The Fall Line: True Crime
True crime podcasting often forgets that, underneath the gore and sensationalism, there are real people, real families, and real justice waiting to be served.
The Fall Line® is an antidote to that oversight — focused on ethical, deep-dive coverage of missing people, unsolved homicides, and unidentified persons called John and Jane Does.
We present carefully crafted true crime stories, thorough research and in-depth interviews with families, law enforcement, and experts. And we bring calls to action, so engaged true crime listeners can do their part to resolve cold cases.
Join us to learn about victims and survivors you’ve never heard of. . . and why their cases were ignored in the first place.
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The Twiggs County John Doe, Part 1: A Body Foun...
After an army diesel-truck crashes on the way to Macon, GA, spilling diesel fuel across the highway and into a nearby creek, emergency workers discover skeletal remains in a drainage ditch—and set off a nearly two-decade investigation.
50 min
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Introducing One Strange Thing: The Choir
Introducing The Fall Line team’s second podcast, One Strange Thing, where we search the nation’s news archives for stories that can’t quite be explained.
13 min
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The Murder of Darren Gray Part 2: A Conspiracy...
Roycinda Alexander thought that justice would come swiftly for her son, Darren Gray, who was murdered in public, in a city park, during his own child’s birthday party—but she soon discovered that the neighborhood she’d raised her family in began to feel like a land of strangers.
37 min
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The Murder of Darren Gray Part 1: An Incident i...
On May 8th, 2010, 24-year-old Darren Gray attended his child’s birthday party at a Norfolk-area public park; during the celebration, he was attacked by a group of men and endured a brutal beating that ended in his murder.
40 min
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Mississippi’s Missing And Unidentified
This week, we take a deep dive into what it takes to construct an entirely new database--from the ground up--of a database that not only collects data on the missing and unidentified, but hopes to use that research to assist the communities least likely to receive resources, and most likely to remain unidentified after death.
45 min
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The Murder of Chairo Garibay Ferreyra, Part 3: ...
On December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never arrived.
39 min
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The Murder of Chairo Garibay Ferreyra, Part 2: ...
On December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never arrived.
39 min
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The Murder of Chairo Garibay Ferreyra, Part 1: ...
On December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never showed.
49 min
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The Death of Tyra Garcia: No Activity Part 2
In 1985, Ventura County teen Tyra Garcia disappeared; her family knew she hadn’t run away, but they saw local authorities assumed Tyra would return.
35 min
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The Death of Tyra Garcia: No Activity Part 1
In 1985, Ventura County teen Tyra Garcia disappeared; her family knew she hadn’t run away, but they saw local authorities assumed Tyra would return.
34 min
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UPDATED RE-RELEASE: Carolina Girls Part 4: A Lo...
In the final episode of the Carolina Girls series, we begin with the kidnapping and murder of Malakia Logan of Greenwood, South Carolina, and then delve into the disappearance of Aaliyah Bell of Rock Hill--the most recent case we've ever covered on The Fall Line.
42 min
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UPDATED RE-RELEASE: Carolina Girls Part 3: An O...
In Part 3 of the Carolina Girls series, we begin with a vignette on Shakeima Cabbagestalk, who disappeared in the 1990s, and NiShan Huff, an honors graduate who was murdered in her own apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. Both cases remain open--but could be solved.
49 min
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UPDATED RE-RELEASE: Carolina Girls, Part 2: Mis...
In part two of the Carolina Girls series, we conclude the story of North Carolinian Brittany Locklear, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1998, and discuss the disappearance of another girl--Eva DeBruhl--whose case was, for a time, tied to Henry Lee Lucas.
39 min
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UPDATED RE-RELEASE: Carolina Girls, Part 1: Mis...
In this episode, the first of a four-part series, we tell the stories of a number of missing and murdered girls and women from the Carolinas, both contemporary and historical. We touch on the stories of Asha Degree, Sherri Lee Truesdale, and begin our two-episode coverage of Brittany Locklear, a five-year-old kidnapped from the bus stop outside her own house.
42 min
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Introducing Murder She Told: The Disappearance ...
Introducing Murder She Told: The Disappearance of Tot Harriman
12 min
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The Murder of Garnet Lennox: A Car in East Detr...
In May 2007, Garnet Lennox, a loving father and Michigan native, disappeared.
50 min
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The DNA DOE PROJECT — Part 2
Since 2017, The DNA Doe Project had worked to solve the cases of unidentified decedents—also known as “Does.”
34 min
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The DNA DOE PROJECT — Part 1
Since 2017, The DNA Doe Project had worked to solve the cases of unidentified decedents—also known as “Does.”
32 min
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Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Children &...
In the final installment in our series covering the life of MMIWG advocate and daughter of a missing person, Carolyn DeFord, we learn how the disappearance of her mother, Leona Kinsey, has shaped her current world--and work--and the crisis she sees in MMIWCR cases; disappearances and murders are undercounted, underreported, misclassified, and rarely addressed outside action groups and specific political campaigns.
51 min
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The Disappearance of Leona LeClair Kinsey: Caro...
Leona Kinsey disappeared on October 15, 1999; her daughter Carolyn has both searched for answers in her mother’s cold case—and has pondered what she’ll do if she finds what she seeks.
48 min
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Carolyn DeFord, Part 1: Missing Mother
Carolyn DeFord—MMIWG advocate, Trafficking Project Coordinator for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and founder of Missing and Murdered Native Americans Facebook page has another role: daughter of a missing person.
51 min
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Killer Data: Serial Killers in the Modern Age P...
Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age.
31 min
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Killer Data: Serial Killers in the Modern Age P...
Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age.
36 min
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The Murder of Larry “LJ” Sanders, Jr: A Long Me...
On July 10th, 2010, Larry “LJ” Sanders, Jr., an Edgefield, SC-area father of two, was murdered during a home invasion; his mother, Carolyn Bates, wants to know why, and who, and when someone will be ready to come forward.
45 min
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The Death of Joseph Smedley: A Heavy Weight
In the early morning hours of September 28, 2015, Joseph Smedley, who was an Indiana University student, chemistry major, and Sigma Phi fraternity brother, sent his sister, Vivanne, a strange late-night text message: she shouldn’t try to contact him—he was leaving the country.
58 min