This week, we take a deep dive into what it takes to construct an entirely new database--from the ground up--of a database that not only collects data on the missing and unidentified, but hopes to use that research to assist the communities least likely to receive resources, and most likely to remain unidentified after death. We analyze the construction of the new Mississippi Repository for the Missing and Unidentified, explore its unique “mapping” system for identifying clusters of the missing,...
Feb 08, 2023•45 min•Season 14Ep. 1
Part three in our three-part series covering the disappearance and murder of Chairo Garibay Ferreyra: on December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never arrived.She was reported missing to the Yuba County Sheriff, and both her family and law enforcement began a search that extended through Christmas. It would be five weeks before Chairo was found. Though there would eventually be a 50,000-dollar rewar...
Jan 25, 2023•39 min•Season 13Ep. 40
Part two in our three-part series covering the disappearance and murder of Chairo Garibay Ferreyra: on December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never arrived.She was reported missing to the Yuba County Sheriff, and both her family and law enforcement began a search that extended through Christmas. It would be five weeks before Chairo was found. Though there would eventually be a 50,000-dollar reward ...
Jan 18, 2023•40 min•Season 13Ep. 39
On December 11th, 2005, 20 year-old Chairo disappeared; she’d planned on attending church with her family in Olivehurst, California, but she never showed. She was reported missing to the Yuba County Sheriff, and both her family and law enforcement began a search that extended through Christmas. It would be five weeks before Chairo was found. Though there would eventually be a 50,000-dollar reward authorized in Chairo’s case, no one has been arrested for her murder. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY TH...
Jan 11, 2023•50 min•Season 13Ep. 38
In 1985, Ventura County teen Tyra Garcia disappeared; her family knew she hadn’t run away, but they saw local authorities assumed Tyra would return. That was the attitude until Tyra’s body was discovered in an orchard near her home, wrapped in a blanket, and tied with a cord. Now, Tyra’s sister Tanya has had her case ‘reactiviated’ and, with the help of advocate Maria, is pursuing answers. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-re...
Dec 29, 2022•35 min•Season 13Ep. 37
In 1985, Ventura County teen Tyra Garcia disappeared; her family knew she hadn’t run away, but they saw local authorities assumed Tyra would return. That was the attitude until Tyra’s body was discovered in an orchard near her home, wrapped in a blanket, and tied with a cord. Now, Tyra’s sister Tanya has had her case ‘reactivated’ and, with the help of advocate Maria, is pursuing answers. Contact No Activity: [email protected] Listen to No Activity: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...
Dec 28, 2022•34 min•Season 13Ep. 36
This week, we are re-releasing our Carolina Girls series. Each episode, we’ll start by providing updates in the cases we covered. In the final episode of the Carolina Girls series, we begin with the kidnapping and murder of Malakia Logan of Greenwood, South Carolina, and then delve into the disappearance of Aaliyah Bell of Rock Hill--the most recent case we've ever covered on The Fall Line. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-r...
Dec 22, 2022•42 min•Season 13Ep. 35
This week, we are re-releasing our Carolina Girls series. Each episode, we’ll start by providing updates in the cases we covered. In Part 3 of the Carolina Girls series, we begin with a vignette on Shakeima Cabbagestalk, who disappeared in the 1990s, and NiShan Huff, an honors graduate who was murdered in her own apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. Both cases remain open--but could be solved. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-th...
Dec 21, 2022•49 min•Season 13Ep. 34
This week, we are re-releasing our Carolina Girls series. Each episode, we’ll start by providing updates in the cases we covered. In part two of the Carolina Girls series, we conclude the story of North Carolinian Brittany Locklear, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1998, and discuss the disappearance of another girl--Eva DeBruhl--whose case was, for a time, tied to Henry Lee Lucas. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780...
Dec 20, 2022•40 min•Season 13Ep. 33
This week, we are re-releasing our Carolina Girls series. Each episode, we’ll start by providing updates in the cases we covered. In this episode, the first of a four-part series, we tell the stories of a number of missing and murdered girls and women from the Carolinas, both contemporary and historical. We touch on the stories of Asha Degree, Sherri Lee Truesdale, and begin our two-episode coverage of Brittany Locklear, a five-year-old kidnapped from the bus stop outside her own house. Pre orde...
