1980 | The Disappearance of Laureen Rahn
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In April 1980, fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn vanished from her home in Manchester, New Hampshire. There were no signs of a struggle. No witnesses. No clear explanation for how a teenager could disappear from a third-floor apartment in the middle of the night. In the hours that followed, investigators were left with only a handful of details - a friend asleep inside, an open back door, and a timeline that stopped at the moment Laureen moved from her bed to the couch. Months later, a series of phone calls would surface, pulling the case thousands of miles away from New Hampshire…and raising...
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Season 4 Trailer - Missing Persons Cases of the 1980s
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Missing Persons Cases of the 1980's The 1980s felt wide open. Kids rode their bikes for miles without anyone worrying. The rule was simple: be home when the streetlights came on. It was the decade of roller rinks and mall food courts… Cassette tapes and bedroom posters… Whitney Houston and Bon Jovi blasting from the radio. Life moved at a different pace. A little unsupervised. A little innocent. But beneath that nostalgia sits a quieter truth. Because during those same ordinary nights and routines…people disappeared. In the 1980s, a missing person could vanish into silence. There were no...
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Introducing Mind Games
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We’re excited to share a preview of a new podcast we think you’d enjoy: What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or…. secretly hypnotize others into giving you anything you want? That’s the promise of NLP. Mind Games is an investigation into the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology that has quietly shaped industries, institutions, and belief systems around the world. Part science experiment, part investigation, part true crime thriller, Mind Games tells the story of NLP...
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Introducing Valley of Shadows: The Devil's Punchbowl
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We’re sharing a preview of Valley of Shadows, a new true crime podcast that digs into a nearly 30-year old secret buried in the California desert. On June 11, 1998, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jon Aujay set out for a run in California’s Devil’s Punchbowl park, and never came back. Aujay has yet to be found. The Sheriff’s Department rules Aujay’s disappearance a suicide, but friends, family, and fellow deputies insist the story doesn’t add up. Instead, they believe Aujay may have stumbled into the Mojave Desert’s criminal underworld - where outlaw biker gangs crank out...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | BONUS Episode
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In this bonus episode, Sara and Andrea return to the story of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans to reflect on the questions that still remain — the ones that linger long after the DNA match and the headlines. Drawing from listener messages, they revisit the cyclist attack that first brought Darrell David Rice to investigators’ attention, the terrain surrounding Julie and Lollie’s hidden campsite, the delays that shaped the early search, and the haunting gaps the evidence could never fill. They also explore parallels to other cases, including the Colonial Parkway murders, and consider what...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 5: The DNA Speaks
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Nearly three decades after the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, a new team inside the FBI’s Richmond field office reopened the Shenandoah case. This time, the science had changed. With funding from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), old evidence was retested using technology that hadn’t existed in 1996. What they found would break the silence of the case, and finally name the man responsible. As DNA revealed a serial offender with a violent past, investigators finally closed one of the darkest chapters in national park history. Episode Five traces the final steps...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 4: The Case Unravels
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Six years after the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an indictment against Darrell David Rice - the man they believed was responsible for the killings in Shenandoah National Park. It was a landmark case, to be prosecuted under new federal hate-crime laws, and for a moment it seemed justice was finally within reach. But as the trial approached, the cracks beneath the case began to widen. Witnesses wavered, timelines shifted, and the forensic evidence didn’t align with what investigators expected. Then, a single test would change everything,...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 3: The Pattern Begins
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One year after the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, a cyclist named Yvonne Malbasha was attacked on Skyline Drive inside Shenandoah National Park. Her escape set off a chain of events that would expose a pattern of rage and violence that would lead investigators straight to Darrell David Rice, a 29 year old from Maryland whose hatred toward women and the LGBTQ+ community would soon become central to a federal murder case. Episode Three captures the moment the investigation shifted from unanswered questions to a name investigators couldn’t ignore. A survivor’s escape would spark...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 2: The Discovery
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In May 1996, hikers Julie Williams and Lollie Winans set out for a backcountry camping trip in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, a place they considered safe. When they failed to return home, a missing-persons report sparked a massive search across hundreds of miles of trails. Days later, park rangers made a devastating discovery that would change Shenandoah forever. Episode 2 retraces the women’s final days: their hike through Whiteoak Canyon, their last photos atop Hawksbill Mountain, and the moment a peaceful national park became the scene of a double homicide. Through ranger...
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The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 1: The Beginning of Us
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In May 1996, two women - Julie Williams and Lollie Winans - set out on a backcountry camping trip in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. What began as a five-day escape into the wild became one of the most haunting crimes in National Park history. But before the tragedy, there was their story: two women who found love, freedom, and belonging in the wilderness. From their first meeting, to the drive that carried them deep into the mountains, they were chasing peace. Unaware of what waited in the quiet. Episode One retraces their final days of safety and joy. Before the silence of...
info_outlineIn Season Two of SEQUESTERED, we step into the shadows of six cold cases involving missing or murdered individuals whose stories have yet to be brought to justice. These cases don’t begin with crime scenes—they begin in the quiet, everyday moments that suddenly turned tragic. Through victim-centric, time-capsule storytelling, SEQUESTERED brings life to stories long buried in silence.
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