Episodes

  • South Dakota: The Murder of Darlene VanderGiesen

    South Dakota: The Murder of Darlene VanderGiesen
    Aug 24 2026
    Darlene VanderGiesen was born in July 1963 in Osborn, Kansas. She and her sister were born completely deaf to hearing parents. Darlene went to the prestigious School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs, Iowa and then on to community college. After graduating, she moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where there was a huge hearing impaired community.
    Darlene made friends easily, and found a community in Sioux Falls. She befriended a woman named Sally Collins who was also deaf, and who was in an on-again-off-again relationship with another hearing impaired woman named Daphne Wright. Daphne was extremely jealous of Darlene and Sally's friendship, even though Darlene was straight and dating a man at the time.
    On February 1st, 2006, Darlene VanderGeiesen disappeared. Her car was found parked at a local resetaurant, but no one had seen her since that evening. When police started to investigate, they found a horrific murder on their hands: one that involved two deaf women in an unprecedented True Crime case.

    Show Notes:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/darlene-vandergiesen-asl-and-the-legal-system/id1112004494?i=1000548828173
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    26 mins
  • South Carolina: Samantha Josephson's Fake Uber Ride

    South Carolina: Samantha Josephson's Fake Uber Ride
    Aug 10 2026
    Samantha Josephson, who everyone called Sami, was a senior at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina and was looking forward to attending Drexel University for law school in the fall. But on March 28th, 2019, with only one month until graduation, she and some friends decided to go to the Five Points area of Columbia to go bar hopping. Five Points was a crowded area with many bars and restaurants, frequented by students.
    At 2 am, Sami called an Uber to come pick her up because she was ready to go back to her apartment. She saw what she thought was her ride: a black Chevy Impala. She got into that car and that was the last time she was ever seen alive again.
    The Uber was not actually an Uber: in fact, it was a regular car driven by Nathaniel Roland, a 24-year-old opportunistic criminal. When Sami was found the next day by turkey hunters in a rural, wooded area, she was dead. She had been murdered and had 50 stab wounds all over her body.
    This case would rock the world of ride share companies and riders alike. Because of Sami's misfortune, safety laws would need to be amended throughout the US so that something like this could never happen again.

    Show Notes:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24517326/
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    24 mins
  • Rhode Island: The Unexplained Death of Shawn O'Brien

    Rhode Island: The Unexplained Death of Shawn O'Brien
    Jul 27 2026
    On Friday, July 21st, 2006, 35-year-old Shawn O'Brien left his roofing job in Cranston, Rhode Island and went to meet his ex-girlfriend Amy, and their 13-year-old daughter Natalia to give Amy some child support money. The three made plans to meet up later that afternoon to attend the St. Mary's Feast festival. But by 6 pm, Natalia had a headache so the three planned to take a rain check and meet at the festival the next day. Amy and Natalia dropped Shawn off at Billy's Frosted Mug, a local bar, at around 7 pm that evening. That was the last time they would see Shawn alive.
    By the next day, when Shawn had no answered any calls or shown up to the festival, friends and family got worried. They went to the basement apartment that he rented from his landlord, Armand, and his girlfriend, Lynn. Armand told Shawn's friends and family that Shawn had been seizing for hours. Shawn had a seizure disorder that was attributed to his heavy drug and alcohol use. But after Shawn got to the hospital and died there two days later, everyone who knew Shawn started to become suspicious that Shawn had not died because of an accident, but that he had been murdered in cold blood.

    Show Notes:

    https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/shawn-obrien
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    25 mins
  • Pennsylvania: Ellen Greenberg

    Pennsylvania: Ellen Greenberg
    Jul 13 2026
    On January 26th, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania experienced a huge blizzard in the early afternoon hours. That is why Ellen Greenberg, an elementary school teacher at Juniata Park Academy, was sent home early to the Venice Lofts apartment that she shared with her fiance Sam Goldberg in the Manayunk area of Philadelphia.
    She and Sam had been engaged for about six months, but it seemed as if Ellen was not quite yet in the bridal state of mind. She had been having depression issues, and had been super stressed out with work. She had recently been to see a psychiatrist who prescribed a cocktail of medications for Ellen to help ease her anxiety and depression.
    But on that day, when Sam got home from work at around 4 pm, he decided to go to the gym in their building at around 4:50. By the time he got back up to their apartment, he was locked out and started to get concerned about Ellen. When he finally made it into the apartment, he saw Ellen slumped against the dishwasher with a knife through her heart. Sam was convinced she had committed suicide but her family and friends thought otherwise. What followed were court cases for years to solve the mystery: Was Ellen Greenberg murdered or did she die by her own hand?

