True Crime Brief

It's Monday, September seventh, twenty twenty-six. Crime Junkie takes on the Sodder children, the five kids who vanished from their West Virginia home during a house fire on Christmas, nineteen forty-five. A new investigation by the family says the children were taken before the fire ever started. And a modern fire investigator says the physical evidence never supported the idea that they died in that house.

It's Monday, August thirty-first, twenty twenty-six. [] Crime Junkie takes on the case of Alyssa Romine Olson. [] She was thirty years old, and in June of twenty sixteen she was found face-down in shallow water at a preserve in Gilbert, Arizona. [a] Every single thing she owned was missing. [a] And here is the part that stays with you. [] Police recovered a backpack belonging to a homeless man, a registered sex offender. [a] Inside were latex gloves and a woman's hair tie. [a] Police destroyed that backpack before anyone ever tied it to Alyssa's case. [a]

It's Saturday, August twenty-ninth, twenty twenty-six. [] On Crime Junkie today, the death of Micah Miller. [] She was twenty-seven, the wife of a South Carolina pastor. [a] She died two days after she filed for divorce, and her death was ruled a suicide. [a] Here's the detail that matters. [] Her family says she warned them ahead of time. [a] If she was ever found with a bullet in her head, she did not do it. [a]

It's Monday, August twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-six. [] This week, Crime Junkie covers Alyssa Romine Olson, a thirty-year-old woman found face-down in a pond in Gilbert, Arizona, back in twenty sixteen. [a] And here's what makes it strange. [] There was no water in her lungs, and the pond was barely an inch deep. [a]

It's Monday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty-six. [] The newest Crime Junkie, from Audiochuck, takes on the case of Natalie Jones, and investigative journalist Sean Kipe digs in. [a] Jones was a twenty-seven-year-old mother from Alabama. [a] She vanished after a Fourth of July party in twenty twenty. [a] Ninety-three days later, she was found dead inside her own car, a hot pink Chevy Cavalier, sitting in a field in Georgia. [a] And here's the detail that matters. [] She was barefoot. [a] Her belt was gone. [a] Several of her teeth were missing, and searchers never found them anywhere in that car. [a]