She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast

By the summer of 1998, Irene Silverman was becoming increasingly uneasy about her new tenant.Manny Guerin had only been a tenant for a few days when he started making her uncomfortable. He would avoid her eyes when they passed, slink around the edges of the lobby to stay out of range of the security camera, and he seemed to be sneaking an older woman into his apartment.Irene noticed it all, and she wanted him gone. She asked her building manager to draw up the eviction notice.But on July 5th, Irene disappeared. And there was only one suspect. Investigators moved in quickly, releasing a sketch of Manny Guerin to the public. What they quickly learned is that Manny might not have been his real name after all. Instead, they already had in custody a man named Kenneth Kimes and his mother, Sante Kimes.Just as quickly, they'd learn who they were dealing with: a pair of grifters who had been conducting increasingly violent crimes as they crossed the country. And it seemed like Irene was one of their targets.In Part 2 of our three-part series on Irene Silverman, we journey into the days leading up to Irene’s disappearance and see just who rented an apartment in her mansion.📍 Manhattan, New York | July 5, 1998 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Kate Hewlett. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Kate Hewlett: Kate is a screenwriter, actor and songwriter from Toronto, Canada. Her feature film based on her play The Swearing Jar premiered at TIFF in 2022 and received both a Canadian Screen Award and a Writer’s Guild Award nomination. Kate’s favourite TV-writing credits include: Malory Towers, Corner Gas Animated, The LA Complex, Backstage and InSecurity. As an actor, Kate currently has a recurring role on The Testaments and select screen credits include: The Girlfriend Experience, Degrassi, Stargate Atlantis, Holly Hobbie, Murdoch Mysteries as well as upcoming seasons of St. Pierre, Hudson & Rex and Law & Order Toronto. Kate is a graduate of the National Theatre School (Acting), Queen’s University (BA) and the Canadian Film Centre (TV writing). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Irene Silverman was a missing woman, she was a ballerina, a wife, a hostess, and the owner of one of Manhattan's most unusual homes: a home that would become the centerpiece of her missing persons case. Irene grew up in New Orleans and became a ballet dancer before moving to New York City. There, she joined the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall. In 1941, she married a businessman with a mysterious past: Samuel Silverman. And in the 1950s, the couple brough a six-story mansion on East 65th Street. Sam called it a "white elephant" but would come to admire the building, too. After his death in 1980, Irene made it her own.She renovated the mansion into apartments and filled it with an eclectic cast of tenants and guests, creating a kind of private Parisian salon in the heart of Manhattan. Irene entertained artists, businesspeople, intellectuals, and strangers. There she told stories about a life that sometimes seemed almost too colorful to be true.But the mansion that gave Irene a place to build a life would eventually make her a target. In Part 1 of our three-part series on Irene Silverman, we get to know the woman behind the headlines and the house at the center of her story.📍 Manhattan, New York | July 5, 1998 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Kate Hewlett. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Kate Hewlett: Kate is a screenwriter, actor and songwriter from Toronto, Canada. Her feature film based on her play The Swearing Jar premiered at TIFF in 2022 and received both a Canadian Screen Award and a Writer’s Guild Award nomination. Kate’s favourite TV-writing credits include: Malory Towers, Corner Gas Animated, The LA Complex, Backstage and InSecurity. As an actor, Kate currently has a recurring role on The Testaments and select screen credits include: The Girlfriend Experience, Degrassi, Stargate Atlantis, Holly Hobbie, Murdoch Mysteries as well as upcoming seasons of St. Pierre, Hudson & Rex and Law & Order Toronto. Kate is a graduate of the National Theatre School (Acting), Queen’s University (BA) and the Canadian Film Centre (TV writing). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1981, investigators were just beginning to uncover the extent of Billy Mansfield Jr’s violence, and his arrest for the murder of a young mother in California, Rene Saling, was only the beginning. In part 2, we return to the investigation as authorities begin to piece together his possible involvement in the disappearance of Sandra Graham from a bar in Tampa. But when an informant comes forward with new information, the scope of his crimes becomes difficult to imagine. Soon, investigators bring excavation equipment to his yard to uncover long buried secrets, secrets they’re still trying to unravel today.In this episode, we’re tracing the search for his victims, the women whose identities were recovered, and the one woman who remains known only as Hernando County Jane Doe.📍 Florida  | 1975-1981 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Corinna Smith. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Corinna Smith: Corinna Smith is a violinist and multi-instrumentalist who has toured with Adam Ezra Group for the past 14 years. With a background in music education, she also maintains her teaching license in her home state of Massachusetts. Beyond the stage, Corinna is passionate about using music as a force for good, helping hundreds of concertgoers register to vote through her "Folkin' Vote!" initiative and supporting RallySound's mission to empower communities through music. Whether performing, teaching, or volunteering, she believes music has the power to connect people and inspire meaningful change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1980, Pam Sherrell escaped a violent attack by a man who abducted her and tried to kill her. He evaded capture, but her escape would set off a chain of events that revealed a much darker story unfolding in Hernando County, Florida. Months later and thousands of miles away, two young women crossed paths with the same man at a bar. He tried to get them to leave with him. They refused, but as they watched he left the bar with another young woman: Rene Saling. The next day, Rene was found murdered. Back in Florida, investigators were trying to solve the disappearance of another young woman: Sandra Jean Graham who had disappeared after an ordinary evening playing pool with a stranger. And behind it all was a man whose history of violence stretched back years despite repeated encounters with the criminal justice system: Billy Mansfield Jr. As investigators pieced together what happened to the women, Mansfield was on the run. HIs eventual capture would expose a pattern of violence that stretched far beyond the murder of Rene Saling. And somewhere in the story was a woman whose name investigators would not learn for more than 40 years. She is still known only as Hernando County Jane Doe 📍 Florida  | 1975-1981 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Corrina Smith. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Corrina Smith: Corinna Smith is a violinist and multi-instrumentalist who has toured with Adam Ezra Group for the past 14 years. With a background in music education, she also maintains her teaching license in her home state of Massachusetts. Beyond the stage, Corinna is passionate about using music as a force for good, helping hundreds of concertgoers register to vote through her "Folkin' Vote!" initiative and supporting RallySound's mission to empower communities through music. Whether performing, teaching, or volunteering, she believes music has the power to connect people and inspire meaningful change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He was finally caught. Just not for the women.For years, Cleveland Hill Jr. was connected to the disappearances of Margaret Dash, Retha Hiers, and Donyelle Johnson, three women who vanished from Pinellas County, Florida between 1974 and 1989.Warnings had been made. Allegations had accumulated. Investigators had reason to suspect Hill. But no charges ever came for the three missing women.Then, in the 1990s, federal investigators came for Hill for something else.An unusual undercover operation involving cocaine, Coca-Cola, and a federal sting would finally put him behind bars, but it would not answer the question that had followed him for decades: what happened to Margaret, Retha, and Donyelle?In Part Two of She Goes by Jane, we follow the investigation that finally caught Cleveland Hill, the decades-long efforts to find the three women, and the unanswered questions that remained even after investigators had the opportunity to confront Hill himself.Margaret Dash. Retha Hiers. Donyelle Johnson.Their cases remain unsolved.📍 Pinellas County, Florida, 1974–1989 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Malynda Hale. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Malynda Hale: Malynda Hale is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. Working across film, television, music, and digital media, her work explores themes of identity, humanity, faith, race, and emotional connection through cinematic storytelling and character-driven narratives. Most recently, she starred in the feature film Bull Street alongside Loretta Devine and Amy Madigan and made her directorial debut with the short film Curtain Call, which screened at festivals internationally including Bend Film Festival, GAZE International LGBTQIA Festival, and Middlebury NewFilmmakers Festival. Her second short film, Au Gratin, starring Tiffany Daniels, Loretta Devine, and Jay Donnell, was selected for the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival and Wyoming International Film Festival, and will also screen at the LightReel Film Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival in August, an Oscar-qualifying festival. She is also the founder of JMV Entertainment, a production company focused on developing film, television, and media projects rooted in meaningful storytelling. Before expanding into filmmaking, Malynda built a career as a singer-songwriter and performer, releasing multiple independent projects and opening for artists including Smokey Robinson and OTOWN. Her music has appeared on television, including CBS and Disney productions, and she has performed for audiences ranging from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the California Democratic Convention. Across every medium she works in, Malynda is passionate about telling stories that create empathy, challenge systems, and connect people more deeply to one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three women disappeared from Pinellas County, Florida over the course of fifteen years.They came from different backgrounds. Their lives followed different paths. But their disappearances would eventually point investigators toward the same man.In 1974, Margaret Dash left home to buy medicine for a sick relative and never returned. In 1982, Retha Hiers drove out to buy laundry detergent and vanished. In 1989, college student Donyelle Johnson left for class but never arrived.Each woman left behind a family searching for answers. Decades later, investigators would come to suspect Cleveland Hill Jr., a married former minister and asphalt contractor with a documented history of violence who was repeatedly investigated but never charged in connection with their disappearances.This week, we examine the lives of Margaret Dash, Retha Hiers, and Donyelle Johnson, the evidence that links their cases, and the unanswered questions that continue to haunt Pinellas County more than fifty years after Margaret first disappeared. 