The Murder Diaries

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August 04, 2022 MURDERED: Lauren McCluskey
After begging the University of Utah police for help, track star Lauren McCluskey was gunned down in her dorm parking lot by her ex-boyfriend-turned-stalker on October 22nd, 2018.

RESOURCES:
Obituary https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/saltlaketribune/name/lauren-mccluskey-obituary?id=1980850
Article https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/lauren-mccluskey/
Article https://www.deseret.com/2019/5/31/20675000/what-really-happened-to-lauren-mccluskey-the-inside-story-of-her-tragic-death
Article https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/10/26/timeline-extortion/
Foundation https://laurenmccluskey.org/
Article https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2019/10/21/university-utah-students/
Article https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/05/18/an-officer-allegedly-showed-off-explicit-photos-woman-later-killed-by-her-boyfriend/
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawPwiZKg6E
Oct. 13th 911 call https://youtu.be/docAzykqJjc

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Ghost Story by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3805-ghost-story
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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37 min
July 28, 2022 MISSING: Elaine Park
After a night with her boyfriend, 20 year old Elaine Park went missing in January of 2017. She was seen on camera leaving his home in the morning. Text messages and other phone related timestamps stop not long after. That’s the last evidence of Elaine alive. Her car was found 5 days later, on CA’s picturesque Pacific Coast Highway, but the road to Elaine was a dead end. This is her story.

Resources:
Missing: s1, e7

https://oag.ca.gov/missing/person/elaine-park

https://www.elaineparkismissing.com

https://thelocalmalibu.com/four-years-has-passed-since-elaine-park-disappeared-the-family-has-questions-and-so-do-we/

https://thelocalmalibu.com/new-information-in-the-search-for-elaine-details-re-argument-the-night-before-she-disappeared/

https://thelocalmalibu.com/searching-for-elaine-park-the-investigation-into-her-disappearance-part-1/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=333&v=bLJ_eiEmUKE&feature=emb_logo

https://thelocalmalibu.com/searching-for-elaine-susan-park-disputes-information-in-to-live-and-die-in-l-a-podcast-episodes-12-13/

https://www.dailynews.com/2017/09/19/la-crescenta-students-rally-for-support-to-find-elaine-park-hopefully-by-her-birthday/

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2017/08/22/family-offers-250k-reward-in-effort-to-find-la-crescenta-20-year-old-who-vanished-in-january/

https://www.elaineparkismissing.com

https://therealtamishow.com/2021/07/09/tladila-ultimate-timeline/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/a-shooter-in-the-hills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgC-GOY1Uo

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-elaine-park-missing-person-20170822-story.html

https://therealtamishow.com/2021/07/09/to-live-and-die-in-la-what-elaine-park-wrote-in-her-twitter-thread/

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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24 min
July 21, 2022 MYSTERIOUS DEATH: Mitrice Richardson
24-year-old Mitrice Richardson vanishes after being released (without a cell phone, wallet, or any way home) from a remote sheriff's station in Malibu, California.

If you know anything or have any more information please call the LA Crime Stoppers at: 1-800-222-8477

RESOURCES:
Article https://www.lamag.com/longform/what-happened-to-mitrice-richardson/
Article https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-17/mitrice-richardson-l-a-county-supervisors-increase-reward-in-mysterious-2009-death
Documentary Disappeared Lost in the Dark
911 Calls https://youtu.be/H18MeqM9X1g
Article https://www.dailynews.com/2017/02/01/mitrice-richardsons-family-speaks-out-as-state-says-deputies-shouldnt-be-prosecuted-in-her-death/

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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40 min
July 14, 2022 MISSING: Sage Smith
Sage a was teenager on the path of self-discovery when she went missing in November 2012. She left her apartment in Charlottesville, VA, and headed down to Main street. She stopped to talk to talk to her stepsister, to whom she told she she was off to meet up with a man at the Amtrak station. After that, Sage was never seen again. This is her story.

