She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast

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 1979, 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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’

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.

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

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.

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.

On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman is seen hitchhiking along US 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, a pair of windsurfers find her body in a densely wooded area. She’d been beaten to death before being strangled with her own bikini top. For years this young woman was known only as Valentine Doe, named for the last day she was seen alive. But investigators never give up on her case, utilizing new tactics and techniques to identify her. This week our guest reader is Patricia Rae, a dynamic Latin American actress and producer born and raised in New York City, currently based in LA. She starred in John Polson’s cult classic “Swimfan” and starred in a major supporting role in the Academy Award nominated film, “Maria Full of Grace”. She also recurred on “All Rise” on OWN for three seasons as Judge Delgado. Her long list of television credits include NCIS: Los Angeles, Blue Bloods, The Mentalist, and Chuck. She is currently co-hosting 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. 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 March 2024 selection is the novel The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. 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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

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.

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.

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

In August 2004, 40-year-old Merrian Carver vanished from a Celebrity Cruise ship traveling from Seattle to Alaska. She was last seen the next day—and then she disappeared without explanation. For a week, no one reported her missing. Her belongings were given away, her absence ignored, and her family left in the dark until they began their own search for answers. Like the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley, Merrian’s case is more than a mystery at sea. It exposed the cruise industry’s troubling lack of accountability and sparked a fight for justice led by her father, Kendall Carver. His relentless advocacy brought international attention to missing persons on cruise ships and pushed for landmark changes in maritime law. In this episode of She Goes By Jane, we look at Merrian’s life, her disappearance, the failures that followed, and the legacy of a family who refused to let her be forgotten. ✨ She Goes By Jane is a true crime podcast about missing and unidentified women. We share the stories of women who vanish—no gore, no sensationalism, just careful, compassionate storytelling. ➡️ Share Merrian’s story to help keep attention on women who are still missing. 📍 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.

In December 1979, 28-year-old Angela Allen vanished from Syracuse, New York, the day after Christmas. That morning, she called her mother — sounding tired, but otherwise fine. Hours later, she was gone. Her last paycheck sat unclaimed, until her husband tried to pick it up. Investigators believe Angela was killed that day, possibly buried in one of two places she had once visited on dates. Decades later, Angela’s body has never been found. Her disappearance left behind unanswered questions, suspicions of betrayal, and two daughters still searching for truth. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in Angela’s honor, read by actor Chioma Umeala (Netflix’s One Piece, The Woman King). ✨ She Goes By Jane is a true crime podcast about missing and unidentified women. We tell their stories with deep research, poetry, and care — no gore, no sensationalism. ➡️ Share Angela’s story to help keep attention on missing mothers whose cases remain unsolved. 📍 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 Chioma Umeala: Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Chioma Umeala is South African-Nigerian actor, which has allowed her to bring a unique look and a fresh, intercontinental perspective to the industry. Chioma is most notably known as Nojiko in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of ‘One Piece’. Her other works include her role in the SONY film ‘The Woman King’ appearing on BET’s first African series, ‘Isono’ as Ayo. Additional credits in CBS’s “Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation” and on Novocaine, a comedic film with Jack Quaid at the helm. Due to her work, Chioma has built many relationships in the film industry including with her now mentors, Julius Tennon and Viola Davis. She is also known as championing varied stories and characters due to her casting on One Piece. Nojiko’s race was initially non-descript and so being the only black woman in season one, that opened the stage for conversation and integration in the niche anime community. Chioma has been recognized and invited by many global events, such as Comic Con, to speak on her experiences. Chioma is a steadily rising global talent.

They said they were going to go babysit, but secretly had other plans to meet up with a friend. When teenagers Cynthia and Jackie Leslie left their Mesa, Arizona home in 1974, no one was worried. After all, everyone assumed they were exactly where they said: babysitting. When they didn’t return home, though, their family was plunged into a mystery now almost 50 years old. In this episode we cover both what was reported by the media and what was contained in their over 200 page police file. This week, we’re joined by writer Catherine McKenzie. A graduate of McGill in History and Law, Catherine practiced law for twenty years before leaving the practice to write full time. She’s the author of numerous bestsellers including HIDDEN, FRACTURED, THE GOOD LIAR and I’LL NEVER TELL. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and PLEASE JOIN US and I’LL NEVER TELL have all been optioned for development into television series. You can find Catherine on ⁠Instagram ⁠and ⁠TikTok⁠.  ➡️ 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.

When 30-year-old Pah Pow leaves her apartment, the only witness is her young son who says she left with a man he recognized but whose name he didn’t know. Her family thought she was with family, her family thought she was with friends. This mistake meant nearly a week passed before anyone realized Pah was missing. An immigrant from Thailand, Pah lived with her husband and children in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She has been missing since April 2016. This week, we’re joined by Rainbow Dickerson, the proud daughter of a brave Thai mother who came to the United States during the first small wave of Thai immigrants in the 1960’s. Rainbow is also of Rappahannock and Caucasian descent and is honored to lend her voice to this project. She became a TIFF Rising Star for her work in the feature, BEANS, for which she also received other awards and nominations. She can be seen next in Netflix’s live-action, Avatar: The Last Airbender, premiering February 22nd, 2024. Other selected screen credits include Gone, Chicago Fire, and Banshee. In addition, Rainbow has performed on Broadway and at many of the country’s top theatres, recently closing an Off-Broadway run of Manahatta at The Public Theatre in NYC. Other favorites include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, American Players Theatre, and Native Voices. Rainbow currently resides on unceded Tongva/Gabrieleno territory, also known as Los Angeles, CA. Represented by Liberman Zerman Management. ➡️ 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.

In September 1991, 25-year-old attorney Carolyn “Carrie” Lawson was living the life she had worked so hard to build—newly married, just admitted to the bar, and settling into her first home in Jasper, Alabama. But one late-night phone call changed everything. A masked gunman abducted Carrie from her driveway, and within hours, her family received a ransom demand. The money was paid—but Carrie was never returned. More than three decades later, her abduction remains one of Alabama’s most haunting unsolved kidnappings. This episode examines the disappearance of Carrie Lawson, the unanswered questions surrounding her case, and the devastating impact on her family and community. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in Carrie Lawson's honor, read by actress Kristin Minter (Home Alone, ER, Ray Donovan). ✨ She Goes By Jane is a true crime podcast about missing women and unidentified women. We tell their stories with deep research, poetry, and care — no gore, no sensationalism. ➡️ Help bring attention to story's like Carrie'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 Kristin Minter: Kristin Minter is best known as Heather, Kevin McCallister’s oldest cousin in Home Alone, the holiday classic that raked in nearly $500 million worldwide. She also starred opposite Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice (1991). TV fans know her as feisty desk clerk Randi on ER, appearing in 78 episodes. Minter's credits span hit shows like Ray Donovan, Poker Face, Hightown, Nip/Tuck, and Highlander (as Rachel MacLeod). Still acting, she’s also breaking ground as a mature model with Elite NYC. She laughingly says, “It is confronting at this age.”  You can see most her work on Minter’s website  ⁠kristinminter.com⁠ or on her instagram @Kristin_minter

In 1986, 28-year-old Rita Eubanks Creasman was found strangled in a Georgia creek. Just three years later, Twyla Mickey left a chilling message for her parents: “I’ve got to get out of here.” Hours later, she vanished. Then, in 1992, Belinda Norred disappeared after an argument with the same man tied to both Rita and Twyla. Three women. Three families. One name that threads through them all. This episode examines the murder of Rita Creasman and the unsolved disappearances of Twyla Mickey and Belinda Norred—cases bound by love, betrayal, and decades of unanswered questions. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in their honor. ➡️ 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.

For more than 30 years, they had no names. One was known only as Bitter Creek Betty, found murdered near a Wyoming highway in 1992. The other was called the Sheridan County / I-90 Jane Doe, discovered the same year on the opposite end of the state. Both were young. Both were forgotten—until forensic DNA finally gave them back their identities. Now we know who they were: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Arleen Estrada. This episode explores how investigators solved their cases, the tragic connection between them, and what justice looks like when the killer dies before facing trial. For decades, their voices were silenced. Today, we say their names. 📖 Featuring an original poem in their honor, read by Ginger Strand. Ginger is the author of Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate and several other works of narrative nonfiction. ✨ 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. ➡️ Help us honor Irene Vasquez and Cindi Estrada by sharing their story and subscribing to She Goes by Jane 📍 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.

In August 1994, 79-year-old Ruth Loader was recovering from her cancer treatments at her rural Ohio farmhouse, ready for a quiet evening with her book. She never made it to the breakfast she had planned with her sister the next morning. When her daughter arrived at Ruth’s home, the back door was splintered, her glasses were left on the pillow, and Ruth was gone. In this episode, we trace the disturbing series of events that followed: a red Buick seen across state lines, a pair of fugitives on a multi-state killing spree, and a confession that came too late.  Ruth’s body has never been found, but who were the men responsible, and why did they target Ruth? What can this case tell us about how vulnerable women are treated in the criminal justice system and in public memory? 🎙️ If you have any information about the location of Ruth Loader, please contact the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office at (330) 339-2000. ➡️ 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.

After newspaper owner and journalist Amelia Zelko vanished in 1957, the search for answers stretched from the streets of Joliet, Illinois, all the way to Washington, D.C. In this second part of our series, we uncover how Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI secretly joined the investigation, chasing leads that pointed to organized crime. We also revisit a chilling claim: a woman who believed she saw Amelia’s body being buried at a construction site on the night she disappeared. While Amelia Zelko’s disappearance remains one of Illinois’ most haunting unsolved mysteries, her story endures as a powerful reminder of the risks journalists take in pursuit of the truth. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Taylor Meskimen. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Taylor is a multifaceted actress and artist, well-versed across a variety of creative fields with professional accomplishments in Theater, Film, Music and Television.    Taylor has been performing live for over a decade at venues throughout Los Angeles when she hasn't been in recording studios voicing characters for animation and commercials. She has also won awards for her Audiobook Narrations and has over 130 audiobooks available on Audible.   No stranger to artistry and hard work, talent and success run Taylor's blood.  She is the granddaughter of television star Marion Ross, best known for her role alongside Ron Howard in the hit TV series Happy Days.  Taylor's parents are also both professional actors and her mother runs one of the top acting schools in Los Angeles, The Acting Center. 🎙️ If you have any information about the location of Amelia Zelko, contact the  Illinois State Police - District 5 at (815) 726-6377. ➡️ 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.

Just before midnight on September 27, 1957, a quiet neighborhood in Joliet, Illinois, was jolted awake by the sound of a woman’s scream, a car door slamming, and tires screeching into the night. By morning, 47-year-old journalist and co-owner of The Joliet Spectator, Amelia Zelko, was gone. Known for her fearless reporting on organized crime and political corruption, Amelia had powerful enemies and a long list of people who might’ve wanted to silence her. In this first episode of a two-part series, we trace Amelia’s path from her role as a pioneering woman in media to the final night she was seen alive. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Taylor Meskimen. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Taylor is a multifaceted actress and artist, well-versed across a variety of creative fields with professional accomplishments in Theater, Film, Music and Television.    Taylor has been performing live for over a decade at venues throughout Los Angeles when she hasn't been in recording studios voicing characters for animation and commercials. She has also won awards for her Audiobook Narrations and has over 130 audiobooks available on Audible.   No stranger to artistry and hard work, talent and success run Taylor's blood.  She is the granddaughter of television star Marion Ross, best known for her role alongside Ron Howard in the hit TV series Happy Days.  Taylor's parents are also both professional actors and her mother runs one of the top acting schools in Los Angeles, The Acting Center. 🎙️ If you have any information about the location of Amelia Zelko, contact the  Illinois State Police - District 5 at (815) 726-6377. ➡️ 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.

