A Simpler Time True Crime

A Simpler Time True Crime

I’m Megan, your host, and each week I revisit unsolved cases from decades past, stories that have too often been forgotten or overlooked. Together, we examine the facts, question the myths of the “good old days,” and ask whether a simpler time was ever really a safer one. This podcast honors the people at the heart of each case, focusing not on sensationalism, but on the lives affected and the justice still waiting to be served. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-simpler-time-true-crime--6665681/support.

Episodes

Encountering Evil: The Cowden Family Murders

August 31, 2026 • 48 mins
A young family takes a spontaneous camping trip over Labor Day weekend in 1974. On Sunday morning, everything at their campsite looks normal. There are things from breakfast on the picnic table, a dishpan filled with water, children’s belongings, and a carton of milk bought just hours earlier. But by that evening, the entire family is gone. Their truck is still parked nearby. The keys, a wallet, and a purse have all been left...
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Abducted at the Arcade: The Unsolved Murder of Alexander Harris

August 24, 2026 • 44 mins
Just after Thanksgiving in 1987, a seven-year-old boy was traveling home to California with his family after spending the holiday in Las Vegas. Heavy traffic led the family to stop at a hotel and casino along the way. The hotel had an arcade, and his family set him up with a game while they waited. They believed he would be safe there. But shortly before they were ready to leave, he was gone.

Witnesses would later report see...
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The Job Offer: The Unsolved Murder of Sharmini Anandavel

August 17, 2026 • 44 mins
In the summer of 1999, a Toronto teenager leaves her house for what she believes is a new job. She is 15 years old, about to start high school, and had been eager to make some money over the summer. But that afternoon, she never comes home.It would take months of searching before Sharmini Anandavel's family would learn what happened to her. But they still wouldn't know who was responsible.Police would eventually come to believe tha...
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“He’s Just Awfully Naïve”: The Unsolved Murder of Debra Lynn O’Quinn

August 10, 2026 • 33 mins
On a May evening in 1979, an eighteen-year-old woman went car shopping with her dad. Afterward, he dropped her off at her apartment, and the two went through their usual routine. She went inside first, did a quick safety walk-through, and then came back outside to let her father know everything was okay and he was good to head home. It would be the last time he saw his daughter.

The next morning, her roommate returned to the...
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The Private Diary: The Unsolved Disappearance of Amber Wilde

August 3, 2026 • 34 mins
In the fall of 1998, a pregnant college student gets into a car accident. She is okay for the most part, but she hit her head on the windshield hard enough to leave a large bump. She checks in with her father, lets him know she visited the campus nurse, and nothing else seems amiss. Then suddenly, she and her car vanish. People wonder: was she more seriously injured than she realized, driving somewhere in a state of confusion? Or w...
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Guest Host Kiley from Prime Time Krime Pod: The Kidnapping of Kevin Verville Jr

July 27, 2026 • 21 mins
I am on vacation this week, so Kiley from Prime Time Krime Pod is guest hosting! You will love her so make sure you follow her podcast after listening so you never miss an episode! 

In 1980 Angelina & Kevin Verville Sr were settling into life with their new baby, Kevin Verville JR when the unthinkable happened. A woman posing as a social worker kidnapped baby Kevin. He could still be out there and not even know he i...
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A Missing Nurse, A Missing Jeep: The Unsolved Disappearance of Audrey Herron

July 20, 2026 • 38 mins
In August 2002, thirty-one-year-old nurse Audrey Herron finished her shift, climbed into her Jeep Grand Cherokee, and began the 13-mile drive home on a rainy, foggy evening. She never arrived. From that night forward, neither Audrey nor her Jeep has ever been found. Some believe she was involved in a crash and that both she and her vehicle remain hidden somewhere within the region's waterways or rugged terrain despite years of exte...
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The Other Side of Exoneration: The Unsolved Murder of Jackie Harrison

July 13, 2026 • 43 mins
In the summer of 1987, a young New Jersey mother is found brutally murdered. The case shocks her community, but when an arrest is made not long afterward, many believe the person responsible has been caught. Decades later, advances in DNA testing reveal that the man convicted of her murder could not have been the killer. The discovery exposes a wrongful conviction, sends the investigation back to the beginning, and leaves her famil...
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The Path Off Deerfoot Road: The Unsolved Murder of Laralee Spear

July 6, 2026 • 43 mins
On an April afternoon in 1994, a fifteen year old Florida girl gets off her school bus at the entrance to the dirt road leading to her home. From there, she still had about a quarter mile to walk. The narrow road cut through thick Florida brush, with dense vegetation pressing in on both sides and tree branches overhead creating an almost continuous canopy. It was a walk she knew well and one that usually took only about five minute...
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A Jog In The Wilderness: The Unsolved Disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel

June 29, 2026 • 56 mins
In July of 1997, an avid runner spent the afternoon running errands before driving into Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest to map out a 10K route as part of her marathon training. When she didn't return home by nightfall, her husband knew something was wrong. Friends, family, and volunteers quickly began searching the trails, believing she may have been injured somewhere along her run. But after an extensive search turned up no sig...
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Pregnant and Missing: The Unsolved Disappearance of Ali Gilmore

June 22, 2026 • 42 mins
In early 2006, a 30-year-old woman in Tallahassee was four months pregnant and navigating a tricky time in her life. Cautiously optimistic about welcoming her rainbow baby, she was also going through some personal troubles. Her and her husband had been separated for a few months and she was casually seeing another man, whom she was breaking things off with to work on her marriage and prepare for the arrival of the baby. After a reg...
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A Tragedy Beyond Measure: The Murder of Angelikque Sutton and a Discussion of Fetal Abduction

June 19, 2026 • 51 mins
While recently covering the disappearance of Branson Perry, I briefly discussed the murder of his cousin's wife, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a victim of the rare and devastating crime known as fetal abduction. That conversation led me to a discussion with returning podcast guest and retired Bronx Homicide Detective Robert Klein, who investigated a remarkably similar case in 2015.

In this episode, Rob joins me to discuss the murder o...
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Secrets in Skidmore: The Unsolved Disappearance of Branson Perry

June 15, 2026 • 47 mins
When we think about the natural order of life, we expect that one day we'll have to say goodbye to our parents and grandparents. It doesn't make that loss any easier, but it's a reality most of us understand is likely to come. What we don't expect is for a younger family member to die before their time. The grief of losing a child or grandchild is something most people can't imagine, and if it happens once, you hope it's the only t...
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The Clarksville Killings: The Unsolved Murders of Azuria Johnson and Felicia Carson

June 8, 2026 • 41 mins
Just after the start of the New Year in 1996, two women are found brutally stabbed to death in their own homes in city of Clarksville, TN just days apart. This came only a month after another woman had been found stabbed to death in her Clarksville home. That case would eventually get solved, while the other two are still waiting for answers. Outside of the local area, these cases have not received a ton of coverage. And because so...
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The Trap: The Unsolved Murder of Morris Davis Jr.

June 1, 2026 • 48 mins
In April of 1985, a Montana man is working multiple jobs to save money and pursue his dreams. After getting off one job, he went straight to his second job to deliver pizzas. As he approached a regular looking house for delivery, he would have no idea that he was walking into a trap. His own brother would be the first responder who showed up to the house, a scene that has never left him. The investigation produced many suspects, so...
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Vanished at Kent State: The Unsolved Disappearance of Judy Martins

May 24, 2026 • 40 mins
Just before Memorial Day weekend in 1978, a college student visited a residence hall on the campus of Kent State University. Photos from that night show her smiling and laughing with friends, wearing a playful wig as part of a costume she put on to prank her friends. But sometime after midnight, she left the dorm room to make what should have been a short walk back to her own dorm, a distance reported to be only a few hundred yards...
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Catching The Monster of Davidson Avenue: The Solved 1996 Murder of Jasmine Porter

May 18, 2026 • 73 mins
In February of 1996, a pregnant woman is attacked in her Bronx apartment with her young son as a witness to the brutal crime. The case seems like it is going to be solved early on when a witness comes forward and names who they say did this. But as quickly as this comes together, it falls apart and the case goes cold for over two decades. That was until a series of events lands the case in the hands of Bronx Homicide Detective Robe...
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The Camera on Bumblebee Road: The Unsolved Double Homicide of Brandon Rumbaugh and Lisa Gurrieri

May 11, 2026 • 34 mins
In 2003, a young couple heads into the remote desert of Yavapai County to celebrate their anniversary. They only had time for a quick overnight trip, so they decided to spend the evening together beneath the stars, camping in the back of a pickup truck. But when the two failed to show up to obligations the next morning, friends began to worry.

 Because the couple had shared their camping plans with people close to them,...
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A Web of Truth and Lies: The Unsolved Disappearance of Barbara Cotton

May 4, 2026 • 44 mins
One night in the spring of 1981, a North Dakota teenager didn’t come home. Sometimes when it feels like someone has vanished into thin air, there are very few leads to go on. And for many of the decades that followed, that’s how this case appeared to people outside the local area. There was one clear last sighting of Barb, and then she was gone. But as the case was revisited and looked at more closely by her family, an ...
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Arrest Made in Cindy Wanner Case: An Update with Original Episode

April 29, 2026 • 54 mins
An arrest has been made in the 1991 Killing of Cindy Wanner. Here you'll hear the original episode plus the updates. 

A mother is making a little extra money by cleaning her sister's house in an upscale neighborhood. She is feeding her eleven-month old daughter cereal in her high chair while cleaning each room. Somewhere in a small forty-five minute window, someone would gain access to the house and brazenly abduct Cind...
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