エピソード

  • The Dry Key on Limestone: Who Drove Amy Tucker to the Pond?

    The Dry Key on Limestone: Who Drove Amy Tucker to the Pond?
    2026/07/25
    The Dry Key on Limestone: Who Drove Amy Tucker to the Pond?

    A dry car key with a rental tag reading "TUCKER, A. / DROP-OFF JUNE 12" was placed deliberately on a limestone shelf two hundred yards from a half-submerged car and Amy Tucker's body - but the tag's date was three days after her death. What else does that dry tag, an odd diesel receipt and 231 miles on a rental log quietly reveal about who drove her to Sutter Pond?

    In this episode, we follow the facts recovered from the scene, phone records and long-forgotten evidence boxes to map the timeline from a Nashville rental pickup to the pond; the episode asks whether the misplaced tag, the diesel receipt and the unexplained 145 miles between Nashville and Brenville point to a driver who planned Amy Tucker's disappearance.

    Person: Amy Tucker
    Date found: June 9, 2001
    Age: 52
    Mileage logged on rental: 231 miles
    Receipt timestamp: 11:47 PM, June 8, 2001

    - Key tag text read "TUCKER, A. / DROP-OFF JUNE 12" placed text-up on limestone shelf at water's edge.
    - Car found half-submerged two hundred yards south of the limestone shelf with driver's door open; Amy found face down gripping purse strap.
    - Rental car was picked up in Nashville on June 6, 2001 with 231 miles logged before pond entry; Nashville to Brenville distance is 86 miles.
    - Diesel fuel receipt from a station on Route 70, less than two miles from Sutter Pond, timestamped 11:47 PM on June 8, 2001, was logged in a third evidence box.
    - Amy's regular Wednesday call to her daughter lasted 40-60 minutes on June 6, 2001; no plans or Nashville trip were mentioned.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    20 分
  • The Pot on the Carport: Why Pamela's Seedling Screamed Murder

    The Pot on the Carport: Why Pamela's Seedling Screamed Murder
    2026/07/24
    The Pot on the Carport: Why Pamela's Seedling Screamed Murder

    A quiet subdivision, a gardening woman found on her garage floor, and a freshly watered terracotta pot on the carport lip that had never been there before - a detail so ordinary it screams wrong. The pot held a six-inch tomato seedling, soil still dark at 6:17 a.m.; did Pamela water it and then die, or did someone water it after she was already dead?

    In this episode, we present the facts of the case as recorded in the file and raise the question listeners must weigh: can three small deviations from routine-the dog outside, the unzipped bowling bag, and the foreign seedling-reconcile with an accidental death, or do they point to something else?

    Person: Pamela Watson
    Date: May 9, 1991
    Location: 1114 Holloway Circle, Sycamore Crossing, Drennan, Tennessee
    Age: 44
    Investigation status: Case file initially ruled accidental; reopened in 2013 by Drennan PD cold case unit

    - At 6:17 a.m. on May 9, 1991, paperboy William Riley found Pamela on the garage floor and a terracotta pot on the carport lip.
    - The pot was 14 inches tall and held a 6-inch tomato seedling with soil still dark and damp at the time it was found.
    - Pamela bought one bag of seed-starting soil at Brackett True Value at 7:48 p.m. the evening before; the receipt was in her jacket pocket.
    - Pamela had kept seedlings under a grow light on a laundry room shelf; the seedling in the carport pot did not match any plant from that shelf.
    - In 2013 Detective Roger Quinn noted three discrepancies at the scene: the dog Cutter was outside, Pamela’s bowling bag was unzipped with shoes loose on top, and the unfamiliar, freshly watered terracotta pot.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    20 分
  • Left-Hand, Wrong Ring: How an 18-Minute Interview Cracked a Cold Case

    Left-Hand, Wrong Ring: How an 18-Minute Interview Cracked a Cold Case
    2026/07/23
    Left-Hand, Wrong Ring: How an 18-Minute Interview Cracked a Cold Case

    A woman's right hand was found under eleven inches of snow with a silver ring engraved H.A.B., but the ring was wrong because it wasn't on the usual hand of the missing woman - she was left-handed. That mismatched detail stayed meaningless for twenty-two years until an eighteen-minute interview held four days after the murder hid the clue that would break the case; how did a passing comment about a delivery driver tie the scene to April 8, 1999?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the discovery on April 9, 1999 to the overlooked interview on April 13, 1999, showing how a building manager's memory and a delivery log point to a specific person and an unscheduled entry - could that single log line be the missing link?

