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True Crime in the 50

Hey True Crime fans! Get ready for True Crime in the 50, the podcast that delves into the craziest True Crime story in each and every state! Every two weeks, I"ll take a look at the most unbelievable murders, serial killers and disappearances that took place in all 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. If you love True Crime (and America) you won"t want to miss this! Do you feel safe in your state?

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All Episodes

30:49

Georgia: The Disappearance of Justin Gaines

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/05/08

College freshman Justin Gaines had returned to his parent's home in Duluth, Georgia, for the weekend. The smart and outgoing 18-year-old student did not have any classes on Fridays, so he used the weekends to catch up with his parents, do a little work at their family roofing company and party with friends. And on Thursday, November 1st, 2007, he set out for Wild Bill's Nightclub with a friend and his girlfriend to do just that.But what started out as an innocent night of drinking, dancing and fun,

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17:51

Florida Bonus Episode: The COVID Cover-Up Killing

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2023/05/01

Friends and family members were concerned, in March of 2020, when the world was shutting down because of COVID, because of the strange texts they had been getting from Gretchen Anthony. Gretchen, who lived in Jupiter, Florida, was a fitness buff, and had a little girl and a second husband, was healthy by all accounts. But no one had seen her in person for a few days, and had only received messages that said she had contacted COVID and would be going to a special center run by the CDC one hour away

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28:26

Florida's Deadly Dancer

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2023/04/24

When 24-year-old Ashley Byers met 54-year-old Doug Benefield on August 25th, 2016, at party in former President hopeful Ben Carson's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, it was love at first sight. Literally. The two started texting and said "I love you" within days. In under 14 days, they were married, much to Doug's 15-year-old daughter Eva's chagrin. But the two were very much alike; both were gun-toting supporters of the 2nd amendment and right wing-leaning. In fact, Ashley Byers had worked on

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29:41

Delaware: The Killing of Joe and Olga Connell

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2023/04/10

After Joe Connell was released from prison, he was a changed man who wanted to settle down and start a family. Pretty soon, he found his true love, a mail order Russian bride named Olga. Joe was successful; he ran a successful auto body repair shop in Wilminginton, Delaware with his partner, Christopher Rivers. He also had a side hustle selling sterioids out of said body shop. Joe and Olga had only been married for 107 days when they were gunned down in front of their apartment building in the early

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33:53

Connecticut: The Unsolved Murder of Suzanne Jovin

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2023/03/27

Suzanne Jovin was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, when her life was cut mercilessly short. December 4th, 1998 started out just like any other day for Suzanne. She woke up early, went to classes, turned in an assignment to her professor, and then attended a Best Buddies volunteer organization pizza party. After that, she returned to her apartment, shot off a quick email to a friend, then set out on foot toward campus again, into the unseasonably warm winter night,

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30:57

Colorado: The Tragic Murder of Candace Hiltz

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2023/03/13

Candace Hiltz was a 17-year-old daughter, sister and young mother to a baby girl with a debilitaring illness who lived in Canon City, Colorado. She was also a bona fide genius. By the age of 11, she was perfecting calculus equations. By age 17, Candace was already in her third year of college online at Brigham Young University, studying to be a lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, and had already been admitted to Yale Law School. She had her whole life in front of her...until her love of fairness and

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11:14

California Case Update: "The Lady in the Fridge" Jane...

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2023/02/28

Show Notes:https://www.newsweek.com/lady-fridge-murder-victim-identified-amanda-deza-1784070If you have any information about the murder of Amanda Lynn Shumann-Deza, the former San Joaquin County "Lady in the Fridge" Jane Doe from 1995, please call:1-209-468-5087 or email:coldcase@sjgov.org

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38:56

California's Jane Does

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2023/02/27

On October 31st, 1994, police officers in the Apple Valley area near San Bernardino, California, received a call from two individuals who were out searching for rocks. They had found what appered to be a human skull which was part of a skeleton buried in a clandestine grave site with it's body wrapped in a plastic bag. It was that of a mixed-race female, 5'1" to 5'5" and anywhere from 25-55 years old. The body had been there for 18 months.Two years later, on July 8th, 1996, two ranch hands were

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31:01

Arkansas: The Mysterious Murder of Melissa Witt

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2023/02/13

December 1st, 1994, started out like a normal day unlike any other for 19-year-old Melissa "Missy" Witt in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She spent the first part of the morning with her mother, Mary Ann, had lunch with a friend at the Central Mall Food Court and then went to a class at Westark Community College. She then headed to her jog as a dental assistant. When Missy got home, she found a note from her mom, telling her to come to the Bowling World bowling alley and she would buy her a burger for

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75:46

Crimes From the East Podcast Bonus Episode: The...

