Going West: True Crime

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Daphne Woolsoncroft and Heath Merryman discuss haunting details of different disappearance and murder cases week by week. New episodes released every Tuesday and Friday afternoon at 2pm PST!

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The Smiley Face Killer // 240

09.30.2022

Starting back in 1997, dozens of men have been found killed under eerily similar circumstances. Almost all of them were dubbed accidents fueled by a night out drinking with friends. But when investigators started noticing a similar calling card left ...

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09.30.2022 The Smiley Face Killer // 240 Starting back in 1997, dozens of men have been found killed under eerily similar circumstances. Almost all of them were dubbed accidents fueled by a night out drinking with friends. But when investigators started noticing a similar calling card left ...
09.27.2022 Karlie Guse // 239 In October of 2018, a 16-year-old girl disappeared from California after a party. Her stepmother picked her up from the side of the road after finding her running in the dark. When they got home, they went to sleep side ...
09.23.2022 Philip Shue // 238 In April of 2003, a psychologist was found dead in his car from a car crash. But shortly before his death, he had received threatening letters, and the day he died, he was seen driving erratically before crashing into a ...
09.20.2022 Jolissa Fuentes // 237 In August of 2022, a 22-year-old woman headed out for a late night snack with the promise that she would be right back, but she never returned. Since then, her family, police, various organizations, and locals have been scouring the ...
09.16.2022 Jennifer Lockmiller // 236 In August of 1993, a 22-year-old college student in Illinois was found dead in her apartment, strangled and stabbed with a pair of scissors. With numerous potential suspects in the realm of possibly, one was convicted. But was he really ...
09.13.2022 Jenna Burleigh // 235 In August of 2017, a 22-year-old film student in Philadelphia was murdered after a night out. What started as a missing persons case quickly evolved into a murder investigation after her remains were found in a storage shed. And it ...
09.09.2022 Kierra Coles // 234 In October of 2018, a 26-year-old postal worker went missing in Chicago after leaving her apartment to run errands. But suspicious surveillance footage and a thought-to-be fake sick call made into her work the next day have led her family ...
09.06.2022 What Happened To Sean? // 233 In April of 2022, a 12-year-old boy was found dead in his backyard, and the police ruled it a suicide despite the baffling and bizarre details associated with the crime scene. His family is desperate for help in re-opening the ...
09.02.2022 Katy Benoit // 232 In 2011, a 22-year-old graduate student in Idaho was baking cookies with friends when she stepped out for a cigarette and was murdered on her porch. Police would soon uncover that an obsessed professor who referred to himself as a ...
08.30.2022 Sequoya Vargas // 231 In August of 1993, a 16-year-old Indigenous girl went missing in Hawaii after going out with a friend. Earlier that day, she and her friend had been picked up by a hitchhiker who asked them to hang out later, but ...
08.26.2022 The Maine Bed & Breakfast Killer // 230 In September of 2006, a grisly murder scene was uncovered in a picturesque farmhouse bed & breakfast in rural Maine. Four people, including the innkeeper and her daughter, were murdered and dismembered by the young cook who lived there, shocking ...
08.23.2022 Kayla Berg // 229 In August of 2009, a 15-year-old girl left home to hang out with friends in a neighboring Wisconsin town, and never returned. Her brother's 24-year-old friend had actually been the last person to see her, claiming to have dropped her ...
08.19.2022 Susan Eads // 228 In August of 1983, a 20-year-old woman working as a cocktail waitress and a DJ was found strangled to death in a vacant field in Texas. When police began investigating her murder, they released the sketch of a mystery man ...
08.19.2022 Debanhi Escobar // Patreon Sneak Peak FIRST HALF OF OUR NEW PATREON BONUS EPISODE ON Debanhi Escobar. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast In April of 2022, an 18-year-old woman went to some house parties with her friends in Mexico. But after she began acting erratically, ...
08.16.2022 Kiely Rodni (Happening Now) // 227 On August 5, 2022, a 16-year-old girl went to a campground party near her home and never returned. When records showed her phone last pinged at the campground before turning off minutes after she supposedly left, her family feared for ...
