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On a hot summer night, a toddler is spending time with her grandmother and other neighbors on the breezeway of her high-rise apartment complex in Chicago. She is left alone in the busy hallway for just minutes, but in that time she disappears. Nearly fifty people were present at the time she was abducted, but nobody claims to have seen anything. Her mother has gone on to be a champion for not only her daughter, but other missing kids. Her hope is that her toddler was raised by another family who wanted a little girl, and that all of these years later they will find their way back to each other.

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Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/two-missing-person-cases-baffling-police/

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/36-years-later-missing-baby-chicago-area/145674/

https://charleyproject.org/case/vinyette-trudy-teague

http://www.spcoalition.org/teague.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-vinyette-teague-2006-hop/161356864/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-life-behind-the-pho/161357724/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-news-democrat-july-1989-h/161360805/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-age-progression/161360870/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/martinez-news-gazette-photo/161360913/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-description-of-what-she/161361021/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wausau-daily-herald-more-info-1985/161361100/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-1991-golfer/161363263/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-story-of-tim-sim/161363376/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-a-golf-bag-hope-an/161363467/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-photo-of-golf-bag/161363627/

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A woman training for a marathon leaves her house early on a Saturday morning to jog a country road on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. An hour into her run, she is brutally attacked and left for dead. She managed to get to the roadside and eventually a car stopped to help. Her last words were describing her attacker: white guy, blue car. Her case went to the backburner for decades after police concluded that the man who murdered her was in jail for a sexual assault committed the year after her murder. But when a huge scandal shines a spotlight on misconduct in Oklahoma City, it makes investigators question everything they knew about the case.

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https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1986/03/11/police-may-have-suspect-in-1984-joggers-death/62733255007/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38212483/judy-ellen-weichert

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3535

https://convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/jeffrey-todd-pierce/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2001/05/08/exonerated-inmate-freed-after-15-years-in-prison-man-wants-to-see-his-sons/62147648007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Gilchrist_Links.pdf

https://piedmontnewsonline.com/index.php/2023/07/28/1984-surrey-hills-murder-remains-unsolved/

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveals-majority-women-abuse.html#google_vignette

https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/I6aeae35789fd11d9ac45f46c5ea084a3/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)

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Darwin Vest was a bit of a local celebrity in Idaho Falls. He was known locally as Spider Man because of his passion for studying spiders (and snakes, and other creatures that many of us run away from). His biggest claim to fame was identifying and naming the Hobo Spider that had made its way into homes all over the Pacific Northwest. He was an expert at studying venom in snakes, spiders, and plants and had been used as an expert on these topics all over the country, from college lecture halls to court rooms. In June of 1999, he had secured a deal to sell his Hobo Spider Trap invention and was celebrating at his weekly trivia night at his favorite local bar with friends. But after he left the bar that night, he stepped into the darkness never to be seen again. Did Darwin accidentally fall into the Snake River or did he meet with foul play?

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https://charleyproject.org/case/darwin-kenneth-vest

https://thedeckpodcast.com/darwin-vest/

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP2091

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/sep/14/regions-nasty-hobo-spiders-hit-their-toxic-peak/

https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-how-recognize-hobo

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367886020084189&id=264247777114681&set=a.279291435610315

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5c9s2r/a_prominent_toxicologist_disappears_under/

All Newspaper.com archived articles found under username: simplertimecrimepod (unable to list all due to character restrictions)

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A teen is babysitting a young boy on a stormy March night in 1950. All is going according to plan until a frantic call comes in to police with a woman screaming, only able to yell "come quick!"
Unable to trace the call, police have to hope she just calls back. But she wouldn't.
The next call would be from the parents of the little boy who return to find their son unharmed but the babysitter brutally murdered in the living room.
A recent series of sexual assaults in the neighborhood seemed to be resolved when a young man was put behind bars. But now this new attack questioned everything the community thought about not only the recent assaults, but a murder that a man had been executed for in 1946.
This case serves as the inspiration for the popular "Babysitter" or "Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" urban legend, but the actual story is so much more sad and tragic than a story trope.
For this 30th episode of the podcast, I discuss the misguided nostalgia our society has for the 1950's and the botched police work that led to racial profiling and the likelihood of a white man getting away with a murder.