    Person: Heather Ann Brown
    Date: April 9, 1999
    Location: Culver Street, Haskell, Wisconsin
    Cause of death: Manual strangulation
    Interview length: 18 minutes

    - The hand was found at 6:40 AM under eleven inches of snow at the base of a fire hydrant.
    - The silver ring on the index finger was engraved with the initials H.A.B.
    - Heather Ann Brown was 28 years old and left-handed, and she had not missed a weekly Thursday visit to her 83-year-old grandmother.
    - Sergeant Victor Ames conducted forty-one interviews over fourteen months and had a primary suspect but no physical evidence; the case went cold in spring 2001.
    - Belmark Logistics recorded an unscheduled visit on April 8, 1999 at 4:50 PM for a return of misdirected freight by driver Gregory Sheridan.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    18 分
  • The Mason Jar That Cracked Open Two Dead Men and a Secret

    The Mason Jar That Cracked Open Two Dead Men and a Secret
    2026/07/23
    The Mason Jar That Cracked Open Two Dead Men and a Secret

    A mason jar left in a crawl space for fourteen months held $4,300 in cash and a spiral notebook labeled PROOF that recorded sixteen cash entries totaling roughly $9,000 tied to the initials D.F.; what secret did Raymond Schmidt keep that someone killed him for, and why was the money hidden beneath his house? The jar’s discovery will reveal a timeline of withdrawals, a ledger, and a patience that kept violence silent for over a year-so who was being leveraged, and by whom?

    In this episode, we follow how a lineman’s flashlight and an analyst’s persistence reunited evidence with an old homicide file, how a sealed jar and a small notebook redirected an investigation, and how those clues raised the question of motive and hidden transactions that only the notebook could begin to explain.

    Person: Raymond Schmidt
    Date found: March 7, 2018
    Discovery of jar: March 11, 2019
    Cash in jar: $4,300
    Notebook entries total: roughly $9,000

    - Jar sat untouched in a crawl space for fourteen months before being found.
    - Notebook contained sixteen entries dated August 2016 to February 19, 2018.
    - Each notebook entry listed a dollar amount between $200 and $800 and the initials D.F.
    - Schmidt had three ATM withdrawals of $500 each in spring 2016 matching the first three notebook entries.
    - Medical examiner determined Schmidt had been dead 18 to 22 hours from two blows to the back of the skull.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    20 分
  • The Warm Boots at Dawn: Why Eight Missing Miles Matter

    The Warm Boots at Dawn: Why Eight Missing Miles Matter
    2026/07/23
    The Warm Boots at Dawn: Why Eight Missing Miles Matter

    Cold morning, warm boots: at 6:00 a.m. on February 9, 1993, a jogger found a pair of brown leather work boots on Route 7 that were warm to the touch despite six nights below freezing - and 60 yards east Kenneth Bennett, 22, lay strangled. Who drove the eight unaccounted miles on Kenneth's odometer between his last confirmed stop and the found truck, and what did those miles hide?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Kenneth's last receipt at 6:52 p.m. to the discovery of his body, presenting the physical evidence preserved for decades and the one unresolved gap that changed everything: could those eight miles point to a second crime or a hidden witness?

    Person: Kenneth Bennett
    Date: February 9, 1993
    Location: Route 7 outside Dellwick
    Status: Strangled; case unsolved for 22 years
    Evidence preserved: touch DNA from shirt collar; photographed partial boot impression

    - Temperature recorded at 6:00 a.m. on February 9, 1993: 22 degrees
    - Distance between truck location and body: 4.3 miles (Fenwick Road grain elevator to drainage ditch)
    - Truck odometer extra miles: 8 unaccounted miles (41 total vs. 33 documented)
    - Last confirmed stop and receipt time: Citgo on Millbrook Pike at 6:52 p.m.; purchase $3.14
    - Boot impression size: photographed as size 9-10 with lugged sole; Kenneth's boots were size 11

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    19 分
  • The Shoe on the Meter: How a Small Clue Hid a Killer for 30 Years

    The Shoe on the Meter: How a Small Clue Hid a Killer for 30 Years
    2026/07/23
    The Shoe on the Meter: How a Small Clue Hid a Killer for 30 Years

    A single dark brown right shoe balanced on a gas meter outside 414 Ashfield Drive became the detail that misdirected investigators for three decades and framed a man with no clear proof. How did that solitary shoe become both the case's signal and its greatest deception?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from Ruth Barnes's move to Garnett Falls through her disappearance and the investigation that stalled despite a forced back door and a troubled ex-boyfriend; what finally answered the question everyone asked about the shoe and Ruth's fate?

