"She Was Fine" - The Mitrice Richardson Case (part one)

The Lady in the Lake - Brandy Dyson (part two)

Holly Searcy lost her mother to murder at 10. She lost her father to murder at 19. She battled her own addiction before getting sober and becoming a substance abuse counselor. Now, she's the one fighting for the case no one else has been able to solve. In Part 2, Holly opens up about what it's like to grow up with both parents taken by violence, the moment she decided to pick up the torch from her exhausted aunt and become her mother's advocate, and the emotional cost of re-traumatizing yourself over and over again to keep a cold case alive. She shares the devastating story of Hurricane Ike washing her mother's casket away three years after the murder, the possible connection to the Jennings 8 serial murders just 30 minutes away, and the painful realization that the physical evidence in her mother's case has been exhausted — meaning it will only be solved if someone comes forward. Holly also shares a message for the person who killed her mom. And she talks about what it means to try to forgive someone you've never met. Somebody knows something. If you were at Crystal's Nightclub in Lake Charles on the night of November 4th, 2005 — or if you knew Jeremias Salazar in the Lubbock or Levelland, Texas area — please contact the Lake Charles Police Department. Follow Justice for Brandy Dyson on Facebook for case updates and to support Holly. Visit projectcoldcase.org for support in similar fights for justice To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://crimeclueless.com/]. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here [https://linktr.ee/crimeclueless]  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/crimeclueless] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Lady in the Lake - Brandy Dyson (part one)

In the weeks following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 32-year-old Brandy Renee Dyson was living alone on a pier behind the Lake Charles Civic Center in Louisiana. She'd lost her apartment after taking in friends displaced by the storms. On the morning of November 5th, 2005, her body was found floating in the lake — just feet from where she'd been sleeping. She had been strangled. A man named Jeremias Salazar was arrested, indicted on second-degree murder, and held on a million-dollar bond. Then the DNA came back — and it wasn't his. The charges were dropped. He walked free. And for twenty years, no one has been held accountable. In Part 1, Brandy's daughter Holly Searcy — who was just 10 years old when her mother was murdered — shares who Brandy really was: a mother who loved fiercely, who fought addiction with everything she had, and who wrote poems for the daughter she couldn't raise. We walk through the night Brandy was last seen alive, the evidence that built a case and the DNA that destroyed it, and the question that still haunts Holly to this day — if Salazar didn't do it, who did? And if he did, why can't anyone prove it? If you have any information about the murder of Brandy Renee Dyson, please contact the Lake Charles Police Department. Follow Justice for Brandy Dyson on Facebook. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://crimeclueless.com/]. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here [https://linktr.ee/crimeclueless]  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/crimeclueless] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"She Was Fine" - The Mitrice Richardson Case (part two)

