She Goes By Jane

She Goes By Jane
She Goes By Jane

She Goes by Jane tells the stories of America's missing and unidentified women through episodes that honor women and their lives without focusing on gratuitous violence or perpetrators. Each episode features an original poem by Aimée Baker read by a special guest.

  1. Judy Martins with guest reader Stephanie Sy-Quia

    4 DAYS AGO

    Judy Martins with guest reader Stephanie Sy-Quia

    How quickly can someone just…disappear? One minute there, the next gone. How could someone leave a dorm party at a busy college campus and not make it to their own residence, just 300 yards away? In 1978, a 22 year old college sophomore, Judy Martins, stepped out of a dorm building at Kent State University and into darkness.  This week we’re joined by Stephanie Sy-Quia, a writer and broadcaster based in London. She is the presenter of Eccentric Circles, a podcast about cities and the influential oddballs who lived in them. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    1h 5m
  2. Ventura County Jane Doe

    DEC 11

    Ventura County Jane Doe

    In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing was a pregnant woman. She’d been brutally stabbed, her body left in the dirt. Without identification on her, investigators set to work to find out who she was and who murdered her, but the answers wouldn’t come readily or easily. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly. a

    55 min
  3. Texas Killing Fields: Michelle Doherty

    DEC 3

    Texas Killing Fields: Michelle Doherty

    Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked.  This week we’re joined by Award-winning actress Christine Solomon whose work has been exhibited, showcased, and displayed to millions of viewers in Egypt, Canada, and around the world on major television networks and movie studios such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, Rotana Group (the Arab World's largest entertainment company owned by the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talat), Ubisoft, as well as in print, online, and other advertising media. Solomon has received a nationally-recognized Madbakh Awards for her work as an actress; she is also an important contributor for the award-winning productions in which she played a leading or critical role (HELIOPOLIS, BASRA, and BAFTA nominated RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE). The theatre trained actor appreciates the opportunity to work for positive causes. She has joined as the lead host for GMC and renowned actor Josh Duhamelʼs campaign BUILDING FOR AMERICAʼS BRAVEST and has raised over 17 million dollars. The campaign reached an impressive 110 million viewers. She is also the spokesperson for the ACNE AND ROSACEA SOCIETY OF CANADA’s Rosacea Awareness Campaign. Solomon and her work have been the subject of numerous articles in major international publications and media throughout the world, including The National Post (monthly readership 6.95 million), The Globe and Mail (17 million readership), MSN Saudi Arabia (monthly readership 982 million), Variety (monthly readership 31.6 million), and Screen India (monthly readership 53.76 million), among others. On the other side of the camera, Christine has served on the 25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS (SAG AWARDS) TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE and has been an official juror at various prestigious film festivals across the country. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    44 min
  4. Iris Brown with guest readers Marilyn Oliva and Tom Gilroy

    NOV 26

    Iris Brown with guest readers Marilyn Oliva and Tom Gilroy

    In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can welcome Iris’s boyfriend as he’s released. But the man is hiding a secret, he wants something else from Iris. This week we’re joined by two special guest readers. Marilyn Oliva is a medieval historian whose research focuses on medieval English religious women—anchoresses, nuns, and vowesses—and the ties these women created with their local communities. She has published on several aspects of religious life for women, including their literacy, the organization and administration of their convents, and the sacred spaces they created within their monastic and parochial enclosures. She is also the co-creator of “The Seventh Circle,” a DIY story published on Instagram about a secret society of women whose mission is to release from oblivion all the lost, forgotten, and ignored women of all the sciences and humanities across all time periods and from every geographical region.  Tom Gilroy is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work spans feature filmmaking, music, theatre, and haiku. His work has appeared at Sundance, Cannes, The Toronto Film Festival, and the Berlinale, and he has taught at Columbia and Davidson College. His work can be experienced and explained at www.tomgilroy.net. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

    57 min
  5. Mimi Boomhower with guest reader Amber Dawn Fox

    NOV 19

    Mimi Boomhower with guest reader Amber Dawn Fox

    In August 1949, friends of Mimi Boomhower arrive at Mimi’s home to find that despite the lights on inside and outside her Bel Air mansion and her car in her garage, the wealthy widow is nowhere to be found. Seven days later her purse is found inside a grocery store telephone booth with a cryptic message written in pen on its side sending police into a flurry as they work to find her. This week our guest reader is Amber Dawn Fox, a working actress based in the Southeast. She travels all around the US and beyond for work. She can be seen on Peacock TV, Hulu, discovery+, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen Network, AMC, Amazon Prime, and more! Although best known for portraying Officer Bello on "The Walking Dead", Amber has gone on to star in several feature films available on many streaming sites. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    1h 2m
  6. Morgan County Jane Doe

    NOV 12

    Morgan County Jane Doe

    One late afternoon in 1950, a mushroom hunter finds the body of a woman off a little used road in West Virginia. It is clear she was murdered and dumped in this remote location. Despite there being few clues to her identity, investigators get to work trying to identify her and her killer. Within the first year of discovering her body, investigators claimed to have identified her seven different times. None were correct. Now, almost 75 years later, the woman’s name and her killer are still unknown. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    48 min
  7. Helen Brach

    NOV 5

    Helen Brach

    Summary “If it’s a kidnapping, I’d have a ransom note by now,” says private investigator Ernest Rizzo about the 1977 disappearance of candy heiress Helen Voorhees Brach. But despite his confidence that Helen Brach is still alive, no one has seen her. And as the days turn into months turn into years, it becomes more and more clear just how wrong Ernest Rizzo is about what happened to Helen. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    58 min
  8. Lilawattie Buerettan

    OCT 29

    Lilawattie Buerettan

    In 1994, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office enters a property in Loxahatchee, Florida and finds a chilling sight. Hundreds of exotic birds including parrots and macaws are dead or dying inside their enclosures. While they work frantically to save the remaining birds, their focus shifts to how they got in this state. Where is their caretaker, 36 year old Lilawattie Buerettan and her 31 year old nephew Moses Lall. Did they abandon the birds, or did something more sinister happen. Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our October 2024 selection is Madame Victoria by Catherine LeRoux and translated by Lazer Lederhendler. You can find us on Instagram and Facebook. To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon. Need more women-centered true crime content? Get Aimée’s newsletter GIRLHUNT delivered to your inbox weekly.

    54 min
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She Goes by Jane tells the stories of America's missing and unidentified women through episodes that honor women and their lives without focusing on gratuitous violence or perpetrators. Each episode features an original poem by Aimée Baker read by a special guest.

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  • Creator
    She Goes By Jane
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Evergreen Podcasts 2023

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