On Sunday, June 26th, 2004, a 17-year-old rising High School senior named Craig Frear left his friend's house and went home and grabbed his shirt for his shift at the Price Chopper, a local grocery store in Glenville, New York. Craig had been working at the Price Chopper for two years and had recently been promoted from bagger to working at the dairy counter. But when Craig's mom stopped in to say hello to Craig that afternoon, she was told Craig was not there. When Craig's dad stopped in an hour later, he was told that Craig had been fired five weeks prior because he had not been showing up for work.
Craig's dad tracked him down to a girlfriends' apartment complex and saw his car was in the parking lot. But right as his dad arrived to talk to Craig, Craig had set out on foot along a walking path that ran along some train tracks that also led him directly to his backyard, about a mile or a mile and a half away. He had told his mother that he was coming home to explain about the Price Chopper situation. But Craig never made it home that day and has never been seen since. He simply vanished. During the more than two decade search for him, some strange things would come to light in the days before Craig's disappearance. What had happened to this popular, smart and well-liked young man? What happened to Craig Frear?

Show Notes:

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/11683771-59b0-406f-ab5b-25f994ce82b0/wicked-deeds

Craig Frear tips:

NY State Police: 518-457-6811 or 518-630-1700 or [email protected]

The cases of Sarah Beard and Tara Calico are discussed

Show Notes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/cr/podcast/unresolved-sarah-beard/id1484748807?i=1000538808554

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

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Detective/dp/B09RJTPKMC

On May 5th, 2004, a fisherman named Chris Henkle and his buddy Don took their kids out of school for the day to go fishing on Chesapeake Bay by the Bay Bridge Tunnel, an 18-mile long bridge that connects Eastern Virginia to Virginia Beach. In the water, they spotted a Kenneth Cole suitcase floating by. Opening the case, they found a set of human male legs cut off from the knee wrapped in a black trash bag. Over the next few days, on Virginia Beach, the man's torso and pelvis washed up, preserved in the same set of Kenneth Cole luggage.
The man was Bill McGuire and he and his wife Melanie lived in Woodbridge, New Jersey with their two young children. Over the next few months, police would investigate Bill's wife Melanie and uncover a life of lies, deception, affairs and most tragically of all...murder. 

Show Notes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12425806/

The crimes of Emily Long and Julianne McCrery are discussed

Show Notes:

https://wondery.com/lawandcrime/?lg=en

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/truecrimene/episodes/Episode-93-Julianne-McCrery-e245v20

The case of Ash Armand is discussed

Show Notes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35708730/

In the early morning hours of February 5th, 1985 a 68-year-old grandmother named Helen Wilson was raped and murdered in her apartment in the 600 block of North 6th Street in Beatrice Nebraska. No one could solve the case until a girl named Lisa Puttendorf went to the cops and told them that a friend of hers, JoAnn Taylor had confessed to the crime along with her boyfriend Joseph "Lobo" White and Tom Winslow. The case would spiral and spiral until six people were in prison for the crime. But years later, DNA evidence would point the case in a whole different direction and things were not what they seemed.

Show Notes:

https://www.hbomax.com/shows/mind-over-murder/e698d8bb-9e3a-4d7c-b4cb-148dfecc5edc

The Episodes of Patricia Meehan and Nicole Waller are discussed

Show Notes:

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

https://www.andthentheyweregone.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-america-nicole-waller-n307146

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/full-episode-under-the-prairie-sky-1127895619573

On October 6, 2002, 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck asked his mom if he could go bike riding in his hometown of Richwoods, Missouri. His mom said yes, because Shawn had ridden his bike alone hundreds of times before. She told him to be home by dinner. But, when he wasn't, and it got dark out, the Hornbecks were extremely worried. Shawn was always home for dinner and was deathly afraid of the dark. Turned out it was something much worse than the dark. Shawn had been kidnapped just a mile from his home. 
Years went by and there was no trace of Shawn. Until January of 2007, almost 5 years later, another boy named Ben Ownby disappeared after he got off the school bus and never made it home in Beuford, Missouri. That set off a chain of events in which an exceptional 15-year-old eyewitness, a pizza restaurant owner and the FBI would do something remarkable. Something still referred to as "The Missouri Miracle."

Show Notes:


https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/kidnapped-shawn-hornbecks-incredible-story/id965818306?i=1000630276030

Mississippi: The Murder of Presh Campbell

Show Notes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devil-in-the-ditch/id1715007204

Christy and Steve, an interfaith couple are interviewed