In this season of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before Covid-19, a virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. We go to a pediatric ward in Harlem, a women’s prison in upstate New York, a drug market in the South Bronx, and the inner sanctum of the National Institutes of Health. And we meet people who demanded that they, and their illness, be seen...
Jan 16, 2024•1 min
Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned when their newspapers started piling up outside. The neighbor called Mina’s daughter, and the pair of them went inside the house. What they found was horrific. David and Mina were at the kitchen table slumped over in pools of blood. The police have admitted that they are stumped, and over three years later the case is still unsolved. Who ...
Jan 11, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 17
In Arkansas, some people think that a slew of child deaths in the early 1990s are related. Those children are Christina Pipkin, who went missing in May of 1991, Steve Branch, Michael Moore, Christopher Byers, the three eight-year-old boys who were murdered in West Memphis in 1993, and also includes 16-year-old Gardenia Cross Jones and 13-year-old Geneva Smith, whose bodies were both found near Wynne, Arkansas just a few miles from Hickory Ridge shortly after they went missing. After Catherine’s ...
Jan 04, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 16
On December 28 2017, 19-year-old Natalie Bollinger was at home in her apartment in Broomfield, Colorado. But when her boyfriend Joey got home from work that afternoon, Natalie was gone. So was his 9mm Glock. Joey tried to call Natalie but noticed that her cellphone was still at home. So he called the police and reported Natalie missing. The next day, December 29, police got a tip that a body had been found on land belonging to the McIntosh Dairy farm in a wooded area north of Denver, Colorado. T...
Dec 21, 2023•36 min•Season 5Ep. 15
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? Catherine Townsend tracks down other witnesses who saw Christina the night she disappeared and identifies inconsistencies in the case file. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com...
Dec 14, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 14
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? Catherine Townsend continues her investigation in Arkansas. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 07, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 13
In May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell costume jewelry for her school fundraiser. Her father gave her strict instructions: Stay on your side of the railroad tracks, and be home by dark. But Christina didn’t make it back home before dark. And she never made it home alive. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? And could her death be connected to other dead children found in East Arkansas? If you have a case you’d like Cathe...
Nov 30, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Hello, Hell and Gone listeners! Catherine is headed back to Arkansas this week to investigate a slew of child deaths that have never been solved. We'll be back next week with a full episode of Hell and Gone Murder Line. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 23, 2023•2 min•Season 5Ep. 11
It was May 10, 2005 when police in the tiny town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, a sleepy picturesque little town on Cape Cod, got a horrifying phone call. Fifty-one-year-old Shirley Reine had been found, slumped on the garage floor, hanging out of her Nissan Maxima in a pool of blood. Police rushed to the scene and later said that she had been shot twice, once in the chest, and then when she fell out of the car, police believed that the killer shot her a second time in the head. There was no sign o...
Nov 16, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 10
In winter of 2011, something was very wrong with 57-year-old Robert Wayne Cox. Robert had always been healthy and athletic, and according to his sister Lydia Cox, he was basically a happy homebody on his property in Havana, Arkansas. He had a son, lived near his father and sister, and had been happily married for over 20 years. But then suddenly, he started to decline physically. By November, he could not really walk, he just shuffled with his chin dropped down to his chest. He was nonverbal. Hi...
Nov 09, 2023•47 min•Season 5Ep. 9
It was July 29, 2022, just another quiet summer night in Atlanta, Texas. The sun had just gone down when 28-year-old Shommaonique Oliver got a panicked phone call. That’s when her nightmare began. Three of her children- her middle daughters, nine-year-old Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, eight-year-old A’Miyah Hughes, and little five-year-old Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver were missing. Law enforcement found them a few hours later. Divers dragged their lifeless little bodies out of a neighboring pond. Initial...
Nov 02, 2023•40 min•Season 5Ep. 8
On July 12, 2017, somewhere in the tiny town of Oil Trough, Arkansas, a 37-year-old mother of three named Brooke Allensworth vanished. Two weeks later, the police found Brooke’s car. The car was near a boat ramp and looked like it had been abandoned there for days or possibly weeks. The tire was flat, the doors were locked, and the keys were missing. And so was Brooke. Her family, including her three children and a father and half sister, never saw her alive again and are still searching for ans...
