Crime Clueless

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Crime Clueless started with one mission: introduce true crime to someone who'd never heard a single case. Over 100 episodes later, that newbie is gone. Unsolved cases. Unbelievable twists. Details that will make your blood boil. We don't just recap cases, we pull them apart — diving deep into the stories you haven't heard and reexamining the ones you thought you knew. If you want true crime that hits differently, this is where you belong. We're just getting started.

  1. 3d ago

    The Lifeguard Chair - Molly Bish

    On the morning of June 27th, 2000, sixteen-year-old Molly Bish was dropped off for her second day as a lifeguard at Comins Pond in Warren, Massachusetts. She walked toward the water with her things, her mom watched her go, and drove away. Less than fifteen minutes later, the chair was empty. Molly's flip-flops, her first aid kit, her lunch and her towel were sitting at the water's edge — but Molly wasn't there. What followed was the largest missing person search in Massachusetts history. Three years later, only twenty-six bones were found in the deep woods of Palmer, five miles from the pond. And nearly twenty-six years later, no one has ever been charged. The Bish family has never stopped fighting. But the lifeguard chair at Comins Pond has been empty for twenty-five years. And somebody out there knows why. If you have information about the murder of Molly Bish, contact the Massachusetts State Police tip line at 508-453-7575 or email WorcesterDAunresolved@mass.gov. Tips can be anonymous. 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.

    1h 11m

  2. Jun 10

    The Coffee Was Still On: The Disappearance of John & Shelly Markley (part two)

    This is episode two of two. Please listen to episode one first, this story has too many details to be one part.  When a former employee named Steven Durst was caught collecting ransom money for the missing couple, the investigation took a dark turn. Durst failed a polygraph and had been telling people the Markleys owed him exactly $1,000 — the same amount withdrawn at the bank.  He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but has steadfastly maintained his innocence when it comes to the disappearance. Twenty-five years later, a shooting in the same small township led to a massive property search with excavators and state investigators — and a sheriff referencing a cold case "dating back historically twenty years." If you have any information about the disappearance of John and Shelly Markley, contact the Trumbull County Sheriff's Office at 330-675-2540. You can also reach Detective Rick Tackett directly at 330-675-2508. If you don't want to call law enforcement, you can message the family's Facebook page — it's called Missing Persons: John and Shelly Markley. They're still there. They're still checking it. They haven't given up. 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.

    58 min

  3. Jun 10

    The Coffee Was Still On: The Disappearance of John & Shelly Markley (part one)

    On a Friday morning ten days before Christmas 1995, John and Shelly Markley helped their five children get ready for school. By the time their kids came home that afternoon, both parents had vanished — leaving behind Shelly's purse and cigarettes, John's wristwatch, an open gun cabinet, a ransacked safe, and a coffee pot that had nearly boiled dry. The only confirmed sighting that day came from a bank teller, who watched the couple withdraw $1,000 in cash at a drive-thru — with an unidentified man in the passenger seat of their truck. Their vehicle was later found locked, abandoned, and covered in mud ten miles away. Inside: their cell phone and tarps stripped from John's prized Corvette.  What follows in one of Ohio's most baffling mysteries. If you have any information about the disappearance of John and Shelly Markley, contact the Trumbull County Sheriff's Office at 330-675-2540. You can also reach Detective Rick Tackett directly at 330-675-2508.  If you don't want to call law enforcement, you can message the family's Facebook page — it's called Missing Persons: John and Shelly Markley. They're still there. They're still checking it. They haven't given up. 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.

    1h 4m

  4. Jun 3

    Baltimore's Blind Eye: The Case of Phylicia Barnes (part two)

    Hey, Crime Clueless family — we're doing something a little different this week. We're bringing you a two-part crossover from our sister show, Vanished Voices, hosted by Jenna and Shannon. This is part two of two, if you haven't listened to Part One yet — start there. This story deserves to be heard from the beginning. On the morning of April 20th, 2011, workers near the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River spotted something in the water. It was Phylicia. In Part Two of our Phylicia Barnes episode, we cover the discovery of her body, the homicide ruling, and the man investigators believed was responsible. We walk through three separate trials spanning nearly a decade — a conviction, an overturn, a mistrial, a dismissal, and a final acquittal. We talk about what that process cost the Barnes family. And we talk about the extraordinary legacy they built in Phylicia's name when the legal system gave them nothing else. Closed is not the same as solved. And solved is not the same as just. If you have information about Phylicia's murder, contact Baltimore Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. You can remain completely anonymous. Resources: — Black and Missing Foundation: blackandmissinginc.com — Sovereign Bodies Institute: sovereignbodies.org — National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: missingkids.org | 1-800-843-567 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.