08.12.2022 Clinton Nelson // 226 In August of 2006, a 21-year-old man attended a party after relocating to Louisiana to reconnect with his biological father. Multiple reports came out from party attendants that he had been acting paranoid and then left suddenly. But the most ...
08.09.2022 Kaitlyn Arquette // 225 In July of 1989, an 18-year-old woman was heading home to her parents house when she was shot in her own car. Her mother, an acclaimed mystery author, launched her own investigation and spent years hunting for her daughter's killer. ...
08.05.2022 Alexis Gabe // 224 (Happening Now) In January of 2022, a 23-year-old woman living in the Bay Area went missing after being spotted on surveillance footage at a local gas station. The next day, her car was found abandoned on a dead-end street with the keys ...
08.02.2022 I-70 Killer // 223 In the spring of 1992, a string of murders began off the I-70 freeway in the Midwest. The killer claimed at least six victims, all of whom were store clerks, but to this day, no one has ever been caught, ...
07.29.2022 Cynthia Anderson // 222 In August of 1981, a 20-year-old woman in Ohio disappeared in broad daylight from her office. When her boss arrived to find her car still in the parking lot, and signs that she had been there that day, but no ...
07.26.2022 Carla Yellowbird // 221 In August of 2016, a 27-year-old woman went missing in the Spirit Lake Reservation of North Dakota after taking a drive with 3 men. After loved ones didn’t hear back from her in days, her aunt, who is a Missing ...
07.22.2022 Humboldt Missing Five // 220 Between 1993 and 2014, five women with similar appearances and backgrounds vanished under comparably suspicious circumstances in the same small area of California. As an area that is already nicknamed “The Black Hole” for its large number of disappearances, many ...
07.19.2022 Oakey "Al" Kite // 219 In 2004, a well-liked man went missing from Aurora, Colorado after dropping his girlfriend off at the airport. When police conducted a wellness check at his home 2 days later, they found him brutally and methodically murdered in his own ...
07.15.2022 Trisha Autry // 218 On June 24th, 2000, a 15-year-old aspiring writer vanished from her home in Utah, and her mom turned to her daughter’s own stories for clues. Having been a victim of bullying, police initially believed that she ran away. But as ...
07.12.2022 Felicia Johnson // 217 (Happening Now) In April of 2022, a 24-year-old went on a birthday trip to Houston, but disappeared after meeting up with a man in the middle of the night. Since then, a suspect has been named, and a warrant is out for ...
07.08.2022 Bumble Bee Road Murders // 216 In 2003, a young couple was camping in their pick-up truck in a remote part of the Arizona desert to celebrate their anniversary. But before they could return home, they were murdered in the back of the truck. With few ...
07.05.2022 Aimee Willard // 215 In June of 1996, a 22-year-old college lacrosse player had a casual night out with friends at a bar in suburban Philadelphia. But on her way home, she disappeared. Shortly after leaving the bar, her car was found running with ...
07.02.2022 Ben McDaniel // 214 In August of 2010, a 30-year-old scuba enthusiast from Memphis, Tennessee headed out for a cave dive in Ponce De Leon, Florida, and never returned. After an extensive search in the waters, his body was never found, begging the question: ...
06.28.2022 Bryan Rein // 213 In July of 1996, a 31-year-old veterinarian was found dead in his Montana home. Although he was loved deeply by his family and friends, and had a passion for helping animals, he did had some enemies, one man in particular ...
06.24.2022 Karen Barnes // 212 In August of 2012, a Georgia woman was living on a yacht in Saint Mary’s after a violent divorce. But when someone crept up to the boat while she was sleeping one night, she was murdered and the boat was ...
06.21.2022 Rachael DelTondo // 211 In May of 2018, a well-liked teacher was shot to death in her parent’s Pennsylvania driveway. Not only is she believed to have had a relationship with a teenage student, but she also allegedly had dirt on the local Police ...
06.17.2022 The Montana State Park Killer // 210 “Is this Susie’s Mom?” “Yes it is.” “Well I’m the guy that took her from you.” This was the type of taunting phone call received by the mother of a young girl kidnapped at their Montana campsite. The search for ...
06.15.2022 The Evansdale Murders // 209 In July of 2012, two girls disappeared in Evansdale, Iowa while riding their bikes. Police set out looking for them right away, but despite an exhaustive search, receiving tips from locals, and finding CCTV footage of the girls, all the ...
