Send us Fan Mail Eight women were found dead in Jennings, Louisiana. Nobody’s been held responsible. That’s the case. This all happens in Jefferson Davis Parish. Small town. Water everywhere. Canals, drainage ditches, roadside drops. If you’ve ever been down there, you already know—there are a lot of places where something can be left and not found right away. And when water gets involved, whatever was there doesn’t stay long. We walk through it from 2005 to 2009 and stick to what actually ho...
Apr 12
1 hr 3 min
Send us Fan Mail In April 1978, three-year-old Stephanie Alana Hall was killed in the Ozark woods of Newton County, Arkansas by members of a small religious cult. When investigators asked why anyone would murder a child, the answer they heard was almost impossible to process: the group believed the girl had been declared “anathema.” In their belief system, that meant she no longer belonged among the living. In this episode we walk through what actually happened in that remote campsite near th...
Mar 16
54 min
Send us Fan Mail On August 23, 1987, two Arkansas teenagers were found dead on a railroad track outside Bryant. Authorities quickly ruled it an accident. The official story claimed Kevin Ives and Don Henry had smoked marijuana, laid down on the tracks, and fallen asleep before a freight train came through. Case closed. But when a second autopsy was performed, investigators discovered one of the boys had a crushed skull before the train ever reached him. Suddenly the accident story didn’t hold...
Mar 8
1 hr 6 min
Send us Fan Mail When the Coroner Says It’s Not Murder Two teenage boys are found dead on railroad tracks near Mena, Arkansas. The ruling? Accident. A man is found with four gunshot wounds to the chest. The ruling? Suicide. Now… I don’t know about you, but that should at least make you pause. Because once that word is written down — accident, suicide — everything shifts. Detectives slow down. Prosecutors adjust. The public moves on. And families are left staring at a piece of paper wondering ...
Mar 2
57 min
Send us Fan Mail Was H. H. Holmes really Jack the Ripper? It’s one of true crime’s most persistent myths. This week on Things I Want To Know, we break it apart using motive, method, timeline, and behavioral profiling. Andrea takes Whitechapel and builds the Ripper’s profile. Paul steps into Chicago and dissects Holmes. Same era. Completely different predators. Holmes built traps. Private rooms. Insurance scams. Control and profit at the center of every decision. The Ripper attacked in public....
Feb 22
55 min
Send us Fan Mail What if your entire town was built on something that wasn’t real? Claremore, Oklahoma once rebranded itself as “Radium Town.” Hotels. Parades. Bathhouses. Souvenir jugs. Steam rooms packed with believers. One problem. The water didn’t contain radium. It smelled like sulfur. It burned your nose. And it sold like a miracle. This episode dives into the radium craze that swept America after the Curies made the element famous. We talk about the Radium Girls, radioactive tonics, gl...
Feb 16
57 min
Send us Fan Mail Secrets don’t always hide in the dark. Sometimes they sit in a box on a shelf for decades, waiting on the day science finally catches up. After a quick start, we take a hard turn into Benton County, Arkansas, where skeletal remains were found in 1990 and the victim lived for 32 years in the system as a Jane Doe. We walk through why this case stalled for so long. A skull too damaged for reconstruction, early forensic limitations, and the brutal reality that without a name, eve...
Feb 9
1 hr 1 min
Send us Fan Mail A nine-pound socket slipped during routine maintenance inside a Titan II missile silo near Damascus, Arkansas. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the start of a real chain of events that turned a live Cold War ICBM into a disaster under rural farmland. In this episode, I walk Andrea through it the way I learned it. No assuming you’re a history nerd. No pretending everybody remembers the Cold War. We break down the basics in human language: why these weapons existed, why they were ...
Feb 1
55 min
Send us Fan Mail A quiet driveway is supposed to be the end of the day. Park. Breathe. Go inside. Safe. That is why this case won’t let go. Misty Dawn Faulkner makes it home to rural Oklahoma after a shift. There’s a Walmart run in the mix. There’s a phone call, maybe finished from the car. And then the part that turns your stomach: she’s gone. No obvious struggle. No screaming heard. Her purse and phone are left behind. The vehicle is locked. The groceries are still there. It looks normal un...
Jan 25
1 hr
Send us Fan Mail A funeral home is supposed to be the one place that runs on dignity, routine, and trust. Transfer. Refrigeration. Service. Closure. In Jacksonville, Arkansas, that trust snapped. In this episode of Things I Want To Know, we start where the damage actually lived: with the families who paid for care, waited for answers, and later learned what state inspectors said they found inside Arkansas Funeral Care. Not rumor. Not internet folklore. Documented findings that turned a privat...
Jan 19
1 hr
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