Resources:
Disappeared Season 9, ep 5

https://uncovered.com/cases/sage-smith/timeline

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/six-years-on-the-search-for-sage-smith-continues/article_9d8a7186-ed30-11e8-8e76-fbab4690111f.html

https://splinternews.com/i-am-a-girl-now-sage-smith-wrote-then-she-went-missin-1797178002

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2020/05/02/the-disappearance-of-sage-smith/

https://ourblackgirls.com/2021/08/04/sage-smith-19-transwoman-disappears-after-meeting-up-with-date/

https://www.facebook.com/FindSageSmith/

https://www.thecrimesheet.com/post/what-happened-to-sage-smith

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/transgender-teen-sage-smith-still-missing-after-vanishing-virginia-2012-n943216

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-disappearance-of-sage-smith-and-erik-mcfadden-5d950670f392

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-preview
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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29 min
July 11, 2022 Bonus: Interview with Git's Drummer and Close friend to Mia Zapata, Steve Moriarty
If you haven't yet listened to the episode on Mia Zapata go do that and come back to this bonus episode :). In this interview we talk to Mia's close friend and Gits drummer, Steve Moriarty, about their days at the rat house and so much more.

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31 min
July 07, 2022 MURDERED: Miya Marcano
When Miya Marcano is abducted from her own apartment, her family launches an unofficial investigation bringing them face-to-face with Miya’s killer. They demand answers, but instead are met with a brutal twist leading to more questions.

Case recommended by our listener Nevaeh.

RESOURCES:
Article https://abcnews.go.com/US/horrifying-details-miya-marcano-case-19-year-found/story?id=80455392
Article https://people.com/crime/miya-marcano-cause-of-death-ruled-a-homicide-by-undetermined-means-by-medical-examiner/
Article https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/full-report-murder-orlando-teen-miya-marcano/67-7b45d3cb-51fb-4db7-a453-0f65d493241b
Article https://www.wesh.com/article/miya-marcano-final-autopsy/38622837
Article https://people.com/crime/miya-marcano-memorial-service-foundation-to-support-families-of-missing-persons/
Foundation https://miyamarcanofdn.com/
Article https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/us/miya-marcano-family-sues-apartment-complex/index.html
Investigative Report https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21486211-investigative-report-miya-marcanoredacted
Article https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/new-details-images-in-final-report-of-college-student-miya-marcanos-murder/2720391/
News clip

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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37 min
June 30, 2022 MURDERED: Mia Zapata
In 1993 27 year old musician and The Gits frontwoman, Mia Zapata, left her friend’s apartment around 2AM. An hour later, her body was found. She had been murdered. The drawstrings from her own band’s sweatshirt had been used to strangle her. It would take over a decade before Mia would receive justice. This is her story…

RESOURCES:

Link to The Gits Documentary (2005): https://dai.ly/x2fn41o

Unsolved Mysteries – Season 8, episode 9 (Aired 2/1/1996)

Forensic Files Season 12 Ep 7

Video of RatHouse https://www.youtube.com/user/KristinNirvana/about

Monty Python clip: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ce6d6081-6c0a-41eb-93db-2c34df9c55f0

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mia-zapata-murderer-dead-1170206/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mia_Zapata

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2014/03/will-mia-zapata-be-remembered-march-2014

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Singer-s-killer-gets-37-years-1143741.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20130406042509/http://thegits.com/?page_id=410

https://casefilepodcast.com/case-77-mia-zapata/

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930826&slug=1717883

https://musicoholics.com/first-look/that-one-fateful-night-what-happened-to-mia-zapata/

https://nehistripes.com/2018/07/27/legendary-status-mia-zapata-and-the-gits-more-than-30-years/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mia-zapata-punk-musician-murdered-in-1993-changing-seattle-grunge-scene-694965/

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2003/01/16/13100/finally

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mia-zapatas-killer-convicted-255027/

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-court-of-appeals/1329872.html

http://www.louisvillemusicnews.net/webmanager/index.php?WEB_CAT_ID=50&storyid=2905&headline=Zapata_Murder_Trial_Verdict

https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2014/03/will-mia-zapata-be-remembered-march-2014

https://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/09/zapata/

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-wave
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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27 min
June 23, 2022 MURDERED: Nona Carol Dirksmeyer
When 19-year-old Nona Dirksmeyer is found brutally murdered in her apartment, an investigation full of twists and turns follows. Not one, but two suspects were eventually charged for Nona’s murder; however, both were acquitted and remain free to this day.