Sixteen-year-old Nicole Russo loved poetry, dreamed of becoming an auto mechanic, and had just started preparing for her GED. In March 1995, she left her Brick, New Jersey home to visit her new boyfriend’s mother on Long Island. She never came home. What followed was a deeply troubling investigation that would uncover bloodstains, a chilling confession, and a desperate attempt to cover up the truth. And yet, Nicole has never been found. In this episode, we explore Nicole Russo’s story. Nicole, a teenager navigating love and independence while dangers she couldn’t see coming. Featuring a special reading by Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch actress Elisa Donovan, honoring Nicole’s love of poetry. This is a story of heartbreak, violence, and a young woman who deserved so much more. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Elisa Donovan. Elisa has been a part of multiple iconic pop culture phenomenons. She began her film career originating the role of Amber in the Paramount Pictures comedy Clueless. She followed that up with a turn on another pop culture sensation, the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, playing bad girl Ginger LaMonica. Then after reprising her role of Amber for three seasons on the television series of Clueless, and shooting the Paramount/SNL Films comedy, A Night At The Roxbury, Elisa went on to the monster hit series Sabrina The Teenage Witch, playing Morgan Cavanaugh. Elisa has also had recurring roles on multiple other TV series and has starred in numerous telefilms. In 2023, to the delight of fans all over the world, Elisa reunited with her Clueless co-star Alicia Silverstone reprising their iconic roles for a Rakuten Super Bowl commercial that had a reach of 12.7 BILLION impressions. As a Celebrity Mom Blogger for people.com Elisa was voted Reader Favorite for her hilarious & heartwarming blogs on being a new mother. Elisa was also hand selected by Sheryl Sandberg to be the voice of her #1 bestsellers Lean In and Option B. The audiobook for Lean In was #1 on the charts and was submitted for a Grammy nomination. Elisa’s first book, Wake Me When You Leave, was released by Llewellyn Worldwide in North America (audiobook released by Penguin Random House everywhere) and sold out on Amazon on the first day. WMWYL was awarded the Gold Medal at the 2022 COVR Awards for Autobiographical/Biographical books and the Silver Medal for the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards in the Death/Dying & Grief category. Currently, Wake Me When You Leave is in development as a film, which Elisa has written the screenplay for and will be her directorial debut. The film is being produced by Richard J. Bosner. Elisa is a graduate of Eugene Lang College at The New School University in NYC, where she majored in dramatic literature and writing, with a minor in acting. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their 12 year old daughter. 🎙️ If you have any information about the location of Nicole Russo, contact the Brick Township police at (732) 262-1100. ➡️ 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.

When 23-year-old Arrilla Webb-Vaul vanished from Bossier, Louisiana in 1979, all she left behind was a slashed tire and a silent car on a quiet road. Authorities said she walked away. Her family never believed it. In this episode, we investigate the unsolved disappearance of Arrilla Webb-Vaul, exploring the overlooked evidence, the eerily similar case of another missing woman, and the patterns of neglect that too often surround missing women, especially those whose lives are deemed less newsworthy. Featuring original poetry read by Cassandra Naud, this story asks: what happens when warning signs are ignored, and when missing women are treated like mysteries not worth solving? Listen, share, and help keep Arrilla’s name alive. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Cassandra Naud. Cassandra Naud is a queer Canadian actor, dancer and filmmaker originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta. At 19, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for performance, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts before booking notable dance credits and eventually transitioning into acting. Cassandra is best known for her breakout role as CW in Influencer (Shudder). She made her television debut as Fiona in Snowpiercer (TBS/Netflix) and has since appeared in recurring roles in See (Apple TV+), and Loudermilk (Netflix). She will next be seen leading in her upcoming sequel, Influencers set to premiere this summer at Fantasia Film Festival. In 2023, Cassandra made her directorial debut and has since had two short films featured on the festival circuit — one of which screened at Vancouver’s Innovate Film Festival. A passionate advocate for inclusion, Cassandra brings lived experience to her work across disciplines. She continues to challenge traditional beauty standards and is proud to be part of a generation reshaping the narrative around identity and representation in media. 🎙️ If you have any information about the disappearance of Arrilla Webb-Vaul, contact the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office at 318-965-2203. ➡️ 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.

On December 4, 1974, 17-year-old Laurie Partridge left school early, saying she wasn’t feeling well. She never made it home. Missing with her were the pair of Beach Boys concert tickets her dad had purchased for her for a show scheduled a week later. The night of the concert, police watched for her, but in the sea of 4000 people, Laurie was nowhere to be found. And though Laurie never showed, her tickets were used. Now, over fifty years later, Laurie Patridge is still missing. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by actress Liz Vassey. Liz Vassey joined the cast of ALL MY CHILDREN at age 16, earning her first of two Daytime Emmy nominations. Since the soap, Liz has appeared as a regular or recurring character on fourteen television shows including CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, ER, TWO AND A HALF MEN, MAXIMUM BOB, NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, BROTHERLY LOVE, NCIS: LA, FOX’s live action version of THE TICK, the reboot of THE TICK on Amazon, and A MILLION LITTLE THINGS. In addition to acting, Liz is an accomplished writer. She has sold eight television pilots and a TV movie - developing for such networks and studios as Netflix, NBC, Freeform, CW, Warner Brothers, Universal, and CBS Studios, with notable producers like Todd Holland, Kapital Entertainment, Mayim Bialik, and Krysten Ritter.  An avid runner, Liz made her directorial debut with the documentary feature, THE HUMAN RACE, which focuses on unlikely athletes. It was named by Runner's World as one of "The Top Twenty Best Running Documentaries That Will Inspire You to Move." 🎙️ If you have any information about the disappearance of Laurie Partridge, contact the Spokane County Sheriff’s office at (509) 477-2240. ➡️ 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.

For years, they were known only by nicknames—Peaches and Baby Doe. A woman and her toddler, found miles apart in Long Island, unidentified and unnamed. But investigators never gave up hope. They believed that science would one day provide the answers they needed. And now, it has. This episode shares the story of Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes—their lives, their loss, and the long fight to return their names to them. It's a rare opportunity to report a case update, and a glimpse of what more forensic advancements may bring. 📖 Featuring a poem in their honor from the documentary She read by Raven Goodwin and Coco Jones.  Raven is known for her roles in Lovely & Amazing (earning her nominations from the Black  Reel Awards and the Independent Spirit Award), Being Mary Jane, SMILF, Good Luck Charlie, New Girl, and Glee. She has recently appeared in Abbott Elementary and starred in The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel for which she was a Black Reel Awards nominee for Best Supporting Actress. Coco is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and actress. She signed with High Standardz/Def Jam in 2022 and released the EP What I Didn’t Tell You with the lead single “ICU,” which has been certified platinum. In 2024, she was nominated for an impressive five Grammy Awards—including the coveted Best New Artistaccolade— and won for Best R&B Performance “ICU.”  She began recording at the age of 9 and was called to acting—first as a recurring guest on Disney’s musical sketch comedy, So Random!, and in 2012, as the golden-voiced love interest in the network’s TV movie, Let It Shine. Since then, she’s showcased her formidable acting skills playing Hilary Banks in Peacock’s Fresh Prince reboot, Bel-Air and Netflix’s Vampires vs. the Bronx. Her visibility has made her a role model for beautiful and talented dark-skinned Black women. 🎙️ If you have any information about the lives of Tanya and Tatiana or their murders, investigators are actively collecting information in the hopes of bringing them justice. Please contact Nassau County’s Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS ➡️ 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.

When 32-year-old Yeda "Dede" Rosenthal vanished without a trace, it shocked everyone who knew her. A dedicated professional at New Jersey’s Elywn Institute, Dede was known for her unwavering commitment to her work with autistic clients. But when she failed to show up for work one day, her coworkers grew immediately concerned. A visit to her apartment revealed unsettling clues—an unlocked door, a pile of unread newspapers, but no sign of Dede. Despite everything looking normal on the surface, it quickly became clear that something was very wrong. Where did Dede go? 📖 Featuring a special guest reading by actress 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. If you have any information about the disappearance of Yeda “Dede” Rosenthal, please contact the Cherry Hill Police Department at (856) 665-1200. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ✨ Join us on Patreon for bonus content, including Behind the Poem, where we discuss this episode’s featured poem, plus our monthly true crime/mystery book club. April’s pick: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Madel 📖 Read along with Aimée and Vanessa on StoryGraph! 📍 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.

Barbara Ann Bockwith was just 20 years old when she vanished from her college campus in Pensacola, Florida.The University of West Florida student arrived early for her final exam, exhausted after an all-night study session. Realizing she’d left her notes in the car, she rushed out to retrieve them—just ten minutes before class. She never returned. In this episode, we trace Barbara’s final known steps, the details of her sudden disappearance, and ask how someone can go missing in broad daylight on a college campus. Nearly 50 years later, her case remains unsolved. 📖 Featuring a special guest reading by actress Julia Reilly. Julia is an actress born and raised in Atlanta, GA. She plays Dani Miller on Great American Family's first original series, 'County Rescue' and recently played Amy March in the GAF film, 'A Little Women's Christmas.' Another notable credit is playing the role of Tammy Thompson in season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things. Julia was nominated for the Grace Prize for TV Performance at the 2025 Movie Guide awards, as well as sharing other nominations and wins for ‘County Rescue’ and ‘A Little Women’s Christmas.’ Other credits include lead and supporting roles in films featured on Lifetime, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Tubi, among others. She has also done numerous voice over and commercial spots for major brands, apps, and video games. Julia began acting at the age of seven, growing up performing in community theatre, participating in dance classes, and taking voice and music lessons. She spends her free time with family, friends, and her puppy, Finneas. Julia is repped by Aligned Stars Agency and managed by Luber Roklin Entertainment. She is extremely grateful to her wonderful team, friends, family, coaches, and God for the opportunities He has given her. If you have any information about the disappearance of Barbara Ann Bockwith, please contact the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ✨ Join us on Patreon for bonus content, including Behind the Poem, where we discuss this episode’s featured poem, plus our monthly true crime/mystery book club. April’s pick: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Madel 📖 Read along with Aimée and Vanessa on StoryGraph! 📍 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.

At 21 years old, Masumi Watanabe traveled from Japan to Hawaii to gain independence and confidence while staying with family friends. By all accounts, she was thriving. Just one week before she was scheduled to return home, Masumi disappeared. Her case quickly became a tragedy that deeply impacted the community on Oahu, raising difficult questions about safety, accountability, and what might have been prevented. A man was later arrested in connection with her death, and the case left a lasting mark both in Hawaii and beyond. In this episode, we follow Masumi’s time in Hawaii, the events leading up to her disappearance, and the aftermath that continues to resonate today. 📖 Featuring a guest reading by actress Erika Prevost. ➡️ 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 Erika PrevostErika is a Japanese-Canadian actor and creator most known for her work on Disney’s hit teen dance drama The Next Step where she played fan-favorite character, Sloane, for 3 seasons. Finding her first form of expression through movement and dance at a young age, she was able to build a repertoire of skills that helped launch her into the industry. Upon graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada, Erika moved to Toronto and portrayed Brianna Bradley on 10 episodes of USA Network’s and Netflix’s mystery thriller Dare Me. Other notable work include leading roles in Lifetime’s Saying Yes to Christmas, Universal Pictures’ 7th installment of their hit franchise Bring It On and Ubisoft’s historical action video game Assassin’s Creed Shadows with over 3 million players. Currently, Erika can be seen on Season 4 of Amazon’s Emmy nominated drama series The Boys playing the vicious and deadly Tala; as well as CBC’s brand new hit series Saint-Pierre as the tenacious officer Patty Montclair-Ito. Off screen, Erika spends time writing and developing her own projects in collaboration with her fellow artists. Outside of work, she has a passion for mental health education and community building. She is also an avid animal lover and a sucker for Romance!

