Going West: True Crime

By Dark West Productions

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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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Kayelyn Louder // 342

09.22.2023

BONUS EPISODES Apple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-west-true-crime/id1448151398 Patreon: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Kayelyn's Obituary: https://www.brownfamilymortuary.com/obituaries/kayelyn-louder 2. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/update-missing-america-kayelyn-louder-n219596 3. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mystery/comments/ag5d2f/the_disappearance_of_kayelyn_louder/ 4. Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/2018/5/31/20646055/man-convicted-of-killing-uncle-gets-another-chance-at-parole 5. People: https://people.com/crime/utah-social-worker-kayelyn-louder-vanishes/ 6. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/542274222570458/ 7. Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/2015/4/16/20562756/kayelyn-louder-autopsy-inconclusive-but-family-insists-death-was-not-an-accident 8. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/32604089/questions-remain-in-death-of-kayelyn-louder 9. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/31880265 10. ...

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09.22.2023 Kayelyn Louder // 342 BONUS EPISODES Apple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-west-true-crime/id1448151398 Patreon: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Kayelyn's Obituary: https://www.brownfamilymortuary.com/obituaries/kayelyn-louder 2. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/update-missing-america-kayelyn-louder-n219596 3. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mystery/comments/ag5d2f/the_disappearance_of_kayelyn_louder/ 4. Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/2018/5/31/20646055/man-convicted-of-killing-uncle-gets-another-chance-at-parole 5. People: https://people.com/crime/utah-social-worker-kayelyn-louder-vanishes/ 6. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/542274222570458/ 7. Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/2015/4/16/20562756/kayelyn-louder-autopsy-inconclusive-but-family-insists-death-was-not-an-accident 8. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/32604089/questions-remain-in-death-of-kayelyn-louder 9. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/31880265 10. ...
09.20.2023 Christine & Christa Belusko // 341 In September of 1991, a 30-year-old woman vanished from a lodge in Pennsylvania. Although she was found shortly after, badly beaten, strangled, and burned on a beach in New York, it took 30 years to identify her body. And when ...
09.15.2023 Ola Salem // 340 In October of 2019, a 25-year-old woman who volunteered at a shelter helping victims of domestic violence was found murdered in a Staten Island park. As police dug deeper into her personal life, they learned there were multiple men in ...
09.12.2023 Jeannette DePalma // 339 In August of 1972, a 16-year-old girl went missing in New Jersey. Although police initially insisted she had run away, her body was found six weeks later at the top of a cliff near an abandoned quarry. Due to the ...
09.08.2023 Brandon Embry // 338 In September of 2019, a 33-year-old man was found dead in his North Carolina apartment. Despite the scene suggesting a brutal attack and murder, his death was ultimately ruled a case of pneumonia. But considering his girlfriend was known for ...
09.06.2023 Alexis Scott // 337 In September of 2017, a 20-year-old woman went missing after a house party in Illinois. Just three weeks earlier, she had been a victim of human trafficking in California, but was able to escape her abductors and return home safely. ...
09.01.2023 Oklahoma State Fair Murders // 336 In September of 1987, two sisters headed to their local state fair in Oklahoma to commemorate the end of summer. But after they failed to meet their brother at the prearranged time and place, they were reported missing. When their ...
08.29.2023 Eliza Fletcher // 335 In September of 2022, a well-known Memphis mom, heiress, and kindergarten teacher disappeared during an early morning run. As police scrambled to find a trace of her, disturbing surveillance footage was collected showing her abduction just after 4am. But who ...
08.25.2023 Yuba County Five // 334 In February of 1978, a group of five men went missing in the lush wilderness of Northern California while on their way home from a college basketball game. After the snow melted in June, four of their bodies were recovered, ...
08.22.2023 Dana Laskowski // 333 In August of 2001, a 36-year-old mom of three was found murdered in her own home in Washington. No one could understand who would kill her and why, but as police dug deeper into potential suspects, a journey entry with ...
08.19.2023 The Boys on the Track // 332 In August of 1987, two teenage boys were hit by a freight train in the woods of Arkansas. What was originally believed to be a tragic accident quickly evolved into a controversial case believed now to be a homicide cover ...
