Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths. Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly. Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities. In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a...
Latest episodes
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33 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gloria Kowalewicz
On November 12, 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz walked over to her nearby Catholic church, St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Chicago. But she never made it to morning mass. And si…
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4 min
Introducing: Curse of Miss America
Hello, Hell and Gone Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, it’s Curse of: Miss America!!! About the Show: Miss America used to be a national icon. At its peak, th…
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33 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Double Homicide of Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Plaztman
In the early morning hours of Saturday October 31 - Halloween, 1981, 39-year-old Ronald Sisman and his new girlfriend, 20-year-old Elizabeth Platzman, were hanging out at his apart…
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41 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan [From the Archives]
Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned when their newspaper…
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37 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Dermonds
In May 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found decapitated in the garage of his lakefront home in an exclusive Georgia community. His wife, Shirley, was missing. Ten days later…
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38 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rex Terrell [From the Archives]
In the early morning hours of on July 30 1977 in Wesley, Arkansas a 20-year-old University of Arkansas Student Rex Terrell, who worked the overnight shift was found lying in a pool…
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33 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly
It was a really hot night in the middle of summer - July 4, 1988, in San Angelo, Texas. Seventeen-year-old Shane Stewart was gearing up for the Fourth of July holiday celebrations…
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39 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Stephen and Carole Baxter
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, 21-year-old Ellie Baxter went to check on her parents at their home on Mersea Island, off the Essex coast, 64-year-old Carole Baxter and 61-year-ol…
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32 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maria Rodriguez
In the summer of 1980, sixteen-year-old Maria Rodriguez was living with her boyfriend Milton Colbert Jr. in Long Branch, New Jersey. When came home from his work shift - he looked…
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36 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Eugene and Raymond Horsch
At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia…
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33 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jenna Neilsen
At around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday, June 14, 2007, police found the body of 22 year old Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen behind an AmeriKing Food Mart in Raleigh, North Carolina. J…
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28 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]
On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, w…
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31 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Anna Laura Costa Porsborg
It was December 28, 2022, a few days after Christmas, and Erbena Costa was beginning to get seriously worried about her daughter, 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa Porsborg. Before Chri…
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36 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Harris
On Sunday May 12, 2002, Mother’s Day evening, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris had spent the day with her family and at 6:30 pm that night, she arrived at her friend Kristy Farr’s house…
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37 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Caroline Herrling
In December 2020, the police received a call from a neighbor of 69 year old Charles Wilding, a reclusive man who lived by himself on Kingswood Road in Sherman Oaks, California. It…
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34 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [Update]
On Sunday October 17, 2021 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her home in West Los Angeles near Culver City, to head out to her 11 year old son’s football game and was never seen again.…
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35 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Dorothy and Buddy Little
On June 7, 1980, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office arrived at a green one story ranch-style home in southwest Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside, they would discover one…
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37 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton [From the Archives]
On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in Stuttgart, Arkansas...and…
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31 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Krystal Rivera
On June 5, 2025, 36-year-old Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were working patrol in the East Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. They…
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43 min
Hell and Gone Murder Line_ Clea Hall [From the Archives]
Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What happened to Clea in…