📍 Pinellas County, Florida📅 1974–1989If you have information about the disappearances of Margaret Dash, Retha Hiers, or Donyelle Johnson, please contact the appropriate law enforcement agency. 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Malynda Hale. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook and Patreon. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Malynda Hale: Malynda Hale is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. Working across film, television, music, and digital media, her work explores themes of identity, humanity, faith, race, and emotional connection through cinematic storytelling and character-driven narratives. Most recently, she starred in the feature film Bull Street alongside Loretta Devine and Amy Madigan and made her directorial debut with the short film Curtain Call, which screened at festivals internationally including Bend Film Festival, GAZE International LGBTQIA Festival, and Middlebury NewFilmmakers Festival. Her second short film, Au Gratin, starring Tiffany Daniels, Loretta Devine, and Jay Donnell, was selected for the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival and Wyoming International Film Festival, and will also screen at the LightReel Film Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival in August, an Oscar-qualifying festival. She is also the founder of JMV Entertainment, a production company focused on developing film, television, and media projects rooted in meaningful storytelling. Before expanding into filmmaking, Malynda built a career as a singer-songwriter and performer, releasing multiple independent projects and opening for artists including Smokey Robinson and OTOWN. Her music has appeared on television, including CBS and Disney productions, and she has performed for audiences ranging from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the California Democratic Convention. Across every medium she works in, Malynda is passionate about telling stories that create empathy, challenge systems, and connect people more deeply to one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Law enforcement called some of San Diego's missing and murdered women "NHIs," short for No Humans Involved. It was police slang used to describe victims they believed didn't matter.By 1988, the number of women disappearing from San Diego County had become impossible to ignore. Years before, the sheriff had said there was not a disproportionate number of women, but by the time forty-three women were murdered or went missing, the public started pushing for answers. There would be few to find.In the final episode of our three-part series, we examine the investigation that became one of the largest homicide task forces in California history, the competing theories that shaped the search for answers, and the unidentified women who remain without names decades later. We also explore how police culture, public perception, and systemic failures influenced which victims received urgency and which did not.The women of El Cajon Boulevard were never one story. They were daughters, mothers, sisters, and friends whose lives intersected in a city that too often looked away.This is the final chapter of San Diego's Lost Women. 📍 San Diego, California  | 1980s - 1990s 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Jennifer Cox. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Jennifer Cox: Jennifer combines a glowing personality with outlandish humor to invent her own comedic style. She burst on the scene in 1995 with her excellent yet underrated performance as middle child "Jan Brady" in "The Brady Bunch" movies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 1985, 19-year-old Mary Colette Rawlinson walked out of a home in San Diego, California, telling her boyfriend she'd be right back. She was never seen again. As more women disappeared from El Cajon Boulevard and the surrounding communities, investigators struggled to answer a troubling question: were these isolated crimes, or was someone hunting women across San Diego County? In Part Two of our three-part series, we widen the lens beyond a single case to examine the growing pattern of disappearances and murders targeting women living at the intersection of addiction, poverty, and survival sex work. Through the stories of Mary Colette Rawlinson and the women who vanished alongside her, we look at how fear spread through the community while families fought to convince authorities that their daughters deserved to be searched for. The mounting number of victims would eventually force law enforcement to confront the possibility that the cases were connected, but by then, many women were already gone. This is Part Two of our three-part series, San Diego's Lost Women. 📍 San Diego, California  | October 1985 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Lahna Turner. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Lahna Turner: Lahna Turner is a comedian, filmmaker, writer, producer, co-director, and published comic book author whose work spans stand-up, television, film, music, publishing, and documentary storytelling. For more than two decades, Lahna has built a loyal following with fearless comedy, sharp observations, and an unfiltered perspective on relationships, motherhood, grief, family, and the messy realities of life. Her credits include NBC, Comedy Central, Netflix, Hulu, VH1, Animal Planet, CMT, truTV, and SiriusXM. Known for blending stand-up with original music, Lahna’s one-hour special A Song About It and albums including If These Lips Could Talk, D!@k Jokes and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Limeade showcase her ability to find humor in life’s most uncomfortable truths. She is also the creator and published author of the four-book Pounds of Power comic series, and the producer and co-director of Come What May, the documentary chronicling the life, legacy, struggles, and impact of comedian Ralphie May. Whether on stage, on screen, or on the page, Lahna Turner tells stories that make people laugh, think, feel, and connect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1980s, dozens of women disappeared from San Diego, California. One of them was 26-year-old Cynthia Maine. Cynthia was a daughter, sister, mother, and woman trying to survive addiction while working along El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego’s notorious red light district. By 1986, she was rebuilding her life. She had found work as a waitress, but she was also serving as a police informant. Just months before she vanished, she had allegedly begun an affair with one of her police contacts.  Late in February, she told her family she was going to watch a movie.  She never came home. As investigators searched for Cynthia, few realized they were witnessing the beginning of one of the largest unsolved series of murders and disappearances in California history.  In the first episode of this three-part investigation, we examine Cynthia's disappearance alongside the murder of her friend Donna Gentile. Together, their stories reveal a hidden world of vice squads, confidential informants, police corruption, and the extraordinary risks faced by women living on the margins of San Diego in the mid-1980s. This series asks how so many women could disappear from one city and why so many of their cases remain unsolved decades later. 📍 San Diego, California  | February 1986 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 26, 1944, Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver took off from Mines Field in Los Angeles in a P-51 Mustang on what should have been a routine ferry flight. She never arrived. Gertrude was one of the pioneering Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), the civilian women who flew military aircraft during World War II so male pilots could be sent overseas. She was also the only WASP to disappear during the war whose aircraft has never been recovered. In this episode, we explore Gertrude's extraordinary life, from a childhood marked by a debilitating stutter and an unlikely love of goats to world travel, flight, and a quiet wartime marriage just weeks before she vanished. More than eighty years later, the fate of Gertrude Tompkins Silver remains one of the last great mysteries of the WASPs. In this episode we talk about women in aviation, World War II history, and the enduring search for one remarkable pilot who never came home. 📍 Los Angeles, California  | October 26, 1944 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 26, 1970, twenty-six-year-old Ilonka Cann vanished from the rural Pennsylvania farmhouse she shared with her husband and fifteen-month-old son. The day before, she had spoken with her parents in Ohio and talked about coming home for a visit that summer. She never made that trip. In the weeks and months that followed, investigators searched fields, ponds, and woodlots surrounding the isolated property where Ilonka was last believed to have been seen. Her family spent decades searching for answers as the case slowly faded from public memory. More than fifty years later, renewed interest in Ilonka's disappearance led to new searches, a coroner's inquest, and testimony that cast the events of May 1970 in a very different light. In 2024, a coroner's jury concluded that Ilonka Cann died by homicide at the hands of another person. This episode examines the disappearance of Ilonka Cann, the decades-long search for answers, and what it means when official recognition arrives generations after a woman goes missing. 📍 Huntington Mills, Pennsylvania  | May 26, 1970 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On November 2, 1945, fourteen-year-old Thora Chamberlain left school in Campbell, California, expecting to attend a football game that evening. Her friends saved her a seat. Thora never arrived. Witnesses later reported seeing her speaking with a man dressed as a serviceman before getting into his vehicle. Within weeks, investigators focused on Thomas McMonigle, a local laborer with a history of violence. Over the course of the investigation, McMonigle gave multiple confessions, led authorities to key pieces of evidence, and was ultimately convicted of Thora's murder. But investigators never found the one thing that mattered most. Thora herself. More than eighty years later, Thora Chamberlain remains one of California's earliest no-body homicide victims. Her body has never been recovered. In this episode, we examine the disappearance of Thora Chamberlain, the investigation that followed, and the evidence that secured a conviction despite the absence of a body. This is a story about loss, memory, and the empty seat left behind when a child never comes home. 