Going West: True Crime

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 investigation, fully believing that their son was murdered. This is the story of Sean Daugherty. Also known, as What Happened to Sean?

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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 “psychopathic killer” had been behind it all. This is the story of Katy Benoit.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Spokesman: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/22/we-dont-shy-away-from-it-university-of-idaho-hon

2. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44264056

3. LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/nation-now/story/2011-10-27/idaho-professor-who-killed-student-secret-records-revealed

4. Caring Hearts: https://www.caringheartsandhandsofhope.org/pdf/Katy-Benoit-Life-Skills-Dedication.pdfor/

5. 911 Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUQQ5c6peg

6. Ernesto's Obituary: http://www.tributes.com/condolences/view_memories/92218602?p=10&start_index=1#

7. D News: https://dnews.com/local/family-friends-at-boise-service-say-katy-benoit-pursued-her-life-with-passion/article_353caaa3-a236-54e4-83dd-50abdfc39fb3.html

8. NPR: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141740113

9. Katy's Obituary: https://lmtribune.com/obituaries/kathryn-katy-m-benoit-22-moscow/article_78b24e7c-a5b5-5339-a08e-052524d90b9c.html

10. The Times-News: https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/523599834/?terms=katy%20benoit&match=1

11. Idaho Press: https://www.idahopress.com/community/community_columns/we-need-that-house---it-s-critical/article_00a906dd-6fdf-57b1-8e1f-8781a11d0cc1.html

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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 despite this detail, Police initially believed she had run away. Years later, they would finally received a confession that detailed the horrible truth about what happened to her the night she disappeared. This is the story of Sequoya Vargas.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. Justice for Native Women: http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/2016/02/sequoya-vargas-missing-from-hawaii.html

2. Hawaii Tribune Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556943695/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

3. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556940476

4. Honolulu Star-Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/11/news/story3.html

5. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557257777/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

6. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557271525

7. The Honolulu Advertiser: https://www.newspapers.com/image/265007391/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

8. Honolulu Star Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/05/03/news/story10.html

9. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/557342362/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

10. The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/joshua-scott-curry

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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 the small town and the entire region. This is the story Julie Bullard, Selby Bullard, Cynthia Beatson, and Jimmy Whitehurst, and it’s also the story of the Maine Bed & Breakfast Killer.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. WJBQ: https://wjbq.com/do-you-remember-the-maine-bed-breakfast-serial-killer/

2. NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/us/06maine.html#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%20Mr.,up%20unexpectedly%20at%20the%20inn.

3. Portland Press Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/850596284/?terms=julie%20bullard&match=1

4. Zillow: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/829-Sunday-River-Rd-Newry-ME-04261/2136561112_zpid/?fbclid=IwAR2uHvIqH3PW0nvmRNx8y3dKZf2KKJ-veOA-3L35YZZMWbIIhGal_sjbRPY

5. Died in House: https://www.facebook.com/diedinhouse/posts/former-black-bear-bed-and-breakfast-mass-murder-and-dismemberment-829-sunday-riv/1871789262979432/

6. The Boston Globe:

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/09/07/rent_dispute_may_have_preceded_maine_deaths/?__goto=loginpage

7. Portland Press Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/850596256

8. State of Maine v. Christian Nielsen: https://murderpedia.org/male.N/images/nielsen-christian/maine-v-nielsen.pdf

9. Sun Journal: https://www.sunjournal.com/2006/09/16/troubled-childhood/

10. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105419041/james-william-whitehurst

11. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105424165/julie-attebury-bullard

12. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15916100/cynthia-ellen-beatson

13. Sea Coast Online: https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/portsmouth-herald/2007/05/04/murder-suspect-loses-55-lbs/52908665007/