In 1972, Jeannette Kamahele left her home near Santa Rosa Junior College and was last seen hitchhiking near a freeway onramp. She never made it to class. By 1979, hikers discovered the remains of the Sonoma County Jane Doe in rural California. Were these women connected? Both cases unfolded during a decade of violence in Sonoma County, when multiple young women—often hitchhikers—were murdered and left in remote areas. Collectively, they will become known as the Santa Rose Hitchhiker Murders, Some suspect the infamous Zodiac Killer. Others point to known predators in the region. Decades later, their stories remain entwined with unanswered questions. 📖 Featuring a special double reading by Enya Flack (Malcom and Eddie; Black Scorpion) and Megan Peta Hill (Riverdale, The X-Files).  ✨ She Goes by Jane is a true crime podcast about missing and unidentified women. We share the stories of women who vanish—no gore, no sensationalism, just careful, compassionate storytelling. ➡️ 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 Enya Flack and Megan Peta Hill: Enya Flack is an accomplished American actress, television spokesperson, reporter, and entrepreneur. She is widely known for her role as a series regular on UPN's Malcolm and Eddie and as a star of the Syfy Channel series Black Scorpion. Enya's career includes numerous television appearances, with recurring and guest-star roles in popular series such as Outer Banks, All the Queen’s Men, Walker, Long Slow Exhale, The Resident, Bluff City Law, Homeland, Queen Sugar, Rules of Engagement, The Sopranos, The Game, and Ally McBeal. She also gained recognition as a model on the hit game show Deal or No Deal. She currently plays DA Alicia Rodds on the hit Tyler Perry series All The Queen's Men on BET+.  Enya’s upcoming film, Marbles and Bullets, is set to premiere later this year, showcasing her continued growth as a versatile actress. She is a respected acting coach and founder of Flack Media Magnetics, a digital marketing, production and post-production company specializing in  corporate videos, commercials, demo reels, documentaries, branding and content creation services. Megan Peta Hill is an Australian born, award-winning and Leo nominated actor who has trained and worked professionally in film, television and theatre internationally. Megan has worked on numerous network series including Riverdale (The CW), The X-Files (Disney), The Flash (The CW), Big Sky (ABC), Kung Fu (The CW) and Supernatural (WB), along with the highly anticipated Obsession (Amazon), to name a few. Megan also stars in the upcoming comic-book adaptation feature film, We Are Zombies (RKSS, Humanoids) which was awarded Audience Choice Award at Fantasia Film Festival, upcoming Wattpad feature Boot Camp, theatrically released Apex opposite Bruce Willis, Amazon's Broil, and Lionsgate's Open Water 3, amongst many others. Megan also has a prolific voice over career in video games, feature films, narration and commercials, most notably working on EA Sports' UFC 4, and NFL 21, Warner Brothers animated feature, Cats and Dogs 3: Paws Unite, and HBO Max documentary, Persona. Megan is represented by Play Management (principal) and by Characters Talent Agency (voice). Megan has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Theatre, Acting). Megan is a dual Australian and Canadian citizen.

A Flight Attendant’s Fears, a Controlling Husband, and a Disappearance IgnoredIn 1987, Regina Brown—a devoted mother and flight attendant—was doing everything she could to escape. She had already sent two of her children to Texas for safety, and on March 26th, she put the last of her three on a plane. That was the last time anyone saw her. Before she vanished, Regina had confided in a friend: If something happened to her, if she disappeared, look to her husband first. She knew what he was capable of. And yet, despite her chilling warning, her case never received the attention it deserved. Regina was a Black woman, and unlike another high-profile case involving a white pilot and his murdered flight attendant wife, her disappearance was met with indifference. This week, we share Regina’s story—her fears, her fight for freedom, and the injustice of how her case was handled. 📖 Featuring a reading by Gwendolyn Osbourne. Gwendolyn is an accomplished creative professional who is constantly striving for excellence in her work as an actor, wellness speaker, CEO, and podcaster. Her career began as a runway, print, and commercial model that helped set the stage for becoming one of the models on The Price is Right show. A consummate professional, Gwendolyn was a part of the show for over 12 years and gained a historical accolade as the longest-running woman of color model on a game show.  She would then join the cast of Wonder Woman 1984 as one of the Amazonian Women. It was on the set of this blockbuster movie where she captured her inner strength and power and truly took stock of what it meant to be a real-life Wonder Woman. She pushed the boundaries of her physical and mental strength while mastering her craft as an actor, transcending her experience into her everyday endeavors and passion projects ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ✨ Join us on Patreon for bonus content, including Behind the Poem, where we discuss this episode’s featured poem, plus our monthly true crime/mystery book club. March’s pick: The Sinners All Bow by Kate Winkler Dawson. 📖 Read along with Aimee and Vanessa on StoryGraph! 📍 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.

A Mother’s Grief, a Missing Daughter, and a Legacy of Remembrance When 19-year-old Joanna Otto vanished after a party in Pensacola, Florida, the world barely noticed. Police dismissed her case, assuming she left on her own. But her loved ones knew better. Joanna had last been seen getting a ride from a man later convicted of kidnapping and assaulting another young woman. And yet—decades later—there are still no answers. With no resolution, Joanna’s mother refused to let her daughter's story fade. Instead, she transformed her grief into action, creating something unprecedented: the nation’s only memorial to missing children. This week, we share Joanna’s story—what little is known—and the enduring impact of a mother’s love. Featuring an original poem in Joanna’s honor, read by Elizabeth Saunders. Elizabeth is a highly versatile actress based in Canada whose work spans theatre, tv/film, and voice. She is known for her work as Donna on  MGM+'s  hit show FROM. Currently she can also be seen in David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and RT Thornes 40 Acres as well as in When Hope Calls. Her other credits include IT, Surrealestate, Mary Kills People, Alias Grace, Orphan Black, Big Oil Alliance,  Slings and Arrows and cult classic The Boondock Saints. Her voice work includes numerous radio and web dramas, and cartoons including voicing Mrs. Turtle on the long-running Franklin the Turtle cartoon series. Liz has also appeared in leading roles in theatre productions throughout Canada as well as being an acting teacher and writer. She holds a BFA MA in Acting, Theatre Performance and Drama. She is married to actor Cliff Saunders, with whom she has two daughters and now a grandson! ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ✨ Join us on Patreon for bonus content, including Behind the Poem, where we discuss this episode’s featured poem, plus our monthly true crime/mystery book club. March’s pick: The Sinners All Bow by Kate Winkler Dawson. 📖 Read along with Aimee and Vanessa on StoryGraph! 📍 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.

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? The best way to support our work in calling attention to missing and unidentified women is to hit subscribe or share this episode.  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 March 2025 selection is The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a readalong, a social way of reading our monthly selections with you all! 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.

On April 24th, 1994, police respond to a call at a bar in Bangor, Maine. Outside they find Virginia Pictou-Noyes who claims her husband and brother-in-law had just beat her outside the bar. With her husband under arrest and her brother-in-law charged in the assault, Virginia is taken to an area hospital for her injuries. There, around 1am, she quietly slips out of the hospital. The last she is seen is heading north through the parking lot. Her husband tells everyone that Virginia has run away from home, but her family believes differently.  This week we’re honored to be joined by guest reader Althea Sam. Actress Althea Sam is a Member of the Dine Nation(Navajo Nation), which is considered one of the largest sovereign tribes in the United States. She was born on the Dine Reservation in Tuba City, AZ. Althea served in the United States Navy and is proud of her service. She began her career as an actress in Taylor Sheridan's film, "Wind River." Having raised her daughter and artist, Lakota Gambill, as a single mother, Althea has thrived, continuing her career in other films. 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 March 2025 selection is The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a readalong, a social way of reading our monthly selections with you all! 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.

In the summer of 1999, 46-year-old Maria Bozi, a Romanian immigrant living in the United Kingdom, met and married a man after a whirlwind romance. Within months, she would move to the United States to live with him. And soon after, she would disappear.  This week we’re joined by guest reader Ann Pirvu. Ann  is a Romanian-Canadian actress and producer from Toronto, Ontario. She is best known for her roles in the television series Reign, Remedy and The Girlfriend Experience. She is currently portraying the role of Trish on the television series Workin' Moms.  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 March 2025 selection is The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a readalong, a social way of reading our monthly selections with you all! 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.

On the night of December 17, 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis goes on a first date with a former high school classmate. The two eat dinner, look at Christmas decorations together, and he tries to teach her to drive a stick shift. And then, after he says goodnight to her, Heather gets a call. It’s her ex. He says he’s leaving his wife and he wants her back. Within hours, Heather goes missing. 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 February 2025 selection is Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

In 1956, the brutal murder of family man Thomas Hotard at a Louisiana lover’s lane leaves a trail of unanswered questions. Investigators quickly discover a mysterious connection to Audrey Moate, a woman whose sudden disappearance raises even more chilling suspicions. Was Audrey a victim, or does her vanishing hide a darker secret? As the investigation unfolds, shocking revelations about Audrey’s life come to light—secrets she tried desperately to keep hidden. Join hosts Aimee and Vanessa as they delve into this haunting case of murder and missing persons. This episode includes a powerful tribute in the form of an original poem, read by special guest Janet Kidder, honoring Audrey’s story. Listen now to explore the mystery of Audrey Moate's disappearance, the untold secrets, and how this case remains unsolved to this day. We’re thankful to be joined by guest reader Janet Kidder. 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 February 2025 selection is Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

SummaryIn 1946, Paula Welden, a college student at Bennington College, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind a chilling unsolved case that has haunted the region for decades. As her disappearance unfolds, it sparks a dark fascination that even inspired famous writers like Donna Tartt and Shirley Jackson as well as spurred the creation of the Vermont State Police. But who was Paula Welden, and what truly happened to her? Dive into the eerie mystery of the Bennington Triangle and the haunting legacy of a missing woman whose story still remains a puzzle. Was Paula’s disappearance linked to other unexplained events in the area, or is there something more sinister at play? Join us as we explore the chilling details of one of the most baffling disappearances in U.S. history. Join Aimee and Vanessa for this week’s episode of She Goes By Jane as they highlight the story of Paula Welden. 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 February 2025 selection is Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

Barbara Newhall Follett had published her first novel at 12, traveled the world by 14, and regularly corresponded with scientists, artists, and sailors. So at age 15, when she ran away for the first time, it was because she couldn’t understand why she would be forced into a life not created wholly on her own. It won’t be the first time, Barbara disappears because in 1939, at the age of 25, she does it again. Join Aimee and Vanessa for this week’s episode of She Goes By Jane as they finish the story of the mysterious disappearance of child prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett. This week they’re joined by Kerry O’Malley whose recent film credits include her scene-stealing role as Dolores in David Fincher's The Killer, Mother's Mother in Marielle Heller's Nightbitch, Azalia in Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa, and Mildred in Tyler Perry's Six Triple Eight. Recent television credits include her recurring roles as Megan in A Man on the Inside on Netflix, Samantha Miles on SEAL Team, first class passenger Lilah Folger on TNT's Snowpiercer, and Mavis in the second season of Marc Cherry's Why Women Kill for Paramount Plus.

 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 February 2025 selection is Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home to travel to Barbados, Tahiti, and Samoa chasing new story ideas and escaping the turmoil of her parents’s divorce. And by age 15, she’d disappear. Barbara Newhall Follett never did anything by half measure. Join Aimee and Vanessa for this week’s episode of She Goes By Jane as they dig into the first episode about the disappearance of child prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett. This week they’re joined by Kerry O’Malley whose recent film credits include her scene-stealing role as Dolores in David Fincher's The Killer, Mother's Mother in Marielle Heller's Nightbitch, Azalia in Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa, and Mildred in Tyler Perry's Six Triple Eight. Recent television credits include her recurring roles as Megan in A Man on the Inside on Netflix, Samantha Miles on SEAL Team, first class passenger Lilah Folger on TNT's Snowpiercer, and Mavis in the second season of Marc Cherry's Why Women Kill for Paramount Plus.

 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 January 2025 selection is There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

In November 1934, new mother Etta Riel mysteriously disappears just hours before she’s set to attend a crucial paternity hearing. Her family believes she was preparing to reconcile with the man she claimed was the father of her baby, and that they were planning to elope to New York for a fresh start. But the man in question insists they were never intimate and that he was ready to expose her supposed lies. Join hosts Aimee and Vanessa as they dive deep into this chilling true crime case of betrayal, mystery, and disappearance and hear a special performance by four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Masonis. Was Etta’s disappearance a planned escape, or did something darker unfold? Tune in to She Goes By Jane for a gripping true crime investigation into one of the most baffling unsolved cases of the 1930s. This week we’re joined by Marsha Masonis, a four-time Academy Award nominee for her starring roles in The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh and Cinderella Liberty. Mason has received Golden Globe Awards for her film roles and an Emmy Award nomination for “Frasier”. TV credits include “Grace and Frankie”, “The Middle”, “The Good Wife” and “Madam Secretary”. Broadway roles: Impressionism with Jeremy Irons, Steel Magnolias, The Night of the Iguana, King Richard III, and Cactus Flower.  She has directed productions of Steel Magnolias, An Act of God, Chapter Two as well co-directing and starring in Lost In Yonkers at Hartford Stage. On Broadway, she was Associate Director with Jack O’Brien for All My Sons starring Annette Benning and The Roommate starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. Marsha recently starred in All My Sons at Hartford Stage and as Madame Armfeldt in the Lincoln Center production of Steven Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in Concert, and she briefly stepped in for Mia Farrow in The Roommate on Broadway while Farrow was sidelined with Covid-19. 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 January 2025 selection is There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then, she simply vanished. Now, 90 years later, Olga is considered Wyoming’s oldest known missing persons case. This week we’re joined by Susan Ruttan. Known for her role for her role of ‘Roxanne’ on the acclaimed “L.A. Law”, for which she was nominated for Emmys on four consecutive seasons, she has seamlessly moved between television, stage and film through her career. She has many memorable television appearances on shows like “Bosom Buddies”, “Newhart”, “Grey’s Anatomy” “Mom” and most recently a recurring role on the Netflix hit series, “A Man on the Inside” starring Ted Danson”.  She teamed with Brian Dennehy and Treat Williams in several NBC ‘Jack Reed’ movies for television. Other television movie roles included “Helter Skelter”, “Terror in the Towers”, a recounting of the 1993 terrorist bombing under the World Trade Towers in Manhattan and was ‘Mrs. Claus’ in “The Ultimate Christmas Present” for the Disney Channel. Susan has appeared in the feature films: “The Sure Hand of God”, “Love Kills”, “Honky Tonk Freeway”, “Independence Day”, and portrayed Gene Wilder’s stepmother in Paramount’s “Funny About Love”.  Born in Oregon, she started her career as a costume designer in the theatre in Santa Cruz, then moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant casting director At Universal and Paramount before landing her first professional acting job. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her son Jackson. 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 January 2025 selection is There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

Memorial Day weekend in 2007 was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Henry sisters. They traveled from New York City to Miami to see friends, family and celebrate the younger sister’s birthday. But by the weekend’s end, only one of them would return home. The other, 22-year-old Stepha Henry, an aspiring lawyer, would be missing. 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 January 2025 selection is There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari. Join Aimee and Vanessa on the app StoryGraph for a new readalong feature for this month’s selection! 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.

Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13. Aimee and Vanessa talk about the inspiration and process of writing the poem Battle Lines, about the unidentified person known as Bitter Creek Betty.

Special episode, Vanessa and Aimée discuss God of the woods, by Liz Moore.

In 1978, 22-year-old Kent State University student Judy Martins left a dorm party and began the short walk back to her residence hall--a distance of less than 300 yards. She never arrived. More than four decades later, Judy’s disappearance remains unsolved. In this episode, we examine the final known movements of Judy Martins, the atmosphere surrounding Kent State University in the years after the 1970 shootings, and the unsettling reality of how quickly someone can vanish from a busy college campus without explanation. This case raises difficult questions about vulnerability, visibility, and what happens when a missing woman’s story slowly fades from public memory. 📍 Kent State University | Kent, Ohio📅 May 24, 1978 📖 Featuring an original poem written in Judy’s honor, read by Stephanie Sy-Quia. ➡️ 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 Stephanie Sy-Quia:Stephanie Sy-Quia is a writer and broadcaster based in London. She is the presenter of Eccentric Circles, a podcast about cities and the influential oddballs who lived in them.

In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing was a pregnant woman. She’d been brutally stabbed, her body left in the dirt. Without identification on her, investigators set to work to find out who she was and who murdered her, but the answers wouldn’t come readily or easily. 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 December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. 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. a

Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked.  This week we’re joined by Award-winning actress Christine Solomon whose work has been exhibited, showcased, and displayed to millions of viewers in Egypt, Canada, and around the world on major television networks and movie studios such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, Rotana Group (the Arab World's largest entertainment company owned by the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talat), Ubisoft, as well as in print, online, and other advertising media. Solomon has received a nationally-recognized Madbakh Awards for her work as an actress; she is also an important contributor for the award-winning productions in which she played a leading or critical role (HELIOPOLIS, BASRA, and BAFTA nominated RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE). The theatre trained actor appreciates the opportunity to work for positive causes. She has joined as the lead host for GMC and renowned actor Josh Duhamelʼs campaign BUILDING FOR AMERICAʼS BRAVEST and has raised over 17 million dollars. The campaign reached an impressive 110 million viewers. She is also the spokesperson for the ACNE AND ROSACEA SOCIETY OF CANADA’s Rosacea Awareness Campaign. Solomon and her work have been the subject of numerous articles in major international publications and media throughout the world, including The National Post (monthly readership 6.95 million), The Globe and Mail (17 million readership), MSN Saudi Arabia (monthly readership 982 million), Variety (monthly readership 31.6 million), and Screen India (monthly readership 53.76 million), among others. On the other side of the camera, Christine has served on the 25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS (SAG AWARDS) TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE and has been an official juror at various prestigious film festivals across the country. 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 December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. 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.

In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can welcome Iris’s boyfriend as he’s released. But the man is hiding a secret, he wants something else from Iris. This week we’re joined by two special guest readers. Marilyn Oliva is a medieval historian whose research focuses on medieval English religious women—anchoresses, nuns, and vowesses—and the ties these women created with their local communities. She has published on several aspects of religious life for women, including their literacy, the organization and administration of their convents, and the sacred spaces they created within their monastic and parochial enclosures. She is also the co-creator of “The Seventh Circle,” a DIY story published on Instagram about a secret society of women whose mission is to release from oblivion all the lost, forgotten, and ignored women of all the sciences and humanities across all time periods and from every geographical region.  Tom Gilroy is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work spans feature filmmaking, music, theatre, and haiku. His work has appeared at Sundance, Cannes, The Toronto Film Festival, and the Berlinale, and he has taught at Columbia and Davidson College. His work can be experienced and explained at www.tomgilroy.net. 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 November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. 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.

In August 1949, friends of Mimi Boomhower arrive at Mimi’s home to find that despite the lights on inside and outside her Bel Air mansion and her car in her garage, the wealthy widow is nowhere to be found. Seven days later her purse is found inside a grocery store telephone booth with a cryptic message written in pen on its side sending police into a flurry as they work to find her. This week our guest reader is Amber Dawn Fox, a working actress based in the Southeast. She travels all around the US and beyond for work. She can be seen on Peacock TV, Hulu, discovery+, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen Network, AMC, Amazon Prime, and more! Although best known for portraying Officer Bello on "The Walking Dead", Amber has gone on to star in several feature films available on many streaming sites. 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 November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. 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.

In 1950, a mushroom hunter discovered the body of an unidentified woman along a remote road in Morgan County, West Virginia. She had been murdered and left alone in the woods.Within the first year of the investigation, authorities believed they had identified her at least seven different times. Every lead proved wrong. Nearly 75 years later, the Morgan County Jane Doe still has no name—and her killer has never been identified. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we examine one of West Virginia’s enduring unidentified persons cases, exploring the investigation, the repeated misidentifications, and what it means for someone’s identity to remain perpetually out of reach. We also consider the limitations of mid-century forensic investigation and how some victims disappear not only from public view, but from cultural memory itself. 📍 Morgan County, West Virginia | May 1950➡️ Share Morgan County Jane Doe's story to help her get her name back. ➡️ 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.

Summary“If it’s a kidnapping, I’d have a ransom note by now,” says private investigator Ernest Rizzo about the 1977 disappearance of candy heiress Helen Voorhees Brach. But despite his confidence that Helen Brach is still alive, no one has seen her. And as the days turn into months turn into years, it becomes more and more clear just how wrong Ernest Rizzo is about what happened to Helen. 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 November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. 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.

In 1994, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office enters a property in Loxahatchee, Florida and finds a chilling sight. Hundreds of exotic birds including parrots and macaws are dead or dying inside their enclosures. While they work frantically to save the remaining birds, their focus shifts to how they got in this state. Where is their caretaker, 36 year old Lilawattie Buerettan and her 31 year old nephew Moses Lall. Did they abandon the birds, or did something more sinister happen. 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 October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

In 1998, Suzanne Renee Richerson, a Texas A&M student at their Galveston campus, headed to work as a night clerk at a hotel and condo complex. She expects to study overnight and leave at 7am. At 6am, the security guard checks on her before he leaves, but by 6:15am, as a couple goes to check out, Suzanne is no longer at her desk.  This week we’re joined by born performer and one of Canada’s voiceover elite, Sonja Ball. Sonja has over 30 years experience and is well known for her tremendous versatility in Commercials, Animation, Narrations, Documentaries, Audiobooks, Video games, Talking Toys and more. Sonja has been nominated for ACTRA’s Best Voiceover Performance Award and has voiced principal roles in a host of award-winning animation series’ and films including: Arthur, Wimzie’s House, Madeline’s Christmas, Pinocchio 3000, Snowtime, Spookley and the Christmas Kittens, and many more, with lead or principal roles in each. Her versatility often lands her multiple roles in the same productions. She has voiced everything from gaming characters for Ubisoft, to ads for well recognized companies such as Lancôme and Vaseline. She brings her broad base of experience into play as a voiceover coach for up and coming young actors. To add to her list of credentials, Sonja is also a Montreal music scene veteran and singer/songwriter, singing the no.# 10 Billboard dance hit and number 1 England Dance Chart hit, “Can’t Live Without You” in 1986, as Suzy Q. Over the years she has performed in top venues throughout North America singing in several band scenarios opening for legends like Smokey Robinson, Glen Campbell and Charlie Bird. She has recorded theme songs and music c.d.’s related to the animation productions she has voiced, and continues to write and co-produce her own music. 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 October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

“Did you find the body?” a killer asks law enforcement 38 years after his wife went missing. When Gloria Kidder met her future husband at work, little did she know she was also meeting the man who would force her to experience an escalating pattern of violence ending only in her death. This week we’re joined by Patrisha McLean who started on her journey of activism for women’s rights upon the domestic violence arrest of her then-husband of 29 years, Don “American Pie” McLean. She is the founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices, a Maine sisterhood of survivors bringing light to domestic abuse and to each other, which can be found at FindingOurVoices.net 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 October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

In 1937, college student Ruth Baumgardner said good night to her friends and walked toward her dorm room. She was never seen again.The next morning, her car key was found on the dormitory staircase—but Ruth was gone. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we examine the disappearance of Ruth Baumgardner, a case that has remained unsolved for decades. What happened between that final walk down the hall and the moment she vanished? And how do cases like Ruth’s slip through the cracks of both memory and investigation? We place her story within its historical context, exploring the limitations of 1930s investigative methods and the ways young women’s disappearances were understood—and often minimized—at the time. 📍 Delaware, Ohio | 1937📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Mallory Kennedy, producer, writer, and founder of Margrette Bird Pictures. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—follow, rate, and share this episode. ➡️ Join us on Patreon! Help support our work in covering these stories. 📍 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 Mallory Kennedy Mallory Kennedy is a producer, writer, and President of Margrette Bird Pictures. She is known for the award-winning documentary Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much, and is the author of multiple books focused on identity, wellness, and personal development.

In 2000, model Lourdes Gruart disappears. Her brother says that she told him she was leaving for Europe for a modeling job and left their shared apartment. But Lourdes doesn’t have an active passport, nor has she told anyone else of her travel plans. In the 24 years since, Lourdes’s disappearance has remained a mystery. 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 October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

In 1928, Bessie and Glen Hyde take a scow down the Colorado River in their attempt to have Bessie become the first woman documented to have gone down the river through the canyon. Their plan is to leverage their experience into a career on the lecture and vaudeville circuit. They are last seen heading down the river in mid November. This week we are joined by Musetta Vander. A native South African, Musetta's no stranger to the entertainment world. She debuted on stage at the age of 4. One of her first jobs was anchor host for an MTV-like television show in South Africa. After her arrival to the USA she became part of the very world she used to host, appearing as the 'dream girl' in more than twenty music videos for top recording artists including Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Chris Isaak. But it was her critically acclaimed stage performance in the original South African play Soweto's Burning, that provided her transition to the big screen.  Since then Musetta has performed in numerous feature films, including Wild Wild West , O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Cell, Breaking Point, and Kicking & Screaming to name a few.  Additionally she's added a slew of television credits ti including Stargate SG-1, Frasier, NCIS and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.   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 September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

Known to the courts as a glamor girl, 26 year old Jean Spangler was trying to make her way in Hollywood as an actress and dancer while raising her young daughter as a single mom. And then the unthinkable happens, on the night of October 7, 1949, Jean Spangler left her home telling her family she would be doing a bit part at one of the studios. She was never seen again. This week our guest reader is Sara Tomko. Sara is a Film and Television actress based in LA and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Series Regular, Asta Twelvetrees, in the hit show Resident Alien which is produced by Amblin and NBCU. Her career began in experimental theatre and musicals in Virginia and Ohio, later moving to Los Angeles to pursue Film and TV. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer and mental health advocate. Sara can be found on Instagram @saratomko19 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 September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

