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Barbara Mae Tucker was 19 years old — a business student at Mount Hood Community College, a former high school athlete, the baby of a big, blended family — when she was murdered walking to a night class on January 15th, 1980.

In her final minutes, multiple drivers saw her flagging down cars on a road at the edge of campus. Not one of them called police.

What followed was one of the largest investigations Gresham, Oregon had ever seen: composite sketches, hypnotized witnesses, an FBI consultation, hundreds of interviews, and a community that transformed itself in real time — security upgrades on the college campus, building an entire neighborhood watch program from scratch, and refusing to let Barbara become, in her own mother's words, "just a statistic."

In this episode, we go inside the investigation as it actually unfolded in 1980 — the leads, the witnesses, the sketches, and a family determined to get answers.

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This is part two of two, if you haven't, listen to part one, then come back to hear the shocking conclusion.

For years after Barbara Mae Tucker's murder in Gresham, Oregon, her case sat alongside a growing list of other unsolved local homicides — a running wound for a family, and a community, that never stopped waiting for answers.

Her mother died without knowing. Her father died without knowing. Her sister spent decades calling police for updates on a case that never moved.

Then, technology finally caught up to a piece of evidence that had been sitting untouched since the year 2000. What it led investigators to would upend everything anyone had believed about this case for over four decades — including exactly who they should have been looking for the entire time.

In this episode, we finish the story of Barbara Mae Tucker: the case breakthrough, the identity behind the killer, the trial, and what it finally means, forty-four years later, for a family that never stopped asking.

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In April 2010, Eric Preimesberger — a 29-year-old father of two known for his big smile and his beloved scooter — vanished from his Reno, Nevada home. His wife told police he'd stormed out after an argument and would never be back. For months, that was the only story anyone had.

But Eric's mother never bought it. She kept pushing, kept calling, kept refusing to let her son's disappearance quietly fade into a closed file — and four months later, her instincts would prove devastatingly right.

A story of family, betrayal, and a cover-up that unraveled almost by accident. Along the way, they uncover a shocking detail buried in Nevada law — a rule over a century old that meant one of the people most responsible for what happened to Eric never had to face a single charge.

This is a story about how far people will go to protect the ones they love — and what happens when the law protects that instinct a little too well.

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If you've been following the Josh Hunsucker case, you know he was arrested for his wife Stacy's death in 2019. What happened in the years after — while he waited, out on bond, for a trial that still hasn't happened — is a story we weren't prepared for either.

This week, we're covering everything that unfolded between his arrest and today: an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit from Stacy's parents, a change-of-venue fight built on years of national media coverage, and new charges that have kept this case escalating well into 2026.

We pulled directly from court filings for this one, including the defense's own renewed motion, to bring you the most accurate picture available of where things actually stand.

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Two weeks after a South Carolina eye drop poisoning case made national headlines, a flight paramedic's wife collapsed at their North Carolina home and died of an apparent heart attack — plausible, given her years of unexplained cardiac issues.

Josh Hunsucker refused an autopsy, had his wife cremated within two days, and filed for her life insurance before the week was out.

It would take a mother's suspicion, a preserved blood sample nobody expected to still exist, and over a year of investigation to reveal what actually happened to Stacy Hunsucker — and how closely it echoed a case just thirty miles away.

This week, we're covering the marriage, the four different stories Josh told about the night Stacy died, and the arrest that finally connected two cases investigators believe were never a coincidence.

Part Two is out today too — because the you know we don't like to keep you waiting!

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In May 2016, Lana Clayton walked into the York County Sheriff's Office and told deputies she'd accidentally shot her husband in the head with a crossbow while he slept. Steven Clayton backed up her story. Accident. No charges were filed. They moved on.

Two years later, Steve was dead — found at the bottom of the staircase in the South Carolina mansion he'd built as an exact replica of George Washington's Mount Vernon. The first theory was a fall, maybe a heart attack. It took his family's insistence on an autopsy, and a coroner who'd never even heard of the chemical she was looking at, to uncover what had actually happened.

This week, we're digging into the marriage behind the headlines — the six-time-married millionaire and the quiet VA nurse, a crossbow story that changed three separate times over the years, a judge who called it "the strangest case" of his career, and a family that waited a full year to bury their own brother so they could do it without the woman accused of killing him in the room.

And we're not done with this method yet. Because Lana Clayton's case didn't stay contained to South Carolina — and next week, we're following the thread to a second case that investigators believe was directly inspired by this one.

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For over a decade, Sheriff Howard Sills has carried the unsolved murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond with him — a case that's outlasted every other investigation of his forty-year career. In this episode, we go deep into the man behind the badge, the staggering range of theories the public threw at this case — mafia, cult, extremism, even an alligator — and the family who's spent twelve years asking not for revenge, but simply for an answer.

We also trace the forensic breakthroughs that have quietly reshaped this case in recent years: cellphone geolocation data, a touch-DNA discovery on Russell's own clothing, and a 2026 update suggesting these threads are finally converging. Somebody out there knows what happened at that lake house. This episode asks how much longer they can stay quiet

This case is still open. If you have any information about the murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond, contact the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 706-485-8557 or the FBI at 404-679-9000. A reward is still active.

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Russell and Shirley Dermond had been married for over 60 years. Retired, well-liked, and settled into a quiet gated community on Lake Oconee, Georgia, they were the kind of couple who never missed a neighborhood gathering — until the weekend of the 2014 Kentucky Derby, when they simply didn't show up.

Days later, concerned friends walk into their unlocked home and find a horrifying scene. 

No forced entry. Nothing stolen. No known enemies.

In this episode, we walk through the disappearance, the discovery, and the earliest theories in a case that would go on to baffle investigators, the community, and their loved ones.

This case is still open. If you have any information about the murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond, contact the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 706-485-8557 or the FBI at 404-679-9000. A reward is still active.

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This is part two of two. If you haven't listened to part one, do that first, then join us for part two.

The Gary Triano case had been cold for nearly nine years when a tip to America's Most Wanted led investigators to a storage unit in Yorba Linda, California.

Inside: microcassette recordings, thousands of emails, financial documents, a map of Tucson, a Ramada Inn receipt dated four months before the bombing — and Gary Triano's divorce papers.

What investigators found in that storage unit, was a story told in spreadsheets, amortization tables, Federal Express tracking numbers, and the voices of two people who thought no one was listening.

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On the evening of November 1st, 1996, more than 100 people were waiting at Gary Triano's Sabino Canyon home to surprise him for his upcoming 53rd birthday. He never arrived.

Gary Lee Triano was a larger-than-life figure who served on hospital boards, and earned a Medal of Merit from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Task Force. He was also a man whose financial life had left a trail of lawsuits, failed casino deals, and angry creditors stretching from Tucson to Las Vegas to Hong Kong.

At approximately 5:30 p.m. that Friday evening, as Triano got into a borrowed Lincoln Town Car, a pipe bomb detonated. It was the first fatal vehicle explosion in the city of Tucson's history. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik called it an assassination at the scene.

What followed was one of the most complex investigations in Tucson history. And no clear answers. Sheriff Dupnik said it best: it was like a game of Clue.

The case would go cold. The task force would disband. And for nearly a decade, whoever killed Gary Triano would go about their life while his family waited for answers.

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