Going West: True Crime

Daphne Woolsoncroft and Heath Merryman discuss haunting details of different disappearance and murder cases week by week. New episodes released every Tuesday and Friday.

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Brianna Maitland // 38
One night in March 2004, a 17-year-old girl goes missing after leaving her restaurant job. The following day, her car is found crashed into an abandoned barn but she is nowhere to be found. This is the disappearance of Brianna Maitland. Private...
41 min
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Eric Tamiyasu // 37
In Summer of 2001, a 41-year-old man is found murdered in his house alone on his family's orchard in Oregon. Police quickly discover that the night he was killed, someone had been lurking outside his house, taunting him. This is the case of Eric...
36 min
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Heather Elvis // 36
In 2013, a 20-year-old girl in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina begins dating a married man from work and the consequences are deadly. This is the disappearance of Heather Elvis.  Do you have anxiety, stress, insomnia, or lack of energy? You need to...
44 min
429
Thomas Brown // 35
In Fall 2016, a high school senior doesn't come home by curfew and his mom reports him missing. The small Texas town immediately starts looking for him, and within a few hours, they find his car abandoned on a dirt road. The contents of his car raise...
50 min
430
Lauren Spierer // 34
After a night of drinking at a sports bar in Summer 2011, a 20-year-old Indiana University student is seen stumbling home with a male acquaintance. When her boyfriend fails to get in touch with her the following day, a nation-wide searched is...
38 min
431
Bart Whitaker // 33
When a desperate neighbor calls 911 in hopes of saving the beloved family next door from a shooting, only 2 out of 4 survive. But after the eldest son is questioned in the hospital, police become incredibly suspicious. Then, an important tip comes...
38 min
432
Sherri Papini // 32
In November 2016, a mother of 2 from Northern California doesn't come home after her usual jog. Her husband tracks her cell phone only to find that it's located in a patch of grass with the headphones placed on top along with strands of blonde hair,...
44 min
433
Kenia Monge // 31
On March 31, 2011, a 19-year-old girl goes to a night club with her friends. But before the night is over, she gets kicked out for being too intoxicated, leaving her alone on the streets of Denver, Colorado without her purse and phone. When the...
47 min
434
Bryce Laspisa // 30
In August 2013, a 19-year-old boy takes an unexpected road trip away from college down the I-5 to visit his parents in Southern California at the same time his friends reported him having incredibly strange behavior. The (what should have been) 6-hour...
44 min
435
Glen Rogers // 29
In the 1990's, an undistinguished man sets out on a killing spree across the United States attacking multiple women, but no one knows the crimes are connected. When Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered in Brentwood and OJ Simpson is tried...
42 min
436
Kyron Horman // 28
When a 7-year-old boy doesn't show up to class after his Portland Elementary school's science fair in June 2010, police set out on the largest search in Oregon history. But law enforcement quickly set their sights on the last person who saw Kyron that...
53 min
437
Noura Jackson // 27
June 4, 2005 started out as a normal Saturday in Memphis, Tennessee. But sometime after midnight, tragedy struck when a teenager found her mother brutally murdered in their home. Within months of the attack, the teenage daughter is charged with her...
57 min
438
Leah Roberts // 26
Most of us have thought about escaping our everyday lives in search of adventure. But after a young woman from North Carolina takes off on a road trip by herself without telling anyone her plans, her car is found wrecked on a backroad in Washington...
47 min
439
Andrew Cunanan // 25
Chasing the good life is something most of us strive for. But when that hunger turns into a cut throat obsession, lives are broken and lost. In the 1990's, one young mans pursuit of success takes him from a spree killer to becoming the assassinator of...
41 min
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Jody LeCornu // 24
One snowy night in 1996, a 23-year-old women was enjoying drinks at a bar with friends after a long day at work and a fight with her boyfriend. At 3:40am, she sat in her car in a deserted parking lot since her boyfriend had told her not to come home...
41 min
441
Michael Gargiulo // 23
In 1993, an 18-year-old girl is murdered outside her home in Glenview, Illinois. When the police start considering her neighbor as a potential suspect, he flees to Los Angeles where he continues to stalk, watch, and murder other young women. The trial...
42 min
442
Nicholas Barclay // 22
In 1994, a troubled 13-year-old goes missing while walking home from a basketball game. The police chalk it up to a runaway case, but he doesn't return home. 3 years later, he's found in Spain claiming that he was kidnapped in Texas and had just...
44 min
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Rodney Alcala // 21
In the late 1960's, a Los Angeles-native with multiple mental health diagnoses is caught in the midst of murdering a young girl. When he vanishes without a trace, the FBI adds him to their 10 Most Wanted List. After a few years of actively searching,...
41 min
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Jessica Ridgeway // 20
In October 2012, a 10-year-old girl disappears on her way to school in Westminster, Colorado. Investigators are starting to lose hope until a mother makes a phone call and the gruesome details come to light. This is the case of Jessica Ridgeway....
40 min
445
Amy Bishop // 19
In 2010, a professor opened fire in a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and, when police catch the woman behind it all, they realize that she has a dark past. In 1986, she had "accidentally" shot her brother in their...
40 min
446
Steven Koecher // 18
When a 30-year-old Utah native vanishes just outside of Las Vegas in a quiet, suburban neighborhood, investigators and family search tirelessly for answers. They quickly find some peculiar surveillance footage and discover he went on some puzzling...
40 min
447
The Stayner Brothers // 17
In 1972, a 7-year-old boy was abducted while walking home from school in Northern California. 7 years later, he finally broke free of his captor and reunited with his family- but his new life was far from normal. In 1999, 4 women were murdered in...
45 min
448
Mackenzie Cowell // 16
When a 17-year-old girl goes missing in 2010, her small town in Washington is flipped upside down. Surveillance footage of her leaving her beauty school is quickly discovered and it leads police to an interesting suspect. But when they put him behind...
42 min
449
Greg Holman // 15
In the fall of 1978 in Scottsdale, Arizona, a kind-hearted and beloved high school freshman disappears under strange circumstances. When police begin to search for what happened to him, they quickly find their prime suspect. However, their immense...
42 min
450
The Jamison Family // 14
When a family of three disappears in Oklahoma while in search of a fresh start, investigators desperately seek clues to find them. Days and years go by and the circumstances grow stranger as police unravel the bizarre puzzle. This is the mysterious...
41 min