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https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/26/the-execution-floyd-cochran/18722772007/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/887jmc/on_march_18_1950_a_13yearold_babysat_a_familys/

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A Tennessee teen is picked up by her twin brother from work, but they run out of gas just a half mile up the road. A kind family pulls over and offers to take them to get gas. Her brother goes with them, but she decides to stay in the locked car and wait for him to return. In the nine minutes he was gone, she would vanish. A sexual predator who often posed as law enforcement confesses to her abduction and murder, but did he really do it, or was he just looking for attention?

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Sources:
https://www.tn.gov/tbi/divisions/criminal-investigation-division/cold-cases.html

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/36-years-after-dickson-co-teen-disappeared-investigators-keep-digging-for-answers

https://www.wkrn.com/unsolved-tennessee/unsolved-tn-what-happened-to-teen-who-vanished-off-dickson-highway-in-1987/

https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/601576/1

https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/sheriff-holds-out-hope-in-1987-case-of-missing-dickson-teen/?ipid=inline-link

https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/446/dickson-county-martha-leanne-green

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A teen borrows his brother's sports car to take his date to the school dance in 1977. After dropping her off, both he and his brother's sports car disappear forever. Did Jerry suffer a tragic accident and drive his car into a body of water, or was he the victim of a racially motivated hate crime on those back roads of rural Mississippi?
Even all of these years later, people are still terrified to talk about the case and clues point to cover ups and corruption.

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Sources:
https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/hernando-mississippi

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/n9juaf/the_disappearance_of_jerry_lee_armstrong_was/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_River_%28Mississippi%29

https://charleyproject.org/case/jerry-lee-armstrong

https://wreg.com/news/manhunt-monday/family-wants-answers-in-teens-1977-desoto-county-disappearance/

https://www.desototimes.com/news/man-missing-30-years-ago-believed-to-be-klan-victim/article_9650ca65-5850-5a2c-8bda-824776949866.html

https://www.actionnews5.com/story/11474047/possible-break-in-hernando-teens-1977-disappearance/

https://www.missingsippi.org/jerry-armstrong

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A real estate agent is lured to a home with a potential buyer, only to be brutally murdered. This episode discusses the dangers often not discussed around working as a real estate professional and how this has changed over time.

Huge thank you to my friend Julia who gave first-hand insight into her perspective as a real estate agent herself.

https://www.mcall.com/2007/09/09/10-years-later-hunt-still-on-for-killer/

https://dailyvoice.com/pa/bethlehem/police-need-your-help-to-solve-pa-realtors-1997-cold-case-murder/

https://www.nar.realtor/safety/resources-for-personal-protection

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/2017/06/frank_yeager_attempted_rape.html

https://www.greaterlehighvalleyrealtors.com/news/realtor-safety-are-any-of-us-doing-enough/

https://www.360coveragepros.com/real-estate-agent-interests/attacks-on-real-estate-agents-are-increasing-every-day

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A woman is about to make her final vows as a nun and is taking part in a spiritual retreat on Convent grounds to pray about her decision. One morning, she grabbed an apple and her Bible and walked up a hill less than 100 yards away from the Retreat House to sit on a bench and pray. Just hours later, her lifeless body would be discovered 40 feet away from that overturned bench. The brutal sexual assault and murder of a nun in a sacred religious space would spark fear and outrage. Nearly 50 years have passed, but thanks to carefully preserved DNA evidence, her case may finally soon get answers.

Sources:
https://uncovered.com/cases/roberta-elam

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/t9lme2/roberta_elam_was_a_26yearold_nun_who_was_killed/

https://www.nbc.com/the-dna-of-murder-with-paul-holes/video/who-killed-sister-robin-elam/4067270

https://cindygoff.blogspot.com/2012/01/unsolved-murder-1977-murder-1-who.html

https://stjosephretreatcenter.org/

https://robertaelam.blogspot.com/2010/09/raped-murdered-on-june-13-1977.html#comment-form

https://positivelypittsburgh.com/a-rash-of-murders-southwestern-pa-in-1977/

https://darkmatter69.blogspot.com/2020/01/who-killed-west-virginia-nun-roberta.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/q5nkxc/was_there_a_serial_killer_operating_in_western_pa/

Many original newspaper clippings on Newspapers.com clipped by @simplertimecrimepod

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