A Simpler Time True Crime

By: Megan Rose
  • Summary

  • Join me each week as I discuss an unsolved case from the early 2000' and before. I discuss the illusion of safety in the days of lighter technology and explore the ways modern advancements could solve some of these cases.
    Each episode will have you asking "It may have been a simpler time, but was it a safer one?"

    © 2024 A Simpler Time True Crime
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Episodes
  • The Abduction of Vinyette Teague
    Dec 23 2024

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    On a hot summer night, a toddler is spending time with her grandmother and other neighbors on the breezeway of her high-rise apartment complex in Chicago. She is left alone in the busy hallway for just minutes, but in that time she disappears. Nearly fifty people were present at the time she was abducted, but nobody claims to have seen anything. Her mother has gone on to be a champion for not only her daughter, but other missing kids. Her hope is that her toddler was raised by another family who wanted a little girl, and that all of these years later they will find their way back to each other.

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    Sources:
    https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/two-missing-person-cases-baffling-police/

    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/36-years-later-missing-baby-chicago-area/145674/

    https://charleyproject.org/case/vinyette-trudy-teague

    http://www.spcoalition.org/teague.html
    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-vinyette-teague-2006-hop/161356864/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-life-behind-the-pho/161357724/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-news-democrat-july-1989-h/161360805/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-age-progression/161360870/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/martinez-news-gazette-photo/161360913/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-description-of-what-she/161361021/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/wausau-daily-herald-more-info-1985/161361100/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-1991-golfer/161363263/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-story-of-tim-sim/161363376/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-a-golf-bag-hope-an/161363467/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-photo-of-golf-bag/161363627/

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    27 mins
  • The Unsolved Murder of Judy Weichert
    Dec 16 2024

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    A woman training for a marathon leaves her house early on a Saturday morning to jog a country road on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. An hour into her run, she is brutally attacked and left for dead. She managed to get to the roadside and eventually a car stopped to help. Her last words were describing her attacker: white guy, blue car. Her case went to the backburner for decades after police concluded that the man who murdered her was in jail for a sexual assault committed the year after her murder. But when a huge scandal shines a spotlight on misconduct in Oklahoma City, it makes investigators question everything they knew about the case.

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    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1986/03/11/police-may-have-suspect-in-1984-joggers-death/62733255007/

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38212483/judy-ellen-weichert

    https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3535

    https://convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/jeffrey-todd-pierce/

    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2001/05/08/exonerated-inmate-freed-after-15-years-in-prison-man-wants-to-see-his-sons/62147648007/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist

    https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Gilchrist_Links.pdf

    https://piedmontnewsonline.com/index.php/2023/07/28/1984-surrey-hills-murder-remains-unsolved/

    https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveals-majority-women-abuse.html#google_vignette

    https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/I6aeae35789fd11d9ac45f46c5ea084a3/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)

    All newspapers.com articles used can be found clipped by my username: simplertimecrimepod. They cannot all be displayed due to character limitations.

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    39 mins
  • The Disappearance of Darwin Vest
    Dec 9 2024

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    Darwin Vest was a bit of a local celebrity in Idaho Falls. He was known locally as Spider Man because of his passion for studying spiders (and snakes, and other creatures that many of us run away from). His biggest claim to fame was identifying and naming the Hobo Spider that had made its way into homes all over the Pacific Northwest. He was an expert at studying venom in snakes, spiders, and plants and had been used as an expert on these topics all over the country, from college lecture halls to court rooms. In June of 1999, he had secured a deal to sell his Hobo Spider Trap invention and was celebrating at his weekly trivia night at his favorite local bar with friends. But after he left the bar that night, he stepped into the darkness never to be seen again. Did Darwin accidentally fall into the Snake River or did he meet with foul play?

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    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@simplertimecrimep?_t=8s31x9iCrNv&_r=1

    https://charleyproject.org/case/darwin-kenneth-vest

    https://thedeckpodcast.com/darwin-vest/

    https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP2091

    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/sep/14/regions-nasty-hobo-spiders-hit-their-toxic-peak/

    https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-how-recognize-hobo

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367886020084189&id=264247777114681&set=a.279291435610315

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5c9s2r/a_prominent_toxicologist_disappears_under/

    All Newspaper.com archived articles found under username: simplertimecrimepod (unable to list all due to character restrictions)

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00042059.htm




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    33 mins

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