where they first met... oh and where they first solved two murders. After putting the perpetrators away for life, Mackenzie is looking forward to returning to Evergreen, seeing all of her friends and getting married to the love of her life. But of course, Evergreen and Christmas have other plans in store for her. Not long after Mackenzie gets back, someone winds up dead. And, almost before she can start to investigate that killing, another murder occurs. Mackenzie must once again solve the murders before her own Christmas wedding. Will she make it down the aisle or will she be next?  The wildly popular series The Evergreen Murders: A Mackenzie Monroe Christmas Mystery is back with a third season. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 

The Mysterious Death of Robert WoneShow Notes:https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/who-killed-robert-wone/8330027078016478112/seasons/1