📍 Campbell, California | November 2, 1945 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Aimee Baker. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people assume that unidentified persons' cases are actively investigated, that somewhere, someone is still working to restore a name to the dead. But the reality is often far more complicated. This week, She Goes by Jane presents a special interview with author and former FBI agent Katherine Schweit about her new book, Women Who Talk to the Dead: The True Story of 200 Forgotten Murder Victims and the Relentless Pursuit of Justice by an FBI Agent and a Detroit Police Detective. Together, we discuss the unidentified dead of Detroit, the challenges of solving decades-old cases, and the investigators who refuse to let victims disappear into forgotten file boxes and evidence rooms. We also explore media neglect, institutional barriers, and the quiet, persistent work required to restore names and histories to those who have been lost. At the end of the episode, actress Mary Lynn Rajskub reads Aimée Baker's poem "Detroit, and Other Sorrows," a meditation on memory, absence, and the lives that remain even when names are forgotten. Because every unidentified person was once known. And every name returned is a story reclaimed. 📍 Detroit, Michigan  | 1950s-Present 📖 Featuring an original poem written in honor of one of Detroit’s formerly unidentified Jane Does read by Mary Lynn Rajskub. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Katherine’s book,The Women Who Talk to the Dead, now at Bookshop.org. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Katherine Schweit: Katherine Schweit is an author, attorney, former Chicago prosecutor, and career Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who helped jail bank robbers, kidnappers, and domestic terrorists, while working daily with local police investigating and responding to mass casualty and active shooter incidents. A native of Detroit, Ms. Schweit earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University. She earned a law degree at DePaul University and joined the Cook County prosecutor’s office as an assistant state’s attorney. More about Mary Lynn Rajskub:Mary Lynn Rajskub is a comedian, actress and writer, best known for playing ‘Chloe’ on the Fox drama 24 and ‘Gail the Snail’ from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  This spring, Mary Lynn will co-star in the Netflix series, North of North, and she premiered her second hour-long stand-up special, Mary Lynn Rajskub: Road Gig, on YouTube in December.  Her book, FAME-ISH: My Life At The Edge Of Stardom, is a comedic look at Mary Lynn’s awkward and endearing missteps on the road to becoming fame-ish.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In January 1967, Lois Williams and her 17-year-old daughter Karen disappeared from their apartment on East 21st Street in Indianapolis, Indiana. Inside, everything appeared untouched: coats hanging in the closet, a lamp left burning, and Karen’s schoolbook still open where she had been studying the night before. Neither woman was ever seen again. Years later, investigators would begin to suspect local service station owner Melvin Chelcie Carr — a man accused of violence against women and girls spanning decades, including rape, coercion, kidnapping, and sexual assault. After Carr’s shocking death in 1977 alongside the bodies of three murder victims, authorities reopened older disappearances connected to him, including the case of Lois and Karen Williams. Police excavated Carr’s garage and backyard searching for evidence. They never found Lois or Karen. In this episode, we examine the disappearance of Lois and Karen Williams alongside the disturbing pattern of violence surrounding Melvin Chelcie Carr, a man some investigators feared may have been responsible for far more crimes than were ever proven. More importantly, we remember Lois and Karen themselves: a mother and daughter whose lives were interrupted, whose absence was deeply felt, and whose story deserves to be told with care. This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, coercion, violence against women and children, and suspected serial violence. 📍 Indianapolis, Indiana | January 25, 1967 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Megan Storm, host of the podcast A Simpler Time.  ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Megan Storm: Megan is the creator and host of A Simpler Time True Crime, a podcast that revisits unsolved cases from decades past and challenges the idea that a simpler time was necessarily a safer one. Through thorough research and a victim and survivor-centered approach, Megan explores forgotten mysteries, overlooked victims, and the lasting impact these cases have on families and communities. Her interest in true crime began long before she ever picked up a microphone. Growing up, Megan spent evenings watching true crime shows with her mom while her dad worked night shifts, an experience that sparked a lifelong fascination with criminal investigations, unsolved mysteries, and the pursuit of justice. One of Megan's favorite parts of podcasting is partnering with victims' families, survivors, and advocates to help tell stories with care and accuracy. She is passionate about amplifying voices that might otherwise go unheard and working alongside those closest to a case to support their shared goal of keeping stories alive and answers within reach. In addition to hosting the podcast, Megan has spent more than 15 years working in human services leadership. Her background in advocacy, investigation, and problem-solving informs her approach to storytelling, helping her examine cases with both curiosity and compassion. When she's not researching a case, Megan can usually be found training for a race, trying a new recipe, planning her next trip, cheering on Buffalo sports teams, or driving her two kids from one activity to the next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June 1975, investigators followed serial killer Richard Marquette into the woods near Oregon’s Clackamas River. There, buried beneath the soil of a popular campground, they uncovered the remains of an unidentified woman—a victim Marquette reportedly claimed no one would ever look for.More than fifty years later, she is still known only as Clackamas County Jane Doe.In this episode, we examine women whose lives were taken by Richard Marquette, one of Oregon’s lesser-known serial killers, who was once added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List after the murder of 23-year-old mother Joan Caudle. We also examine the story of Betty Wilson, a woman who traveled across the country hoping to build a safer life before becoming one of Marquette’s victims.But at the center of this story is the unidentified woman buried near the Clackamas River in 1975—a woman whose name, family, and history remain unknown.This episode explores violence against women, institutional failures, parole decisions, unidentified homicide victims, and what it means for a woman to remain unnamed for more than half a century. 📍 Oregon | 1961-1975 📖 Featuring an original poem written in their honor, read and written by our host, Aimee Baker ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ➡️ Support our work by joining us on Patreon where you’ll get exclusive benefits 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patricia Weeks, Cynthia Jabour, and Carol Ann Riley disappeared years apart after ending relationships with the same man: Robert Weeks, whose case would later be featured on Unsolved Mysteries. In 1968, Patricia Weeks vanished from Las Vegas shortly after divorcing Robert Weeks and gaining custody of their four children. More than a decade later, Arizona real estate agent Cynthia Jabour disappeared after telling friends she planned to leave him as well. Then, in 1986, it happened again. Nurse Carola Ann Riley went missing after trying to end her relationship with Robert. Their cases shared disturbing similarities: planned dinner dates, abandoned vehicles, missing personal belongings, and a man who repeatedly claimed the women had disappeared on their own. Their stories are about coercive control, violence against women, and what it means when justice arrives long after someone is gone. If you have information related to these cases, please contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at (702) 828-2907. 📍 Las Vegas, Nevada | 1968 and 1980 📖 Featuring an original poem written in their honor, read by Ruby Wilde and Melissa Mae, hosts of the Bloody Besties podcast. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women — subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Ruby Wilde and Melissa Mae:Bloody Besties is your true crime podcast with best friends who have known each other since elementary school. Hosts are Forensic Scientist Ruby Wilde presenting little known cases to Melissa Mae, the daughter of police officers and true crime addict who will be the one to bring you fun facts about our episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Toni Bachman disappeared from White Bear Township, Minnesota in April 1997, investigators initially faced uncertainty. Some believed she may have left on her own. But as police searched the family home, disturbing evidence began to emerge—evidence that challenged the idea that Toni had simply walked away. In Part 2 of this two-part series, we follow the investigation into Toni Bachman’s disappearance as it shifted from a missing persons case to something far darker. Inside the Bachman home, authorities uncovered blood, tissue, and signs of violence. Yet despite mounting evidence, no arrest came for years. This episode explores the long aftermath of Toni’s disappearance: the changing explanations, the pressure placed on Norman Bachman’s children to recount what they witnessed, allegations of violence that followed, and the decades-long wait before charges were finally filed. Nearly eighteen years after Toni vanished, a confession would offer answers—but not closure. Because Toni Bachman has never been found. If you have information about the disappearance of Toni Bachman, please contact the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office at 651-266-9670. 📍 White Bear Township, Minnesota  | April 25, 1997📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Astrid Rotenberry. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook.📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Astrid Rotenberry: Astrid Rotenberry is a New York–based actress best known for her role as Catherine Kelly in Netflix’s His & Hers. Other credits include The Four Seasons, Law & Order: SVU, and the upcoming Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on Apple TV+. Originally from Tennessee, she holds a BFA in Theatre Performance and is passionate about making the arts accessible and encouraging young artists to pursue their dreams.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1997, as the internet connected strangers across state lines, Minnesota-native Toni Bachman formed a close bond with a man in West Virginia. Friends say she was thinking seriously about change. About leaving. About building a future that looked different from the life she had. Then she disappeared. At first, there were questions no one could answer. Did Toni leave her marriage behind? Did she run away to begin a new life? Or did something happen inside the home she shared with her husband and stepchildren? In Part 1 of this two-part series, we explore Toni’s life before she vanished: her marriage, devastating personal losses, career instability, and the online relationships that became a source of comfort during one of the hardest periods of her life. If you have information about the disappearance of Toni Bachman, please contact the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office at 651-266-9670. 📍 White Bear Township, Minnesota  | April 25, 1997📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Astrid Rotenberry. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Astrid Rotenberry:  Astrid Rotenberry is a New York–based actress best known for her role as Catherine Kelly in Netflix’s His & Hers. Other credits include The Four Seasons, Law & Order: SVU, and the upcoming Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on Apple TV+. Originally from Tennessee, she holds a BFA in Theatre Performance and is passionate about making the arts accessible and encouraging young artists to pursue their dreams.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unidentified woman found living in Honolulu in 2004 remains without a name—exploring the rare and overlooked reality of living Jane Doe cases in the U.S. In 2004, an unidentified woman was found living in a beach park in Honolulu, Hawaii—alive, but unable to say who she was.Known as the Honolulu Jane Doe, she was diagnosed with dementia and schizophrenia, leaving her without a name, a history, or a way to return to whatever life she once had. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we examine her case and the broader, often overlooked reality of living Jane Does in the United States. What happens when someone is found alive but cannot identify themselves? Why are these cases so difficult to resolve? And what does it reveal about the systems meant to protect the most vulnerable? We situate her story within larger conversations around mental health, identity, and the gaps in investigative processes that leave some women unnamed, even in life. 📍 Honolulu, Hawaii | 2004📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Louise Penny, bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series (Three Pines). ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—follow, rate, and share this episode. ➡️ Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women.  📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook  📚 Doe by Aimee Baker — available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon 📰 Subscribe to GIRLHUNT for more women-centered true crime About Louise Penny:Louise Penny is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, adapted into the television series Three Pines. Her work has received numerous awards and is internationally acclaimed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you grew up in the 1980s, you may have seen Tammy Lynn Leppert without ever knowing her name. A model, aspiring actress, and rising presence in Hollywood, Tammy appeared in films like Scarface and Spring Break. With her striking look and growing momentum, 1983 was supposed to be the year everything changed. Instead, it became the year she disappeared. On July 6, 1983, Tammy left her home, telling her mother she would be back shortly. She was last seen in Cocoa Beach after an argument with a friend. She has never been seen again. In this episode of She Goes By Jane, we look beyond the headlines and theories to focus on who Tammy was—her ambitions, her discipline, and the life she was building before it was abruptly interrupted. We explore the days leading up to her disappearance, the unanswered questions that remain, and the ways her case was shaped by early assumptions and missed opportunities. This is a story about visibility, vulnerability, and what happens when someone can be seen by so many and still vanish without a trace. 📍 Cocoa Beach, Florida | July 6, 1983📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress and author Kathy Garver.. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook.📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Kathy: KATHY GARVER is most fondly remembered for her starring role as “Cissy” in the long-running CBS international television hit, Family Affair, Kathy Garver has also garnered critical acclaim in movies, stage, radio, voice-over animation, speaking and audio book narration. To add to her long list of credits and accolades, Kathy was nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award for the Best Audiobook, Narration, Storytelling Recording for Elvis, Rocky and Me.  She also received the Golden Era Award in March of 2026 and will receive the Margaret O’Brien legacy award in December of 2026. In addition, Ms. Garver added author to her long list of accomplishments. Her first book, The Family Affair Cookbook, published by Bear Manor Media is a tasty trip down memory lane with anecdotes and photos.  Her memoir, Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood  was released next  and sold out in three months -- a reprint was ordered and  now is also available in the paperback version.  X-Child Stars: Where Are They Now was launched in 2016 and is already planned for a reprint.  Holiday Recipes for a Family Affair was next in 2019 .  The Family Affair Scrapbook was released in 2022 to critical claim.  Her newest book released appropriately on St. Valentine’s Day is Romancing with the Stars, a tome about long term relationships in Hollywood along with a travel guide in each of the 27 chapters to recreate romantic moments and places the stars now made famous. The talented Ms. Garver has also won acting accolades such as Best Actress from the Family Television Awards, and continues her award-winning presence by securing recognition from the entertainment world.  Recent awards include two more Audie Awards, one for her narration of The World’s Best Short Stories, the other for her direction of Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate, read by the author.  She was also recognized by the Young Artists Foundation with the “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” and the Emerald Award from the Southern California Motion Picture Council. In 2013, this prestigious organization also bestowed on Ms. Garver the highly-esteemed Golden Halo Lifetime Achievement Award previously given to Mickey Rooney and Margaret O’Brien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this update episode, we return to the Texas Killing Fields—specifically the 25-acre stretch of land off Calder Road in League City, Texas, where four women were found murdered over the course of years: Heide Fye, Laura Miller, Audrey Cook, and Donna Prudhomme. For decades, their cases remained unsolved. Investigators pursued multiple leads and named several persons of interest, but one name continued to surface: Clyde Hedrick—a local man later convicted in the 1984 death of Ellen Beason. In March 2026, investigators finally questioned Hedrick about the Calder Road murders. Hours later, he was dead. But the case did not end there. In the weeks that followed, authorities arrested Hedrick’s associate, James Elmore, charging him with manslaughter in the death of Laura Miller, as well as tampering with evidence in both Laura’s and Audrey Cook’s cases. In this episode, we revisit the history of the Texas Killing Fields, the failures that allowed these cases to go unsolved for so long, and the lives of the women at the center of it all—particularly Audrey Cook and Donna Prudhomme, who remained unidentified for decades before finally being named. We also examine the long-standing suspicions surrounding Clyde Hedrick, the investigative threads that tied him to multiple victims, and what these new developments could mean for long-awaited answers. This is not a resolution. But for the first time in years, it is movement. 📍 League City, Texas  | 1984-1991 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actor and advocate Briana Evigan. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Briana:Briana Evigan has been on a quest to give a voice to the voiceless, shine a light on darkness and create a positive impact. She co-founded MoveMe Studio, a woman-led production company creating inspiring media that compels action. Briana has a successful career in film, TV, music, and dance. Her first foray into Hollywood was everyone’s favorite dance film Step Up 2: The Streets and the reinstalment Step Up 5: All In. Her TV career includes starring in From Dusk Till Dawn, Trooper, and Longmire. To follow Briana’s incredible advocacy work, follow her on Instagram and Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1978, a series of disappearances and murders terrified Morgan City, Louisiana.  Sixteen-year-old Mary Rodermund vanished after leaving home to run a simple errand. Hours later, her parents received a phone call—it was her kidnapper. He forced Mary onto the phone, where she told her parents she was okay.  It would be the last time anyone ever heard from her. Weeks later, nineteen-year-old Bridget Cantrell Sons disappeared from the grocery store where she worked. When police arrived, her cigarette was still burning. Seventeen-year-old Gordon Canella Jr., who had been with her, was also missing.  Then, in May, fourteen-year-old Bertha Gould and fifteen-year-old Judy Ann Adams left a school fair together. A witness saw the girls get into a car with a man.  Authorities eventually connected the cases to Robert Carl Hohenberger, a former California sheriff’s deputy living in Louisiana under an alias and with a history of violent assaults. Investigators believe he used his position and perceived authority to gain the trust of his victims. In this episode, we examine the disappearances of Mary Rodermund and Bertha Gould, the murders of Judy Adams, Bridget Cantrell Sons and Gordon Canella Jr., and the unanswered questions that remain decades later. 📍 Morgan City, Louisiana  | 1975📖 Featuring an original poem written in their honor, read by our host, Aimee Baker➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ➡️ Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women.  📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook.📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June 1975, 20-year-old Leslee Larson disappeared while mushroom hunting with her husband near Little Prickly Pear Creek in Wolf Creek, Montana. He told investigators she slipped into the swollen water and drowned—a tragic accident in a fast-moving river. But from the beginning, there were questions. Years later, after his third wife died in another supposed accident while hiking along the cliffs in Acadia National Park. This time, investigators noticed a pattern. In this episode, we center Leslee’s life, the failures that allowed her case to go unquestioned, and the devastating pattern that only came into focus after another woman lost her life. If you have information about the disappearance of Leslee Larson contact the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office – Coroner Division at 406-442-7398. 📍 Wolf Creek, Montana  | June 1975 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Ashley, host of the podcast Crime Salad. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Ashley: Ashley is the co-host of Crime Salad, a true crime podcast she runs with her husband, Ricky. Together, they cover real cases with a focus on raising awareness around domestic violence, promoting healthy relationships, and shedding light on gaps in the justice system. Through honest, in-depth storytelling, they aim to give victims a voice and help create real change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On August 16, 1983, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Miller left her home in Idaho Springs for a routine morning jog. It was something she did often—a way to stay in shape for basketball, a moment of independence in a small mountain community. But that morning, Elizabeth never came home. Witnesses reported seeing Elizabeth speaking with a man in a pickup truck. Days earlier, a man matching that description had approached her—and became angry when she refused to engage. Investigators have spent decades trying to identify the man and determine what happened in the final moments before Elizabeth vanished. Over the years, multiple persons of interest have emerged, including a man later linked to a similar truck and a disturbing claim involving a burial site in the mountains. Possible evidence has been discovered, tested, and re-examined—but no definitive answers have ever been found. Elizabeth left behind her family and the ordinary rhythms of a fourteen-year-old girl’s life. Her case remains open, and her story remains unfinished. If you have information about the disappearance of Elizabeth Miller, please contact the Idaho Springs Police Department at 303-567-4291. 📍 Idaho Springs, Colorado  | August 1983 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Chrissy Champagne, host of the podcast Residue, where true crime meets the movies. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Chrissy Champagne is a true crime podcast host and the creative force behind her show RESIDUE, where she single-handedly writes, researches, produces, edits, and hosts every episode. As a one-woman production team, Chrissy combines a deep love for film and storytelling, creating immersive narratives that pull listeners directly into the cases she explores. Her approach to true crime focuses not only on the facts of each case, but on the human stories behind them and the moments that changed lives forever. With a cinematic style and a storyteller’s perspective, Chrissy transforms complex cases into compelling narratives that keep audiences engaged from beginning to end. Through her work, Chrissy continues to explore the power of storytelling as a way to examine the darker corners of human nature. You can find Residue: A True Crime Podcast on all listening platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 14, 1985, Charlotte Lysdale, a widow living in Pine River, Minnesota, drove to her former home on Lower Hay Lake to meet the man buying the property from her. She was last seen arriving between 6:10 and 6:20 p.m. The buyer, Jerome Bye, later said he paid Lysdale thousands of dollars during the meeting and that she handed over the deed to the property. He told investigators she left a couple of hours later. No one ever saw her again. When family members checked on her two days later, Charlotte’s apartment appeared undisturbed. Her car was in the garage. Fresh coffee grounds sat in the kitchen. But Charlotte was gone, and so was her purse. Two years later, Jerome Bye was charged with murder and several other crimes connected to Lysdale’s disappearance. The case became the first murder trial in Minnesota to proceed without a body.  Nearly four decades later, Charlotte Lysdale has never been found. 📍 Cass County, Minnesota  | June 1985 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read and written by Aimee Baker ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT.‘RSSVERIFY’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In July 1980, the body of a young pregnant woman was discovered in the parking lot of Westlake High School in Westlake, California. She had been brutally raped, strangled, and stabbed. Investigators quickly realized she had been killed somewhere else and left behind—but they had no idea who she was. For decades, she was known only as Ventura County Jane Doe. In 2015, DNA evidence linked her murder to serial killer Wilson Chouest, who was later convicted of the crime. But even with a killer identified, the woman he murdered remained nameless. In 2018, the DNA Doe Project began working to restore her identity using genetic genealogy. Years of research, distant DNA matches, and family history slowly narrowed the search but it wasn’t until a breakthrough phone call in December 2025 connected investigators with a family who had been searching for their missing sister since 1980. In 2026, Ventura County Jane Doe was finally identified as Maricela Rocha Parga, a nursing student, waitress, and mother of a two-year-old daughter who had immigrated to the United States from Monterrey, Mexico. After forty-five years, Maricela finally has her name back. 📍 Thousand Oaks, California | July 1980 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read and written by Aimee Baker ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In February 2022, 32-year-old Irene Gakwa vanished from Gillette, Wyoming. A nursing student who had moved from Kenya to pursue her dreams, Irene was deeply connected to her family—speaking with them almost every day. Then the calls suddenly stopped. Strange text messages appeared, written in a way that didn’t sound like her. Her accounts were deleted. Her phone was deactivated. She was never heard from again. Investigators believe Irene may have been taken to a remote area, but searches have brought no answers. A 55-gallon burn barrel, a gray Subaru Crosstrek, and a fiancé with disturbing actions are at the center of this unsolved case. Irene’s family continues to fight for justice and to keep her story alive. If you have information about the disappearance of Irene Gakwa, contact the Gillette Police Department.📍 Gillette, Wyoming | February 2022 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Kim Roberts. ➡️ Help shine light on stories like Irene’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT.More About Kim Roberts: Kim Roberts is an internationally known Canadian actor with over 200 film, television, theatre and voice credits. Most recently seen as “Nancy” in All The Lost Ones, you have also enjoyed Kim as “Ms. Patty“ in Alert: Missing Persons Unit,  “Maggie”, in Workin’ Moms, “Alice” in The Changeling and “Nina Fields” in The Good Doctor. Kim’s most memorable roles include “Marnie” in Schitts Creek, ”Christine” in The Handmaid’s Tale,,“Greta” in “The Sinner”, “Neeva” in The Strain, “Mazz” in The Doodlebops, “Deborah” in SAW III and SAW IV, “Mrs. Bosco” in The Cheetah Girls and her continuing role as “Mayor Goodway” in Paw Patrol , Paw Patrol the Movie, Paw Patrol the Mighty Movie and A Paw Patrol Christmas.  Kim is a pioneer in her industry.  Not only has she represented Canada on domestic and international screens for the past 35 years, she is one of the first to have paved the way for artists of colour right here at home. Kim was the first Black Woman to speak in a nationally televised Canadian commercial. The spot was for Benalyn cough syrup. She is one of the co-founders of Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s most prominent Black and Diverse theatre company.  And she has remained a mentor to emerging actors throughout her career.  Kim has worked alongside the best in the business, from producers and directors like Stephen Spielberg, Zack Snyder, Maya Angelou, Sydney Lumet and Atom Egoyen to actors and musicians like Drake, Robin Williams, Jackie Chan,, Mariah Carey, Lakeith Stanfield, Lindsay Lohan, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Wight and Helen Mirren.  In 2024, Kim was invited to join The Stratford Festival Theatre as a lead performer in the world premiere of “Get That Hope”. Kim’s stellar performance as Margaret Whyte received numerous accolades, and is still being lauded by theatre-goers to this day.  Upcoming roles for Kim include playing “Theresa” in THE SNAKE. Shot on Prince Edward Island and set to debut at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival. You can follow Kim on:Instagram: @mskimrobertsX: @kimroberts1Facebook @kimrobertspageThreads: @mskimroberts LinkedIn: Kim Roberts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s 1946. Twenty-four year old Lola Celli is visiting her parents in Grandview Heights, Ohio when she decides to take a bus into Columbus to buy some nylons. But her neighbors don’t report seeing her on the morning bus nor is there any record of her making a purchase at the store she planned to visit. Is it possible that something happened to Lola in the two blocks between her parents’ home and the bus stop?  Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our August 2024 selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction book Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When 32-year-old Yeda “Dede” Rosenthal failed to show up for work in February 1991, her coworkers immediately knew something was wrong. Dede was a dedicated behavioral management specialist at the Elwyn Institute, known for her commitment to supporting autistic clients. A welfare check at her Cherry Hill, New Jersey apartment revealed troubling signs: an unlocked door, untouched newspapers, personal belongings left behind — and no sign of Dede. Her car was still in the parking lot. Her cat was left alone in the winter cold. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we examine the unsolved disappearance of a missing woman whose remains have never been found, the early missteps in the investigation, and why Dede’s family has always believed she did not leave voluntarily. 🎙️ Featuring a special guest reading by actress Laura Ault. 