SummaryKnown to the courts as a glamor girl, 26 year old Jean Spangler was trying to make her way in Hollywood as an actress and dancer while raising her young daughter as a single mom. And then the unthinkable happens, on the night of October 7, 1949, Jean Spangler left her home telling her family she would be doing a bit part at one of the studios. She was never seen again. This week our guest reader is Sara Tomko. Sara is a Film and Television actress based in LA and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Series Regular, Asta Twelvetrees, in the hit show Resident Alien which is produced by Amblin and NBCU. Her career began in experimental theatre and musicals in Virginia and Ohio, later moving to Los Angeles to pursue Film and TV. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer and mental health advocate. Sara can be found on Instagram @saratomko19 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 September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

In 1998, an unidentified woman’s remains are found near a highway truck stop in Weatherford, Texas. It is believed that she died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but in the past 26 years no one has come forward to claim her. Today, little has been publicized about her case, making her one of the many unidentified women whose stories aren’t told. This week our guest reader is Kate Roman, a teenage actor, dancer, and singer from Toronto, Canada who's been performing on stage and screen since age 4. She is a highly skilled, technically trained dancer in 7 genres with 12 years professional level training. Credits include a leading role as Ariana on The Next Step season 9 (BBC, CBC, YTV), Netflix films 13:The Musical and Feel The Beat, Amelia Parker/The Parker Andersons, Charlotte Cardin’s Sad Girl music video, The Big Fun Crafty Show, and Gerry Dee's Kids That Are Amazing at Stuff. Musical Theatre experience includes community productions of: The Lion King (Nala) and Aladdin (Narrator). Awards include: Joey Award winner for Best Actress and Young Artist Award nomination for the short film Butterfly. In dance, Kate is the recipient of several first overall solo awards over many years, is ranked top 10 in North America (The Dance Awards Orlando and Las Vegas) and received team gold in Germany (IDO World Show Dance). Kate understands the importance of giving back by mentoring young girls in the arts and in life, to ensure a balance in both physical and mental health by promoting a positive outlook and self-care in what can be a challenging time growing up. IG: @k8roman 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 September 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. 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.

When Evelyn Throsby married her fifth husband, friends and family worried something was wrong. What they didn’t know was that he was a conman skilled at manipulation, isolation, and deception.Over time, Evelyn became increasingly cut off from the people who loved her. Her money disappeared. Eventually, she did too. Months passed before those closest to Evelyn realized something far more sinister had happened. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we examine the disappearance and murder of Evelyn Throsby—a landmark case that helped shape how prosecutors pursue homicide convictions when a victim’s body has never been found. We explore coercive control, financial exploitation, isolation within abusive relationships, and the devastating reality that someone can disappear long before they are officially declared missing. 📍 Los Angeles, California | May 16, 1955📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Nadia Hatta➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. ➡️ Join us on Patreon where we share exclusive content for supporters.  📍 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 Nadia Hatta:Nadia Hatta is best known for her recent role as ‘Mei Chen’ in the Netflix series AWAY, which has been listed in Netflix’s Top 10. She starred in Discovery Channel’s Golden Bell award-winning travel show, FUN TAIWAN, which reached over 2 billion views. Hatta can be seen recurring in the drama-mystery series HEAD ABOVE WATER. At MTV ASIA in China, she was a VJ and wrote, produced, directed, and hosted a seven-part miniseries on New York Fashion Week. Nadia has also starred in BA BI LUN MI WU as well as BABYLON FOG by acclaimed Chinese director, Lu Chuan. In 2012, she won Best Actor for A PART APART in National Film Challenge, USA. Nadia currently resides in Canada and has a BFA in Acting and Theatre from New York University’s famed Tisch program. She has also studied at Amsterdam’s International Theatre School and the Roy Hart International Arts Centre in France. While English is her native language, she speaks Mandarin with a native tongue and is fluent in French and Italian.

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.

On the Fourth of July weekend in 1966, three young women head to Indiana Dunes State Park to enjoy the beach and swim in Lake Michigan. Despite the over 8000 other beach goers there that day, the women somehow vanish without a trace. They’re disappearances spawn many theories over the years, but none bring investigators closer to finding out what happened to Ann Miller, Patricia Blough, and Renee Bruhl that day. This week our guest reader is Meredith Garretson. Meredith will star in the World Premiere play BLOOD OF THE LAMB Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in NY this fall. She is currently starring as Kate Hawthorne in the hit TV show RESIDENT ALIEN (Peacock, Netflix, Syfy, coming soon to USA). Past TV credits include: Ali MacGraw in THE OFFER (Paramount Plus), FOSSE/VERDON (FX), STARGIRL (CW), Chicago Med (NBC), NEW AMSTERDAM (NBC), PRODIGAL SON (Fox), THE GOOD FIGHT (Paramount+), ELEMENTARY (CBS). Starring in the upcoming feature film FRIENDSHIP opposite Paul Rudd (director: Andrew DeYoung).Theater credits include: Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT, Maid Marian in ROBIN HOOD (The Old Globe), Christina Mundy in DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Two River Theater), PAINT MADE FLESH (The Cell). She is a founding member of SOCIETY THEATRE COMPANY. 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.

A serial killer sends investigators a series of notes, detailing his crimes. In them, he mentions a married woman who drove a white grand am. He claims he murdered her and that investigators should be able to use his clues to identify her. There’s one problem though, investigators can’t find any missing person or murder cases that match these clues. This week our guest reader is Tonya Todd. Tonya is a writer, director, actress, and activist invested in fair representation in the literary and cinematic worlds she inhabits. When not writing or filmmaking, she works as a DEI instructor, a sensitivity reader, and co-host of Femme On Podcast. She served as co-editor and contributor for the forthcoming essay collection Comics Lit, Volume 1, which highlights the value of comic books as a form of high art. Her anti-censorship series Banned Books Conversations is available on her YouTube channel and her directorial debut “Mourning Sacrifice” is slated to hit the festival circuit this year. Learn more about Tonya across social media @mstonyatodd and her websitewww.mstonyatodd.com. 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.

In 1990, burned skeletal remains were discovered in rural Benton County, Arkansas. For decades, she was known only as “Bone Woman,” or Benton County Jane Doe.The condition of her remains made identification nearly impossible—and for over 30 years, her name was lost. In 2022, investigators used investigative genetic genealogy to identify her. Her name was Donna Nelton. In this episode of She Goes by Jane, we trace Donna’s case from discovery to identification, examining the limitations that kept her unnamed for decades—and the forensic breakthroughs that finally restored her identity. What does it mean to be known only by circumstance? And what does it take to return a name after so long? 📍 Benton County, Arkansas | 1990 (discovery) — 2022 (identified)📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Devyn Dalton, actor, dancer, and stunt performer. ➡️ Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—follow, rate, and share this episode. 📍 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 More about Devyn Dalton: Devyn Dalton, a Canadian born actor, dancer and stunt woman extraordinaire. A few of Ms. Dalton’s well known credits include, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, The BFG, Hypnotic, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Two Sentence Horror Story, Fairly Odd Christmas, Beyblade Burst, My Little Pony, Peter Pan and Wendy and The Last of Us. Upcoming projects include Brothers, playing the role of Samuel alongside Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Brendan Fraser, Marisa Tomei, and Glenn Close, as well as in Grand Death Lotto directed by Paul Feig, and The Electric State, cast as the lead motion capture role of Cosmo and acting alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Christ Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Billy Bob Thornton and Stanley Tucci. 

It’s June 1989 and Kansas is rocked by a series of attacks on young women. Twenty-four year old Terri Maness was found murdered in her townhouse and eleven days later 24 year old Joan Butler goes missing from her apartment. Just days after that, two roommates, Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch are abducted as well. These abductions spur a manhunt across several states and investigators search for their kidnapper in the hopes these three women can be found alive. This week our guest reader is Jackie Lee McLean, a visual and musical artist based in New York State. She has previously released 3 albums with her band Roan Yellowthorn, and is currently working on the release of her first self titled album, All mine now. Jackie is also the feature of an upcoming documentary of the same name, about her life and journey as a musician. 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 July 2024 selection is the novel The God of the Wood by Liz Moore. 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.

SummaryIn June 1989, Terri Maness is found murdered in her townhouse in Wichita Kansas. Over a week later and 200 miles away, Joan Butler doesn’t show up for work worrying her family and co-workers, but when they go to her apartment, she’s nowhere to be found. Initially, there’s nothing to connect these two cases, but within a week, investigators realize that they could be dealing with a serial killer. This week our guest reader is Jackie Lee McLean, a visual and musical artist based in New York State. She has previously released 3 albums with her band Roan Yellowthorn, and is currently working on the release of her first self titled album, All mine now. Jackie is also the feature of an upcoming documentary of the same name, about her life and journey as a musician. 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 July 2024 selection is the novel The God of the Wood by Liz Moore. 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.

In 1979 the body of a woman was found on or under a porch in North Camden, New Jersey. Years later, her skull is found in another residence. Despite this shocking find, little information is known about her. This week we try to shine light on her story and the factors that have worked against her identification.  This week our guest reader is Shay Mack, an actress, director, and acting coach based in Atlanta, Ga. She received a BA in theatre from Spelman College. Her training has involved numerous classes and workshops with Atlanta and L.A. coaches. Shay is a recurring actress in DC Comics "Doom Patrol" she can also be seen in Ozark, Tell Me Your Secrets, and more. Although Shay has directed numerous theatrical productions over the years, she made her film and television directorial debut directing the multi award winning short The Virtual Baby Sitter, as well as the upcoming season one series Welcome to the Forties. She also coaches and self tapes actors from all over the world with her company, Audition With Shay Mack LLC. 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 July 2024 selection is the novel The God of the Wood by Liz Moore. 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.

Though Dr. Sneha Philip, who lived just blocks from the World Trade Center, is last seen on September 10th, she is added to the list of 9/11 victims. That is until the NYPD starts investigating her personal history and this investigation leads to her removal. Over the years her family fights for her to be recognized as one of the victims and, in 2008, she finally is. Despite this, what one judge calls rank speculation about her, and her disappearance, continues. This week our guest reader is Sakina Jaffrey. Sakina can currently be seen on the Showtime series Billions and the TNT Drama Snowpiercer. She can also be seen on Apple's limited series Defending Jacob. She was a series regular on the NBC series Timeless. Sakina starred as White House Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez in the Netflix series House of Cards, recurred on Little Voice, the Apple series, Lost in Space for Netflix, American Gods for Starz, and on Homeland for Showtime. Recent films include Red Sparrow, directed by Francis Lawrence, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories and Equalizer 2, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Greatest hits include her role as 'Nilma,' Kate Hudson's bat-wielding neighbor, in Garry Marshall's Raising Helen. Among her dozens of films, she has had the privilege of working with Jonathan Demme, James Ivory, Sidney Lumet and Frank Oz. 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 June 2024 selection is the memoir Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story by Kristine S. Ervin. 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.

New York City, September 10th, 2001. The day before the attacks on the World Trade Center is a day when most New York City residents are going about their regular business. The same was true for Dr. Sneha Philip who left her Battery Park apartment that evening to run some errands. It wasn’t unusual for her to spend the night out in the city, but when she doesn’t return home by the next day, her family knows something is wrong. The problem? With all eyes on the terrorist attacks, can they get anyone to listen? This week our guest reader is Sakina Jaffrey. Sakina can currently be seen on the Showtime series Billions and the TNT Drama Snowpiercer. She can also be seen on Apple's limited series Defending Jacob. She was a series regular on the NBC series Timeless. Sakina starred as White House Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez in the Netflix series House of Cards, recurred on Little Voice, the Apple series, Lost in Space for Netflix, American Gods for Starz, and on Homeland for Showtime. Recent films include Red Sparrow, directed by Francis Lawrence, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories and Equalizer 2, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Greatest hits include her role as 'Nilma,' Kate Hudson's bat-wielding neighbor, in Garry Marshall's Raising Helen. Among her dozens of films, she has had the privilege of working with Jonathan Demme, James Ivory, Sidney Lumet and Frank Oz. 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 June 2024 selection is the memoir Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story by Kristine S. Ervin. 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.