    50 min

  5. Jun 3

    Baltimore's Blind Eye: The Case of Phylicia Barnes (part one)

    Hey, Crime Clueless family — we're doing something a little different this week. We're bringing you a two-part crossover from our sister show, Vanished Voices, hosted by Jenna and Shannon. Vanished Voices focuses on cases that deserve far more attention than they get.  This week's case is Phylicia Barnes. She was sixteen years old. A straight-A honor student from Monroe, North Carolina, with a scholarship ahead of her and a whole life waiting. On December 28th, 2010, Phylicia Simone Barnes was last seen in her half-sister's apartment in Baltimore — and never seen again. In Part One of this two-part episode, we introduce you to Phylicia — who she was, where she came from, and the family that loved her fiercely. We walk through the days after her disappearance, the massive search that consumed Baltimore, and the devastating silence from a national media that couldn't find the time for a missing Black girl. One hundred and thirteen days passed. What happened next changed everything. Part Two is available in your feed right now. If you have information about Phylicia's murder, contact Baltimore Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. You can remain completely anonymous. 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.

    48 min

  6. May 27

    Room 260: The Morticians' Convention Murders (part two)

    The murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison at the Amana Holiday Inn in September 1980 left investigators with a hotel full of witnesses and not a single person who heard a thing. In Part Two, Jenna and Laura dig into the suspects — and there's no shortage of them. There's Danny Burton, Rose's ex-boyfriend who stalked her relentlessly, killed her dog, and was the person Rose herself told police to look at if she ended up dead. There's the hotel bartender who argued with Rose the night of the murder, then abandoned his truck, left his paycheck behind, and enlisted in the military. There's a serial killer in the family tree. And then there's the theory that changed everything — investigator Paul Holes' connection of Room 260 to two other hatchet murders at highway hotels across three states, all linked by one bizarre detail: toothpaste left at every scene. After forty-five years of silence, new DNA evidence and a reopened investigation suggest that Room 260 may finally give up its secrets. Jenna and Laura lay out every theory, pick their sides, and make the case for answers that are long overdue. If you have any information about the murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison, contact the Iowa County Sheriff's Office at (319) 642-7307, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010, or the FBI's ViCAP at (800) 634-4097. 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.

    54 min

  7. May 27

    Room 260: The Morticians' Convention Murders (part one)

    September 1980. A young couple drives four hours from Missouri to a Holiday Inn in rural Iowa for a secret weekend together. When they arrive, the hotel is fully booked — a morticians' convention has taken every room. But a last-minute cancellation opens up Room 260. By the next afternoon, both are found dead — hacked with an ax, face down on the bed, in one of the most disturbing crime scenes in Iowa history. Chairs pulled up beside the bodies. Toothpaste squeezed around the bathtub. A bar of soap carved into pieces. And a single word left on the bathroom mirror, written in soap and then wiped away: "This." In Part One, we introduce Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison — a 22-year-old nursing student being terrorized by a violent ex, and a 32-year-old married telephone repairman living a double life. We walk through the night of September 12th, the haunting crime scene, and the question at the center of everything: who knew they were in that room? If you have any information about the murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison, contact the Iowa County Sheriff's Office at (319) 642-7307, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010, or the FBI's ViCAP at (800) 634-4097. 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.

    52 min

  8. May 20

    The Lady in the Lake - Brandy Dyson (part two)

    Holly Searcy lost her mother to murder at 10. She lost her father to murder at 19. She battled her own addiction before getting sober and becoming a substance abuse counselor. Now, she's the one fighting for the case no one else has been able to solve. In Part 2, Holly opens up about what it's like to grow up with both parents taken by violence, the moment she decided to pick up the torch from her exhausted aunt and become her mother's advocate, and the emotional cost of re-traumatizing yourself over and over again to keep a cold case alive. She shares the devastating story of Hurricane Ike washing her mother's casket away three years after the murder, the possible connection to the Jennings 8 serial murders just 30 minutes away, and the painful realization that the physical evidence in her mother's case has been exhausted — meaning it will only be solved if someone comes forward. Holly also shares a message for the person who killed her mom. And she talks about what it means to try to forgive someone you've never met. Somebody knows something. If you were at Crystal's Nightclub in Lake Charles on the night of November 4th, 2005 — or if you knew Jeremias Salazar in the Lubbock or Levelland, Texas area — please contact the Lake Charles Police Department. Follow Justice for Brandy Dyson on Facebook for case updates and to support Holly. Visit projectcoldcase.org for support in similar fights for justice 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.

    41 min
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Crime Clueless started with one mission: introduce true crime to someone who'd never heard a single case. Over 100 episodes later, that newbie is gone. Unsolved cases. Unbelievable twists. Details that will make your blood boil. We don't just recap cases, we pull them apart — diving deep into the stories you haven't heard and reexamining the ones you thought you knew. If you want true crime that hits differently, this is where you belong. We're just getting started.

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  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
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