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Hell and Gone

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Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths. Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly. Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities. In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show called Hell and Gone Murder Line. Every Thursday, Catherine features a new case, adds updates to old ones, and helps as much as she can to get the word out about unsolved murders. If you have a case you’d like Catherine and her team to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.

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  1. Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Double Homicide of Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Plaztman

    In the early morning hours of Saturday October 31 - Halloween, 1981, 39-year-old Ronald Sisman and his new girlfriend, 20-year-old Elizabeth Platzman, were hanging out at his apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Later that day, police were called to the building by one of Ronald’s...

  2. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan [From the Archives]

    Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned when their newspapers started piling up outside. The neighbor called Mina’s daughter, and the pair of them went inside the house. What…

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  3. Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Dermonds

    In May 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found decapitated in the garage of his lakefront home in an exclusive Georgia community. His wife, Shirley, was missing. Ten days later, her body surfaced in Lake Oconee. More than twelve years later, no one knows who killed the Dermonds – or why. This...

  4. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rex Terrell [From the Archives]

    In the early morning hours of on July 30 1977 in Wesley, Arkansas a 20-year-old University of Arkansas Student Rex Terrell, who worked the overnight shift was found lying in a pool of blood and gasping for breath. It looked like he had been shot multiple times. The whole community wanted to know,...

  5. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly

    It was a really hot night in the middle of summer - July 4, 1988, in San Angelo, Texas. Seventeen-year-old Shane Stewart was gearing up for the Fourth of July holiday celebrations by picking up his girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly, and they were going to watch the fireworks. After…

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  6. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Stephen and Carole Baxter

    On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, 21-year-old Ellie Baxter went to check on her parents at their home on Mersea Island, off the Essex coast, 64-year-old Carole Baxter and 61-year-old Stephen Baxter. She knocked on the door, but no one answered. Ellie looked through the living room window and saw…

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  7. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maria Rodriguez

    In the summer of 1980, sixteen-year-old Maria Rodriguez was living with her boyfriend Milton Colbert Jr. in Long Branch, New Jersey. When came home from his work shift - he looked around for Maria for a few minutes, and when he opened the closet door, he saw Maria’s body. She had been strangled…

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  8. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Eugene and Raymond Horsch

    At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia when he noticed a black BMW parked behind him. Little did the Ranger know this routine encounter was about to open…

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  9. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jenna Neilsen

    At around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday, June 14, 2007, police found the body of 22 year old Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen behind an AmeriKing Food Mart in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jenna was covered in blood, and had been stabbed multiple times. She was also eight and a half months pregnant with…

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  10. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]

    On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, was taking a walk through the woods behind the complex. The man liked taking nature walks, and he was also following…

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  11. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Anna Laura Costa Porsborg

    It was December 28, 2022, a few days after Christmas, and Erbena Costa was beginning to get seriously worried about her daughter, 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa Porsborg. Before Christmas she had gone on leave and headed out on a vacation in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, 36-year-old Luis Gomes...

  12. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Harris

    On Sunday May 12, 2002, Mother’s Day evening, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris had spent the day with her family and at 6:30 pm that night, she arrived at her friend Kristy Farr’s house in their hometown of Bonham Texas. Suddenly, Jennifer told Kristy that she had to go. But Jennifer never came home....

  13. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Caroline Herrling

    In December 2020, the police received a call from a neighbor of 69 year old Charles Wilding, a reclusive man who lived by himself on Kingswood Road in Sherman Oaks, California. It seemed Charles disappeared from the neighborhood. But neighbors soon noticed someone new. A woman had moved into...

  14. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [Update]

    On Sunday October 17, 2021 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her home in West Los Angeles near Culver City, to head out to her 11 year old son’s football game and was never seen again. And it didn’t take long for the rumors to start flying - about her past struggles with drugs, her, boss, his links…

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  15. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Dorothy and Buddy Little

    On June 7, 1980, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office arrived at a green one story ranch-style home in southwest Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside, they would discover one of the most brutal double homicides in Arkansas history. If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into,...

  16. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton [From the Archives]

    On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in Stuttgart, Arkansas...and never came back. At least that’s the official story. We know a few things for sure: Cassie had been spending the...

  17. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Krystal Rivera

    On June 5, 2025, 36-year-old Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were working patrol in the East Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. They saw an armed man outside of an apartment building and began to chase him. Moments later, Baker fired his weapon. But...

  18. Hell and Gone Murder Line_ Clea Hall [From the Archives]

    Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What happened to Clea in those few short blocks between work and home? Did she get into a car with a stranger? Did someone unknown to her…

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  19. Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Beallis Family [UPDATE]

    On December 3, 2025, deputies were called to the home of 57-year-old Dr. Randall Beallis, his 40 year old wife, Charity Beallis and their six year old twins on South 1st Avenue in Bonanza, Arkansas. The bodies of Charity, and her two children, a boy and a girl were in the home - all of them had...

