Welcome to True Crime in a Dime, our short stories segment. In Chapter 13 we discuss the cases of Jeanne Clery, Judy Martins, Betsy Aardsma, and Tammy Zywicki, all college students who were murdered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jeanne_Clery

https://www.mcall.com/2002/08/31/henry-trades-appeal-rights-for-life-in-prison-for-1986-rape-murder-of-lehigh-student-northampton-county-judge-oks-deal-death-sentence-was-thrown-out-in-may/

https://www.aetv.com/articles/19-year-old-murder-federal-protections-university-students

https://library.lehigh.edu/news/remembering-jeanne-how-lehigh-students-tragic-death-1986-made-enduring-impact-campus-safety

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/4/12/lehigh-student-raped-strangled-in-dorm/

https://www.library.fordham.edu/digital/item/collection/RAM/id/19856

https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/03/07/seeking-justice-kent-state-student-still-missing-after-nearly-47-years/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT5XYFwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4F9IzcFq3Q_WTdc2laIuqaPbsjdgQTgOoM7L9_F6yUjR0n0ZXUm9x8YOgIDw_aem_nVztbqlEd4GS0l_B2AuiWQ

https://www.pbswesternreserve.org/blogs/luminus-stories-about-us/we-never-stopped-looking-the-search-for-judy-martins-continues/

https://anotherbundyblog.com/2026/07/01/elizabeth-betsy-ruth-aardsma/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Betsy_Aardsma

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/unsolved-murder-penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-haunts-community-52-n1284867

https://www.aetv.com/articles/penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-fatal-stabbing-unsolved

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1uthdow/who_murdered_betsy_aardsma/

https://medium.com/@mrodriguez0/the-bizarre-unsolved-murder-of-betsy-aardsma-df9d31055ea8

https://onwardstate.com/2025/09/19/penn-state-history-lesson-murder-in-the-stacks/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tammy_Zywicki

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/tammy-j.-zywicki

Episode 67: A head-on collision hundreds of miles from home. A silent stare from a stranger as she walks into the pitch-black Montana prairie. In April 1989, Patricia Meehan walked away from a car crash and vanished without a trace, leaving investigators with one simple, terrifying question: Where do you go when you may have forgotten who you are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQdzbOlzYzs

https://unsolved.com/gallery/patricia-meehan/

https://charleyproject.org/case/patricia-bernadette-meehan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQkXg5JkVA

Episode 66: Mackenzie Cowell was a 17-year-old student and aspiring model from Washington who was murdered in February 2010. She vanished after leaving her beauty school in Wenatchee, and her body was found four days later along the Columbia River. A fellow cosmetology student who left the school shortly after Mackenzie on the day she vanished, emerged as a prime. Who killed Mackenzie Cowell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mackenzie_Cowell

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/kyckuk/extensive_write_up_on_the_murder_of_mackenzie/

https://forensictales.com/mackenzie-cowell/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-search-for-mackenzie-cowells-killer-2/

https://medium.com/@truecrimestoriies/the-vanishing-of-mckenzie-cowell-a-small-town-mystery-that-shattered-a-community-aedecb593fee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7MNN18byo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=918rwqIL1UA

https://medium.com/the-wicked-truth/mackenzie-cowell-the-beauty-school-murder-a53bec3bdee5

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mackenzie-cowell

https://komonews.com/news/local/trial-set-to-begin-in-wenatchee-beauty-school-killing

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/may/20/beauty-school-student-murder-trial-begins/

https://vocal.media/criminal/mackenzie-cowell-s-murder-by-a-classmate-obsessed-with-serial-killers

Episode 65: A man walks into a bank in a disguise, fires a submachine gun into the ceiling, and shouts, 'The party has just begun!' Six days later, the hostages he held at gunpoint refused to testify against him, raised money for his defense, and hugged him as he was dragged away in handcuffs. Welcome to the robbery that created Stockholm Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Erik_Olsson

https://www.history.com/articles/stockholm-syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery

THIS EPISODE IS A RE-RUN. Due to life and vacations, we were unable to give you a new episode this week (so sorry!), so we are playing a re-run of our first True Crime In a Dime. This episode features the cases of Tanner Ward (mysterious death by hanging), Daniel Robinson (mysterious disappearance), Shane Fell (mysterious disappearance), and George Stinney (wrongful execution at the age of 14!).

