Renee discusses the allure of the true crime rabbit hole and how and why she's covered specific cases on Missing in the Carolinas throughout the years.

Episodes mentioned here:

Ep. 28-Unresolved in North Carolina

Ep. 35-A Murder in Salisbury and a N.C. Expat Becomes a Killer in Panama

Ep. 43-The Story Behind "The Staircase"

Ep. 44-Thoughts on "The Staircase"

Ep. 54-The Murders of Pamela Murray, Beverly Sherman, and the Disappearance of Asha Degree

Ep. 85-Denise Durham, Shelby Wilkie, and Marissa Carmichael

Ep. 98-Carolina Crimes from the 1950s and 60s

Ep. 116-Mary Ann Willis and Dara Watson, Two Stories of Domestic ViolenceEp. 119, The 1933 South Carolina Murders of Mary Ravenel and Hubbard Harris Jr.

Ep. 121-The 1981 Murders of Edward "Doc" Harkless, Ralph Felder, Maxlinia Lykes, and Leroy Hemphill

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Inspired by the television show "City Confidential," Renee looks at the murders of three women in Wilmington, N.C., Peggy Carr, Theresa Fetter, and Lisa Maves, along with two men who disappeared, Charles Kuebler and Gaston Callum.

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In 1968, a killer terrorized the small town of Gaffney, S.C. before calling the local newspaper editor and anonymously confessing to his crimes. Thanks to concerned citizens who went out looking for a teenager who'd been abducted, police were able to apprehend the killer, who became known as The Gaffney Strangler, before he could hurt anyone else. But he had a secret to confess--he'd killed before and another man was in prison for the crime.

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Renee discusses four people who went missing while on vacation. Learn about the decades-long mystery of Jane and Jock Doe from South Carolina, New York resident Brittanee Drexel, who went missing after a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., Judith Smith, who went missing from Pennsylvania and was discovered months later in North Carolina, and the murders of Ohio residents Wesley and Bonnie Mahaffey, who were murdered in Asheville after winning a free vacation.

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In July of 1993, 26-year-old Kristin Lodge-Miller went out for an early-morning run in Chapel Hill and was murdered before she made it home. Years later, when 22-year-old Eve Carson was abducted and murdered from her home while studying at UNC in March 2008, the community couldn't help but compare the two crimes, committed by young men whose previous crimes should have already put them behind bars.

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On July 10, 1985, 55-year-old Curtis Bane and 24-year-old Thaddeus Hayes were supposed to spend the afternoon putting up a fence on a piece of property Curtis has purchased near Durham. When they never returned home that night, Curtis's wife found his truck and tractor still at the work site, keys still inside, but there was no sign of the two men. It would take three years before the families finally learned what happened to their loved ones.

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In Ep. 130, Renee shared the details of the 1972 triple homicide of the Durham family in Boone, North Carolina. This week features an interview with Terry Harmon, author of the book "Convoluted," which details the details of the crime and the investigation that spanned more than 50 years.

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On a snowy night in February of 1972, three members of the Durham family were murdered in their Boone home. The scene of the crime left many to wonder if the Durhams, who owned a local car dealership in town, were the targets of a professional hit. In 2022 authorities announced the crime had finally been solved, but questions remain.

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Renee shares a reading of her award-winning short story, "The Polaroid," which was inspired by the Tara Calico disappearance from New Mexico in 1988.

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Renee pulls information from previous episodes to discuss four serial killers from North Carolina--Terry Alvin Hyatt, John Wayne Boyer, Lesley Eugene Warren, and Henry Louis Wallace.