This is Part 2 of a two-part episode. If you haven't listened to Part 1, we strongly recommend going back — this story builds on itself, and the full weight of what you're about to hear depends on understanding everything that came before. In Part 1, we introduced you to Mitrice Richardson — a 24-year-old honors graduate from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in psychology, a dream of going to grad school, and a life full of promise. We walked through the warning signs her family noticed in the days before her disappearance, the alarming evening at Geoffrey's restaurant in Malibu where every person who interacted with her recognized something was wrong, and the devastating series of failures at the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station — where deputies arrested her on minor charges, promised her mother they would hold her, and then released her at 12:28 in the morning with no phone, no money, no car, and no way home. Into the dark canyon roads of Malibu. Into an area she had never been. The department's official position: "She was fine." Part 2 picks up at 6:30 the next morning, when a retired KTLA news anchor spots a young woman in his backyard in Monte Nido — six miles from the station. She tells his wife she's "just resting." She's gone before deputies arrive. It's the last confirmed sighting of Mitrice Richardson alive. What unfolds over the next eleven months is a search effort plagued by decisions that defy explanation. K9 dogs pick up Mitrice's scent and are pulled off the trail. A two-day search is cancelled after one day. A volunteer drone is redirected away from the area where her remains will eventually be found. Over 300 volunteers comb 18 square miles and come up empty. Privately organized searches discover disturbing, racially offensive graffiti in a canyon drainage culvert — which authorities paint over. And then, in August 2010, California State Park Rangers — who are not looking for Mitrice at all — find skeletal remains in a remote creek bed in Dark Canyon. Naked. Clothing scattered hundreds of feet down a ravine. Adjacent to a secluded ranch known for producing pornography. Residents had reported hearing screams from the canyon in the nights after Mitrice disappeared. The coroner rules the cause of death undetermined. The sheriff's department says no foul play. Deputies move the remains against the coroner's explicit orders, then can't lead investigators back to the correct location. Critical evidence — including Mitrice's clothing — goes missing from the chain of custody. The family is taken to what they later believe was the wrong discovery site, where they find a bone left in the dirt. No one has ever been charged. No one has ever been held accountable. Mitrice's mother, Latice Sutton, who spent sixteen years fighting for answers, died in September 2025 without ever learning what happened to her daughter. This one stays with you. If you have any information about the disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson, please contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477. A $25,000 reward is available for information leading to an arrest and conviction. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://crimeclueless.com/]. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here [https://linktr.ee/crimeclueless]  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/crimeclueless] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"She Was Fine" - The Mitrice Richardson Case (part one)

On the evening of September 16, 2009, a 24-year-old Cal State Fullerton graduate named Mitrice Richardson walked into an upscale Malibu restaurant and immediately alarmed everyone she encountered. She told the valet she was there to avenge Michael Jackson's death. She told strangers she was from Mars. She couldn't pay her bill. The staff didn't just call the police — they called because they were worried about her safety. One employee refused to cover her tab, saying: "She's not safe to go out on her own." Deputies arrested Mitrice on minor charges and drove her to the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station in Calabasas. Her mother called, begging them not to release her. They promised they wouldn't. At 12:28 AM, they let her walk out the door — no phone, no money, no car, no way home — into the pitch-black canyons of Malibu. She vanished. What followed was eleven months of botched searches, hidden surveillance footage, contradicted testimony, and a department that insisted, at every turn, that everything was fine. This one stays with you. If you have any information, contact the LASD at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477. There is a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Find part two next week in your feed, we will close this one out, and you will continue to rage, just like we did. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://crimeclueless.com/]. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here [https://linktr.ee/crimeclueless]  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/crimeclueless] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

One Dollar: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler

It was supposed to be a quick trip into town. Twelve-year-old Sherry Lynn Marler — Little Farmer, tractor operator, country music lover — climbed into her stepfather's red pickup truck on the morning of June 6th, 1984, and rode twelve miles from their farm into Greenville, Alabama. He had to run into the bank. He gave her a dollar for a soda from the vending machine across the street. Meet me back at the truck. She crossed the street. She was never seen by her family again. In a town of 7,600 people — where everybody knew everybody, where a strange face turned heads, where the police chief would later say a child had never once gone missing in his entire life — not a single person saw Sherry Marler that morning. Not crossing the street. Not at the machine. Not walking back. This week, we dig into one of Alabama's most haunting unsolved disappearances: a twelve-year-old who vanished between a bank and a Chevron, three separate sightings with a mystery man witnesses say she called B.J., a stepfather who declined a polygraph but was cleared anyway, a pig farm in Butler County where cadaver dogs hit on something, evidence that reportedly never made it from a local sheriff's office to the FBI, and an amateur investigator who spent over a decade chasing the truth — only to write, in a Facebook post in 2020: I know exactly where she is, what happened to her, who did it, and why. But I can't prove it. Sherry Lynn Marler has been missing since 1984. This is her story To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://crimeclueless.com/]. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here [https://linktr.ee/crimeclueless]  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/crimeclueless] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.