In December 1990, a woman accidentally drowned in the Passaic River in New Jersey. Despite these tragic circumstances, her story garners little media attention. She becomes one of the tens of thousands of individuals who are currently unidentified in the United States. Researchers call these tens of thousands of unidentified our “silent mass disaster.” This week our guest reader is award-winning actor Crystal Balint. Crystal has appeared on many renowned productions over the span of her career, working alongside some of North America's finest talent with notable credits including CW's The 100 and Supergirl, Disney's Mech-X4, and dramatic series such as ABC’s The Good Doctor and FOX's Prison Break. In 2019, Crystal’s leading role as Iris Bearden in Britbox’s spin-off series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco won her a Best Actress Leo Award. Crystal also appeared as a series regular on both of writer/director Mike Flanagan's critically acclaimed Netflix original series, Midnight Mass (2020) and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). She can be most recently seen as a heavily recurring character on the CBC series Allegiance. 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 June 2024 selection is the memoir Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story by Kristine S. Ervin. 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.

On March 22, 2011, employees at Dr. Promila Mehta-Paul’s medical office arrive and get ready for another busy day of patients and appointments. There’s one problem? The Doctor never arrives. Always reliable and communicative, they know it’s unlikely that she wouldn’t have called if something came up and soon they, along with Promila’s family and friends, are flooding the local police offices with calls wondering where she is, but when police check her home, it’s clear she hadn’t been there for several days.  This week our guest reader is Mouzam Makkar. Mouzam is an actor, writer and filmmaker. She was last seen recurring as Commander Nouri on Paramount+’s “Seal Team” and in the series regular role of Jennifer McDuffie on Ava DuVernay’s “Naomi” for The CW. She also voices two characters on the recently released, space action RPG Xbox game, Starfield. Mouzam has also been a series regular in ABC’s “The Fix”, and NBC’s “Champions”, created by Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy. She has recurred on shows like “Law & Order: SVU”, “NCIS”, “The Exorcist”, “The Vampire Diaries”, and “Chicago Fire” with guest star roles in “American Horror Story”, and “Bones”, to name a few. Mouzam is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf and the Improv and Sketch Writing programs at The Second City in Chicago. During the strike she wrote, produced and starred in the short film, “Maggie’s Not Okay”, which is currently in post-production. 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 June 2024 selection is the memoir Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story by Kristine S. Ervin. 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.

At 3:30am, a 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield shows up at her uncle’s trailer and wakes her twin who is sleeping inside. The two talk for just a moment before Deanna, startled by her uncle waking up, bolts. This is the last confirmed time she was seen alive. Since 1990, the year she disappeared, until now, there are a few clues that she might be out there somewhere: a collect call, a police computer search, a sighting, but are any of those proof she’s still out there?  This week our guest reader is Alison Arngrim, the actor, comedian, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated. Alison is best known to viewers world-wide for her portrayal of the incredibly nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the much loved, long running hit television series "Little House On The Prairie.”. Her one woman show “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”, which started at Club Fez in New York in 2002, has now become a world-wide phenomenon. As a stand-up comedian, Alison has headlined at nightclubs and theaters worldwide. She is currently starring in two comedy series pilots: “Life Interrupted” and “C.P.R. – Child Performers Resurrection Talent Agency.” 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 May 2024 selection is the fiction book Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon. 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.

In 1952, a man comes across the burned body of a woman in Cottonwood Gulch, just outside of Black Hawk, Colorado. He returns to this site several times before reporting what he found to the sheriff’s office, a fact that will immediately cloud his actions in suspicion. Without any identifying information, she becomes known as Maria to some, or more often as the Pyre Case for the way she was murdered. It’s been 72 years since she was murdered, and there are questions if she will ever be identified. You see, her remains are missing. This week our guest reader is Dedee Pfeiffer. Dedee landed her first movie role in John Landis' film Into the Night. She went on to star in the horror cult classic comedy Vamp, in the film Red Surf, and made numerous other appearances in films such as Falling Down, and Tune in Tomorrow. Dedee played numerous roles on multiple television shows for the past 40 years such as her role as a series regular on Cybil as Cybil Shepherd's daughter Rachel. Pfeiffer and the rest of the cast were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series. Pfeiffer went on to star in the series For Your Love and guest starred in iconic shows such as Simon and Simon, Murder She Wrote, Ellen, Seinfeld, Friends, two CSI series, ER, and Supernatural to mention a few. Dedee won awards and nominations as an actor and producer on her short films, The Tub and Laredo. She also appeared in the award-winning film L.A., I Hate You. Pfeiffer took a 10-year break from Hollywood to earn her Master of Social Work degree from UCLA, and returned to acting as a series regular on the ABC drama Big Sky for the past 3 years. She is a proud single parent who has raised her two boys and is grateful to be recovering out loud in the hopes to help reduce the social stigma and shame that still surrounds those suffering with their disease of addiction. This is where her podcast “Down with Dedee” comes in. 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 May 2024 selection is the fiction book Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon. 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.

Perhaps you’ve seen the photo before. A young woman with her hands bound, tape over her mouth, laying in the back of a van with a similarly bound little boy. This photo has, for better or worse, become synonymous with the case of Tara Calico, a 19 year old young woman who disappeared while riding her bicycle in New Mexico in 1988. But beyond that photo, many don’t know much about Tara or her disappearance. And this year, she’ll have been missing for 36 years, almost twice as long as she was alive. This week our guest reader is Lauren Robertson, an LA based actress / comedian who received her training from Chicago establishments like iO Theatre and Second City (Conservatory program), where she then went on to write and perform in shows around Chicago and LA. TV credits include "Modern Family", "Baskets", and "Sorry For Your Loss". She has been in several national commercials including McDonald's, Pepsi, and NY Life Insurance. She is a published author at "Darling Media" and has written, produced, and starred in web content in conjunction with Funny Or Die and Hello Giggles. Her favorite mention in the press is: "Especially good...even inside all of that blue spandex" - Chicago Tribune. Follow her on Instagram. 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 May 2024 selection is the fiction book Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon. 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.

In 1977, a young female hitchhiker catches a ride from a man who offers to bring her to her home. Within an hour, the man murders her and leaves her body to be found by a group of blackberry pickers a few days later. She has no identification on her. Though it’s not long before they pinpoint him as the murderer, but he doesn’t know her name. Investigators spend years trying to identify her, eventually giving her the name Precious Jane Doe in the hopes that it will help people remember her. In another case solved by investigative genetic genealogy, we highlight the case of Lisa Roberts, formerly known as Precious Jane Doe. This week our guest reader Heather Morris who is best known for her comedic breakout role as Brittany S. Pierce on FOX’s hit series, Glee. She is currently recurring as Judy in the CBS hit comedy So Help Me Todd and is executive producer and writer on the dark comedy Podcast The Bystanders available on all podcast platforms. Morris has appeared in numerous indie films including the upcoming comedy Cora Bora starring Meg Stalter and Manny Jacinto and voiced the role of Katie the Mammoth in the Multimillion dollar franchise Ice Age: Continental Drift. Aside from a successful career as an actress, Heather is an incredibly established dancer who began her career with Beyonce and currently travels the country teaching for HEAT Dance Convention 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 May 2024 selection is the fiction book Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon. 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.

In 1968, the body of a young woman was found in rural Pennsylvania. She’d been shot to death. Months later, another young woman is found just a few miles away. Their only connection? They wore the same leather sandals. It will take nearly fifty years and an online database dedicated to missing and unidentified persons to identify who they are. But even with this development in their case, their murders are still unsolved. This week our guest reader is Kelsey Wang is a Chinese-American actress who can be seen on television, film, and theatre. She is a graduate of Duke University and Yale School of Drama’s Summer Conservatory. Her television credits include Magnum PI, The Young and the Restless, and Netflix’s Daredevil. Her theater credits include the U.S. Premiere of Chimerica at the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. and Pan Asian Repertory Theater's production's Off-Broadway production of A Dream of Red Pavilions. You can follow her on Instagram. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and untwidentified 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 April 2024 selection is the nonfiction book Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles. 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.

In August 1993, a man walks into a police station and gives a statement about the disappearance of 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas. In it, he details the brutal assault and murder of the teenager, placing blame for these on his two friends. This statement of what happened to Sequoya will be just one of many that’s given over the years by the three men. They’ll be full of contradictions and blame, but one thing will be certain, Sequoya didn’t survive her encounter with these men. This week our guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo, the award winning actress, voice artist, and choreographer playing lead and supporting roles for film, television, video games, theater and more. Her credits include a series regular as Paara on NBC’s La Brea, Touching Ground in the BBC Mini series The English, Kendra Daniels in the original video game Dead Space, and Shayla Stonefeather in the independent film Imprint. In addition, she has guest starred on a number of TV shows including The Rookie, Animal Kingdom, Undone, American Dad and Spirit Rangers. 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 April 2024 selection is the nonfiction book Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. In this episode we highlight Where’s Sequoya? by Dove Johnson, Sequoya’s sister. It’s available on Amazon. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

In 1993, 16-year-old Sequoya Vargas hitchhikes with a friend to her friend’s home. Later that evening, the man who gave them a ride asks her to go to his cousin’s house to watch movies. She never returns home. Despite this being out of character for her, the police brush aside her mother’s pleas to search for her daughter, sending her family and friends on their own quest to find out what happened to Sequoya that night. This week our guest reader Tonantzín Carmelo, the award winning actress, voice artist, and choreographer playing lead and supporting roles for film, television, video games, theater and more. Her credits include a series regular as Paara on NBC’s La Brea, Touching Ground in the BBC Mini series The English, Kendra Daniels in the original video game Dead Space, and Shayla Stonefeather in the independent film Imprint. In addition, she has guest starred on a number of TV shows including The Rookie, Animal Kingdom, Undone, American Dad and Spirit Rangers. 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 April 2024 selection is the nonfiction book Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. In this episode we highlight Where’s Sequoya? by Dove Johnson, Sequoya’s sister. It’s available on Amazon. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

Detective Lorie Howard was once told that the only way the case of the unidentified woman she was working on would be by the grace of god. This gave her the name Grace Doe and she was known by this for years until she was finally identified as Shauna Garber. A few weeks ago, investigators made public new information, filling in gaps in Shauna’s story including an update to her name and revealing what happened to her the night she was murdered.  This week we’re joined by actress Teryl Rothery. Four-time Leo-nominated Rothery is best known and loved for her portrayal of Dr. Janet Fraiser on Showtime’s “Stargate: SG-1” and her starring role opposite Andie MacDowell in the Hallmark Channel Original Series “Cedar Cove.” Rothery can most recently be seen recurring in Amazon’s “Upload.” and Netflix’s “Virgin River.” You can find Teryl on Instagram. 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 April 2024 selection is the nonfiction book Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles. 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.

Tot Tran Harriman survived the Vietnam War. She witnessed history when she was evacuated on the last boat out of Saigon before it fell. She lived through being held in a refugee camp in Pennsylvania along with 20,000 other refugees. And made a life for herself in Maine, raising three children, starting new businesses, and helping other refugees. But in 2001, she also became one of America’s missing women.  This week our guest reader is actor, writer, and producer Porter Duong whose work showcases stories within the Asian narrative and diaspora. She is a first generation Vietnamese-American, born to refugees of the Vietnam War and the proud daughter of her mother, a gifted singer who found her way to freedom as one of the many "boat people." Her first lead role in the independent film, Touch, garnered a Best Actress and Audience Choice Award. A groundbreaking story of the dynamics of an immigrant family and their identity in America while navigating the afterlife of war. It opened in Vietnam to rave reviews, despite concerns regarding the complicated relationship with the Communist government. She has had significant roles on Emmy award winning shows such as NBC’s This is Us and HBO’s Silicon Valley. Her nonprofit work through The Chimaera Project aims to support and fund women and nonbinary filmmakers. Porter is currently working to publish a collection of poems and short essays woven by love and grief, dedicated to her late mother. You can find Porter on Instagram. 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 April 2024 selection is the nonfiction book Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles. 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.

On a hot summer’s day in 1992, 63-year-old Bessie Kutnak goes to look for her missing cattle near her home in Cameron, Texas. Witnesses say she seemed disoriented and was seen asking for directions before she disappeared. When family members realized she was missing, a full-scale search of her began, but no trace of her was ever found. This week our guest reader is actress Catherine Mary Stewart. Perhaps the most recognizable title on Catherine’s resume is the classic comedy, Weekend at Bernie’s where she starred as the lead, Gwen. She has also starred in Days of Our Lives as Kayla Brady, in The Last Starfighter, and Mischief. She has also starred in the television mini-series Hollywood Wives, New Amsterdam, Limitless, and White Collar along with many roles on Hallmark, Lifetime and in independent movies.   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 March 2024 selection is the novel The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. 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.

