True Crime Brief

Today is Monday, September twenty-eighth. [] The Crime Junkie podcast takes on the killing of Toby Tate, who was shot dead on Highway One near San Luis Obispo in nineteen eighty-three. [a] Forty-two years later, fingerprints on a Coke can and genetic genealogy finally named two suspects. [a] Both men were already dead. [a]

It's Monday, September twenty-first. [] Park Predators covers Marina Ramos, murdered in the Arizona desert in nineteen eighty-nine and unidentified for thirty years. [a] Two days after her death, her infant daughters turned up alive in a California park, and whoever left them there is still unknown. [a]

It's Monday, September fourteenth. The latest Crime Junkie covers Lakeisha Thompson, found shot dead in Clayton County, Georgia, in twenty twenty-three and ruled a suicide. The gun was in her right hand. She was left-handed.

It's Monday, September seventh, twenty twenty-six. Crime Junkie takes on the Sodder children, the five kids who vanished from their West Virginia home during a house fire on Christmas, nineteen forty-five. A new investigation by the family says the children were taken before the fire ever started. And a modern fire investigator says the physical evidence never supported the idea that they died in that house.

It's Monday, August thirty-first, twenty twenty-six. [] Crime Junkie takes on the case of Alyssa Romine Olson. [] She was thirty years old, and in June of twenty sixteen she was found face-down in shallow water at a preserve in Gilbert, Arizona. [a] Every single thing she owned was missing. [a] And here is the part that stays with you. [] Police recovered a backpack belonging to a homeless man, a registered sex offender. [a] Inside were latex gloves and a woman's hair tie. [a] Police destroyed that backpack before anyone ever tied it to Alyssa's case. [a]