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Things I Want To Know

Ever wonder what really happened — not the rumors, not the Netflix version, but the truth buried in forgotten police files? We did too.We don’t chase conspiracy theories or ghost stories. We chase facts. Through FOIA requests, interviews, and case files scattered across America, we dig through what’s left behind to find what still doesn’t make sense. Along the way, you’ll hear the real conversations between us — the questions, the theories, and the quiet frustration that comes when justice

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54:12

A Three-Year-Old Labeled Evil In The Arkansas Woods

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2026/03/16

Send a text In April 1978, three-year-old Stephanie Alana Hall was killed in the Ozark woods of Newton County, Arkansas by members of a small religious cult. When investigators asked why anyone would murder a child, the answer they heard was almost impossible to process: the group believed the girl had been declared “anathema.” In their belief system, that meant she no longer belonged among the living. In this episode we walk through what actually happened in that remote campsite near the Buf...

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66:45

Boys On The Tracks: Mena Arkansas 1987

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2026/03/08

Send a text On August 23, 1987, two Arkansas teenagers were found dead on a railroad track outside Bryant. Authorities quickly ruled it an accident. The official story claimed Kevin Ives and Don Henry had smoked marijuana, laid down on the tracks, and fallen asleep before a freight train came through. Case closed. But when a second autopsy was performed, investigators discovered one of the boys had a crushed skull before the train ever reached him. Suddenly the accident story didn’t hold. Wha...

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57:48

When the Coroner Says It’s Not Murder

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2026/03/02

Send a text When the Coroner Says It’s Not Murder Two teenage boys are found dead on railroad tracks near Mena, Arkansas. The ruling? Accident. A man is found with four gunshot wounds to the chest. The ruling? Suicide. Now… I don’t know about you, but that should at least make you pause. Because once that word is written down — accident, suicide — everything shifts. Detectives slow down. Prosecutors adjust. The public moves on. And families are left staring at a piece of paper wondering how i...

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55:47

Jack The Ripper vs HH Holms. Why the two killers are...

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2026/02/22

Send a text Was H. H. Holmes really Jack the Ripper? It’s one of true crime’s most persistent myths. This week on Things I Want To Know, we break it apart using motive, method, timeline, and behavioral profiling. Andrea takes Whitechapel and builds the Ripper’s profile. Paul steps into Chicago and dissects Holmes. Same era. Completely different predators. Holmes built traps. Private rooms. Insurance scams. Control and profit at the center of every decision. The Ripper attacked in public. Fast...

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57:25

Radium Town, USA. Come For The Glow, Stay For The Smell

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2026/02/16

Send a text What if your entire town was built on something that wasn’t real? Claremore, Oklahoma once rebranded itself as “Radium Town.” Hotels. Parades. Bathhouses. Souvenir jugs. Steam rooms packed with believers. One problem. The water didn’t contain radium. It smelled like sulfur. It burned your nose. And it sold like a miracle. This episode dives into the radium craze that swept America after the Curies made the element famous. We talk about the Radium Girls, radioactive tonics, glowing...

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61:04

Donna Sue Nelton: The Jane Doe Who Waited 32 Years...

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2026/02/09

Send us a text Secrets don’t always hide in the dark. Sometimes they sit in a box on a shelf for decades, waiting on the day science finally catches up. After a quick start, we take a hard turn into Benton County, Arkansas, where skeletal remains were found in 1990 and the victim lived for 32 years in the system as a Jane Doe. We walk through why this case stalled for so long. A skull too damaged for reconstruction, early forensic limitations, and the brutal reality that without a name, even ...

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55:18

Damascus, Arkansas: The Titan II Explosion

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2026/02/01

Send us a text A nine-pound socket slipped during routine maintenance inside a Titan II missile silo near Damascus, Arkansas. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the start of a real chain of events that turned a live Cold War ICBM into a disaster under rural farmland. In this episode, I walk Andrea through it the way I learned it. No assuming you’re a history nerd. No pretending everybody remembers the Cold War. We break down the basics in human language: why these weapons existed, why they were pl...

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60:02

Vanished In The Driveway: Misty Dawn Faulkner

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2026/01/25

Send us a text A quiet driveway is supposed to be the end of the day. Park. Breathe. Go inside. Safe. That is why this case won’t let go. Misty Dawn Faulkner makes it home to rural Oklahoma after a shift. There’s a Walmart run in the mix. There’s a phone call, maybe finished from the car. And then the part that turns your stomach: she’s gone. No obvious struggle. No screaming heard. Her purse and phone are left behind. The vehicle is locked. The groceries are still there. It looks normal unti...

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60:11

Bodies in the Back Room: The Jacksonville Funeral...

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2026/01/19

Send us a text A funeral home is supposed to be the one place that runs on dignity, routine, and trust. Transfer. Refrigeration. Service. Closure. In Jacksonville, Arkansas, that trust snapped. In this episode of Things I Want To Know, we start where the damage actually lived: with the families who paid for care, waited for answers, and later learned what state inspectors said they found inside Arkansas Funeral Care. Not rumor. Not internet folklore. Documented findings that turned a private ...

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54:15

Ronald Gene Simmons: The Christmas Massacre Arkansas...

