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Feb 26, 2025•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Investigator Sarah Cailean is determined to figure out why the Kansas Bureau of Investigation dismissed Jeremy Jones’s confession to the murder of Jennifer Judd. Then, DNA results come in – and a phone call reveals important new information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 02, 2024•47 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Investigator Sarah Cailean narrows her list of suspects in the murder of Jennifer Judd. While in Missouri, she meets with the family of another potential victim of Jeremy Jones, to see if there are consistencies in the two crimes or the confessions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 25, 2024•46 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Investigator Sarah Cailean heads back to Cherokee County, Kansas, in search of additional suspects, including a man whose record indicates he might have something to hide. With the sheriff’s blessing, Sarah takes a long drive to Oklahoma to see if he’ll talk. As she prepares to send the physical evidence to a DNA-testing lab, she connects with forensics expert Rana DellaRocco for a second look at the crime scene photos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 18, 2024•41 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast After weeks of failed attempts, investigator Sarah Cailean sets up an interview with the person who knew Jennifer most intimately: her husband, Justin Judd. Sarah hopes to learn more about Jennifer, their marriage, the crime scene, and Justin’s relationships with the two primary suspects: Chuck Chance and Jeremy Jones. Justin’s statements lead her to new information in this confounding case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 11, 2024•41 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast After securing access to the case files, investigator Sarah Cailean narrows in on the original suspect: Chuck Chance. Thirty years later, police still consider him the primary suspect, and Sarah is determined to figure out why they think this friend of Jennifer and Justin might have killed her. Not wanting to develop tunnel vision, Sarah looks into a few other surprising names on the suspect list, and deeper into the one man who’s confessed: Jeremy Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Sep 04, 2024•43 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In her quest to get to know Jennifer Judd, investigator Sarah Cailean meets one of Jennifer’s best friends, Michelle McKorkel. Sarah is shocked to hear Michelle describe another close friend: Jeremy Jones. Then, after weeks of missed calls and unanswered emails, Sarah heads to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office to see if the sheriff is willing to work together to determine who killed Jennifer Judd. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 28, 2024•45 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Investigator Sarah Cailean heads to the intersection of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri to to begin to untangle the many rumors swirling around the murder of Jennifer Judd and the confessions of Jeremy Jones. Starting in Jennifer’s hometown of Picher, Oklahoma, Cailean hopes to get a better understanding of the 20-year-old woman at the center of this cold case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 21, 2024•51 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In 1992, 20-year-old Jennifer Judd is murdered in her own home. Her husband of just nine days, Justin Judd, comes home from work to find his high school sweetheart lying on the kitchen floor with more than a dozen stab wounds. The murder shocks the small communities of Baxter Springs, Kansas, where the couple lived, and nearby Picher, Oklahoma, where Jennifer grew up. Despite a few early leads, the case went cold for nearly a decade. Then, a man confessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Aug 14, 2024•52 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In May 1992, nine days after marrying her high-school sweetheart, 20-year-old Jennifer Judd was killed in her apartment in Baxter Springs, Kansas. The killer had used knives from Jennifer's own set, a wedding gift the couple had only just opened. Upon returning home from work, her husband, Justin Judd, finds Jennifer lying on the kitchen floor with the blade of a knife still lodged in her back. Police immediately suspect one of Jennifer and Justin’s friends. A decade later, another man confesses...
Aug 07, 2024•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Cailean heads back to Mobile, Alabama, to investigate a new suspect who she thinks might finally help solve the question of who killed Amanda’s mom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 24, 2024•46 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast An anonymous tip in the Renee Bergeron case points to a new suspect, and Sarah Cailean attempts to fit this new piece into the puzzle of who killed Amanda’s mom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 17, 2024•48 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In any cold case, three theories circulate among the public: the victim was a snitch; there was human trafficking; or the police did it. As Sarah’s investigation heats up, she is left wondering whether all three theories might have played some role in this case… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 12, 2023•48 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah’s investigation has turned up two different theories of the case, and with that, two very different suspects. So, now, she’s left asking: could either of them be the culprit? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 05, 2023•46 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Is a distressing 1993 tip made about Renée's murder merely the result of a drunk talker… or something far more sinister? Drunk talkers are dime a dozen when it comes to murder cases, but this tip looks a lot more promising to Sarah than others she’s come across. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 29, 2023•35 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast When the Sheriff’s Office first processed the dead body found along Interstate-10, they identified her as Maria Martinez - not Renée Bergeron. This was not a simple clerical mistake. Turns out, Renée lived much of her life under the alter ego Maria. So who exactly is Maria? And why did Renée use her name? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 22, 2023•44 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast As Sarah tries to further understand the life Renée led in Mobile, she learns of a close friend of hers named David. But she doesn’t know if he is dead or alive. So, she decides to see if she can find him and talk to him. What she discovers sends her investigation hurtling in a new direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 15, 2023•45 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Interstate-10 is known as the serial killer’s highway among criminologists. Given the brutal nature of her injuries and the fact that she was found dead on a service road running parallel to the highway, Sarah investigates the possibility that a serial killer might be responsible for Renée's death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 08, 2023•36 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah revisits the original 1993 investigation into the murder of Renee Bergeron and pretty quickly realizes that the detectives stumbled from the outset. Sarah tries to account for what - and who - they failed to understand in their original investigation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 01, 2023•45 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In November 1993, a veteran discovers the body of a woman on a little road near Interstate-10 in Mobile, Alabama. She’s nude, drained of blood, and decapitated. But despite the horrific nature of the murder, it garners little sympathy in the press and, worse, detectives fail to understand the fundamentals of what they’re dealing with. Can a new approach to the case potentially uncover the person responsible for this gruesome beheading? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Feb 22, 2023•45 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In November 1993, a veteran discovers the body of a woman on a dirt road near Interstate-10 in Mobile, Alabama. She’s nude, drained of blood, and decapitated. But despite the horrific nature of the murder, it garners little sympathy in the press and detectives fail to close the case. Over the course of 8 episodes, host Sarah Cailean recounts her three-year investigation into this unsolved and perplexing murder that seems to leave more questions than answers. With the full support of th...
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