Dec 19, 2022•43 min•Season 13Ep. 32
In May 2007, Garnet Lennox, a loving father and Michigan native, disappeared. Within a week, his car, and his body, would be found in East Detroit, and his sons, parents, and brothers were left to try and piece together who had killed Garnet, and why. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Go to Uncommongoods.com/FALL to get 15% off your next gift! Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FA...
Dec 07, 2022•50 min•Season 13Ep. 31
The DNA Doe Project had worked to solve the cases of unidentified decedents—also known as “Does.” Through the use of investigative genetic genealogy, cases once though impossible to close are now being solved, and some of the volunteers behind this nonprofit speak to us about its history, its biggest solves, and the cases that need the most support—and the gaps that still remain in IGG that can be improved to better serve the unidentified dead. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://w...
Dec 01, 2022•35 min•Season 13Ep. 30
The DNA Doe Project had worked to solve the cases of unidentified decedents—also known as “Does.” Through the use of investigative genetic genealogy, cases once though impossible to close are now being solved, and some of the volunteers behind this nonprofit speak to us about its history, its biggest solves, and the cases that need the most support—and the gaps that still remain in IGG that can be improved to better serve the unidentified dead. Part two releases tomorrow. Pre order Laurah’s book...
Nov 30, 2022•33 min•Season 13Ep. 29
This week, in honor of National Native American Heritage Day, we are re-releasing one of our most popular series: our three-part interview with Carolyn DeFord. In the final installment in our series covering the life of MMIW advocate and daughter of a missing person, Carolyn DeFord, we learn how the disappearance of her mother, Leona Kinsey, has shaped her current world--and work--and the crisis she sees in MMIWCR cases; disappearances and murders are undercounted, underreported, misclassified, ...
Nov 25, 2022•51 min•Season 13Ep. 28
This week, in honor of National Native American Heritage Day, we are re-releasing one of our most popular series: our three-part interview with Carolyn DeFord. Leona Kinsey disappeared on October 25, 1999; her daughter Carolyn has both searched for answers in her mother’s cold case—and has pondered what she’ll do if she finds what she seeks. Now an adult and an activist for MMIGW, and all missing and murdered Indigenous people through her Facebook group Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Car...
Nov 24, 2022•48 min•Season 13Ep. 27
This week, in honor of National Native American Heritage Day, we are re-releasing one of our most popular series: our three-part interview with Carolyn DeFord. Carolyn DeFord—MMIWG advocate, Trafficking Project Coordinator for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and founder of Missing and Murdered Native Americans Facebook page has another role: daughter of a missing person. In the first of a three-part series, we hear Carolyn’s story—and that of her mother, Leona LeClair Kinsey. Pre order Laurah’s b...
Nov 23, 2022•51 min•Season 13Ep. 26
Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Buy Enzo Yaksic’s Killer Data...
Nov 10, 2022•32 min•Season 13Ep. 25
Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Buy Enzo Yaksic’s Killer Data...
Nov 09, 2022•36 min•Season 13Ep. 24
On July 10th, 2010, Larry “LJ” Sanders, Jr., an Edgefield, SC-area father of two, was murdered during a home invasion; his mother, Carolyn Bates, wants to know why, and who, and when someone will be ready to come forward. After all, the North Augusta metro area isn’t large; someone, somewhere, knows something. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Thanks again Vessi! Click the link vessi.com and use our code [...
Nov 02, 2022•45 min•Season 13Ep. 23
In the early morning hours of September 28, 2015, Joseph Smedley, who was an Indiana University student, chemistry major, and Sigma Pi fraternity brother, sent his sister, Vivanne, a strange late-night text message: she shouldn’t try to contact him—he was leaving the country. Vivianne knew something was wrong; she began a near-week long search for her brother that ended when his body was pulled from a nearby lake. A bookbag weighed down with close to 70 lbs of rock was strapped to his body. Jose...
Oct 26, 2022•58 min•Season 13Ep. 22
Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists and murder. Their ringleader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kir...