    Show Notes:

    https://www.hulu.com/series/death-in-apartment-603-what-happened-to-ellen-greenberg-b0338377-2cf8-43c4-98b7-5f907e9d51d1
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    29 mins
  • Oregon: The Murder of Eric Tamiyasu

    Oregon: The Murder of Eric Tamiyasu
    Jun 29 2026
    On the night of June 25th, 2001, Eric Tamiyasu, a 41-year-old third generation fruit farmer from Hood River, Oregon, had his friend Diane Anderson over to his house on a rural plot of land, for a date. Eric and Diane had been friends for years and were exploring the possibility of growing their relationship. At around 11 pm, the two heard strange tappings on the windows and also heard the doorbell ring. Seeing no one outside, Diane soon left Eric's house around 11:30 pm. Four days later, after Eric's friends and family had not heard from him, a man named Don Dixon entered Tamiyasu's house with a spare key. He found Eric dead in his bed, naked, with two gunshot wounds to the head.
    What followed was a mystery and a cold case that Hood River Oregon's police department could not solve. There were many suspects including Don Dixon, a former business partner, Diane Anderson's ex and even the Sherriff of Hood River himself. But no one could solve the case and no one could fathom who would have wanted mild-mannered Eric Tamiyasu dead?

    Show Notes:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35004933/

    https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2021/09/16/unsolvedhomicide-eric-tamiyasu/
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    22 mins
  • Oklahoma: The Mysterious Deaths of Molly Miller and Colt Haynes

    Oklahoma: The Mysterious Deaths of Molly Miller and Colt Haynes
    Jun 17 2026
    On Sunday, July 7th, 17-year-old Molly Miller wanted to go to a house party in Wilson, Oklahoma to see her new crush, 21-year-old Colt Haynes. Molly had started to fall in with the wrong crowd and had begun experimenting with drugs. Also at the house party was a man named James Con Nipp who went by the nickname Con. Somehow, Molly Miller and Colt Haynes ended up in Con's car driving around.
    When they got to a convenience store, Con spotted a cop and wanted to mess with him so he started a high speed chase that ended in a crash by a fence. All three of the vehicle's occupants fled the scene but only Con ended up walking home. What would transpire next was one of the most bizarre nights with Molly and Colt wandering the woods, lost, calling dozens of friends to come pick them up and even dialing 911 before both their phones went dead at exactly 10 am. No one could find them for years. What had happened to Molly Miller and Colt Haynes?

    Show Notes:


    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11224866/

    https://getpodcast.com/es/podcast/the-generation-why-podcast/the-disappearance-of-molly-miller-and-colt-haynes-619_ebb70e7614
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    23 mins
  • Ohio: The Murder of Aliza Sherman

    Ohio: The Murder of Aliza Sherman
    Jun 1 2026
    On Sunday March 24th, 2013, 53-year-old Aliza Sherman told her son Jeremy that she had some errands to run and needed to stop by her divorce attorney's office, but that she would be home later with pizza. When 7:45 rolled around, Jeremy got concerned and called his sister who lived a few miles away. But when his sister got to their house, they were met by a police officer who told them the devastating news: their mother had been killed only a few hours earlier, stabbed to death in downtown Cleveland.
    Aliza had been there to meet with her lawyer about her impending divorce trial from her estranged husband, Sanford. Sanford had been stealing money from the family and had been threatening Aliza. But when police looked into the case of who would have wanted to kill a seemingly upstanding, innocent woman the answer was even more bizarre than anyone could have imagined.

    Show Notes:

    https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2021/08/23/unsolved-homicide-aliza-sherman/

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14255922/
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    19 mins
  • North Dakota: Nikki Entzel

    North Dakota: Nikki Entzel
    May 18 2026
    The case of Nikki Entzel is discussed.

    Show Notes:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26421694/
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    21 mins