At age 45, Steve Patterson made a shocking online discovery: his own missing person’s page. Desperate to uncover why he had been included on the list, Steve called Todd Matthews, a missing-persons investigator, in search of answers. Together, Todd and Steve discover a sordid family past that includes long-lost relatives, kidnappings, and murders. It turns out that Steve was presumed dead because around the time he was born, his biological mother had married a serial killer who tore their family apart. Along the way, Steve would have to make sense of a personal story with more twists and turns than he...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Mark Yancey On Floyd's Trial
How was Franklin Floyd able to evade justice and hide from authorities for so long? In this second bonus episode, we spoke with Mark Yancey who prosecuted Floyd for the kidnapping…
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25 min
CHAPTER TWELVE: Dr. Amanda Baden On Adoption
Only finding out as an adult that you were adopted can throw you into a tailspin, forcing you to reconsider long-held truths. In this bonus episode, we hear from Dr. Amanda Baden,…
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31 min
CHAPTER ELEVEN: This One’s for Todd
In our first bonus episode, we try to make sense of an unimaginable loss. In early January 2024, our “Hello, John Doe” host Todd Matthews died, suddenly. This episode memorializes…
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38 min
CHAPTER TEN: The Reunion
In our season finale, Steve’s sisters roadtrip to his hometown to see him. Their stay in Cherryville and a surprise guest ends up unraveling the goodwill between Steve’s new relati…
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27 min
CHAPTER NINE: Finding his Father
A lot of relatives on Sandi’s side came out of the woodwork after Steve found his biological mother. Some of his long-lost relatives on his maternal side he let in, some he kept at…
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31 min
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Trouble Closer to Home
Soon after Steve started texting with his biological mother, he discovered he had a sister named Amy, a school bus driver in Virginia. At this point, Steve wanted to get to know Am…
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31 min
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Other Missing Boy
Steve wasn’t the only boy from his birth family to disappear and be presumed dead. When Suzie grew up, she had a son. His name was Michael. One day he went to school, with his Alad…
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31 min
CHAPTER SIX: The Investigation
Franklin Floyd had been a wanted man since 1962 when he left town to avoid a kidnapping conviction Bringing him to justice was the work of many investigators. In this episode, we m…
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29 min
CHAPTER FIVE: The Fugitives
After Franklin Floyd kidnapped Sandi’s daughter, 6 -year-old Suzie, they left town and never came back. They spent their life on the run, with alias after alias. But they did stay…
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33 min
CHAPTER FOUR: The Honda
When Todd started looking into Steve’s unusual adoption, he was faced with different versions of events. The story Steve's adoptive mother Mary told him and the tale Sandi told don…
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32 min
CHAPTER THREE: Sandi
The answers to what happened to Steve as an infant were only a car ride away. In this episode, Todd visits with Steve’s biological mother Sandi to find out why she let him go. In t…
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34 min
CHAPTER TWO: An Unusual Adoption
As a teenager, Steve didn’t dare ask his adoptive parents about his birth family. But once he was middle-aged and grieving the only father he’d ever known, Steve and his girlfriend…
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35 min
CHAPTER ONE: The Missing Boys
Todd Matthews, an amateur sleuth from Tennessee, has an unusual talent: Wielding the power of the Internet to match Jane and John Does with missing people, and helping grieving fam…
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Introducing: Hello, John Doe
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