Oct 25, 2022•4 min
We’re a show primarily focused on the Southeastern United States, but this week, Kristen Seavey of Murder, She Told walks us through some of New England’s least-known cold cases that are in most need of advocacy and support--and tells us how a victim’s advocate can participate in the genre of true crime to enact change. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and u...
Oct 12, 2022•47 min•Season 13Ep. 21
On Friday, June 7th, 1985, Nashville’s The Fan Fair, also known as “The Country Explosion” was days from its grand opening, and the city was flooded with strangers; the same afternoon, a man named Ricky Lee Franks would return to Nashville, his hometown, and see his family—briefly—before disappearing. Ricky Lee Franks had been living in a group home in Dickson, TN, and no one—not the cold-case detective now assigned to his case, or Ricky’s eldest sister, Sylvia—is quite sure how Ricky made his w...
Oct 05, 2022•38 min•Season 13Ep. 20
On Friday, June 7th, 1985, Nashville’s The Fan Fair, also known as “The Country Explosion” was days from its grand opening, and the city was flooded with strangers; the same afternoon, a man named Ricky Lee Franks would return to Nashville, his hometown, and see his family—briefly—before disappearing. Ricky Lee Franks had been living in a group home in Dickson, TN, and no one—not the cold-case detective now assigned to his case, or Ricky’s eldest sister, Sylvia—is quite sure how Ricky made his w...
Sep 28, 2022•39 min•Season 13Ep. 19
Warner Robins, Georgia is a military town that is attractive to families seeking affordable housing and good schools--and few long-term missing-persons cases. The oldest case on record is the disappearance of Bula Mae Robertson, a local mother who vanished late one night in October of 1993, leaving her teenage daughters and extended family without any sign as to where she might have gone, or what could have happened to her. Now, with the aid of a reward, investigators and Bula’s family hope that...
Sep 14, 2022•36 min•Season 13Ep. 18
In part two of this two-part series, we cover the cold-case homicides of Birmingham, Alabama nail-salon owners Jacky Nguyen and Nhut Phan, who were killed in their store just after Christmas in 2010; their daughters, Linda and Thao, discuss possible theories in their parents’ case, and what they’ve learned from authorities in the past 12 years. Thao and Linda want to know: who killed Jacky and Nhut? Was it just a robbery, or was there something more at stake? Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO ...
Sep 07, 2022•34 min•Season 13Ep. 17
In part one of this two-part series, we cover the cold-case homicides of Birmingham, Alabama nail-salon owners Jacky Nguyen and Nhut Phan, who were killed in their store just after Christmas in 2010; though their children have long hoped for movement in the case, they’ve been waiting for answers for over a decade. Rumors and lack of communication became a hallmark for their parents’ case: Thao and Linda want to know: who killed Jacky and Nhut? Was it just a robbery, or was there something more a...
Aug 31, 2022•36 min•Season 13Ep. 16
Eric Carter-Landin didn’t set out to be an advocate; but as the family member of a murder victim whose case was closed, he watched other disturbing cases unfold in his home state of New Mexico, and he felt called to do something about it: to help families, to shine a light on the failings in the system, and, eventually, to seek justice for his own brother, who was was killed at only nine months old. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-...
Aug 17, 2022•54 min•Season 13Ep. 15
After her biological mother, Janice “Becky” LaPlant disappeared during a July 2011 cookout in Lincoln, Alabama, Tracy took on the responsibility of pursuing Becky’s case--and enlisted social media in her search for answers. During the production of this two-part series, Tracy receives news, in real time, that might change everything. Tracy discovered a Jane Doe in Knoxville, TN and was unexpectedly contacted for testing during the making of this episode. This week, we wait for answers, with Trac...
Aug 10, 2022•41 min•Season 13Ep. 14
After her estranged biological mother, Janice “Becky” LaPlant disappears during a July 2011 cookout in Lincoln, Alabama, Tracy takes on the responsibility of pursuing Becky’s case--and enlists social media in her search for answers. During the production of this two-part series, Tracy receives news, in real time, that might change everything. Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Sponsors: -Go to https://www.f...
Aug 03, 2022•39 min•Season 13Ep. 13