14. Mainebiz: https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/inns-grisly-connection-prompts-conversion

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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 off at the home of her ex-boyfriend. But her ex-boyfriend claims they didn’t even have plans to see each other. So which of these men is lying? Or was it someone else entirely? This is the story of Kayla Berg.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/wisconsin-mother-still-searching-10th-anniversary-daughter-kayla-berg-s-n1041041

2. Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-reacts-to-video-police-say-may-have-links-to-kayla-berg-2016-10

3. Crime Watch Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0q30OrSbO8

4. Missing Kids: https://www.missingkids.org/poster/ncmc/1129610/1.html/mainposter

5. Disappeared: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.10ae371f-4482-8b21-3ace-051697b08331?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime-20

6. WSAW: https://www.wsaw.com/2021/08/11/antigo-police-hope-new-information-12-year-mark-hits-kayla-berg-disappearance/

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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 they called “the cowboy”, hoping someone could identify him. Then, her mother began receiving threatening calls from an unknown man, but police had no idea if they were coming from her killer, or who her killer even was. And it would be decades before they would find out. This is the story of Susan Eads.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. On the Case with Paula Zahn: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.278cf816-35c3-4104-a72a-4f767d24d069?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv-20

2. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40482658/susan-lee-eads

3. Cinemaholic: https://thecinemaholic.com/susan-eads-murder-how-did-arthur-davis-die/

4. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31107042/arthur-raymond-davis

5. KHOU: https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/missing-pieces/susan-eads-misisng-pieces-podcast/285-1042a429-bf22-4ab6-99a1-25474f142e1c

6. The Galveston Daily News: https://www.newspapers.com/image/17158146/?terms=susan%20eads&match=1

7. TX Department of Public Safety: https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/216

8. Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/shelley-kathleen-sikes

9. Galv News: https://www.galvnews.com/specialsections/article_867f2a89-d0b6-5b32-9b5b-0c68c2333439.html

10. Tyler-Courier Times: https://www.newspapers.com/image/587904050/?terms=susan%20eads&match=1

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FIRST HALF OF OUR NEW PATREON BONUS EPISODE ON Debanhi Escobar.

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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, her friends sent her home in a car service. During her ride home, she excited the vehicle and stood in the highway before wandering off. Her father scoured the city looking for her, only to find her deceased in a motel’s water tank. After 3 very different autopsies were conducted, her family is still wondering what on earth happened to her, and who is responsible. This is the story of Debanhi Escobar.

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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 the worst. Both she and her car are both still missing, with few clues as to what could have happened to her. This is the ongoing story of Kiely Rodni.

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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 eerie account of all came from his father, who was the last person to speak with him, and remembers his son whispering into the phone that he thought someone was following him. This is the story of Clinton Nelson.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. Disappeared: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.66a9f71b-8203-457b-d271-568cbd72e555?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime-20

2. The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/clinton-devon-nelson

3. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/cold-case-spotlight/despite-no-leads-clinton-nelson-s-mother-will-never-give-n798131

4. KSLA: https://www.ksla.com/2021/08/31/bossier-detectives-still-searching-man-who-went-missing-after-house-party-15-years-ago/

5. KSLA: https://www.ksla.com/story/15329074/deputies-at-working-methlab-in-bossier-parish-two-arrested/

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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. And finally, after many years, answers came to the case. This is the story of Kaitlyn Arquette.

BONUS EPISODES

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CASE SOURCES

1. Real Crimes: http://www.realcrimes.com/Arquette/Kaitlyn_Arquette.htm

2. Kait Arquette Family Website: https://kaitarquette.arquettes.com/index.htm

3. ABQ Journal: https://www.abqjournal.com/1341394/30-years-later-kaits-death-is-still-a-mystery-ex-family-takes-up-quest-by-kaits-late-mother-for-justice.html

4. Unsolved Mysteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDqn0sx1vm4

5. Unsolved: https://unsolved.com/gallery/kaitlyn-arquette/

6. People: https://people.com/crime/suspected-serial-killer-indicted-in-1989-murder-of-authors-daughter/

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