National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788, or visit thehotline.org.

On a cold December night in 2017, police responded to the Sports Stadium Motel in Independence, Missouri, where 21 year old Libby Caswell was found dead inside Room 319. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide, even as the medical examiner listed the manner of death as undetermined and key surveillance footage from the motel went missing. Libby was a young mother trying to leave a dangerous relationship, and her family has spent years challenging the official findings. In this episode, we look closely at the scene, the inconsistencies in the timeline, the documented history of domestic violence, and the critical evidence that may have been overlooked. This is the case of Libby Caswell and the fight for answers that has never stopped.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788, or visit thehotline.org. If it’s not safe to use your own phone or device, consider using a public library or another trusted public location to access help.

Support friends and family by following the Justice for Libby Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/libbyca

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Southern Oregon is known for its stunning summer landscapes, remote forests, and quiet mountain towns. But in the beauty of Josephine County, isolation and danger often live side by side. In late June of 2020, 45-year-old Fauna Frey set out on a short drive through Grants Pass and the surrounding mountain roads, a route filled with winding highways, dense forests, and long stretches with no cell service. Somewhere along that journey, Fauna vanished without a trace.

In this episode, Ashley and Ricky explore the rural communities of Southern Oregon, where abandoned mining towns, thinly stretched law enforcement, and high crime rates create the perfect environment for disappearances to go unnoticed. Her car, her belongings, and a series of strange clues left investigators puzzled and her family desperate for answers.

This is the story of a woman who went missing on a warm June afternoon in 2020, a case that blends mystery, isolation, and the harsh realities of searching for a missing person in Oregon’s most rugged terrain. If you follow missing persons cases, unsolved disappearances, rural true crime, or stories centered around Southern Oregon and Josephine County, this episode will take you deep into one of the region’s most haunting mysteries.

Listen as we break down the timeline, the evidence, the environment, and the theories surrounding the disappearance of Fauna Frey.

If you know anything, please contact the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 541-359-5638, or email FindFaunaFrey@gmail.com. You can also visit the private community page on Facebook, Help Find Fauna Frey to watch for updates in her case.

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In the summer of 1983, 27-year-old Teresa “Terry” Peroni disappeared from a remote counterculture community in rural Oregon. For years, rumors circulated about communes, drugs, and the controlling man she had last been seen with. Her family searched, asked questions, and followed every lead, but Terry’s trail went cold. Her name slowly faded from public memory.

In 1997, human remains were discovered in the Oregon wilderness, but they were never linked to Terry. It wasn’t until 2024, more than four decades after she vanished, that new forensic technology finally confirmed the truth. Her remains were identified. The case was reopened. And the man long suspected in her disappearance was arrested across state lines.

This episode follows Terry’s journey for independence, the dangerous world she stepped into, the failures that allowed her case to go cold, and the small group of people who refused to let her story be forgotten.

Need help now? Call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Support is available 24 hours a day.

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In January 2011, 27-year-old teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment, Unit 603 at the Venice Lofts. The swing-bar lock was secured from the inside, yet Ellen had been stabbed twenty times, including deep wounds to the back of her neck. Her fiancé discovered her body and called 911, but within days investigators changed the medical examiner’s original homicide ruling to suicide. More than a decade later, experts, forensic pathologists, and Ellen’s parents are still fighting to answer the question that has haunted Philadelphia ever since: How could a locked-room suicide look so much like murder?

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Sixteen-year-old Mekayla Bali vanished in broad daylight from Yorkton, Saskatchewan,

in 2016. Nearly a decade later, her disappearance remains one of Canada’s most haunting mysteries.

In this episode, Ashley and Ricky trace Mekayla’s final hours through security footage, phone records, and witness accounts that reveal a series of strange and unsettling moments. From cryptic texts and untraceable calls to online connections that may have lured her away, the timeline raises chilling questions about what really happened that day.

Was Mekayla planning to run away? Was she groomed by someone she met online? Or did she encounter something far more sinister?

Join us as we explore the key theories, police findings, and heartbreaking search led by her mother, Paula Bali, who continues to fight for answers nearly nine years later.

Contact the F Division RCMP Historical Case Unit:

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saskmissingpersons@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

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Let’s Bring Mekayla Bali Home

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Crime Salad dives into the case of Oakley Carlson, a 5-year-old girl from Grays Harbor County, Washington, who disappeared after being returned to her biological parents, Jordan Bowers and Andrew Carlson. This episode exposes the warning signs and system failures that continue to haunt advocates demanding justice for Oakley.

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In August of 1996, 11-year-old Trudy Appleby vanished from her neighborhood in Moline, Illinois, leaving behind one of the most haunting mysteries in the Quad Cities. There was no sign of a struggle, no clear witnesses, and no immediate answers. For nearly three decades, her case remained unsolved.

But behind the headlines, Trudy’s father never stopped fighting. From the very beginning, he insisted he knew who was responsible. While police chased false leads and dead ends, he pointed to the same small circle of men—names he repeated year after year, long before investigators finally confirmed them as persons of interest.

In August 2025, almost exactly 29 years after Trudy disappeared, an arrest was finally made. The breakthrough came too late for her father, who passed away without seeing justice—but it proved he had been right all along.

This is the story of Trudy Appleby: a child gone without a trace, a family’s relentless search for truth, and the decades-long fight to hold those responsible accountable in the Quad Cities’ most infamous missing child case.

Please contact the Moline Police Department (Illinois) - Missing Persons Unit - 1-309-797-0407 OR your local FBI if you have any information.

Trudy’s Missing Poster: https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/822441/1

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