📍 Cherry Hill, New Jersey | February 1991 If you have information about the disappearance of Yeda “Dede” Rosenthal, please contact the Cherry Hill Police Department at (856) 665-1200. ➡️ She Goes by Jane is a victim-centered true crime podcast about missing and unidentified women. Subscribe, rate, and share to help bring attention to cases that still need answers. More About Laura Ault: Originating from Dallas, TX, Laura Ault has cultivated her multi-media talents from an early age. While initially drawn to music, where she showcased her natural talent for creating melodies on the piano, her passion for theatre took center stage during college. Following the completion of her associate degree in 2000, Laura made the bold move to NYC to pursue a career in Musical Theatre. Amid auditioning for Broadway and earning her bachelor's degree, Laura achieved another noteworthy feat—writing, producing, and recording two albums. These albums have not only been licensed for film and TV but have also opened doors for her to write specifically for acclaimed shows like All My Children and General Hospital. No stranger to the creative realm, Laura's dynamic artistic pursuits extend beyond acting.  Based in Miami, Laura continues to balance her artistic endeavors with maintaining her fitness, raising two children, and passionately advocating for mental health and breast cancer awareness. Her commitment to these causes reflects her dedication to making a positive impact beyond the entertainment industry. Amidst her various projects, including a musical comedy short film and a full-length romantic comedy, Laura Ault's diverse talents and unwavering dedication to her passions continue to captivate audiences, making her a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman was seen hitchhiking along U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, her body was discovered in a wooded area near mile marker 35. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled. For nearly three decades, she was known only as “Valentine Doe.” In June 2020, she was finally identified as On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman was seen hitchhiking along U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, her body was discovered in a wooded area near mile marker 35. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled. For nearly three decades, she was known only as “Valentine Doe.” In June 2020, she was finally identified as Wanda Deann Kirkum. Wanda had run away from home as a teenager amid alleged abuse. She was never reported missing. Her parents both died before her identification. Through forensic DNA comparison, investigators also identified her suspected killer: Robert Lynn Bradley, whose DNA matched evidence collected in 1991. Bradley was found murdered in Texas in 1992. Wanda’s case is now considered closed. In this rereleased episode, we revisit Wanda’s story including her life, her long path to identification, and the reality of how some victims are forgotten until science brings their names back. 📍 Florida Keys | February 14, 1991 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Patricia Rae ➡️ Help bring attention to missing teens cases like Wanda’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT.More about Patricia Rae:PATRICIA RAE is a dynamic Latin American actress and producer born and raised in New York City, currently based in LA. She got her “big break” in John Polson’s cult classic “Swimfan” and starred in a major supporting role in the Academy Award nominated film, “Maria Full of Grace”. The bilingual talent recurred on “All Rise” on OWN for three seasons, as the powerful and sassy Judge Delgado. Her long list of television credits include NCIS: Los Angeles, Blue Bloods, The Mentalist, and Chuck. Another notable performance was her hilarious portrayal of the character Madonna in the 2013, star-studded “The Big Wedding”. She is currently co-hosting the entertaining, and controversial podcast “Believe This” on Spotify with Chris Crimy, from the Scientology survivors podcast “Come Get Sum”. Patricia also produces the cooking segments “Cooking With Patty” that can be viewed on instagram and her youtube channel @cookinguppatty. You can also find her on X and Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the night of April 1–2, 2018, Camisha Hollis vanished from her Omaha home after a violent argument with her longtime partner, Marvin L. Young III. Her three daughters woke the next morning to find their mother gone, her car and phone missing, and the house silent but for troubling signs of what had occurred. Investigators discovered blood at the home, spent shell casings, and evidence of forced medication given to the children, raising alarms about abuse and coercive control. Days later, Hollis’s vehicle was abandoned downtown, and her whereabouts remain unknown. Camisha’s disappearance remains unsolved. Her family continues to search for answers, highlighting the broader risks mothers face in abusive relationships. 📍 Omaha, Nebraska | April 1, 2018📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Chipo Chung ➡️ Help bring attention to missing person’s cases connected to domestic violence like Camisha’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook.📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT.More About Chipo Chung: Chipo Chung is a Tanzanian-born, Zimbabwean actress, producer, and activist based in London. She is known for her roles in Into the Badlands, Doctor Who, Sunshine and Black Cake. Raised in Zimbabwe and educated at Yale and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she has a diverse career in theater, television, and voice work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1983 disappearance of Ann Gotlib, a 12-year-old girl who vanished from outside a Louisville, Kentucky mall, has long been considered one of the city’s most troubling cold cases. In Part 2, the focus shifts from the search for Ann to the investigative failures that may have prevented her case from ever being solved. Years after Ann disappeared, a new confession surfaces in a Kentucky prison yard. It’s specific. It’s detailed. And it includes information that could finally move the investigation forward. But the confession didn’t come to police — it was shared with a fellow inmate, quietly and without witnesses. As detectives revisit Ann’s case decades later, they’re forced to confront a devastating question: what happens when the truth is spoken, but no one is listening? Ann Gotlib is still missing. And this episode explores whether the answers were there all along. 📍 Louisville, KY | June 1983 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read and written by Aimee Baker ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June 1983, 12-year-old Ann Gotlib vanished from outside Bashford Manor Mall in Louisville, Kentucky. Ann was a gifted pianist, writer, and recent immigrant whose family had fled the Soviet Union seeking a better life for her. What should have been an ordinary afternoon ended in one of Kentucky’s most haunting unsolved missing child cases. As Ann’s disappearance gripped the city, her case became part of a national reckoning about missing children in America. Her image spread across billboards and television screens, her name spoken alongside Adam Walsh and Etan Patz. But despite the attention, investigators found themselves chasing dead ends, unreliable witnesses, and theories that raised more questions than answers. Years later, a convicted killer on death row would claim he knew what happened to Ann. His confession sent investigators racing to dig up the past. But just as hope surged, the truth slipped further away. And beneath it all lay a disturbing question: what if the answer had been there all along — and no one listened? 📍 Louisville, KY | June 1983 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read and written by Aimee Baker ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fourteen-year-old Coral Hall made one last desperate call to a friend from a pay phone in Flint, Michigan on September 22, 1998—the day after her birthday. Just hours earlier, she had gone to the state Department of Human Services to report the abuse happening at home. But by the time help arrived, Coral was gone. For years, police believed she was a runaway. But beneath the surface was a history of family violence, neglect, and a system that failed to protect her. This episode traces Coral’s final days, the overlooked red flags, and the long road to the truth about what happened to her. 🎙️ She Goes by Jane tells the stories of unsolved cases of missing and unidentified women and girls. 📍 Flint, Michigan | 1998 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Aimee ➡️ Help bring attention to stories like Coral’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this case update, we cover the latest developments in the disappearance of the Martin Family. The 1958 Christmas holiday was quickly approaching, and the Martin family of five set out on a quiet Sunday drive to collect greenery for their holiday decorations. They waved goodbye to their neighbors, never to return. Months later, the bodies of two of the children, Susan and her older sister Virginia, were found in Oregon’s Columbia River, but the rest of the family was never found. Their sudden, mysterious disappearance sparked decades of rumors and whispers, many of which may now, finally, be laid to rest with a shocking new development—a potential discovery of their car. Could this lead to the answers that have eluded investigators for over six decades? You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once known as Peaches and Baby Doe, Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes have their names back. In this recap of their identification earlier this year, Aimee provides a new update. Long suspected to have been victims of the Long Island Serial Killer/Gilgo Beach Killer, an arrest has been made in connection with Tanya’s death.  📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special 2 part GIRLHUNT x She Goes By Jane crossover, Aimee and Vanessa dive into a story that filled Australia’s newspaper headlines for months in 1920. A handsome war hero doctor is  found murdered inside a suburban home. The only suspect: a middle aged mother of two who had been his patient. What happened behind closed doors that day was only part of the story.  📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special GIRLHUNT x She Goes By Jane crossover, Aimee and Vanessa dive into a story that filled Australia’s newspaper headlines for months in 1920. A handsome war hero doctor is  found murdered inside a suburban home. The only suspect: a middle aged mother of two who had been his patient. What happened behind closed doors that day was only part of the story.  📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2006, 78-year-old Mary Wilcox disappeared from her Westford, Vermont home. Living with Alzheimer’s, she often struggled with confusion, but on that November day, she was upset and vanished without a trace. Initially believed to have wandered off due to her illness, investigators later uncovered troubling evidence within her own household. Mary’s case highlights the vulnerabilities of elderly individuals living with Alzheimer’s and raises questions about family dynamics, trust, and the lengths some might go to hide the truth. Despite convictions of family members years later, her body has never been found, and the mystery remains. Join us as we explore the disappearance of Mary Wilcox, the investigation that followed, and the chilling circumstances surrounding her unresolved case. 📍 Westford, Vermont | November 2016 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Ashley Williams. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Ashley Williams: Ashley has acted in 200+ episodes of television and 20+ movies (How I Met Your Mother, Jim Gaffigan Show, Amber Brown, Something Borrowed, and Margin Call among them). She also began directing, writing, and producing six years ago. She wrote, directed, and starred in Meats, which premiered at Sundance and sold to Showtime. She directed the features Circle of Deception for Lifetime and Nashville Country Christmas starring Tanya Tucker and Keith Carradine for Paramount. She was chosen to participate in the 2025 DET program through ABC and has directed two episodes of The Rookie for ABC. She also founded Hallmark’s women’s directing program called Make Her Mark, a reciprocal mentorship program designed to set women up for success behind the camera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1974, a teenager riding his bike stumbled upon a body behind the newly built mall in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The woman—later known as Seminole County Jane Doe—was stabbed, possibly sexually assaulted, and left unidentified for decades. In 1982, Gerald Stano, a man who would confess to dozens of murders, claimed responsibility for her death. But even his confession did little to answer the most important question: who was she? Today, forensic experts and investigative genetic genealogists at Ramapo College are working to uncover her identity, tracing her ancestry and building family trees in the hope of giving her a name and closure to her family. This episode examines the crime scene, the details that reveal her life, the complicated legacy of serial confessions, and the tireless work of modern investigators. Seminole County Jane Doe’s story is a reminder that every victim deserves to be remembered as a person—not a statistic. If you have information, please contact Seminole County law enforcement. Every share helps in the search for her identity. 📍 Altamonte Springs, Florida | November 1974 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Kimberly-Sue Murray ➡️ Help shine light on stories like Irene’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Kimberly-Sue Murray: Kimberly-Sue is a Canadian actor best known for her recurring roles in Shadowhunters (Netflix), V-Wars (Netflix), and The Boys (Amazon). She won Best Lead Performance at HIFF 2022 and earned an ACTRA Award nomination for her gripping turn in XYZ Films' Trader. Recent credits include Die Alone (with Carrie-Anne Moss & Frank Grillo), The Madness (Netflix), Titans (HBO Max), and Transplant (NBC). Murray portrays Gamora in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos-Montréal), which won Best Ensemble Cast Performance at the G.A.N.G. Awards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special holiday-week episode, we step away from our usual format to bring you a true-crime-meets-Hollywood story pulled from GIRLHUNT: the life of Greta Granstedt, a young woman who stepped onto a ship in 1927 as a nude art model and stepped off as a future film star with a new name—and a long-buried shooting scandal trailing behind her. Long before Greta appeared on screen with icons like Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, and Boris Karloff, she was a teenager accused of shooting her boyfriend during a late-night confrontation that made national headlines.  And aboard that same ship? A young art student named Bessie Hyde, the “river bride” whose disappearance in the Grand Canyon remains one of America’s most haunting mysteries. Their lives briefly crossed in a moment neither could have imagined—one destined for stardom, the other for legend. If you love true crime, forgotten Hollywood, unsolved mysteries, or the hidden lives of women history tried to flatten, this is your episode. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, ⁦Bookshop.org⁩, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 15, 1988, 12-year-old Doreen Vincent disappeared from her father’s home on Whirlwind Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut. Her father claimed they argued and she left through the front door with some clothes and money. But Doreen never made it to her mother’s home, and she’s never been seen again. From the beginning, the story didn’t add up. A locked deadbolt. Conflicting timelines. Delayed reporting. A violent father with a criminal record. And, years later, possible links to a serial killer and a known predator in the family. For decades, Doreen’s case was treated like a runaway. Now, investigators believe something much darker happened that night. This episode examines the disappearance of Doreen Vincent, a young girl whose story has been overshadowed by silence for more than three decades.   📍 Wallingford, Connecticut | June 15, 1988 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress XX ➡️ Help bring attention to missing girls like Doreen—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Sophia Powers: Born and raised in North Vancouver BC, Sophia followed her passion, and started training in acting classes at the age of 9. After landing her first Agent at The Characters Talent Agency, and working hard in extensive one on one training, she was thrilled to land her very first Network role as Fox, in ‘Son of A Critch’. Having the opportunity to work with kids the same age in St. John’s Newfoundland in the summertime, alongside notable industry heavy weights such as Mark Critch and Malcolm McDowell, was a dream come true. Most recently, you can find Sophia appearing in a Recurring role as Liza, on the TV Series ‘Murder In a Small Town’ on FOX. She has also appeared in Supporting roles in the Hallmark MOW’s, ‘Fourth Down and Love’ and ‘Unexpected Grace’. Sophia has gone on to film Seasons 2, 3 & 4 of ‘Son of a Critch’ and will be shooting Season 5 next Spring. Sophia is a voracious reader. She is currently writing a book which she hopes to one day turn into a screenplay and act in herself. In her spare time, on top of reading and writing, you will also find Sophia boxing, playing field hockey, snowboarding and enjoying the outdoors with friends, family and her many loved animals. A dual citizen of the US/Canada, Sophia spends many summers on the Oregon Coast with family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In May 1990, substitute teacher Paige Renkoski disappeared under unusual circumstances in DeWitt Township, Michigan. After dropping her mother off at Detroit Metro Airport, Paige was last seen on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, speaking with two unidentified men near a maroon minivan. Hours later, her silver Oldsmobile was found abandoned with the keys in the ignition, doors unlocked, and her personal belongings untouched. Paige has never been heard from again. Investigators have considered multiple leads, including unsolved abductions and reports of impostor police officers in the area at the time. Despite reopening her case and interviewing suspects over the years, Paige’s disappearance remains unsolved. 📍 Fowlerville, Michigan | May 1990 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Belle Adams ➡️ Help shine light on stories like Paige’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Belle Adams: Belle Adams is best known for her recurring role on SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS, recurring role as Janine on 7 episodes of BLESS THIS MESS, directed by Lake Bell, and performing opposite Emmy winner Matthew Rhys on HBO’s new PERRY MASON. 2020 saw her debut in the new Blumhouse / Amazon Feature Film CRONES in which she plays a young woman looking for trouble in the forest, along with her large guest star role on CBS show S.W.A.T. opposite Shemar Moore! Belle has performed in five scenes opp Minnie Driver on SPEECHLESS, in a one-week Guest Star on Disney’s BIZAARDVARK, in Freeform’s GROWN-ISH, and in 5 episodes of Vertical Networks’ SOLVE as a Recurring Guest Star. Adept with both comedy and drama, Belle makes a splash in 2022 critically acclaimed, instant cult-classic horror film, TWO WITCHES, and was awarded Best Actress in 2019 for her work as the lead in indie Feature Film THIS WORLD ALONE. Belle has also appeared in shows on MTV and Lifetime, along with international and national commercials for products like California Lottery, LG, Conde Naste, and more. An Atlanta-area, Georgia-grown gal, Belle had plenty of experience acting in her childhood and teens, and has expanded her pursuits into directing, filmmaking, and producing. She is an active singer-songwriter, has written and directed her own series, short films, and music videos and continues to write/develop original content and visual art. She believes in the power of giving, and looks forward to any opportunity to connect and work alongside open and committed artists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yolanda Panek was a rising star—a record-breaking athlete, Rose Festival Court representative, and mentor to dozens of middle school girls in Portland’s science and math programs. But in July 1995, the 21-year-old mother vanished without a trace. The next morning, her car was found abandoned with her two-year-old son inside, unharmed, and evidence pointed to a shocking case of intimate partner violence. In this episode, we examine the investigation into Panek’s disappearance, the evidence that led to her killer’s conviction despite her body never being recovered, and the lasting legacy she left through programs supporting survivors of domestic violence. 📍 Portland, Oregon | July 1995 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Milcania Diaz-Rojas (40 acres Homekilling Queen) ➡️ Help bring attention to missing women like Yolanda—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Milcania Diaz-Rojas: Milcania Diaz-Rojas is a rising Dominican-Canadian actor and writer based in Toronto. Milcania secured her debut role in the HBO feature film SHARE. Since then, she has starred in several notable film and television productions, including HOMEKILLING QUEEN (Lifetime), THE BOLD TYPE (Freeform), and SLIP (Roku). As a 2023-2024 alumna of the prestigious CBC Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre, Milcania made her writing debut with the short film ZURY. Her performance in the film has garnered significant attention, winning several awards and nominations. Most recently, Milcania can be seen in her leading role in the post-apocalyptic thriller 40 ACRES, which had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and is now streaming on HULU. She has also taken on a leading role in the indie film FAT LADY SRIRACHA that has yet to be released.  