Faith Hedgepeth: The Apartment, the Note, and the Unanswered Questions (E159)

Raymond Roth: The Beach, the Life Insurance, and the Lie (E164)

In 2012, a father reported that his 22-year-old son had disappeared while swimming off a Long Island beach. At first, the story sounded like a tragic accident a young man caught by the ocean and lost beneath the waves. But as investigators examined the details surrounding Raymond Roth and the disappearance of his son Jonathan Roth, troubling inconsistencies began to emerge. Questions surrounding life insurance policies, financial pressure, and contradictory statements transformed the case into something far stranger than anyone initially imagined. What began as a missing persons tragedy would ultimately become a story about deception, desperation, and a lie that unraveled piece by piece.

Karina Holmer: The Night Out That Ended in a Mystery (E163)

In June 1996, 20-year-old Swedish au pair Karina Holmer went out with friends in Boston for an evening of music, dancing, and celebration. Hours later, the night would end in horror when investigators discovered partial human remains in a dumpster behind an apartment building. The shocking nature of the crime stunned Boston and quickly transformed Karina’s case into one of the city’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Despite witnesses, forensic evidence, and years of investigation, critical questions about Karina’s final hours remain unanswered. Nearly three decades later, people still ask the same chilling question: who crossed paths with Karina Holmer that night and why has no one ever been held accountable?

Patrice Endres: The Salon Disappearance and the Man Who Waited (E162)

In April 2004, Patrice Endres vanished from her salon in Cumming, Georgia, during what should have been a routine workday. Within a remarkably small window of time, Patrice seemingly disappeared without a trace leaving behind unfinished tasks, unanswered questions, and a timeline investigators would spend years trying to reconstruct. As the investigation unfolded, attention increasingly turned toward behavior, relationships, and interviews that many viewers later found deeply unsettling. Was Patrice taken by a stranger passing through town, or was the truth hidden closer to home? Years later, Patrice’s case remains one of the most discussed and debated disappearances in modern true crime.

Blair Adams: The Man Who Fled Across Borders to His Death (E161)

In July 1996, Blair Adams suddenly began acting as though someone was after him. He withdrew large amounts of cash, attempted to cross borders, and repeatedly told people he feared for his safety. Friends and family struggled to understand why a man with no obvious reason to run seemed desperate to get away from something or someone. Days later, Blair was found dead in Knoxville, Tennessee under circumstances that only deepened the mystery. Cash and valuables were still with him, strange items surrounded the scene, and investigators were left with one overwhelming question: what exactly was Blair running from? Nearly three decades later, the story remains one of the most unsettling and debated mysteries in modern true crime.

Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Girls, One Night, and a City Changed Forever (E160)

On a December night in 1991, four teenage girls in Austin, Texas were finishing a shift and making plans for the rest of their evening. Hours later, a fire inside a yogurt shop would reveal one of the most devastating crime scenes in the city’s history. For decades, the case generated theories, false confessions, overturned convictions, and painful questions that refused to disappear. What happened inside that shop became a mystery that haunted investigators and reshaped countless lives. Recent DNA developments have changed the conversation around the case, but the tragedy itself still echoes through Austin.