Going West: True Crime Real Crime by Going West

In July of 2015, a family headed out for a camping trip in the woods of Idaho only for their two-year-old to vanish on the first day. The parents called 911 and were adamant that he was abducted after wandering off by himself. But after police assessed the scene and interviewed everyone present, they composed a different disturbing theory. This is the disappearance of DeOrr Kunz Jr.
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In September of 1978, a 15-year-old girl was hitchhiking from the Bay Area to Los Angeles to see her grandfather when an older man offered her a ride. Little did she know that this man was a predator who would assault her repeatedly and leave her for dead on the side of the road. But miraculously, she lived to tell the tale. This is the story of Mary Vincent.
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In May of 2008, a 19-year-old man left his friend’s house in rural Minnesota, taking the back roads instead of the highway. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally drove his car into a ditch, and called his parents asking for help. During a frustrating ordeal in the middle of the night, his parents couldn’t find him amongst the flat farmland, even though he was confident he was in a particular area and giving them clear instructions. Almost an hour into their call, he shouted an expletive, and the call ended – leaving his parents even more frantic to find him. Eerily, when police located his vehicle the next day, it was in a ditch 25 minutes away from where he thought he was. So what happened to him after that call dropped? This is the story of Brandon Swanson.
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In June of 2007, the family of an 18-year-old woman in North Dakota was having trouble reaching her over the weekend, leading her father to visit her apartment for a check-in. When he arrived, he saw his daughter dead in her bedroom, with police quickly determining that she had been murdered. But when they looked through her texts and interviewed those close to her, multiple people seemed suspicious of the act: including a man with a crush on her, her roommate, a neighbor, and a local maintenance worker. But with a shocking update years later, police feel confident that they know which of them killed her. This is the story of Anita Knutson.
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In June of 2023, two recent Illinois college graduates headed to Germany for much-needed trip before settling into the work force back in the United States. When they arrived to the beautiful Neuschwanstein Castle known for it’s scenic views and likeness to Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle, they met an American man who would change the course of their lives forever; with both women plummeting off a bridge nearby after following him to a more desirable viewpoint. This is the story of Eva Liu and Kelsey Chang, also known as The Murder at Neuschwanstein Castle.

In November of 1997, a 14-year-old girl was invited to a party under a bridge in Victoria, British Columbia, by a group of peers who were previously known to bully her. And thus, an evening that she thought would be filled with innocent teenage fun turned into a nightmare that ended in her death. This is the story of Reena Virk.