Listening to 166. The Death of Tanner Ward | Everand⁠

⁠The Mysterious De-ath of TannerWard – Tech Shpily⁠

⁠Ward’s Death Is Ruled A Suicide |Trenton Republican-Times⁠

⁠https://pleasehelpfinddaniel.com/⁠

⁠https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/09/29/new-information-on-daniel-robinson-who-has-been-missing-since-2021/71007618007/⁠

⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Daniel_Robinson⁠

⁠https://medium.com/@Charlie_OBrien/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-daniel-robinson-e10f9afe6691#:~:text=Daniel%20Cornelius%20Robinson%20was%20born,missing%20part%20of%20his%20forearm⁠.⁠Man Vanished From Scene OfA-Ccident: Where Is Shane Fell? | Criminal⁠

⁠He Crashed His Car After A NightOut With Friends In 2011, Leaving Behind Only One Shoe At The Scene - ChipChick⁠

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney⁠

⁠https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/george-stinney

Episode 64: On June 7th, 1992, sometime after 2:00 in the morning, three women disappeared from a home in Springfield, Missouri, leaving all personal belongings, cars, and the family dog behind, with no clear signs of a struggle. These women included Sherrill Levitt (47), her daughter Suzie Streeter (19), and Streeter's friend Stacy McCall (18). Despite a large-scale investigation, the Springfield Police Department has never recovered the women or found a conclusive crime scene, causing numerous theories to emerge over the decades. What happened to the Springfield 3?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three

https://www.springfieldmo.gov/2498/Three-Missing-Women

https://www.scribd.com/document/405655397/Spr3

https://www.reddit.com/r/mystery/comments/1kzfs12/the_springfield_three_one_of_the_strangest/?rdt=36700

https://www.ky3.com/2026/06/08/springfield-three-june-7-marks-34-years-since-disappearance-suzie-streeter-sherrill-levitt-stacy-mccall/

https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/joplin-news-first/now-missing-34-years-the-springfield-3/article_f2cd04fa-60c4-4428-aef6-658472ccc60a.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XkancXcJw

https://sgfcitizen.org/springfield-culture/missing-women-theories-and-investigations-into-the-springfield-three-cold-case/

https://truecrimenews.com/2017/10/17/crime-watch-daily-investigates-the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-springfield-three/

Welcome to Lurking In the News, our True Crime News segment. In Volume 15 we discuss the stories of Ryan Weeks (remains identified), the Long Island Serial Killer trial verdict, Denise Elaine Hartley (remains identified), Melissa Ellison (solved cold case), Carol Ann Beale (solved cold case), and Rose Marie Gayhart (remains identified).

https://www.kctv5.com/2026/06/24/family-renews-plea-tips-after-remains-identified-missing-smithville-man/

https://people.com/missing-dads-family-spent-years-holding-out-hope-then-investigators-found-his-remains-11984779

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/missouri/kansas-city/smithville-police-confirm-skeletal-remains-belong-to-man-missing-since-2022

https://www.britannica.com/event/Gilgo-Beach-serial-killings

https://abcnews.com/US/gilgo-beach-serial-killer-rex-heuermann-sentenced-after/story?id=133883685

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/us/live-news/rex-heuermann-long-island-killer-prison

https://www.courttv.com/news/rex-heuermann-to-appear-in-plain-clothes-at-sentencing-for-7-murders/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/lake-cold-case-denise-hartley-identified/

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/columbus-ohio-woman-denise-elaine-sexton-hartley-identified-victim-more-than-30-years-her-remains-found-1993-minnesota-ramsey-county

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/minnesota-bone-lake-jane-doe-identified-cold-case-rcna350181

https://fox8.com/news/remains-found-in-separate-lakes-decades-ago-identified-as-missing-mom-an-ohio-native/

https://projectcoldcase.org/2019/06/10/melissa-ellison/

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/gary-glowacz-charged-with-1987-killing-of-melissa-ellison

https://people.com/fla-man-said-he-had-info-about-1987-cold-case-then-arrested-on-suspicion-murder-12017097

https://people.com/arizona-woman-charged-with-allegedly-murdering-stepdad-50-years-ago-11987439

