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   Number 1: Tennessee: The High School Class that Solved The Redhead Murders

   Alex Campbell is the kind of High School Sociology teacher that students actually listen to. Alex has been the sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee for the past 18 years. And, in 2018, Alex Campbell got an idea for a lesson plan. He wanted his class to look into The Redhead Murders, a series of unsolved Jane Doe cases whose victims were young, redheaded sex workers. The killer, or killers had left the women on the side of busy highways in states like Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.The kids took to the lesson plan like a fish to water, and made great headway with the aid of local and state police departments, and even the FBI. When they were finished, no one could have predicted that a small High School class in Elizabethton, Tennessee, could have solved a series of murders and brought justice to their families.Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-101/id1724019923https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65926261/

   September 07, 2026·27min
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   Number 2: South Dakota: The Murder of Darlene VanderGiesen

   Darlene VanderGiesen was born in July 1963 in Osborn, Kansas. She and her sister were born completely deaf to hearing parents. Darlene went to the prestigious School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs, Iowa and then on to community college. After graduating, she moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where there was a huge hearing impaired community.Darlene made friends easily, and found a community in Sioux Falls. She befriended a woman named Sally Collins who was also deaf, and who was in an on-again-off-again relationship with another hearing impaired woman named Daphne Wright. Daphne was extremely jealous of Darlene and Sally's friendship, even though Darlene was straight and dating a man at the time.On February 1st, 2006, Darlene VanderGeiesen disappeared. Her car was found parked at a local resetaurant, but no one had seen her since that evening. When police started to investigate, they found a horrific murder on their hands: one that involved two deaf women in an unprecedented True Crime case.Show Notes:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/darlene-vandergiesen-asl-and-the-legal-system/id1112004494?i=1000548828173

   August 24, 2026·26min
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   Number 3: Texas: The Murders of Cody Beavers and Gelareh Bagherizadeh

   Nesreen Ursan and her siblings grew up in Conro, Texas, a small rural town just north of Houston and were raised by their father, Ali, and their stepmother, Shmu. Ali was a devout and strict Muslim and did barely allowed his two daughters, Nesreen and Nadia out of the house. Until Ali had a heart attack and Nesreen convinced him to allow her and Nadia to attend college so they could be doctors and take care of him. Ali agreed, and Nesreen and Nadia were off to the north campus of Lone Star College in the fall of 2009.There at Lone Star College, Nesreen met Cody Beavers and fell in love. She started to Westernize herself, wore her hair down and experimented with makeup. Nadia had a crush on Cody's twin brother, Corey, but that crush was unrequited. Soon, Ali found out that Nesreen had a boyfriend and tried to shut Nesreen in her room, chained to her bed. But Nesreen escaped and eloped with Cody. They then rented their own apartment and Nesreen became close friends with a woman named Gelareh Bagherizadeh.Until both Cody and Gelareh were shot dead. Nesreen had to find their killer or killers, because she knew that if they weren't brought to justice, she would be next.Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11096284/

   September 21, 2026·25min
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   Number 4: Montana: Patricia Meehan and Nicole Waller

   The Episodes of Patricia Meehan and Nicole Waller are discussedShow Notes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDYnrLUBgQhttps://www.andthentheyweregone.com/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/missing-america-nicole-waller-n307146https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/full-episode-under-the-prairie-sky-1127895619573

   January 26, 2026·26min
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   Number 5: Montana: The Newlywed Killer

   On Monday, July 8th, 2013, a man named Cameron Frederickson was concerned. His usually reliable and on-time employee, 25-year-old Cody Johnson had not shown up to work that day. Frederickson went to Johnson's house in Kalispbell, Montana, and let himself into his garage. There, he found his friend's cell phone lying on a table, which was also out of the ordinary.Cody Johnson had just gotten married one week before, at the end of June. His bride was Jordan Johnson and Cody's friends and family were not big fans of hers. A search ensued for Cody, and Jordan led police and searchgoers up to the hiking cliffs where Cody never would have gone because of his fear of heights. But there he was, lying dead at the bottom of the highest cliff. Clearly, Jordan was their primary suspect, but why would this young and very Christian newly-married woman kill her husband?Show Notes:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10337328/

   December 18, 2023·25min
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