On July 11, 2007, a 31-year-old Carma Purpura was last seen getting into the cab of a truck driver at a rest stop near Indianapolis. The next day, he’s arrested in Nashville under suspicion he’s involved in the murder of another woman. Inside his cab, investigators find Carma’s phone and credit card and so much of Carma’s blood detectives are certain Carma is no longer alive. Four years later, a skull along with some other remains are found in Kentucky. With few clues to go on, she becomes one of the state’s unidentified women. Even though it takes five more years to identify her as Carma, it brings some amount of resolution to her case. This week our guest reader is comic Jann Karam whose numerous TV credits–stand up performances and series acting roles–include repeat appearances on both The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, HBO’s legendary 13th Annual Young Comedians’ Show, How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), Comics Unleashed, The Arsenio Hall Show, Norm, Mad About You, Politically Incorrect, Dr. Katz, and many others. She was a regular sketch player in the last incarnation of The Carol Burnett Show and, in the now classic Seinfeld episode “The Switch.” Her latest claim to fame—bantering with comedy genius Larry David during her two co-starring roles on both season 11 and 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm She’s released three successful comedy albums—Live at the Blue Loon and Same Guy, DifferentShirt, most recently, Live at the Wren Theater, and taped her own documentary special, Beyond the Set. 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 March 2024 selection is the novel The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. 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.

On Valentine’s Day in 1991, a young woman is seen hitchhiking along US 1 in the Florida Keys. The next morning, a pair of windsurfers find her body in a densely wooded area. She’d been beaten to death before being strangled with her own bikini top. For years this young woman was known only as Valentine Doe, named for the last day she was seen alive. But investigators never give up on her case, utilizing new tactics and techniques to identify her. This week our guest reader is Patricia Rae, a dynamic Latin American actress and producer born and raised in New York City, currently based in LA. She starred in John Polson’s cult classic “Swimfan” and starred in a major supporting role in the Academy Award nominated film, “Maria Full of Grace”. She also recurred on “All Rise” on OWN for three seasons as Judge Delgado. Her long list of television credits include NCIS: Los Angeles, Blue Bloods, The Mentalist, and Chuck. She is currently co-hosting 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. 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 March 2024 selection is the novel The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. 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.

In 2001, the Green River Killer was finally caught, ending one of the most horrific eras in the Pacific Northwest and ending a decades long investigation dedicated to identifying this mnan. Convicted of 49 murders, this man confessed to even more, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. It would take over twenty more years to identify three of his young victims with the most recent being identified in 2024. This week our guest reader is actress and creative Tabitha Brownstone who is originally from Los Angeles. As an actress Tabitha’s credits include Kaljillionaire, Domino, The Middle, and The Real O’Neals, to name a few. As a creative, Tabitha wrote and produced her own live comedy show, having sold out five consecutive shows during the Fringe Festival, later touring abroad in Europe and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also co-created and starred in Fickle, a series that was acquired by two streaming services. You can find her on Instagram and TikTok. You can also find her podcast “Overthinking It With Liz and Tabitha” here.  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 March 2024 selection is the novel The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. 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.

When he spoke of what happened to his daughter Shelley, Ed Sikes said, “It was a crash course in good and evil.” In 1986, when Shelley was 19, she was working as a waitress at a popular restaurant in Galveston. The night she disappeared, she left work and headed to her boyfriend’s house, but Shelley never made it there. Based on eyewitness accounts and, eventually, the confessions of her killers, investigators were able to piece together a pretty detailed account of what happened that night. The one thing they don’t know? Where Shelley is now. This week our guest reader is actress Gus Birney. Gus can currently be seen in her second season starring opposite Courteney Cox in the Starz series SHINING VALE, for which she received a Saturn Award nomination. This past year she also made her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated revival of THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW. She can currently be seen returning to the BAM stage in the New York premiere of OUR CLASS. Her other television credits include Apple TV’s Dickinson, Spike TV’s The Mist, and on Insatiable, Blue Bloods, Bull, Jessica Jones, Instinct, Law & Order: SVU, and Chicago Med. You can follow Gus on Instagram. 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 February 2024 selection is the true crime book The Hunt for Brianna Maitland by Greg Overacker. 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.

McDonald County, Missouri. In 1990, a woman and her husband find the remains of a woman near an abandoned house. She’s been bound, her hands and legs tied behind her back. With no identification on her, and no one coming forward to claim her, she becomes one of America’s unidentified women and is given the name Grace Doe, because it will be only through the Grace of God that her identity will be returned to her. And, for over thirty years, that’s true. Until one day, science, and a determined detective, give her her name back. This week we’re joined by actress Teryl Rothery. Four-time Leo-nominated Rothery is best known and loved for her portrayal of Dr. Janet Fraiser on Showtime’s “Stargate: SG-1” and her starring role opposite Andie MacDowell in the Hallmark Channel Original Series “Cedar Cove.” Rothery can most recently be seen recurring in Amazon’s “Upload.” and Netflix’s “Virgin River.” You can find Teryl on Instagram. 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 February 2024 selection is the true crime book The Hunt for Brianna Maitland by Greg Overacker. 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.

Cleveland, 1934. A man collecting firewood along the shores of Lake Erie is startled to find the partial remains of a woman. Though investigators are able to determine that she was brutally murdered, they are unable to identify the woman, naming her the Lady of the Lake instead. What they didn’t know yet was that the next four years the Cleveland area would be terrorized by a man they called the Cleveland Torso Murderer or the Butcher of Kingsbury Run who left a wake of sadistic murders behind. Even now, 90 years later, he, along with many of the victims, have never been identified. This week our guest reader is Dee Wallace who played the role of Mary in E.T., The Extraterrestrial, as well as in 10, The Howling, Cujo, and The Frighteners. With over 250 film credits to her name, Dee is one of the most prolific actresses in Hollywood. She has five series and hundreds of commercials under her belt and has just concluded her 560th segment of her live radio show, Conscious Creation. As a writer, Dee is the author of six books on the art of self-creation. Her latest release is BORN: Giving Birth to a New You (Briton Publishing). You can find Dee on Instagram and Facebook. 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 February 2024 selection is the true crime book The Hunt for Brianna Maitland by Greg Overacker. 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.

In 1969, 21-year-old Linda Peogeot and her daughter, Lori Mae, leave a department store with all the supplies they need to celebrate the little girl’s third birthday party happening the next day. And there, in the parking lot, they’re abducted by a man in broad daylight with witnesses just feet away. This abduction spurs a nationwide manhunt as investigators race to get Linda and Lori Mae back to safety.  Liz Moore is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Long Bright River, which was a Good Morning America Book Club pick and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2019, as well as the acclaimed novels Heft and The Unseen World. A winner of the 2014-2015 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia. You can follow Liz on Instagram. 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 February 2024 selection is the true crime book The Hunt for Brianna Maitland by Greg Overacker. 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.

In southern Texas, there’s a strip of highway that runs between Houston and Galveston. From the 1970s until today, it’s a place where many women and girls have gone missing or were murdered. Most of these crimes are unsolved and this area has become known as the Texas Killing Fields. But nestled along Interstate 45 in League City, Texas, is a 25 acre field where this name originated. There, between 1984 and 1991, the bodies of four young women were found in this field. Two were identified immediately, but two more spent 30 years known only as Jane and Janet Doe until one day, that changed. This week we’re joined by actor Briana Evigan who 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. 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 January 2024 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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.

Dorothy Arnold, a young socialite, vanished without a trace in 1910. Born into wealth and privilege, Dorothy's life seemed idyllic, but her family didn’t support her aspirations to become a writer nor her budding romance with a man named George Griscom Jr., both of which she kept hidden from her family. With her disappearance, a tangled web of theories emerges, including rumors of elopement, a clandestine abortion, and even suspicions of sex trafficking. This week we’re joined by Sharon Lawrence who was recently a series regular role in the Paramount + series Joe Pickett. Previously she starred in On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Home Before Dark , Rebel , Criminal Minds, Shameless, The Ranch, and Sugar. Sharon continues to be recognized from her multiple Emmy nominated and SAG Award-winning portrayal of Ada Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in NYPD Blue and as Izzy's Mom on Grey’s Anatomy. Her 5th EMMY nomination came in 2021 as Lead Actress in a digital series The Gaze. Sharon is the Second Vice President of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.  You can find Sharon on Instagram. 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 January 2024 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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.

When 30-year-old Pah Pow leaves her apartment, the only witness is her young son who says she left with a man he recognized but whose name he didn’t know. Her family thought she was with family, her family thought she was with friends. This mistake meant nearly a week passed before anyone realized Pah was missing. An immigrant from Thailand, Pah lived with her husband and children in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She has been missing since April 2016. This week, we’re joined by Rainbow Dickerson, the proud daughter of a brave Thai mother who came to the United States during the first small wave of Thai immigrants in the 1960’s. Rainbow is also of Rappahannock and Caucasian descent and is honored to lend her voice to this project. She became a TIFF Rising Star for her work in the feature, BEANS, for which she also received other awards and nominations. She can be seen next in Netflix’s live-action, Avatar: The Last Airbender, premiering February 22nd, 2024. Other selected screen credits include Gone, Chicago Fire, and Banshee. In addition, Rainbow has performed on Broadway and at many of the country’s top theatres, recently closing an Off-Broadway run of Manahatta at The Public Theatre in NYC. Other favorites include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, American Players Theatre, and Native Voices. Rainbow currently resides on unceded Tongva/Gabrieleno territory, also known as Los Angeles, CA. Represented by Liberman Zerman Management. 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 January 2024 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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.

Keiosha Felix is just fifteen years old when she disappears from Duson, Louisiana. Out on a weekend pass from a facility for pregnant and parenting teens, she’s set to visit her paternal aunt on the weekend of April 28-29th, 2012. On April 30th, she’s reported missing. Her paternal aunt and cousin said she left the night before with someone they didn’t see. Later, her cousin will say that she heard from Keiosha after April 30th which is used as evidence that she is a runaway, having left her aunt’s home with the intention of not coming back.Very little information is available about the last time Keiosha was seen, but her young child is moved to state care and she stays labeled a runaway for nearly two months. Her maternal aunts, though, know she wouldn’t have left on her own without her child whom she loved dearly. One aunt maintains that Keiosha didn’t like going to her paternal aunt’s because of her paternal aunt’s boyfriend.By summer, Keiosha is relabeled as a missing person and swiftly following this four individuals including her paternal aunt, her aunt’s boyfriend, her cousin, and the boyfriend’s brother are arrested. Despite this, upheaval in the Duson police department leaves the lead investigator on suspension with pay, the police chief lodging accusation after accusation after his own employee while rumors swirl about his own connection to Keiosha’s paternal relatives, and the case floundering as one by one those arrested are let go.Keiosha’s case becomes less about a young kid missing from home and more about the ensuing drama. Still, her story is a stark reminder of how we treat stories of young Black girls and teen moms. Keiosha deserves to have her story told, and her family deserves answers.People and Cases Mentioned in this Episode:Keiosha Felix (unsolved missing persons case) Michaela “Mickey” Shunick (solved missing persons case and solved murder case) Lisa Pate (solved missing persons case and solved murder case) Danielle Thibodeaux (unsolved case)

“Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.” That’s what the telegram read that Beverly Sharpman’s parents received the night of September 11, 1947. But, according to her mother, there was one problem: Beverly wasn’t seeing anyone at the time. This, and the unanswered questions surrounding her disappearance send one mother on a decades long quest to find her daughter. This week, we’re joined by American voice actress Susan Bennett. Susan, a former backup singer for Roy Oribson, is best known as the female American voice Apple’s Siri personal assistant since the service was introduced on the iPhone 4S and remained the voice of Siri until the iOS 7 update. You can find Susan on Instagram and Facebook. 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 January ‘24 selection is the true crime book The Hunt for Brianna Maitland by Gregory Overacker. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films. Show Notes“Got married. Leaving town. Will not be back. Don’t worry. Babe.” That’s what the telegram read that Beverly Sharpman’s parents received the night of September 11, 1947. Just the evening before, on September 10, seventeen-year-old Beverly had told her mother that she wanted to confide something to her. By the time her mother returned with cups of tea for them both, Beverly had evidently reconsidered and went to bed without revealing her secret. The next day, Beverly Sharpman went to her high school to register for classes and, once back home, snuck out of the house with just a small suitcase in tow. The telegram she sent her parents was dispatched from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station not far from her home in Philadelphia. Her mother believed that the telegram had to be sent by someone else because, as far as her parents and friends knew, Beverly wasn’t dating anyone. And, Beverly’s message contained one clue, it said that she “got married,” but investigators were unable to find a marriage certificate in her name. Soon, though, evidence began to stack up that Beverly actually had chosen to leave her family. She had withdrawn money from her account in advance and quit her job, telling co-workers that she planned to go to Chicago. It’s also believed that she bought a train ticket to Chicago on the day she disappeared. Still, her mother spent the rest of her life looking for Beverly and so, like many missing person’s cases, Beverly’s story is as much a family’s story and how this disappearance fundamentally changed all of their lives. People and Cases Mentioned in this Episode:Beverly Sharpman (unsolved missing person case)

