Host Renee Roberson shares ten of her favorite true crime podcasts.

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College is a time for young people to explore their individuality and take on new responsibility. Because of this, it can take days for anyone to realize a student is actually missing. This episode explores the still-unsolved missing persons cases of Jason Knapp, Virginia "Ginni" Wood and Martin Roberts.

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Nikki McPhatter was a hard-working young woman from Charlotte, N.C when she met a charming man on a dating website. But after she announced her plans to confront him on his philandering ways, she went missing. This episode also takes a look at the unconscious bias of media when reporting the disappearances and crime of minorities.

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What happened to the investigation into Liz and John Calvert's disappearance from Hilton Head Island once the prime suspect was found deceased? Featuring interviews with the authors of a true crime book written about the case.

Show Notes:

Book: Deceit, Disappearance & Death on Hilton Head Island by Charlie Ryan and Pamela Martin Ovens

Author bios:

Charlie Ryan and Pamela Martin Ovens previously collaborated on The Pullman Hilton, A Christmas Mystery and My Life with Charles Fraser, chronicling the recollections of the men and women who worked for and knew Fraser, the iconic founder of Sea Pines Plantation.

Charlie Ryan was, over a span of eighteen years, a radio and television news director and anchor, Associated Press state broadcast editor and newspaper columnist. He reportorial years were spent in West Virginia and St. Louis. In his journalism career he focused on politics and interviewed notables including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy. He is a recipient of numerous honors and a member of the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

Following his broadcast career, Charlie founded and grew four media firms in West Virginia, Virginia and Washington, DC. After 35 years he sold the firms and became the founding dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Charleston in Charleston, WV.

Charlie and his wife Becky moved to Hilton Head where he served three years on the board of directors of the Sea Pines Plantation Community Services Association as chairman and the Association of Property Owners. They now reside in Charlotte, NC.

Charlie has also written Dead Men’s Clubs and Alacrity, his memoir.

Pamela Martin Ovens has lived on Hilton Head Island for almost 40 years. She and her husband, legendary boat captain Peter Ovens, are widely known for their charter sailboat business of 16 years, hosting hundreds of tourists on the 62-foot yacht Schooner Welcome. Pamela is the chief executive and owner of Single Star Publishers. She was a radio and television professional in Cincinnati prior to her move to Hilton Head Island and hosted an island radio show on WHHR. Today she is an accomplished “voice over artist” for radio and television commercials.

Additional sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/justice.grace.coldcase.calvert/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-linked-to-missing-couple-found-dead/

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John and Liz Calvert were last seen heading to a meeting with their accountant, a man they suspected of embezzling money from their business accounts. In part one of this week's episode, we'll explore the details around that fateful meeting, and why investigators suspected the embezzlement accusations may have cost the Calverts their lives.

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Resource:

"Deceit, Disappearance & Death on Hilton Head Island" by Charlie Ryan and Pamela Martin Ovens.

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Last August, Missing in the Carolinas host Renee Roberson attended the most unusual writing conference she had ever been to—Writers’ Police Academy’s MurderCon. She shares the details of the conference, where it took place, and what she learned there.

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Kyle Fleischmann was 24 years old when he went missing from uptown Charlotte after a night of drinking with friends. His disappearance is one of the city’s most troubling mysteries. Renee Roberson dives into some of the theories surrounding this case, and how similar it is to the Brian Shaffer disappearance in Columbus, Ohio.

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www.missinginthecarolinas.com

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Case Documents:

Crime Watch Daily video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjQvWl5WwE

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/investigations/parents-of-kyle-fleischmann-convinced-hes-buried-under-noda-apartment-complex/275-51779788-5c09-44ef-95a0-747f25ca8ae3

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefive/c5-people/article236156613.html

https://www.charlottemagazine.com/what-happened-to-kyle-fleischmann/

https://www.wral.com/nc-wanted-charlotte-family-continues-search-for-kyle-fleischmann/15646408/

https://www.wbtv.com/story/14310327/kyle-fleischmanns-father-releases-new-clues-in-case/

https://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Organization/Pages/InvestSvcs/MissingPersons-Gallery.aspx

https://www.10tv.com/article/what-happened-brian-shaffer-columbus-police-continue-work-case-14-years-after-his

https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190422/from-archives-what-happened-to-brian-shaffer

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Asheville resident Zebb Quinn went missing in January 2000, after meeting up with a friend to look at a car he wanted to buy. Years later, the disappearance of another local couple would help to solve the mystery of what happened to Zebb on that night.

To learn more, visit www.missinginthecarolinas.com.

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Missing in the Carolinas is a podcast spotlighting missing persons cases in North and South Carolina. This episode will preview three cases discussed in future episodes: Zebb Quinn, Kyle Fleischmann and Liz and John Calvert.

To learn more, visit www.missinginthecarolinas.com.

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