15 year old Elizabeth Ennen's parents wanted her to begin taking on more responsibility. For a teenager, babysitting seemed like the perfect place to start. On a cold January night in 2011, Elizabeth took a job watching two young children, but she never came home. She had done a wonderful job and was driven home but somewhere between the car and the safety of her home, Elizabeth seemingly vanished into the night.

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During the Tuesday morning commute of January 8, 2008 motorist traveling a stretch of I-540 also known as the 'Raleigh Outer Loop' were shocked to find a body on the side of the road. The investigation that would follow would provide many suspects, all with motives that could have potentially led to the murder of 21 year old student Latrese Curtis. Join me as I tell John just what happened on the side of the highway that January night.

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When Jessica Carpenter was found murdered in her home on August 4, 2000 investigators searched for answers in what proved to be a very complicated case. As they did, rumors spread throughout the neighborhood, suspicions reached the people closest to the victim, and every lead seemed to raise more questions than it answered. The truth remained hidden behind an ordinary summer day and a series of moments that, at first glance, appeared completely unremarkable. What began as the murder of a 17-year-old girl would grow into a years-long mystery—one that challenged investigators, tested a grieving family, and proved that sometimes the most devastating crimes begin with something so routine that no one gives it a second thought.

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On September 14, 2000, a concerned neighbor called 911 after hearing sounds of a violent fight in the apartment next door. Unable to gain entry after no one buzzed them into the building, responding officers eventually left, a decision they would later regret. What followed was the disappearance of a 34 year old flight attendant, a gruesome discovery, and a case that unraveled one shocking secret after another.

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Join John and I as we discuss the final part in our series on the murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak.

Trigger Warning: This episode includes violence and the death of children under the age of one.

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In today's episode we continue to discuss the case of Joann and Alex Katrinak. Part III will be made available this Sunday and our final Patreon episode for June will be released the following Tuesday.

Trigger warning: This case involves violence against a child under one.

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Mal, Tammy. Convenient Suspect. Chicago Review Press, 2017.

In the quiet borough of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, the days leading up to Christmas in 1994 should have been filled with the familiar comforts of the season. Instead, an unsettling silence settled over a neighborhood when a young mother and her infant son seemingly vanished without a trace. Their home held troubling clues, their car would soon be found abandoned nearby, and a community accustomed to knowing its neighbors suddenly found itself gripped by fear and uncertainty.

As investigators searched for answers, rumors spread through the ornamented streets and suspicion seemed to fall in every direction. What happened inside that small Pennsylvania town would become one of the region's most haunting mysteries: a case marked by compulsion, secrets, and a trail of evidence that only seemed to raise more questions. Tonight, we follow the twists and turns of an investigation that would captivate the Lehigh Valley for years, and uncover a story far darker than anyone could have imagined.

Trigger warning: This case involves violence against a child under one.

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Mal, Tammy. Convenient Suspect. Chicago Review Press, 2017.

The stillness of the hot June morning in Barberton, OH was broken by the creaking of floorboards beneath the small feet of a six year old girl. She was unsure of what had happened or what she had suffered, she just knew she was scared. As she searched the home she was in, the brutality of the previous night revealed itself to her. Just hours earlier she had been laughing with her beloved grandmother and now she lay dead at her feet. Someone had slipped in their home in the middle of the night and destroyed a family’s world.

And yet, the most haunting part of this story wouldn’t be the bloodshed itself, it would be the years that followed. Because the little girl who staggered through the neighborhood at sunrise, traumatized and barely alive, carried with her the only account of what happened inside that house. Her words would shape the investigation, divide a family, and eventually help lead to justice because the killer had always been right there…

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