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052826_sipfle_cold_case/tucson-woman-charged-cold-case-murder-stepfather-missing-since-1975/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remains-found-kayakers-florida-identified-woman-vanished-1985/

https://people.com/human-remains-identified-woman-missing-40-years-12027264

Episode 63: In the summer of 1985, the quiet Midlands of South Carolina were plunged into a "Summer of Terror" by a predator whose cruelty went far beyond physical violence. It began when seventeen-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her own driveway just two days before her high school graduation. He was a killer who didn't just lurk in the shadows, but actively called the victim's family, taunting them with descriptions of her final moments. But Larry Gene Bell wasn’t finished. We are diving into South Carolinas most notorious serial killer who was brought down by a single, forensic mistake left behind on a legal pad.

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/denise-newsom-porch-north-carolina-rcna341904

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/charlotte-40-year-old-cold-case/275-404fa1ba-124e-4597-9d44-94e8e5708e8d

https://charleyproject.org/case/sandee-elaine-cornett

https://www.10minutemurder.com/blog/larry-gene-bell-the-sadistic-killer-who-tortured-families-by-phone/

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/charlotte-40-year-old-cold-case/275-404fa1ba-124e-4597-9d44-94e8e5708e8d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gene_Bell

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/72/421/501070/

https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/tag/debra-may-helmick/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Douglas

https://www.aetv.com/articles/john-douglas-shari-smith

Welcome to True Crime In a Dime, our short stories segment. In Chapter 12 we discuss the cases of a triple disappearance including Kelly Gaskins, Ervin Williams, & Virginia Wood, Nicole Morin (missing from apartment building), Amy Billig (suspected abduction), and Randy Stair (Easton, PA Weis Market shooting).

https://charleyproject.org/case/kelly-gray-gaskins

https://ncmissingpersons.org/virginia-wood/

https://www.trailwentcold.com/e/the-trail-went-cold-episode-371-ginni-wood-kelly-gaskins-and-ervin-williams/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2367685856951518

https://www.facebook.com/61550806026496/posts/soon-after-her-semester-was-over-virginia-wood-told-her-mother-she-was-going-to-/122301970472026867/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/aua4nc/the_disappearance_of_virginia_lynne_wood/

https://globalnews.ca/news/11311058/nicole-morin-case/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Nicole_Morin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Billig

https://coconutgrovespotlight.com/2024/05/07/the-long-and-lasting-shadow-of-amy-billig/

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/12/03/arrest-follows-21-years-of-calls-to-grieving-family/

https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/teen-goes-missing-while-hitchhiking-6d48d20d4b29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7thBHZxnSi8&t=496s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Eaton_Township_Weis_Markets_shooting

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weiss-supermarket-shooting-spree-randy-stair-spared-coworker/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/youtubers-online-friend-recalls-graphic-video-threatening-supermarket-shooting

Episode 62: The Stacy Robinson Hunsucker case centers on the 2018 death of a 32-year-old preschool teacher from Mount Holly, North Carolina, whose husband, former flight paramedic Joshua Lee Hunsucker, is accused of fatally poisoning her with over-the-counter eyedrops. The case has garnered widespread national attention due to the highly unusual method of murder, a financial motive, and a subsequent string of bizarre crimes allegedly committed by the husband while out on bail.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gastongazette/name/stacy-hunsucker-obituary?id=8294873

https://abcnews.com/US/paramedic-accused-fatally-poisoning-wife-ingredient-found-eye/story?id=67883176

https://people.com/paramedic-accused-poisoning-wife-eye-drops-11721650

https://www.wbtv.com/2026/04/06/mount-holly-man-accused-poisoning-wife-daughter-with-eyedrops-pleads-not-guilty/

https://www.wbtv.com/2026/04/06/mount-holly-man-accused-poisoning-wife-daughter-with-eyedrops-pleads-not-guilty/

https://www.schlosserandpritchettlaw.com/felony-consecutive-sentencing-how-it-works-in-nc/

https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2016/06/30/running-sentence-consecutively-anticipated-sentence/