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During the peak of the COVID pandemic, 26-year-old Carolina Vargas ended her five-year relationship & moved in with her brother. Because she was in a new location, she began searching for a job which was exceptionally challenging due to the pandemic. It was important to her that she help pay her brother’s rent so she wracked her brain & considered the fact that she had a license & a car, a black Ford Explorer, so Uber seemed to be the perfect solution. Allison tells us the rest of her story.

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Medium: Uber hijacking nightmare: Carolina Vargas’ amazing survival story

Oxygen True Crime: Rideshare driver flung herself out of speeding SUV to escape alleged knife-wielding captor

Yahoo! News: Uber driver escapes abduction at knife-point by jumping out of her car at 60 mph

SK Pop: #TextMeWhenYouGetHome on Lifetime: How did rideshare driver Carolina Vargas escape her captor?

Go Fund Me: The Bravest Girl Ever

Fox17: Local dentist covers expenses for Uber driver who jumped out of vehicle to escape attacker

11 Alive: Man arrested after allegedly holding Uber driver at knifepoint: ‘It was like a horror movie’

In February of 1984, an 11-year-old boy was abducted from his Baton Rouge home by his karate teacher who had also become a trusted family friend. A week after he seemingly vanished, a phone call ended up being the key piece to help find Jody Plauché & bring him back home to his family.YouTube of this episode: https://youtu.be/sf6ByTAVBqAAllison's Amazon Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/shop/crimeandcoffee2/list/2UNVF9JKQR2KG?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_aipsfcrimeandcoffee2_TK9TACPQY5ADQ...

Skip the banter: 7:58This is a listener suggestion from Rhianna. In 2014, Catherine Hoggle was the mother of three young children who had been working toward restoring her mental health for years. The family had a system in place so that Catherine was never alone with the children without another adult present. Despite this plan, in the late afternoon of Sunday, September 7, 2014, Catherine left the house with her 2-year-old son, Jacob, to pick up a pizza in Montgomery County, Maryland. ...

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Robert Solimine was a 17-year-old boy who lived in Haledon, New Jersey. On February 16, 1992, five teenagers between the ages of 14-18 came together with the plan to kill Robert.

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Greensboro News & Record: Four teens face charges in slaying

The New York Times: Life sentence for youth in strangling

Justia US Law: State of New Jersey v. James Wanger

Los Angeles Times: Mastermind convicted in teenager’s prayer killing

Find a Grave: Robert Solimine Jr

Jennifer Bailey adored fitness & running & had a routine of going to Pine Mountain State Resort Park in Pineville, Kentucky, twice a week for a run on a path the locals refer to as “Fat Track.” She also frequently attended the YMCA on days she wasn’t at the park running. On the morning of Thursday, August 16, 1990, the 21-year-old headed to that area in her mother’s 1987 Mercury Cougar & parked near one of the park’s popular trails at about 11 am. Allison tells us the rest of her story.

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Medium: Abducted while jogging: Who killed Jennifer Bailey?

AZ Central: Parents tireless in their effort to find daughter’s killer

Skip banter: 6:37It was the evening of Sunday, February 17, 1991 & Northwest Airlines flight attendant Nancy Ludwig landed in the Detroit, Michigan suburb of Romulus & headed straight to a nearby hotel, just as she’d done countless times in the past. She’d been a flight attendant for the airline for the past fifteen years & had her routine down to a science. She gathered her bags & boarded the shuttle that would take her to a local for the night. Little did she know, she had j...