Crime Clueless

Crime Clueless dives into the world of true crime with a unique twist: a seasoned fan guides complete newbies through chilling cases, unraveling mysteries and unexpected twists together. Whether you're new to true crime or a seasoned sleuth, get ready to go from clueless to obsessed!

  1. 22 HR AGO

    "She Was Fine" - The Mitrice Richardson Case (part one)

    On the evening of September 16, 2009, a 24-year-old Cal State Fullerton graduate named Mitrice Richardson walked into an upscale Malibu restaurant and immediately alarmed everyone she encountered. She told the valet she was there to avenge Michael Jackson's death. She told strangers she was from Mars. She couldn't pay her bill. The staff didn't just call the police — they called because they were worried about her safety. One employee refused to cover her tab, saying: "She's not safe to go out on her own." Deputies arrested Mitrice on minor charges and drove her to the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station in Calabasas. Her mother called, begging them not to release her. They promised they wouldn't. At 12:28 AM, they let her walk out the door — no phone, no money, no car, no way home — into the pitch-black canyons of Malibu. She vanished. What followed was eleven months of botched searches, hidden surveillance footage, contradicted testimony, and a department that insisted, at every turn, that everything was fine. This one stays with you. If you have any information, contact the LASD at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477. There is a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Find part two next week in your feed, we will close this one out, and you will continue to rage, just like we did. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    57 min
  2. 29 APR

    One Dollar: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler

    It was supposed to be a quick trip into town. Twelve-year-old Sherry Lynn Marler — Little Farmer, tractor operator, country music lover — climbed into her stepfather's red pickup truck on the morning of June 6th, 1984, and rode twelve miles from their farm into Greenville, Alabama. He had to run into the bank. He gave her a dollar for a soda from the vending machine across the street. Meet me back at the truck. She crossed the street. She was never seen by her family again. In a town of 7,600 people — where everybody knew everybody, where a strange face turned heads, where the police chief would later say a child had never once gone missing in his entire life — not a single person saw Sherry Marler that morning. Not crossing the street. Not at the machine. Not walking back. This week, we dig into one of Alabama's most haunting unsolved disappearances: a twelve-year-old who vanished between a bank and a Chevron, three separate sightings with a mystery man witnesses say she called B.J., a stepfather who declined a polygraph but was cleared anyway, a pig farm in Butler County where cadaver dogs hit on something, evidence that reportedly never made it from a local sheriff's office to the FBI, and an amateur investigator who spent over a decade chasing the truth — only to write, in a Facebook post in 2020: I know exactly where she is, what happened to her, who did it, and why. But I can't prove it. Sherry Lynn Marler has been missing since 1984. This is her story To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    51 min
  3. 22 APR

    What was Lars Mittank Running From?

    On July 8th, 2014, airport security cameras in Varna, Bulgaria captured a young German man sprinting through a terminal in what looked like absolute terror. He climbed a barbed wire fence. He ran into a sunflower field. He left everything behind — passport, wallet, phone — and vanished completely. His name was Lars Mittank. He was 28 years old. It was the first time he had ever left Germany. Sixteen million people have watched that footage. Thousands have debated it. Nobody has solved it. This week on Crime Clueless we go through the full story — the bar fight that started everything, the midnight phone calls Lars made to his mother whispering that men were going to kill him, the missing hour the night before that nobody has ever explained, and the single detail that puts a crack in the most widely accepted theory in the entire case. We also sit with the question at the heart of all of it. Was Lars running from something his injured brain invented — or was he running because running was the only rational thing left to do? Eleven years on, nobody knows. What do you think happened? Let us know. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1hr 21min
  4. 1 APR

    Phantom in the Parking Lot – The Mary Shotwell Little Case

    In October of 1965, 25-year-old Mary Shotwell Little left work in downtown Atlanta, ran a few errands at the Lenox mall, had dinner with a friend… and vanished. Her car was found the next morning parked exactly where she left it—except now it was covered in blood smears, red dirt dusting, 40 extra miles on the odometer, and groceries from the stop before dinner. After dinner, Mary was never seen again. This week on Crime Clueless, we’re unpacking the mystery of Mary Shotwell Little—a young newlywed who vanished from a busy parking lot in the middle of her routine evening like a ghost. We’ll talk sightings, cryptic roses, a weirdly calm husband, and that times she and her credit card turned up again… in different cities. Was Mary kidnapped? Did she stage her own disappearance? Was she silenced for something she knew? Or was this a case of a woman being snatched in plain sight, while the system kept shrugging? This one’s part mystery, part spy novel, and all disturbing. You’ll be yelling “WHAT?!” every few minutes—and so were we. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1hr 15min
  5. 25 MAR

    The 600-Mile Question: What Happened to Judy Smith?

    Judy Smith left her hotel in downtown Philadelphia for a day of sightseeing. She had a simple plan. Walk the historic district. Visit places like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Meet her husband later that afternoon. A normal day. But by that evening… she was gone. Five months later, her remains were discovered in a remote section of Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina — more than 600 miles away from where she was last seen. No one can explain how she got there. No confirmed travel records. No clear timeline. No known connection to the area. Some witnesses say they saw Judy alive in Asheville in the days after she disappeared — calm, coherent, even shopping. Others believe something happened in Philadelphia that set everything in motion. But every explanation leaves something out. In this episode, we walk through Judy’s final known hours, the investigation that followed, and the evidence that continues to raise more questions than answers. Because in this case, the biggest mystery isn’t just what happened to Judy Smith… …it’s how she got there at all. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here. Find Crime Clueless socials, website, and more here  Thank you for listening - we are grateful for you! Support Crime Clueless - Buy Me A Coffee Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1hr 12min

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Crime Clueless dives into the world of true crime with a unique twist: a seasoned fan guides complete newbies through chilling cases, unraveling mysteries and unexpected twists together. Whether you're new to true crime or a seasoned sleuth, get ready to go from clueless to obsessed!

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