06.10.2022 Betty Gore // 208 In the summer of 1980, a beloved 30-year-old schoolteacher, wife, and mother was murdered with an ax in her Texas home while her husband was away on a business trip. This killing and the subsequent discovery of her killer were ...
06.07.2022 Moriah Wilson // 207 In May of 2022, a 25-year-old elite bicyclist traveled to Austin, Texas for a race. But after hanging out with another cyclist and previous romantic interest of hers, she was murdered. When police sorted through the evidence at the scene, ...
06.03.2022 Daniel Brophy // 206 In 2018, a chef and instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute was murdered in his classroom before a Saturday morning class. After investigators looked into his wife, who was a romantic suspense novelist, they caught her in multiple lies, and ...
05.31.2022 Shannon Siders // 205 In July of 1989, an 18-year-old Indigenous woman in Michigan went missing after a night out with friends. Shortly after her disappearance, the local police received a disturbing call where a frantic man confessed to her murder. Years passed after ...
05.27.2022 Robert Wone // 204 In August of 2006, an attorney in Washington DC was murdered after spending the night at a friend’s house while multiple other people were in the house. After his death, they were adamant that an intruder must have entered the ...
05.24.2022 Jennifer Harris // 203 In May of 2002, a 28-year-old woman returned to her hometown in Texas to start anew. But, after spending the evening with an anonymous person, she disappeared. The next day, her Jeep was found, followed by her body floating in ...
05.21.2022 Brittanee Drexel // 202 (Now Solved) In 2009, a 17-year-old girl headed to Myrtle Beach with some friends for a spring break trip. But when she walked off alone to meet someone after sunset, she vanished. Following 13 years of searching intensely for her and questioning ...
05.17.2022 Lisa Kimmell // 201 In 1988, an 18-year-old woman hit the road in Colorado to visit her family in Montana. But when she never arrived, police began their search for her in Wyoming and gathered some incredibly bizarre witness sightings. Sightings that only added ...
05.13.2022 Q&A with Daphne and Heath We have finally made it to 200 episodes! Make sure to check out the episode before this (200) on the murder of Janett Christmas, and the urban legend that followed. Here's a Q&A where we answer a bunch of questions ...
05.13.2022 The Man Upstairs // 200 In 1950, a teenage girl was babysitting for a local Missouri family when she was brutally murdered before the nights end. She was able to phone police and briefly ask for help, but the call dropped and was unable to ...
05.10.2022 Tammy Zywicki // 199 In August of 1992, a 21-year-old woman left New Jersey for Iowa to begin her senior year at college. But after becoming stranded in Illinois, she went missing. The following week, her body was found 500 miles away, leaving investigators ...
05.06.2022 Manley Hot Springs Murders // 198 In 1984, residents in the small Alaskan village of Manley Hot Springs began disappearing when a drifter arrived to town. After 9 people were murdered, investigators zeroed in on a 26-year-old man who had appeared bizarre and creepy to many ...
05.03.2022 Katie Poirier // 197 In 1999, a 19-year-old woman was working an overnight shift at a Minnesota gas station when she was abducted from behind the counter. With the help of numerous tips, a clear suspect was uncovered. And thanks to NASA and a ...
04.29.2022 Logan Schiendelman // 196 In 2016, a 19-year-old man in Washington told his grandmother that he had an epiphany about his life that he was excited to share with her. But when she returned home later to hear about it, he was gone. When ...
04.26.2022 Katie Janness // 195 In July of 2021, a 40-year-old woman was walking her dog late at night in her local park when she was brutally murdered. Her girlfriend was the one to find her and immediately phoned police, only to find out that ...
04.22.2022 Cleashindra Hall // 194 In May of 1994, an intelligent and bright 18-year-old and soon-to-be pre-med student vanished after work in Arkansas. Her boss (who was a local doctor) showed some incredibly suspicious behavior after she went missing. But was he really involved in ...
04.19.2022 Malibu Creek Murder // 193 In the summer of 2018, a chemist took his 2 daughters on a camping trip in Malibu Creek State Park while his wife studied for an exam. But after just one night at the campsite, he would be found dead ...

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