Oct 26, 2023•39 min•Season 5Ep. 7
On August 3, 2009, police found Shannon Hercutt dead inside her car, which had plunged off a cliff just off of Walker Trail in Sevier County, Tennessee. At first, the Tennessee highway patrol said Shannon had died in a car accident. But a few days later, Shannon Hercutt’s manner of death was changed to homicide. Who killed Shanoon Hercutt? If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/listener...
Oct 19, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Just weeks after Jarrod Green was missing, police find out that the people he allegedly owed money to, Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb, had left town and that their rental house had caught on fire. The woman who cleaned that house presents some revealing information. And a lawsuit is filed against Brandon Wheeler with disastrous consequences. Wheeler v. City of Searcy lawsuit: https://casetext.com/case/wheeler-v-city-of-searcy If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you ca...
Oct 12, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Shannon Green remembers her baby brother Jarrod as the kid who was always laughing and smiling with a mischievous sense of humor. She said Jarrod was a little bit naive, someone who always trusted others and would do anything for a friend. In 1993, Jarrod graduated from Searcy High School in Arkansas. Eventually, he moved out of his parents house, started junior college and got a job at the Walmart distribution center. But then, in 1994, the problems started. Jarrod started getting involved in d...
Oct 05, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What happened to Clea in those few short blocks between work and home? Did she get into a car with a stranger? Did someone unknown to her family pick her up? Or could something have happened at her job - something that meant that she never left that house alive? If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can reach out t...
Sep 28, 2023•43 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Thursday December 1, 1994 started out as just a normal day for Melissa Witt. She was a 19-year-old college student, who lived at home with her mom, Mary Ann, on a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in Fort Smith, Arkansas. That night, Melissa went to meet her mom at a bowling alley...but she never made it inside. Instead, Melissa disappeared. And Mary Ann never saw her daughter alive again. If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Murder Lin...
Sep 21, 2023•42 min•Season 5Ep. 1
The Hell and Gone team has launched a new series, Hell and Gone Murder Line…but investigator Catherine Townsend can’t start something new without returning to the case that started it all, the case that changed her life forever. The murder of Rebekah Gould. The case file was finally released in full a few months back, and Catherine spent countless hours reviewing it. In this episode, she goes through the parts of the file that stood out to her and raised more questions. If you have a case you’d ...
Sep 21, 2023•49 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend knows that there is no such thing as a small town where murder never happens. She's received hundreds of messages from people, all around the country, asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities. In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show on the Hell and Gone feed called Hell and G...
Sep 14, 2023•2 min
Larry Gould was supposed to meet with the prosecutor, but that meeting got postponed...indefinitely. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 21, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Catherine learns new information about the Arkansas State Police's investigation and explores the concept of contamination in confessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 14, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Catherine talks with Rebekah’s father Larry Gould about his victim statement and meeting Rebekah’s killer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 07, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
A man has finally been convicted for the murder of Rebekah Gould. But his confession leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Catherine Townsend attends a pre-trial hearing, seeing photos of the crime scene and Rebekah’s autopsy for the first time, and talks to investigator Jennifer Bucholtz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 30, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In the last episode of season 4, Catherine learns a theory about how Ebby's body was discovered and confirms details about Ebby's call with Trevor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Catherine looks into an incident involving Guy Hooper and talks to Ebby's friend who switched phones with her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 04, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Catherine talks to a toxicology expert and identifies another person Ebby was in contact with in the days, and maybe even hours, leading up to her disappearance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 27, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Catherine tries to figure out why there are inconsistencies in the security guard's stories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 20, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Catherine talks to one of Ebby's close friends and gets some shocking information from the LRPD. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 13, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Catherine and Mike go down the drain where Ebby was found and track down one of the guys from the party. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 06, 2022•26 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Ebby's family searches for her everywhere. Catherine talks with private investigator Monty Vickers and former LRPD detective Tommy Hudson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 30, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 2