    Person: Ruth Barnes
    Date: January 18, 1973
    Location: 414 Ashfield Drive, Garnett Falls, Wisconsin
    Cause of death: Manual strangulation
    Investigator: Detective Phil Crane

    - Ruth Barnes was 38 years old when she disappeared and had lived at 414 Ashfield Drive since spring 1968.
    - A meter reader, Janet Sharp, found the right shoe on the gas meter at 8:15 AM on a Tuesday in January 1973.
    - The left shoe and Ruth’s coat and purse were found inside the house; her car was in the garage.
    - The back door latch showed recent splintering consistent with being forced before January 18, 1973.
    - Ruth’s body was carried by the thawed Garnett River into a remanso two miles north of the Route Nine bridge in April 1973.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    19 分
  • The Skull in the Trench: Why Randy Pruitt Wasn't Meant to Be Forgotten

    The Skull in the Trench: Why Randy Pruitt Wasn't Meant to Be Forgotten
    2026/07/23
    The Skull in the Trench: Why Randy Pruitt Wasn't Meant to Be Forgotten

    A skull sat upright in a muddy construction trench on State Route 46 on December 9, 2023, draped with orange surveyor's tape like a deliberate crown - a photo that ran on the front page of the Indianapolis Star and sparked a puzzle that stretched back to a cold December night in 1991. How did a missing machinist last seen with his soup pot left on the stove end up connected to a skull found three decades later - and why did the evidence that looked staged turn out to tell a different story?

    In this episode, we tell the timeline from the Tuesday night Randy Pruitt vanished to the 2023 discovery and the January 2024 confession that followed months in a Greenfield storage unit. We lay out the key facts that never matched the theory of voluntary disappearance and ask: what finally broke the case open?

    Person: Randy Pruitt
    Date: December 16, 1991
    Location: Weller Lane house and State Route 46 trench
    Status: Skull discovered December 9, 2023; confession January 2024
    Case: Missing person administratively suspended February 1993

    - Randy Pruitt was 61 years old when he disappeared on December 16, 1991.
    - A navy bean soup pot was found cold on the stove with the burner still turned to low the night he vanished.
    - Randy's 1987 Chevy half-ton truck was found eleven days later in the long-term parking lot at Indianapolis Star Airport with the keys under the seat.
    - A gas station receipt from Plainfield dated December 18 at 6:14 a.m. was found in the truck's console.
    - The skull was photographed in a trench on State Route 46 on December 9, 2023, with orange surveyor's tape across its crown.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    22 分
  • The Lunchbox on Barton Ridge: How a Dog Unearthed a Killer's Secret

    The Lunchbox on Barton Ridge: How a Dog Unearthed a Killer's Secret
    2026/07/23
    The Lunchbox on Barton Ridge: How a Dog Unearthed a Killer's Secret

    A Vizsla named Pepper stumbled on a metal lunchbox that had been sealed and half-buried for nearly 37 years, and inside was a human skull - the container later tied to the killer himself. Who placed a child's racing-car lunchbox over a body and why was the skull left on Barton Ridge for decades?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Leon O'Connor's last routine walk after a November 1982 shift to the November 9, 2019 discovery that reopened the case, and we follow the trail of witness statements, DNA, and a local propane delivery route that raised chilling questions: how did proximity, timing, and a familiar truck converge on that night?

    Person: Leon O'Connor
    Date: November 14, 1982 (disappearance) and January 2020 (identity confirmed)
    Location: Barton Ridge
    Case: Uncovered skull in a child's metal lunchbox found November 9, 2019
    Person: Chad Peterson

    - A Vizsla named Pepper veered 40 yards off the trail on Barton Ridge and led his owner to the hollowed log containing the lunchbox.
    - The lunchbox was half-buried in root matter and sealed shut when found on November 9, 2019.
    - Leon O'Connor was 26 years old in fall 1982 and worked the line at Copper Rail Bar and Grill with a strict schedule (home by 11:15 on work nights).
    - Leon kept a seven-page notebook, one page per species for seven tropical fish tanks, with feeding times at 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
    - Two independent witnesses saw a white propane delivery truck at 10:45 p.m. on November 14, 1982, parked with the engine running and lights off on the gravel service road behind the old mill.

    To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
    続きを読む 一部表示
    21 分