With her dedication to her craft, Milcania Diaz-Rojas is establishing herself as a dynamic force in the entertainment industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story introduced Evelyn Hartley as a victim, it blurred fact and fiction—recreating her kidnapping and murder in a visually stylized narrative. But Evelyn Hartley was no fictional character. A straight-A teen, beloved by friends and family, she vanished from La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1953 while babysitting, sparking one of the largest searches in the state’s history. In this episode, we uncover her life, the massive search for her, and how myths about Ed Gein have overshadowed the truth. Join us as we separate Hollywood storytelling from reality and remember Evelyn as the girl she truly was. This is her story. 📍 La Crosse, Wisconsin | October 1953 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read, this time, by Aimee. ➡️ Help us continue to tell stories that matter like Evelyn’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In April 1946, a burlap sack pulled from the Willamette River south of Portland revealed something horrifying: the torso of a woman, carefully dismembered and discarded. Over the next several months, more body parts surfaced, and newspapers across the country covered what became known as the Wisdom Light Murder. Nearly eighty years later, this victim is remembered only as Oak Grove Jane Doe — Oregon’s oldest unidentified person case. In this episode, we explore the chilling discovery, the flawed investigation, and how her remains went missing for decades. We’ll also look at the women she was once suspected to be — Seattle’s missing Marie Nastos and Portland’s vanished Anna Schrader — and why new forensic science may finally give her a name. 👉 If you’re interested in true crime, missing persons, unsolved mysteries, or unidentified victims, this episode takes you deep into one of Oregon’s most haunting cold cases. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Search terms: Oak Grove Jane Doe, Oregon cold case, Wisdom Light Murder, unidentified woman, true crime podcast, 1940s true crime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 30, 2016, 41-year-old Liliana Moreno and her 9-year-old daughter Daniela vanished from Hialeah Gardens, Florida. Their apartment door was locked. Her car was parked outside. Liliana’s purse, wallet, and passport were left behind — and food was still sitting out on the stove. The last person to see them alive was Daniela’s biological father. He claimed he dropped them off on the side of the road after an argument. But within hours, strange events began to unfold: a burglary targeting security footage, Liliana’s documents found in a dumpster, and a van rental that ended with a violent confrontation with police. For eight years, their loved ones have lived with unanswered questions. Then, in October 2024, Daniela’s father was charged with two counts of kidnapping resulting in death in their case. This week, we revisit the disappearance of Liliana and Daniela Moreno, two lives stolen — and a fight for justice that’s still unfolding. 📍 Hialeah Gardens, Florida | May 30, 2016 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Sofia Yepes ➡️ Help bring attention to undercovered cases like Liliana and Daniela’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Sofia Yepes: Sofia Yepes is a talented actor, producer, and podcaster known for her compelling performances on stage and screen. Born in Medellin, Colombia, and raised in Queens, New York, Sofia's passion for storytelling began early in life. Sofia made her acting debut in the award-winning Columbia University thesis film, “St. Paul,” portraying a young pregnant teenager. Her performance garnered critical acclaim and set the stage for future endeavors. Currently, Sofia released "The Low End Theory," a film she co-wrote, produced alongside Atomic Features, where she also stars. With credits that include appearances on the acclaimed Showtime series, “Ray Donovan,” and a memorable performance in the theater production, "Danny and The Deep Blue Sea," as well as the independent film “Ganymede” (2024), Sofia continues to captivate audiences with her authenticity and talent. As she continues to explore new projects and opportunities, Sofia remains committed to her craft and to telling real and raw stories that resonate with audiences worldwide, and as a bucket list item hopes to work with Marion Cotillard one day. Sofia strives to tell stories from the female Latina/Indigenous/Afro-Latino perspective and empower women both in front of and behind the camera. When not creating multi-dimensional projects in Hollywood, Sofia is equally committed to raising up the voices of single mothers and breaking societal norms. What started out as a podcast called ‘As a Mutha’ which grew from anger at the unfair expectations of single mothers, has expanded into a community called ‘Sana Sana Single Mama’ which now focuses on resources for healing for single mothers coming in 2026. Resources will include access to family lawyers, assistance with funds, therapy, retreats, and more. https://www.instagram.com/sofiajyepes/ https://www.instagram.com/sana_sana_singlemama/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In August 1995, Diane Van Reeth left her Tucson home for work and never arrived. Two days later, her minivan was found abandoned with the keys still inside. Her husband soon became the focus of the investigation. Detectives discovered he was living under an alias and was a fugitive with a violent history — including a prior manslaughter conviction and an attempted murder charge in Massachusetts. By 1999, he had pleaded no contest to Diane’s murder, but her remains have never been found. Years later, his name surfaced again — this time in connection with a woman once known only as Pima County Jane Doe. When police arrested him for Diane’s disappearance, they found a photograph of a young woman in his wallet. In 2015, DNA confirmed what many had long suspected: that woman was Brenda Gerow, missing from New Hampshire since 1980. This episode tells the intertwined stories of Diane Van Reeth and Brenda Gerow — two women whose lives ended in violence, but whose names and stories now endure. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Taylor Blackwell. Taylor is an actor, musician, visual artist, writer, director, and creator of The Infinite Possibilities Oracle Deck. Taylor is a member of bubblegum punk band "the tenth", which they co-founded with actress Harley Quinn Smith.  In addition Taylor released their own solo album, "In Memory of Haroldine”. ➡️ Help bring attention to stories like Diane’s and Brenda’s—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nearly thirty years after her disappearance, Robin Murphy’s case remains unsolved. In Part 2, She Goes By Jane examines the lingering questions: Was Robin’s disappearance connected to the murder of 12-year-old Josette Wright? Did investigators overlook critical evidence? And why does her story still haunt the Hudson Valley today? 📖 Featuring an original poem written in Robin’s honor, read by Canadian actor Nora McLellan. ✨ She Goes By Jane is a true crime podcast about missing and unidentified women. Each episode combines deep research with original poetry and victim-centered storytelling — no gore, no sensationalism. ➡️ Share Robin’s story and help keep attention on unsolved disappearances. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More About Nora McLellan: Nora is a Canadian actor with an extensive career across theatre, television, and film.  A veteran of both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, she has earned two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Jessie Award, and multiple nominations recognizing her versatility and craft. On stage, McLellan has starred in productions ranging from classics to contemporary hits, including Shirley Valentine (Grand Theatre), Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival), Hello Dolly (Citadel Theatre), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Vancouver Playhouse). At Stratford and Shaw, she has played leading roles in Cabaret, Gypsy, Saint Joan, The House of Bernarda Alba, and The Trojan Women, among dozens of others. Her screen work includes recurring and guest roles on Son of a Critch (Lionsgate/Project 10), Revival (SyFy), Killjoys (SyFy/Temple Street), Cardinal (CTV), Orphan Black (BBC America), and Saving Hope (CTV). Film credits include Sometimes the Good Kill, Tart, My Own Country (Showtime, directed by Mira Nair), and Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the spring of 1995, seventeen-year-old Robin Murphy vanished after borrowing her mother’s car to visit her boyfriend in New York’s Hudson Valley. The car was found abandoned the next day — but Robin was gone. Just months earlier, 12-year-old Josette Wright disappeared in the same community. When Josette’s body was discovered, two men were convicted of her murder, but authorities insisted the cases weren’t connected. This episode of She Goes By Jane examines Robin’s unsolved disappearance, the questions that still haunt her community, and why many believe her case may be linked to other crimes against women and girls. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in Robin’s honor, read by Canadian actor Nora McLellan. ✨ She Goes By Jane is a true crime podcast about missing women and unidentified women. Each episode combines deep research with original poetry and compassionate storytelling — no gore, no gimmicks. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT. More about Nora McLellan: A veteran of both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, she has earned two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Jessie Award, and multiple nominations recognizing her versatility and craft. On stage, McLellan has starred in productions ranging from classics to contemporary hits, including Shirley Valentine (Grand Theatre), Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival), Hello Dolly (Citadel Theatre), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Vancouver Playhouse). At Stratford and Shaw, she has played leading roles in Cabaret, Gypsy, Saint Joan, The House of Bernarda Alba, and The Trojan Women, among dozens of others. Her screen work includes recurring and guest roles on Son of a Critch (Lionsgate/Project 10), Revival (SyFy), Killjoys (SyFy/Temple Street), Cardinal (CTV), Orphan Black (BBC America), and Saving Hope (CTV). Film credits include Sometimes the Good Kill, Tart, My Own Country (Showtime, directed by Mira Nair), and Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices