She Goes By Jane
Tired of true crime that centers the killer and skips the woman?She Goes By Jane is a podcast that does things differently. We tell the stories of missing and unidentified women—real women, real lives—with deep research, original poetry, and guest readings by actors and advocates. No gore. No gimmicks. Just the truth, told with care.
Episodes
Episode 97: Carrie Lawson with guest reader Kristin Minter
In September 1991, 25-year-old attorney Carolyn “Carrie” Lawson was living the life she’d worked so hard to build—newly married, just taken the bar exam, and settling into her new home in Jasper, Alabama. Then, in the middle of the night, t…
Episode 96: Twyla Mickey and Belinda Norred
In 1986, Rita Eubanks Creasman was found strangled in a Georgia creek. Three years later, Twyla Mickey left a desperate message for her parents: “I’ve got to get out of here.” Hours later, she was gone. Their connection? They both had a rel…
Episode 95: Case Update: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Estrada
For more than 30 years, they were nameless. One was called Bitter Creek Betty. The other, Sheridan County/I-90 Jane Doe. Both were found murdered on opposite ends of Wyoming in 1992. Both were young. And both were forgotten by the world—unt…
Episode 94: Ruth Loader
In August 1994, 79-year-old Ruth Loader was recovering from her cancer treatments at her rural Ohio farmhouse, ready for a quiet evening with her book. She never made it to the breakfast she had planned with her sister the next morning. Whe…
Episode 93: Amelia Zelko, Part 2 with guest reader Taylor Meskimen
After newspaper owner and journalist Amelia Zelko vanished in 1957, the search for answers stretched from the streets of Joliet, Illinois, all the way to Washington, D.C. In this second part of our series, we uncover how Robert F. Kennedy a…
Episode 92: Amelia Zelko, Part 1 with guest reader Taylor Meskimen
Just before midnight on September 27, 1957, a quiet neighborhood in Joliet, Illinois, was jolted awake by the sound of a woman’s scream, a car door slamming, and tires screeching into the night. By morning, 47-year-old journalist and co-own…
Episode 91: Nicole Russo with guest reader Elisa Donovan
Sixteen-year-old Nicole Russo loved poetry, dreamed of becoming an auto mechanic, and had just started preparing for her GED. In March 1995, she left her Brick, New Jersey home to visit her new boyfriend’s mother on Long Island. She never c…
Episode 90: Arrilla Webb-Vaul with guest reader Cassandra Naud
When 23-year-old Arrilla Webb-Vaul vanished from Bossier, Louisiana in 1979, all she left behind was a slashed tire and a silent car on a quiet road. Authorities said she walked away. Her family never believed it. In this episode, we invest…
Episode 89: Laurie Partridge with guest reader Liz Vassey
On December 4, 1974, 17-year-old Laurie Partridge left school early, saying she wasn’t feeling well. She never made it home. Missing with her were the pair of Beach Boys concert tickets her dad had purchased for her for a show scheduled a w…
Episode 88: Barbara Glueckert with guest reader Natalie Moon
On a summer night in 1976, 14-year-old Barbara Glueckert went to a rock concert on a farm in Huntley, Illinois—and never came home. Hours earlier, she was approached by a man using a fake name. By the end of the night, she’d vanished withou…
Episode 87: Case Update: Tanya Jackson (Peaches) and Tatiana Dykes (Baby Doe) with guest readers Raven Goodwin and Coco Jones
For years, they were known only by nicknames—Peaches and Baby Doe. A woman and her toddler, found miles apart in Long Island, unidentified and unnamed. But investigators never gave up hope. They believed that science would one day provide t…
Episode 86: Yeda “Dede” Rosenthal with guest reader Laura Ault
When 32-year-old Yeda "Dede" Rosenthal vanished without a trace, it shocked everyone who knew her. A dedicated professional at New Jersey’s Elywn Institute, Dede was known for her unwavering commitment to her work with autistic clients. But…
Episode 85: Barbara Ann Bockwith with guest reader Julia Reilly
Barbara Ann Bockwith was just 20 years old when she vanished from her college campus in Pensacola, Florida.The University of West Florida student arrived early for her final exam, exhausted after an all-night study session. Realizing she’d …
Episode 84: Masumi Watanabe with guest reader Erika Prevost
What would you do to help your child grow in their self-confidence and independence? For 21-year-old Masumi Watanabe’s parents, the answer was sending her from their home in Japan to stay with family friends in Hawaii for an extended vacati…
Episode 83: Jeannette Kamahele and Sonoma County Jane Doe with guest readers Enya Flack and Megan Peta Hill
A College Student, a Jane Doe, and a Decade of Unsolved ViolenceIn 1972, Jeanette Kamahele left her home near Santa Rosa Junior College and never made it to class. She was last seen hitchhiking near a freeway onramp. In the years that follo…
Episode 82: Regina Brown with guest reader Gwendolyn Osbourne
A Flight Attendant’s Fears, a Controlling Husband, and a Disappearance IgnoredIn 1987, Regina Brown—a devoted mother and flight attendant—was doing everything she could to escape. She had already sent two of her children to Texas for safety…
Episode 81: Joanna Otto with guest reader Elizabeth Saunders
A Mother’s Grief, a Missing Daughter, and a Legacy of RemembranceWhen 19-year-old Joanna Otto vanished after a party in Pensacola, Florida, the world barely noticed. Police dismissed her case, assuming she left on her own. But her loved one…
Episode 80: The Martin Family
The 1958 Christmas holiday was quickly approaching, and the Martin family of five set out on a quiet Sunday drive to collect greenery for their holiday decorations. They waved goodbye to their neighbors, never to return. Months later, the b…
Episode 79: Virginia Pictou-Noyes with guest read Althea Sam
On April 24th, 1994, police respond to a call at a bar in Bangor, Maine. Outside they find Virginia Pictou-Noyes who claims her husband and brother-in-law had just beat her outside the bar. With her husband under arrest and her brother-in-l…
Episode 78: Maria Bozo with guest reader Ann Pirvu
In the summer of 1999, 46-year-old Maria Bozi, a Romanian immigrant living in the United Kingdom, met and married a man after a whirlwind romance. Within months, she would move to the United States to live with him. And soon after, she woul…
Episode 77: Heather Elvis
On the night of December 17, 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis goes on a first date with a former high school classmate. The two eat dinner, look at Christmas decorations together, and he tries to teach her to drive a stick shift. And then, a…
Audrey Moate with guest reader Janet Kidder
In 1956, the brutal murder of family man Thomas Hotard at a Louisiana lover’s lane leaves a trail of unanswered questions. Investigators quickly discover a mysterious connection to Audrey Moate, a woman whose sudden disappearance raises eve…
Paula Weldon
SummaryIn 1946, Paula Welden, a college student at Bennington College, mysteriously disappears, leaving behind a chilling unsolved case that has haunted the region for decades. As her disappearance unfolds, it sparks a dark fascination that…
Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 2) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley
Barbara Newhall Follett had published her first novel at 12, traveled the world by 14, and regularly corresponded with scientists, artists, and sailors. So at age 15, when she ran away for the first time, it was because she couldn’t underst…
Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 1) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley
By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home…
Etta Riel with guest reader Marsha Mason
In November 1934, new mother Etta Riel mysteriously disappears just hours before she’s set to attend a crucial paternity hearing. Her family believes she was preparing to reconcile with the man she claimed was the father of her baby, and th…
Olga Schultz Mauger with guest reader Susan Ruttan
September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then,…
Stepha Henry
Memorial Day weekend in 2007 was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Henry sisters. They traveled from New York City to Miami to see friends, family and celebrate the younger sister’s birthday. But by the weekend’s end, only one…
Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13
Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13. Aimee and Vanessa talk about the inspiration and process of writing the poem Battle Lines, about the unidentified person known as Bitter Creek Betty.
God of the woods, Book Talk
Special episode, Vanessa and Aimée discuss God of the woods, by Liz Moore.
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, Ju…
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 …
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 i…
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…
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…
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 fou…
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 g…
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 …
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 s…
Suzanne Richardson with guest reader Sonja Ball
In 1998, Suzanne Renee Richerson, a Texas A&M student at their Galveston campus, headed to work as a night clerk at a hotel and condo complex. She expects to study overnight and leave at 7am. At 6am, the security guard checks on her before …