08.15.2023 Savanna Greywind // 331 In August of 2017, a 22-year-old North Dakota woman headed to a neighbor’s apartment to help with a sewing project, and never returned home. When her body was discovered in a river days later, her loved ones were horrified to ...
08.12.2023 Regina Krieger // 330 In February of 1995, a 14-year-old girl went missing from her Idaho basement bedroom, leaving behind a trail of blood. Despite police believing she had run away, her body surfaced two months later, proving she had been stabbed in the ...
08.08.2023 Cory Barron // 329 In July of 2014, a 22-year-old man went missing during a massive country music concert in Ohio. As police reviewed surveillance and interviewed patrons, they didn’t find any evidence that he had left the stadium at all. But after searching ...
08.06.2023 Jacqueline Vandagriff // 328 In September of 2016, a 24-year-old woman’s body was found burning in a kiddie pool in the woods near a lake in Grapevine, Texas. She was last seen visiting a bar in search of a job, and after police reviewed ...
08.01.2023 Crystal McDowell // 327 In August of 2017, a 37-year-old realtor and mother went missing the day before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. In the wake of the disaster, as the state tried to pick up the pieces, police discovered that someone in this woman’s ...
07.29.2023 Michael Vaughan // 326 In July of 2021, a boy went missing from his own neighborhood in Idaho. After over a year of active searching with no clues, an arrest was made. But as police heard from the suspect, they learned that other people ...
07.25.2023 Storm & Adagio Talifero // 325 In June of 2018, a vegan blogger and his son allegedly set sail from California, bound for Hawaii on a three month excursion. After they failed to contact family, it seemed as if they had both vanished at sea. But ...
07.21.2023 Caitlyn Case // 324 In August of 2022, a 33-year-old woman traveled to her hometown in Louisiana from Colorado to purchase a car. But on the road trip back, she called her dad explaining that she was lost, and was having trouble with both ...
07.18.2023 Suzanne Morphew // 323 In May of 2020, a Colorado woman went missing after she allegedly left her home alone for a Sunday bike ride. That same day, police discovered her bike abandoned in a local ravine, but suspicions led police to believe that ...
07.15.2023 Gilgo Beach Murders Update / L.I.S.K // 322 On July 13, 2023, a 59-year-old Long Island architect was arrested in connection to three of the Gilgo Beach Murders. With the release of an indictment document today, a slew of evidence has become available, including cell phone activity and ...
07.12.2023 Lost Boys of Bucks County // 321 In July of 2017, four young men from a small Pennsylvania farming town mysteriously vanished in the span of just one week. It was soon uncovered that they had all fallen victim to murder, but were they connected? Police would ...
07.07.2023 Diana Davis // 320 In July of 2020, a Washington woman went missing after leaving her community garden. The next day, her car was found in downtown Tacoma on fire, and days after that, her body was discovered outside of Seattle. Police initially zeroed ...
07.04.2023 John Forsyth // 319 In May of 2023, a beloved father and doctor in Missouri failed to show up for his shift at the hospital he worked at. He was last spotted on surveillance footage near a mysterious vehicle at a community pool, and ...
06.30.2023 Susana Morales // 318 In July of 2022, a 16-year-old girl went missing during her walk home from a friend’s house in Georgia. Over seven months later, her remains were found in the woods of an Atlanta suburb. Shortly after her discovery, it was ...
06.28.2023 Zkira Kemp // 317 In July of 2022, a 20-year-old woman was killed in a car crash in Maryland during a road trip with her friends. After receiving a disturbing phone call from one of the friends she was traveling with, getting inconsistent accounts ...
06.23.2023 The California Missing Five // 316 Between 2010 and 2013, five young men went missing from San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. But are the cases connected? All five families are desperate for answers, and to this day, no trace of any of the men has been ...
06.20.2023 Courtney Holden // 315 In July of 2018, a 26-year-old Washington woman attempted to flee her adoptive mother’s house, but was carried back inside by her brother. She hasn’t been seen by friends or neighbors since, and her family claims she ran away. Strangely, ...
06.16.2023 The Pinnacle Lake Murders // 314 In July of 2006, a 27-year-old woman and her mother set out for a four-mile hike around an idyllic Washington lake. Hours after they started their trek, their bodies were found by fellow hikers, and it was clear that they ...
06.13.2023 Shannan Gilbert / Long Island Serial Killer // 313 In May of 2010, a 23-year-old woman went missing after meeting at a client’s house on Long Island. Her last known interaction can be heard on a strange and eerie 911 call that was over 20 minutes long. The woman’s ...
