1986. 26-year-old Wanda Jean Mays' aunt goes to wake her niece. A knock on the door receives no reply… It would be 22 years before her family learned about the tragic, stranger-than-fiction fate of their beloved Wanda Jean.

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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Joe Berlinger, Netflix, 2021.

"Road to Nowhere." Disappeared, season 7, episode 3, Investigation Discovery, 2016.

In 1969 a high school custodian fell in love with Eleanor Farver, a 45 year old woman with 6 children. A year later he murdered her. Join us as we delve into the many crimes of "John Burns" and the first case ever closed by viewers of Unsolved Mysteries!

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Season 8, episode 21. Unsolved Mysteries. Spike TV, 2010

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Three bright and ambitious women, three dates, three disappearances... not to mention Jim. Join us for the story of how actual human garbage was finally caught.

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Daring escapes, cunning bank robberies, and matching tattoos; these bank robbers had the stuff of legends. You'd think they could afford better than a Red Roof Inn.

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"Home Invaders." FBI Files. Discovery Channel, 2002

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Three murders, unsolved but believed connected, all linked to a gambling sport called Jai Alai... it's the most provocative sport you've never heard of!

Huge thanks to Raven for our theme music

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