  20. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Alexander Murders

    On the morning of April 8, 1981, 47-year-old Weldon Alexander finished his overnight shift at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas. When he got home that morning, the first thing that he noticed was the door, which was left open. When he walked inside he found his two children, Karen and Gordon…

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  21. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Aaron Hodge [From the Archives]

    In October of 1995, something strange was going on inside the Flick home at 302 McNabb Street in Rector, Arkansas. This family was made up of 36-year-old David Flick, his wife 34-year-old Barbara, their daughter 11-year-old Andria Flick, and Barbara’s son 17-year-old Aaron Michael Hodge, who she...

  22. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Oklahoma State Fair Murders

    On September 23rd 1987 in Oklahoma City, two sisters, 25-year-old Cheryl Genzer and 16-year-old Lisa Pennington were hanging out together at the Oklahoma State Fair. The girls didn't come home that night and were never seen alive again. If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into…

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  23. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ramona Gregory

    Late in the afternoon on March 20, 1990, Jim Hannigan, a caretaker for the Carney property, was checking property lines and fences near Clayton Expressway in Fort Smith, Arkansas when he saw something in the distance. At first, he thought it might be a dead animal. But when he got closer, he...

  24. Hell and Gone: Mary "Bobo" Shinn

    On July 20, 1978, 25-year-old Mary Jimmie Shinn - who everyone knew by her nickname, Bobo, was getting ready to sell a house. That day, a man called her asking to meet up to get a tour of the house. Bobo left to meet him but she never came back, and her family and friends never saw her alive…

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  25. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tarryn Trybus

    On November 28, 2017, 34 year old Tarryn Baird, who lived in Swindon, a town in southwest England, about 80 miles from London, called the police non emergency line. When the police answered, Tarryn told them that she needed them to come get rid of a body - her body- because she was going to kill...

  26. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Asha Degree

    It was 3:45 in the morning on February 14, 2000—Valentine’s day, and a truck driver was barreling down Highway 18 right outside Shelby, North Carolina. Through the pouring rain he sees a little girl walking on the road. But when he pulled his vehicle up toward her to see if she needed help. She…

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  27. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Paul Loyd

    Sometime between seven and eight AM on Saturday January 15, 1994, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 31 year old David Ferrell knocks on his roommate Paul’s door. 36-year-old Paul Loyd would soon realize that maybe David was not who he thought he was... If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look...

  28. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Lori Murchison [From the Archives]

    On Sept. 1, 1995, a police officer in Fort Smith, Arkansas pulled over a vehicle. A man named Jerry Cogan was driving and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Lori Murchison, was the passenger. Lori worked at a local nursing home. She had a four year old daughter, Britney, and adored her little girl. But...

  29. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Tripp Brazeale [From the Archives]

    On Saturday, November 2, 2024 15-year-old Tripp Brazeale headed out of his house in Forrest City, Arkansas on a four wheeler. He was thrust into a high-speed chase with a Deputy police officer. Something happened that caused Tripp to abruptly stop and jump off his four wheeler at 12:42 AM and…

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  30. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Larry and Josh Schulman

    On August 21, 2017 seventy year old Larry Schulman was home alone sleeping in his upstairs bedroom at his home on Outer Bridge Lane in the Providence Commons area, an affluent suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. Then at around 3:00 a.m. Larry was woken up in a daze, and found someone on top of...

  31. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maud Crawford

    On March 2nd 1957, 65 year old Maud Crawford, who was one of the most well-known women in her hometown of Camden Arkansas community after she made history as the only female attorney to ever practice law there, was stringing beans at home. Her husband stepped out to go to a movie and when he...

  32. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Matthew Stewart

    On June 9, 2009, Angela Stewart pounded on her neighbor, Mark's, door at around 12:40 AM in Mooresville, North Carolina. They lived in a quiet, suburban neighborhood so getting a panicked knock in the middle of the night was very out of the ordinary. Mark was shocked when he opened the door and…

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  33. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Carol Morgan [From the Archives]

    It was around 7 pm on August 13, 1981, and 36-year-old Carol Morgan was working the till at her corner shop in a town called Leighton Buzzard in the county of Bedfordshire, England. On that night, Carol was working at the shop alone, getting ready for closing, which was at 6pm. But someone...

  34. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Twilight Crooks Part 2

    Late at night on August 28, 2001 when 15-year-old Jessie Marie Twilight Song Crooks, who went by Twilight, took a late night phone call at her home on Larmon Mill Road in Plano, Kentucky. She snuck out of her house and was never seen alive again. In part 2, we'll dive into rumors of an older…

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  35. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Twilight Crooks

    On August 28, 2001, 15-year-old who everyone knew as Twilight, was hanging out at her home in Plano, Kentucky - when she got a phone call late at night. Twilight was picked up by someone and never seen alive again... If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to…

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  36. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jill Lyn Euto

    On January 28, 2001 Super Bowl Sunday, 18-year-old Jill Lyn Euto was getting ready to go watch the big game with her family. The game started and the halftime show came and went. Jill never arrived. She was found in her apartment a couple days later stabbed to death and her family no where closer...