06.09.2023 Jessica Johnson // 312 In June of 2017, a mail carrier in Mississippi came upon a shocking and disturbing scene when they found a 37-year-old woman hanging from a mailbox. Although her manner of death seemed obvious at first, further digging made everyone in ...
06.07.2023 Amy Bechtel // 311 In July of 1997, a 24-year-old woman went missing during a solo jog in the Wyoming mountains. Last spotted at a local photo shop in her new town, employees remember her being in a hurry to get somewhere. But after ...
06.02.2023 Eric Richins // 310 In March of 2022, a 39-year-old father was found dead in his Utah home from a suspected fentanyl overdose. But in the midst of the investigation, and after his wife published a book about her grieving process, police uncovered suspicious ...
05.30.2023 Brian Egg // 309 In 2018, a San Francisco man was found dismembered in a fish tank inside his own home. After strange reports from the neighbors, investigators began searching for the culprit of his grisly murder. But with multiple calls to 911, and ...
05.26.2023 Paige Birgfeld // 308 In June of 2007, a newly single mother of three vanished from her Colorado home. Shortly after, her car was found burned out, but it would take years for her body to be uncovered. Once police learned she was living ...
05.24.2023 Chance Englebert // 307 In July of 2019, a 25-year-old man and new father left his wife’s grandparents’ Nebraska home on foot after an argument, and never returned. He was spotted on multiple surveillance cameras in the area, but then, he seemed to vanish ...
05.19.2023 Linda Stoltzfoos // 306 In June of 2020, an 18-year-old Amish girl went missing during the walk home from her Pennsylvania church. Within the first few weeks of her disappearance, while putting together eyewitness accounts and surveillance footage from the area, police were able ...
05.16.2023 Monica Moynan // 305 In April of 2019, a 22-year-old mom went missing from North Carolina without any of her family or friends realizing, because they continued to receive messages from her as if nothing was wrong. When her mom finally got suspicious and ...
05.12.2023 Ali Kemp // 304 In June of 2002, a 19-year-old college student was found murdered at the community swimming pool where she was working for the summer in Kansas. With a composite sketch of the likely suspect, her father did everything he could to ...
05.09.2023 Beau Mann // 303 In November of 2021, a 39-year-old man vanished in Los Angeles during an Uber ride across the city in broad daylight. He texted 911 for help along his way, but when the dispatcher reached out, he didn’t respond. He never ...
05.05.2023 Madeline Kingsbury // 302 In March of 2023, a young mom of two dropped her children off at daycare, returned home, and then seemingly vanished from inside her own house. The father of her children, with whom she shared the house, borrowed her car ...
05.02.2023 Heidi Allen // 301 In April of 1994, an 18-year-old woman was abducted from her job in upstate New York. After rumors spread that she had been buried in the woods, and the potential wrongful imprisonment of the prime suspect, police revealed that the ...
04.28.2023 Grant Solomon // 300 In July of 2020, an 18-year-old man was run over by his own truck in a supposed “freak accident”. But when none of the evidence at the scene suggested that that was what had actually happened, suspicions fell on his ...
04.25.2023 Amber and Josh Hilberling // 299 In June of 2011, a young man fell 17 stories to his death out of his Oklahoma apartment window. Surprisingly, his pregnant wife admitted to pushing him out, but claims it was an accident. After being put on trial and ...
04.21.2023 Tiffany Valiante // 298 In July of 2015, an 18-year-old woman ran from her parents’ New Jersey home during an argument, and never returned. Just hours after being captured on a security camera heading in the direction of the woods, her remains were recovered ...
04.18.2023 The West Mesa Murders // 297 In 2009, the bodies of eleven women were uncovered in a New Mexico desert, all of whom had been missing for multiple years. As police investigated the possible connection in the cases, multiple suspects popped up on their radar. Known ...
04.15.2023 Prisma Reyes // 296 In April of 2019, a 26-year-old mother failed to pick up her son from his babysitter. When police tracked her to a Dallas apartment building, and viewed CCTV footage, they were disturbed to notice that she appeared disoriented, and vanished ...
04.11.2023 Brookelyn Farthing // 295 In June of 2013, an 18-year-old girl disappeared after attending a party with friends and family. Before she went missing, she sent a text to her ex-boyfriend indicating that she was afraid. Hours later, the home of the person she ...
04.07.2023 Kelley Brannon // 294 In July of 2020, a 36-year-old woman took a roadtrip to move out of state with her boyfriend when his car broke down, stranding them in a small Florida town. After heading to a motel together for the night, a ...
04.04.2023 Jennifer Kesse // 293 In January of 2006, a 24-year-old woman was last seen leaving work on a Monday evening. She was home all night, and it even appeared as if she had woken up the next morning and gotten ready for work. But ...

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