In Ohio, a black woman’s body is found beneath a bridge and labeled Victim #8. In New York, a black woman found dead inside a storage tote will become known as Peaches for the heart shaped peach tattoo on her breast. And in Georgia, a black woman’s bones are found in the underbrush by a man walking his dog. Like many women of color who came before and after them, their stories fade from news coverage - if they’re covered at all. What is missing white woman syndrome and how does it translate to unidentified bodies cases? We explore the stories of nine unidentified black women from across the United States and spanning over seventy years in order to find out what happened and why media coverage matters. This week, we’re joined by Wendy Williams and Beth Williams, hosts of the award-winning true crime podcast Fruitloops. Fruitloops was born out of their desire to create a podcast with diverse voices covering diverse stories. You can listen to Wendy and Beth on Fruitlioops, now with over 200 episodes, wherever you get your podcasts including as part of the Evergreen lineup of podcasts. 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 December ‘23 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

There are more than 57 million miles of Alaskan wilderness. Between the 1970s and 1983, a serial killer used this vast expanse to hunt his victims like wild animals, knowing they could never escape. In 1980, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found in Eklutna, Alaska. Her murderer claimed she was his first victim and may have been a topless dancer or a sex worker. He suspected she came from Kodiak, but investigators believe she may have come from California. “Eklutna Annie” is his last remaining unidentified victim. This week, we’re joined by singer and songwriter Kelly Moneymaker. She is best known as a member of platinum-selling trio Exposé and her music has been placed in over 25 other media productions. Kelly's multicultural roots have inspired her passion for indigenous storytelling and the environment, which led to her directing the Award-winning documentary VAKA. Her current project, Drum Song: The Rhythm of Life, is about Indigenous climate adaptation in her homeland, Alaska. You can find Kelly on Instagram, Facebook, and Spotify. 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 December ‘23 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

They said they were going to go babysit, but secretly had other plans to meet up with a friend. When teenagers Cynthia and Jackie Leslie left their Mesa, Arizona home in 1974, no one was worried. After all, everyone assumed they were exactly where they said: babysitting. When they didn’t return home, though, their family was plunged into a mystery now almost 50 years old. In this episode we cover both what was reported by the media and what was contained in their over 200 page police file. This week, we’re joined by writer Catherine McKenzie. A graduate of McGill in History and Law, Catherine practiced law for twenty years before leaving the practice to write full time. She’s the author of numerous bestsellers including HIDDEN, FRACTURED, THE GOOD LIAR and I’LL NEVER TELL. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and PLEASE JOIN US and I’LL NEVER TELL have all been optioned for development into television series. You can find Catherine on Instagram and TikTok.  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 December ‘23 selection is the thriller Have You Seen Her by Catherine McKenzie. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins Bill Huffman, host of Who Kills..?, to discuss various cases. Were they touch on the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, who went missing in 2004 in Vermont. Despite the efforts of her family and detectives, the case remains unsolved. In this episode, we also look into the complexities surrounding cases where the media coverage was lacking and were eventually forgotten. She Goes by Jane tells the stories of America's missing and unidentified women through episodes that honor women and their lives without focusing on gratuitous violence or perpetrators. Each episode features an original poem by Aimée Baker read by a special guest. Bill Huffman is a veteran podcast host and journalists with a penchant for true crime and breaking news. https://killerpodcasts.com/who-killed 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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

In 1992, a truck driver pulls onto an interstate turnout on I-80 in Wyoming. There, she spots the body of a woman laying face down in the snow. The unidentified woman becomes known as Bitter Creek Betty or Rose Doe for her rose tattoo. The only clue to her identity is a tattoo artist from Tucson who remembers giving her the distinctive tattoo. In this episode we discuss what investigators have released about her, her link to another unidentified woman, and the arrest of their killer. This week, we’re joined by Ginger Strand, the author of one novel and three books of narrative nonfiction, as well as many magazine features. Her book Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate, tells the entwined stories of the American interstate highway system and the serial killers who haunted it, looking at how America became more mobile and more violent at the same time. You can find Ginger on Instagram. 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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

When a teenager disappears from a movie theater in Covina, California, police initially believe she’s run away. In the decades to come, Cynthia Hernandez stays a missing person despite her remains being found just a month after her disappearance. We cover one of our rare solved cases to talk about what happened in those years and why it took so long for Cynthia to come home. This week, we’re joined by actress Gabrielle Ruiz who is best known for her starring role in the CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She can be seen next in the upcoming feature film Man in the Long Black Coat opposite Christopher Lloyd and Dermont Mulroney. You can find Gabrielle on Instagram and TikTok.  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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

What if a serial killer has the only clues to an unidentified woman’s identity? When a serial killer on death row begins talking about his crimes, investigators are shocked to learn of the 1986 murder of a woman in Texas that indicates his killings began much earlier than they thought. Despite this confession, that woman, whose name he thinks could be Norma, remains unidentified even now. This week, we’re joined by Emmy-Award winning Jeané Coakley. With more than twenty year’s of broadcast experience, Jeané serves as SNY’s lead New York Jets reporter and regularly contributes to SNY’s sports and entertainment news shows. She has covered everything from the Super Bowl to March Madness to the Indy 500. You can find Jeané on Instagram and X.  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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

Who or what scares witnesses so much that many of them ask to remain anonymous when speaking to investigators? That’s what happened in the disappearance of Nahida Khatib who suddenly vanished from her home one October morning in 1976. This week we’re joined by award-winning actress and activist Kathy Najimy. Kathy Najimy is well-known for her over 40 film roles including Sister Act and Hocus Pocus. She is also known for her television roles which include, most recently, on The Big C, and prior work as Peggy Hill on the Emmy Award-winning King of the Hill. As an activist, she was named Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year enthusiastic supporter of women’s and girls’ rights, AIDS awareness, animal rights, and a woman’s right to choose, and frequently travels around the country to keynote speak on these issues. You can find Kathy on Instagram. 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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

What happens to unidentified remains when their cases go cold? Most often, they’re held in evidence or buried. That’s not the case for three unidentified people who were found in Washington’s Pierce County in the 1970s. Instead, two were sent to a local landfill and one was lost. This week, we’re joined by one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, singer-songwriter Stephanie Quayle, who is one of the most active female artists with a consistent presence on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, and ranks in the Top 10 of Current Female Airplay over the last two years. This Rebel Engine Entertainment singer-songwriter has performed at the Grand Ole Opry, historic Ryman Auditorium, and taken the stage with the likes of Willie Nelson, Brett Eldredge, Jon Pardi, and more. You can find Stephanie on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and listen to her music on Spotify. 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 November ‘23 selection is the true crime selection Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton. Find more about Stephanie here: https://linktr.ee/stephanie.quayle Stream Stephanie's song Jane here: https://orcd.co/janesq 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

As one of the most recognizable unidentified persons cases in the United States, she was known for decades as “Buckskin Girl.” For 37 years, her identity remained unknown. In 2018, she was finally identified as Marcia Sossoman King through advances in forensic DNA and genetic genealogy. In this episode, we explore Marcia’s life, the circumstances that led to her becoming unidentified, and the investigative work that helped restore her name after nearly four decades. Her case is one of the earliest and most well-known examples of how modern DNA technology can bring answers to long-standing cases.📍 Troy, Ohio  | 1981 🎙️ Featuring a guest reading by actress and voice actor Mercedes Rose, known for her work in What the Bleep Do We Know?, Portlandia, Leverage, and as the voice of Rosalina in Nintendo titles. 📖 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. 📍 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 Mercedes Rose:Mercedes has appeared in films such as What the Bleep Do We Know? and television shows like Portlandia and Leverage. She’s also done voice-over work, most notably for Rosalina in several Nintendo titles, and is the one of the stars and creators of Haunting of a Sunshine Girl. Find her on Instagram.

Bigfoot took her. That’s the explanation a 43-year-old man gives after he takes 16-year-old Theresa Bier out hiking and doesn’t return with her. But despite extensive ground and air searches for the teenager, there’s little evidence about what truly happened to Theresa in 1987.  If you know anything about the disappearance of Theresa Bier contact the Fresno Police Department at (559) 621-7000. This week, we’re joined by Canadian Screen Award winning actress Lauren Ash. Lauren currently stars in the ABC Comedy Not Dead Yet and is well-known for her role is Dina in NBC’s Superstore. You can find Lauren on Instagram and TikTok as well as hear her on her award-winning true crime podcast True Crime and Cocktails. 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 October ‘23 selection is Louise Penny’s Still Life. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

Alien queens, evidence planting, witness threatening: just three ways in which the trials for Girly’s murder become so outlandish that the media starts to lose sight of Girly Chew and the fact that she’s still missing. In this second part to Girly’s story, we talk about what happened during the trial and what was done to try to bring Girly home to her family. If you are experiencing intimate partner violence or domestic violence, please call: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788 This week, we’re joined by actress Raven Goodwin. Raven Goodwin has recently starred in Being Mary Jane, SMILF, The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, and Single Black Female. Follow Raven on Instagram and TikTok. 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 October ‘23 selection is Louise Penny’s Still Life. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

What if everything you believed about your partner wasn’t true at all? Not where they went to school. Not their job. Not even their name. That’s what happened to Girly Chew when she left her home in Malaysia and married the monster who would eventually murder her. This week, we’re joined by Raven Goodwin as we shine light on Part 1 of Girl’s story. If you are experiencing intimate partner violence or domestic violence, please call: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788  This week, we’re joined by actress Raven Goodwin. Raven Goodwin has recently starred in Being Mary Jane, SMILF, The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, and Single Black Female. Follow Raven on Instagram and TikTok. 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 October ‘23 selection is Louise Penny’s Still Life. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films.

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.

When Mary Shotwell Little doesn’t show up for work the morning of October 15, 1965, her boss immediately knows something must be wrong. That afternoon, police find her car at the shopping center she visited the evening before with a friend. Inside the car are her groceries and a small amount of blood.  What happened to Mary? And did a mysterious admirer who sent her roses at work have something to do with her disappearance? This episode, our guest is New York Times bestselling author and new media creator Paige McKenzie. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram, and find her book series Haunting of a Sunshine Girl at Bookshop.org and Amazon. 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. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films. For full episode transcripts and show notes, head to our website.

On the night of March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland left her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, VT. Shortly after, witnesses saw her car less than two miles away, crashed into an abandoned farmhouse. Despite this, days pass before anyone realizes that Brianna is missing. What happened to Brianna that night and what will it take for someone to finally come forward with answers? This episode, our guest is actress Marypat Farrell. A Vermont-native, Marypat has appeared on Night Court, 9-1-1 and On The Verge. You can follow her on Instagram.  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. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films. For full episode transcripts and show notes, head to our website.

In 2013, a woman was walking her dog on a beach in Lattingtown, NY, along the Long Island Sound when she found the skeletal remains of a woman. Today, this unidentified woman is known only as Lattingtown Jane Doe or Nassau County Jane Doe, and the strongest clue to her identity is the 24k gold pig necklace found with her body. Who is she? What happened to her? And is she connected to the Long Island Serial Killer? This episode, our guest is ballet dancer and Broadway actress Erica Wong who performed in The King & I, An American in Paris, and Phantom of the Opera. You can find her here and on Instagram. 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. 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. To see Vanessa’s latest film projects, check out Birdy & Bean Films. For full episode transcripts and show notes, head to our website.

Each week co-hosts, author Aimée Bake and film maker Vanessa Cicarelli, will bring you a story of a missing or unidentified woman. And each episode they will be joined by a special celebrity guest reader, to read one of Aimée's poems written in honor of the person they are discussing. Guests like singers, Kelly Moneymaker and Stephanie Quayle. Actors, Coco Jones, Marypat Farrell and Gabrielle Ruiz. Authors, Louise Penny, Catherine Mckenzie and Paige McKenzie and voices actors Mercedes Rose and the voice of Siri her self, Susan Bennett.