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RESOURCES:
Video https://youtu.be/n3fh5G8ASJk
Video https://youtu.be/9A6CfYAVN6Q
Obituary https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/nona-dirksmeyer-obituary?pid=16052246
Article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-killed-the-beauty-queen-07-02-2008/
Dateline s7E22: What Happened to the Beauty Queen

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-wave
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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29 min
June 16, 2022 MURDERED: Karina Holmer
On June 21, 1996, Swedish au pair Karina Holmer went to the now-closed Zanzibar nightclub in downtown Boston’s theater district and never made home. No one knows what happened to Karina after 3AM that night when she was removed from the club. There are accounts, tips, and stories, but as the Boston Herald puts it “This remains a haunting cold case that police are still seeking the public’s help to solve” – Boston Herald

Resources:

(Trace Evidence, episode 60) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpL1DNSqp94&t=849s

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03/30/from-the-archive-body-identified-as-swedish-nanny-karina-holmer/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191107042/karina-erika-holmer

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/22/metro/who-killed-karina-holmer-twenty-five-years-later-swedish-nannys-grisly-murder-remains-unsolved/

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03/30/from-the-archive-karina-holmer-chased-a-dream-to-live-in-the-u-s-a/

https://cryptidantiquarian.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/the-unsolved-murder-of-karina-holmer/

http://billyjensen.com/black-blonde-hideous-sorority-hollywoods-black-dahlia-bostons-swedish-nanny/

https://morbidology.com/the-unsolved-murder-of-karina-holmer/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/06/25/Swedish-nanny-slain-in-Boston/9496835675200/

https://apnews.com/article/7e59b03dc3452d9998087d7f440a0e2b

https://vocal.media/criminal/the-mystery-of-the-swedish-nanny

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/06/karina-holmer-cold-case-boston-police-seek-new-leads-in-brutal-1996-murder-of-20-year-old-swedish-au-pair.html

https://www.crimeofthetruestkind.com/post/episode21

https://truecrimedaily.com/2015/08/07/the-brutal-unsolved-murder-of-karina-holmer/

https://bpdnews.com/news/2021/6/14/community-alert-bpd-unsolved-1?rq=Karina%20Holmer

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-preview
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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24 min
June 09, 2022 MURDERED: Carly “Charli” Scott
When pregnant Charli Scott disappears, suspicion falls on the unborn baby’s father. Investigators must sift through miles of dense forest terrain for clues and piece together her last known movements to bring her killer to justice.

Resources:
Disappeared S10E1: Missing in Maui
Article https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168801963/carly-joann-scott
Article https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wailuku-c80c9634a8414357f8fab6a9c65edd29
Article https://m.facebook.com/FindCharliScott/?_se_imp=12z43tmveDnKYNxi9
Article https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/02/11/years-after-charli-scotts-murder-her-parents-are-still-waiting-receive-her-remains/
Article https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34990211/steven-capobianco-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-with-parole/
Article https://mauitime.com/news/law-enforcement/carly-scott-murder-trial-ends-with-guilty-verdict-for-steven-capobianco/
Article https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-gets-life-sentence-death-pregnant-ex-girlfriend-hawaii-n738371
Article https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/pregnant-woman-murdered-because-father-10669290
Article https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/woman-jailed-for-giving-drugs-to-nephew-convicted-of-murder/
Court doc https://law.justia.com/cases/hawaii/court-of-appeals/2021/caap-18-0000067.html

Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Fretless by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3777-fretless
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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39 min

About The Murder Diaries

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The Murder Diaries is a victim-centered true crime podcast with three distinct episodes each week. We cover missing persons and cold cases that need your attention, unpack the real lives behind Hollywood’s most tragic figures, and break down true crime and adjacent documentaries that are worth a deeper look.