Going West: True Crime

In October of 1986, a 15-year-old girl attended a friend’s house party in the coastal town of Kingston, Massachusetts after babysitting. After dark, she left the party on foot, heading to pick up cigarettes from the store. But the following day, she was nowhere to be found… For weeks, her disappearance gripped the tight-knit community, until her body was discovered in the woods nearby. With another missing girl, a depraved, suspicious local bible school teacher, and a recent confession, the case would unravel into one of Massachusetts most puzzling mysteries. This is the murder of Tracy Gilpin.

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In the summer of 1997, the quiet Adirondack town of Lake Placid was shattered when a 39-year-old woman went missing. Later that day, her SUV was discovered submerged at the bottom of a nearby lake, her body in the passenger seat. What seemed at first like a tragic accident became horrifyingly clear: this was a homicide. Investigators would come to uncover a dark tale of betrayal, planning, and multiple people with chilling motives… This is the murder of Jeannine Glanda.

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In September of 2025, the body of a 14-year-old girl was found in the car of an impounded vehicle at a Hollywood tow yard. When the car was linked to a touring music artist, D4vd, a disturbing narrative unfolded about his potentially inappropriate relationship with her. But what happened to her? And is he involved? This is the death of Celeste Rivas.

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During the summer of 1974, four girls between the ages of 10 and 19  vanished from the same small Wyoming community while the rodeo was in town. Two of the girls were found dead, and two remain missing, all these years later. Were these abductions committed by the same depraved killer who is thought to have a dozen or more victims? These are the Rawlins Rodeo Murders.

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In September of 2003, a 17-year-old girl vanished from her family’s home in Placer County, California. Her truck was missing from the driveway, but her purse and belongings were still inside the house - as if she had simply stepped out and disappeared into the night. As days turned to weeks, suspicion began to circle closer inwards, and when the truth emerged, it would shock and devastate everyone who knew her. Especially when they learned that she had been buried alive… This is the murder of Justine Vanderschoot.

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In August of 2017, a 35-year-old woman was found dead outside her Michigan home, discovered by her daughter near an open second story window. When police arrived to their affluent neighborhood, a crime originally didn’t appear to have taken place. It looked like she had simply and tragically fallen while cleaning an upstairs window. But when they reviewed footage from the homes surveillance cameras, police would make a bombshell revelation. This is the murder of Nada Huraniah.

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In the late 1970s, suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lived in the fear as an apparent strangling serial killer hunted young women - walking to school, leaving work. With so many other murders occurring in the area at the time, police originally didn’t know if any of these cases were connected. But soon, DNA would pin at least two of them together, and a consistent MO would help pool a collection of these horrific murders under the same umbrella. This is the story of the Pittsburgh Phantom.

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In September of 1977, a promising 19-year-old college student in San Francisco disappeared after heading to study in her university’s library. Horrifically, she was found brutally murdered the next morning in a locked faculty reading room on the fourth floor, her belongings neatly piled nearby. With an attack on another local woman occurring in the same area that same summer, an intriguing and disturbing suspect came into play. This is the murder of Jenny Low Chang.

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In September of 2009, a 24-year-old woman was released from a Los Angeles sheriff’s station in the middle of the night after being arrested for failing to pay her bill at a Malibu restaurant. In the hours preceding her arrest, she had been acting strangely and speaking in riddles. She had no car, phone, or money, yet she seemed determined to set off into the dark hills of Malibu Canyon, and was never seen alive again. This is the strange death of Mitrice Richardson.

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On a stormy night in August of 1961, an eight-year-old girl vanished from her family home in Tacoma, Washington. There was no ransom note and surprisingly little evidence left behind. So after decades with no answers, an eerie link between the young girl and a man on death row birthed the theory that a notorious serial killer may have claimed her as his first victim. This the disappearance of Ann Marie Burr.

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