  37. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Judd Pt. 2

    On May 11, 1992 20 year old newlywed Jeninfer Judd was viciously attacked and murdered at home on North Park Avenue in Baxter Springs, Kansas. At 2:30 that day, Jenifer’s husband of nine days, Justin Judd came home from work and found his wife’s body in the kitchen. 33 years later Jennifer’s…

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  38. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Judd

    May 11, 1992 started out as an ordinary day for 20-year-old newlyweds Justin and Jennifer Judd. Until Justin came home from work one afternoon to discover Jennifer on the kitchen floor, lying in a pool of blood. 34 years later, Jennifer’s killer is still out there. If you have a case you’d like…

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  39. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Paige Autumn White

    On Saturday, March 27, 2021, a hiker was taking her dogs through the woods in Hot Springs National park near the intersection of Whittington and Blacksnake Road. The hiker felt safe heading out to the woods on her own - but that that day, after what she saw, her perception of the woods as a place...

  40. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Melissa Witt [From the Archives]

    Thursday December 1, 1994 started out as just a normal day for Melissa Witt. She was a 19-year-old college student, who lived at home with her mom, Mary Ann, on a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in Fort Smith, Arkansas. That night, Melissa went to meet her mom at a bowling alley...but she...

  41. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rhonda Hinson

    On December 22 1981 around 1 to 1:15 am, a driver was going down a dark road MINERAL SPRINGS MOUNTAIN ROAD near the town of Valdese, North Carolina. It was a dark, snowy night and there was fresh snow on the ground the night before. They saw that the car had run into an embankment, and that the...

  42. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [From the Archives]

    On Sunday October 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, a 39-year-old mother of one named Heidi Planck went to watch her 11-year-old son Bond play football. When Heidi left the game, she said that she would call her son later, but even though she ALWAYS talked to him every day she never called him. In fact…

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  43. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Charity Beallis Pt. 2

    On December 3 2025, 40 year old Charlity Beallis and her six year old twins, a daughter and a son, were fatally shot at their home in Bonanza, West Arkansas. This is a complicated case, and it’s still unfolding. Today, we dive into court transcripts from Charity and Randall's divorce hearing. If...

  44. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Charity Beallis Pt. 1

    On December 3 2025, at around 9:30 AM, deputies in Sebastian County, Arkansas were called to a home Bonanza, Arkansas to do a welfare check on a family. When law enforcement got there they were unable to get inside - they found two domestic workers to let them in - and it didn’t take them long to...

  45. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Triple Russellville Murder

    On the night of December 2nd, 1976, three girls - 13 year old Teresa Williams, 14 year old Crystal Donita Parton, and 13 year old Cynthia Mabry were hanging out together at the Fairview Estates apartments in Russellville Arkansas. At some point that day, all three girls disappeared. The girls…

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  46. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Amy Mihaljevic

    On Friday, October 27, 1989, 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic rode her bike to Bay Middle School in Bay Village, Ohio. She was excited about yearbook photo retakes, but after classes ended Amy’s mother expected a daily check-in call, and although Amy phoned her saying her choir tryout went well, she...

  47. [From the Archives] Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shannon Hercutt

    On August 3, 2009, police found Shannon Hercutt dead inside her car, which had plunged off a cliff just off of Walker Trail in Sevier County, Tennessee. At first, the Tennessee highway patrol said Shannon had died in a car accident. But a few days later, Shannon Hercutt’s manner of death was...

  48. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jonelle Matthews

    On December 20, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews returned home from a Christmas choir concert in Greeley, Colorado, and appeared to settle in for the evening, leaving her shoes, clothes, and a note from a phone call before mysteriously disappearing. When her father and sister arrived home later...

  49. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Karen Mitchell

    On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1997, 16-year-old Karen Mitchell vanished in Eureka, California. Originally from Whittier near Long Beach, she had moved north a few months earlier to live with her aunt and uncle, hoping the rural setting would suit her nature-loving personality better than...

  50. Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christopher Revak

    On June 10, 2006, 21-year-old Deidre Harm was headed to a night out with friends. She had a four-month-old daughter, Vegas, and had hired a babysitter to watch her. She and her friends went out downtown in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. And then, she never came home. She never called her…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths. Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly. Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities. In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show called Hell and Gone Murder Line. Every Thursday, Catherine features a new case, adds updates to old ones, and helps as much as she can to get the word out about unsolved murders. If you have a case you’d like Catherine and her team to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.

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