EPISODE · Dec 8, 2025 · 43 MIN
A Pocketful of Mints: The 1959 Murder of Candy Rogers
from EchosOfThePast · host E.O.P.
Echos of the PastCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic discussions of the sexual assault and murder of a 9-year-old child, suicide, and generational trauma. Listener discretion is strongly advised.On a cold March afternoon in 1959, 9-year-old Candy Rogers left her Spokane home with a handful of Camp Fire Girls mints to sell door-to-door. She never came home.What followed was one of Washington State’s largest searches, the tragic deaths of three airmen trying to find her, and a 62-year investigation that became known as “the Mount Everest of cold cases.”For six decades, the killer walked free — until a single drop of 62-year-old DNA and one courageous daughter finally gave Candy a name for her monster: John Reigh Hoff.This is the heartbreaking, infuriating, and ultimately redemptive story of the little girl with the mints… and the echo that refused to fade for 66 years.Every March 6th, people still leave unopened boxes of mints on Candy’s grave.If this episode affected you, help is available 24/7:Call or text 988 (U.S. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)Text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line)Submit your own case or say hi ↘Email: [email protected]: @EchosPoddCastTikTok/Instagram: @echosofthepastpod#CandyRogers #TrueCrime #ColdCaseSolved #SpokaneTrueCrime #GeneticGenealogy #UnsolvedNoMore #1959Murder #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #EchosOfThePast #CrimeTok #TrueCrimeTok #ParanormalPodcast #HistoricalTrueCrime #JusticeForCandy #FYP #ForYou #Viral© B.Moreno 2025 Echos of the Past. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Echos of the PastCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic discussions of the sexual assault and murder of a 9-year-old child, suicide, and generational trauma. Listener discretion is strongly advised.On a cold March afternoon in 1959, 9-year-old Candy Rogers left her Spokane home with a handful of Camp Fire Girls mints to sell door-to-door. She never came home.What followed was one of Washington State’s largest searches, the tragic deaths of three airmen trying to find her, and a 62-year investigation that became known as “the Mount Everest of cold cases.”For six decades, the killer walked free — until a single drop of 62-year-old DNA and one courageous daughter finally gave Candy a name for her monster: John Reigh Hoff.This is the heartbreaking, infuriating, and ultimately redemptive story of the little girl with the mints… and the echo that refused to fade for 66 years.Every March 6th, people still leave unopened boxes of mints on Candy’s grave.If this episode affected you, help is available 24/7:Call or text 988 (U.S. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)Text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line)Submit your own case or say hi ↘Email: [email protected]: @EchosPoddCastTikTok/Instagram: @echosofthepastpod#CandyRogers #TrueCrime #ColdCaseSolved #SpokaneTrueCrime #GeneticGenealogy #UnsolvedNoMore #1959Murder #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #EchosOfThePast #CrimeTok #TrueCrimeTok #ParanormalPodcast #HistoricalTrueCrime #JusticeForCandy #FYP #ForYou #Viral© B.Moreno 2025 Echos of the Past. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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A Pocketful of Mints: The 1959 Murder of Candy Rogers
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