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2026/01/04

Send us a text This episode examines Ronald Gene Simmons, tracing his rigid rise through the military, the incest allegation that triggered a sudden move, and the slow construction of an isolated household on Mockingbird Hill. As control began to slip, children leaving, jobs unraveling, pension delays stacking up, Simmons’ fixation hardened into a plan that unfolded over several days during Christmas 1987. Fourteen members of his family were killed, including children and grandchildren. After...

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47:29

Inside Our True Crime Playbook: Respecting Victims...

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2025/12/28

Send us a textMost true crime podcasts lie politely. We don’t. So we decided to explain why.After getting pushback for “disrespecting” a victim, Andrea and I laid out exactly how Things I Want to Know works. This episode is our playbook. How we research. Why we focus on underreported Arkansas cases. And why respecting victims does not mean turning them into saints or pretending uncomfortable facts don’t exist.We start with primary sources. State missing-persons lists, archived newspapers, and public

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48:44

Charleston’s Chemical Spill and the Fragile Promise...

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2025/12/21

Send us a text Things I Want To Know Don’t Boil the Water | Charleston, West Virginia A sweet smell coming out of the tap should never turn into a guessing game. In this episode, we dig into the 2014 Charleston, West Virginia chemical spill that sent crude MCHM from a neglected storage tank straight toward a municipal water intake, forcing 300,000 people to stop using their water overnight. Not limit it. Not boil it. Stop. We talk about how a century-old piece of infrastructure ended up sitti...

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57:44

Vanished Without A Trace

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2025/12/15

Send us a text Two women vanish in Arkansas, sixteen years apart, and the details still don’t sit right. In this episode, we examine the disappearance of 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff in 1994 and art teacher Mary “Jimmie” Bobo Shinn in Magnolia in 1978. Two very different lives. Two very different towns. The same outcome: unanswered questions and investigations that lost traction early. We walk through what went wrong and why it mattered. What happens when the last known location...

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60:51

A Broken Brain, A Violent Trail Across Wartime...

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2025/11/30

Send us a text Paul G and Andrea trace the violent trail of James “Red” Hall across wartime Arkansas, where a hellfire upbringing and a childhood head injury twisted a drifter into a man who turned small moments into real-life dead ends. A .38 revolver ties the bodies together. The chaos of World War II gives him cover. And Arkansas rushes him from confession to Old Sparky before most people even know who he is. They follow the disappearance of Faye after a night out in Little Rock, the motor...

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61:17

Kelly Wilson and the Evil that Gilmer, Texas Mistook...

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2025/11/24

Send us a text In 1992, seventeen year old Kelly Wilson vanished in Gilmer, Texas. A short walk from a video store to her car became one of the most debated missing person cases in Texas history. What should have been a focused, evidence driven investigation was quickly consumed by the national Satanic Panic that overtook the early nineties. Gilmer followed the same pattern seen in McMartin, Kern County, and the West Memphis Three. Fear replaced facts. Rumor replaced procedure. And Kelly’s ca...

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62:44

Did Michael Ronning Kill One Woman… Or Ten?

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2025/11/16

Send us a text In this Episode we dive into the case of Michael Ronning, a convicted murderer who spent years bragging about killings no court ever proved. His life stretched from Michigan to Arkansas to Florida, and everywhere he went the same pattern followed: a missing girl, an unexplained death, and a story he couldn’t resist inserting himself into. Was Ronning a forgotten serial killer, or a drifter who loved the attention that came with pretending to be one? Andrea and Paul sift through...

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52:02

The 1972 Bombing of a Small-Town Cop

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2025/11/09

Send us a text A police lieutenant turns the key, presses the brake, and his truck erupts. He lives. The case almost disappears. We set out to learn why a 1972 Springdale, Arkansas bombing barely made the paper and what the town didn’t (or wouldn’t) say out loud. Along the way we sketch the real backdrop: a rural region on the cusp of change, where Walmart and Tyson were still rising, Sundays went quiet, and a hard-edged meth trade simmered under the surface. We walk through the device itsel...

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62:57

What Does Justice Look Like When The Paperwork Is Wrong

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2025/10/19

Send us a text A nameless girl lay in a Florida forest for decades, filed under Judy Doe and lost to a noisy era of serial predators and thin evidence. Forty years later, genetic genealogy restores her identity—Rebecca Sue Hill, a teenager from Arkansas—and forces us to confront how a single misidentification can bury a case and mute a family’s questions for a generation. We walk through the case from both ends: an Arkansas disappearance in the early 80s and a body found near Lake Dorr in 19...

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60:52

A Small Town, A Vanished Child, And The Case That...

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2025/10/13

Send us a text The story starts on a quiet May evening in 1991 and never really stops echoing. A nine-year-old sets out to sell costume jewelry in a tiny Arkansas town where people wave from porches and the fields hold the day’s last light. By week’s end, she’s found in a ditch four miles away, and everything residents believe about safety, trust, and “being home before dark” begins to crack. We walk you through what happened and what didn’t: kids who saw a light-blue car and a man with long...

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57:58

Roadside Vanishings, Real Timelines

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2025/10/05

Send us a text A simple errand, a stamped receipt at 3:17 p.m., and a car left on US 71 with the keys still in the ignition. We walk through the last verified hours of 18-year-old Dana Stidham and sort what’s true from what’s been repeated for decades. No theatrics—just timestamps, locations, and choices that still demand answers: the unfixed flat, the Omni facing the wrong way, and a seven-week silence broken by a hunter who waited before calling his discovery in. We unpack why those detail...

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