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2023/02/06

24-year-old Arpana Jinaga was once a teenage technology prodigy who excelled in living life to the fullest. She moved to the U.S. to accomplish life goals and live the Dream, but instead, an unknown monster turned her life into a Nightmare. She was found murdered in her apartment after a Halloween party in 2008. Katy Accardo from the podcast True Crime in the 50 joins us as we talk about Arpana's case and how the cops hyper focused on just one suspect, and, even after two trials, we have no

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38:36

The Arizona Sleepwalking Murders

True Crime in the 50 ·

2023/01/30

In 1981 in Scottsdale, Arizona, a man named Steven Steinberg was accused of killing his wife, Elana Steinberg. While at first, Steven attempted to blame her murder (she was stabbed 26 times with a kitchen knife,) on two bushy-bearded robbers, he soon gave up that ghost and admitted to killing her. But there was one caveat to his guilty plea: he claimed he was sleepwalking when he killed her. Her nagging, sex-withholding, social-climbing and greedy personality had led Steinberg to so much stress, and

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39:12

Alaska's Killer Stripper Seductress

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2023/01/16

On a normal day in October of 2006 in an upscale suburb of Olympia, Washington, police officers walked up to the front door of an exclusive-looking home in a high-end neighborhood. They were looking for a 33-year-old married mother of one named Mechele Linehan. Mechele was your typical suburban housewife; she held sleepovers for her daughter, was active in the church, and hosted a weekly pizza night for the neighbors and their kids. But that was all a facade, because police had come to arrest the

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26:02

Alabama: The Murders of JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett

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2023/01/02

On the night of July 31st, 1999, at 10pm, two teenage girls and best friends, JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, set out from Dothan, Alabama, to attend a party held in JB's honor for her birthday. By 10:30pm, though, the girls were hopelessly lost. After making two sets of phone calls to Tracie's mother from two separate gas stations, the last one being at 11:30 pm, the girls decided to give up on the party. They asked a woman at the gas station for directions back to route 231 and headed home. But

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37:39

Bonus Episode: American Samoa's Fugitive from Justice

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2022/12/12

David Davis was a husband, a father, a homeowner in Michigan and a farmer. He was also a cheater, a swindler and a murderer. After killing his wife, Shannon Davis, in July of 1980, and making it look like a horse riding accident, he went about his life until the feds caught on to him. But that was 7 years later. By 1987, David Davis had fled to California, Alaska and finally to the islands of American Samoa, where he married again and assumed a completely new life. But his past would catch up to

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34:51

Wyoming: The Disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel

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2022/11/28

Amy Wroe Bechtel was a really good runner. She had beat the 3000 meter dash record at her college, the University of Wyoming, and had participated in the Boston Marathon. At 24 years old, she had just settled down and bought a house in Lander, Wyoming, with her husband of one year, Steve Bechtel. But on July 24th, 1997, after Amy ran some errands and set out for her daily run in the Shoshone National Park Mountains, she simply disappeared. When she didn't return to the house by about 10 pm, Steve

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44:40

Wisconsin: The Slenderman Sacrifice

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2022/11/14

When 9-year-old Morgan Geyser saw Peyton "Bella" Leutner drawing pictures of kitties in her notebook at Horning Middle School in Wakesha, Wisconsin, she knew they would be fast friends. The girls were inseparable and stayed best friends, even through Morgan's struggles with her undiagnosed childhood-onset schizophrenia. That is, until another girl, Anissa Weier, came along. Anissa lived in the same apartment complex as Morgan, and the two quickly became best friends. Bella hated Anissa.One day,

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41:16

West Virginia: The Unsolved Cases of Leah Hickman and...

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2022/10/31

December 15th, 2007 started out like any other day for Leah Hickman, a junior at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She went shopping for Christmas presents with her sister, Jessica, talked on the phone with a friend and made a stop at the nearby McDonald's. She then set about doing her laundry and packing to go home for break, and was never heard from again after about 6 pm. Her body was found in a crawlspace in the basement of her apartment building one week later. One year before,

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47:14

Washington: The Bellevue Triple Murders and The Mr....

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2022/10/17

At 2:01 a.m. on July 13th, 1994, a call came in to 911 from the upscale Somerset neighborhood area in Bellevue, Washington. The caller was 19-year-old Sebastian Burns, a Canadian native, who had been staying with his friend, Atif Rafay, as well as his parents, Dr. Tariq and Sultana, and his special needs sister, Basma Rafay for 5 days. Sebastian was calling to say that he and Atif had come home from a night out to find all three Rafay's had been brutally murdered; bludgeoned to death with a baseball

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39:19

Virginia: The Mysterious Death of Sean Daugherty

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2022/10/03

In April of this year, in Yorktown, Virginia, a 12-year-old boy named Sean Daugherty got off the bus and walked home after school. Excited to find out he would be responsible for watching his 2-year-old brother for a few hours until his older sister got home from school, he finished his homework, made his favorite snack and went about doing his chores before he set his brother up on the iPad and started to play video games with friends. Sean never ate his favorite snack, never finished his chores,

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27:26

The U.S. Virgin Islands: The Billionaire Rapist

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2022/09/26

Sarah Ransome had just moved to New York City to pursue her dream of a career in fashion. One night, while out at a club, she met a woman named Natalya Malashev who then introduced her to a very wealthy man named Jeffrey Epstein. After one date at the movies in Times Square, Jeffrey Epstein invited Sarah to fly on his plane to his private island that he owned in the Caribbean for a girls trip. Little Saint James had a helipad, 2 swimming pools, guest villas, 3 private beaches, a gym and a tiki hut

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