True Crime Brief

It's Monday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty-six. [] The newest Crime Junkie, from Audiochuck, takes on the case of Natalie Jones, and investigative journalist Sean Kipe digs in. [a] Jones was a twenty-seven-year-old mother from Alabama. [a] She vanished after a Fourth of July party in twenty twenty. [a] Ninety-three days later, she was found dead inside her own car, a hot pink Chevy Cavalier, sitting in a field in Georgia. [a] And here's the detail that matters. [] She was barefoot. [a] Her belt was gone. [a] Several of her teeth were missing, and searchers never found them anywhere in that car. [a]

It's Monday, August tenth, twenty twenty-six. [] The latest episode of Crime Junkie covers Bill and Peggy Stevenson, a retired Kentucky couple killed in their condo in twenty eleven. [a] The killer posed their bodies and staged the scene. [a] Twelve years later, a fingerprint finally matched a man who knew them, but his D N A was not a match. [a]

It's Monday, August third, twenty twenty-six. [] On Crime Junkie: the disappearance of Missus O'Brien Kruger, a thirty-two-year-old woman who vanished from Burlington, Wisconsin in December of nineteen eighty-nine. [a] A month later, her husband collapsed at work and said he had lost the entire decade. [a] He had no memory of meeting her, marrying her, or their daughter. [a] Doctors found no physical cause. [a]

It's Monday, July twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six. [] Today on Crime Junkie, the case of Joyce LePage. [] She was a student at Washington State University who vanished in nineteen seventy-one, and her case is still unsolved fifty-five years later. [a] What's new is this: the local sheriff now names her old roommate as the prime suspect, and there's a one hundred thousand dollar reward on the table. [a]

It's Wednesday, July twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. [] The podcast Crime Junkie has just marked six months since Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home in Tucson. [a] Guthrie is the mother of the television host Savannah Guthrie. [a] In those six months there have been no arrests, no body, and no proof of life. [a] All anyone has are two ransom notes demanding Bitcoin. [a] The second note claims Nancy died of a heart condition, and that her body was buried, in the note's words, out in nature. [a]

It's Monday, July twentieth, twenty twenty-six. [] The latest episode of Crime Junkie looks at Joyce LePage, a twenty-one-year-old Washington State student who vanished in nineteen seventy-one. [a] Nine months later she was found in a canyon, wrapped in carpet. [a] Here's what makes it stick. [] A roll of that same carpet went missing from a campus building the morning after she disappeared. [a] Fifty-five years later, nobody has been charged. [a]