Five days before Christmas in 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews vanished from her Colorado home, leaving only footprints in the snow — and decades of unanswered questions. Thirty-five years later, a shocking discovery exposed a name long hiding in plain sight. Join Sam and Phalisia as they unravel one of Colorado’s most haunting cold cases.

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On November 19, 2022, a gunman opened fire inside Club Q - one of Colorado Springs' only LGBTQ+ nightclubs - killing five and injuring dozens. The shooting, later ruled a hate crime, exposed years of ignored red flags and system failures. Amid the chaos, heroes like Richard Fierro and Thomas James fought back, saving lives and turning a night of hate into one of unimaginable courage and resilience.

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Wikipedia - Colorado Springs Nightclub Shooting

City of Colorado Springs Police Department - Club Q Victim Update

The Colorado Sun - Timeline, 2021 Case Documents Unsealed

Business Insider - Timeline of the Club Q Shooting

9News - Club Q Victims Remembered

ABC News - Victims Remembered One Year Later

Them.us - Club Q Survivors One Year Later

Colorado Public Radio (CPR) - Arrest Affidavit, Survivors, Aftermath Coverage

The Guardian - Coverage of Sentencing and Victims

PBS / WGBH - 2021 Case Dismissed for Lack of Cooperation

Colorado Newsline - El Paso County Red-Flag Law Resistance and Unsealed Records

U.S. Department of Justice - Federal Sentencing Press Release

Sam & Phalisia return with updates on three shocking Colorado cases: Barry Morphew, newly re-indicted after Suzanne’s remains were found; James Craig, the Aurora dentist sentenced to life for poisoning his wife; and the disturbing Return to Nature funeral home scandal that left families horrified. Expect true crime deep dives, wild twists, and plenty of paranoid sister banter!

This episode we dive into the mind of a Doctor of Psychology. Dr. Richard Spiegle is the Director of the Forensic and Clinical Psychology Center in Denver, CO. Dr. Spiegle has over 40 years of experience in his field. He received his Doctor of Psychology degree from the University of Denver in 1979 and is a longstanding member of both the American Psychological Association and the Colorado Psychological Association. His work is a combination of clinical work and forensic work. His forensic work is varied in the fields of domestic relations, probate cases, such as competency evaluations regarding the need for a guardianship, conservatorship, and the competence to execute a will, and occasional criminal evaluations and personal injury evaluations.

In 1955, Jack Gilbert Graham shocked the nation by planting a bomb in his mother’s suitcase, blowing up United Airlines Flight 629 and killing all 44 people on board. Fueled by greed and a bitter family history, Graham’s crime became the first known case of airplane sabotage in U.S. history—and changed aviation security forever.

Editing; Oliver Seibert

On June 9, 1973, Elizabeth Frye was found murdered in her garage—face down in blood, a massive head wound. Her husband Herbert claimed he’d been in Boulder all day. But inconsistencies, a suspicious timeline, and a stopped watch raised questions that would echo for decades. With a $150,000 life insurance policy, a suspiciously quiet husband, and three unplugged clocks frozen in time, this case went cold.

On Aug. 4, 1981, SilvianQuayle was found dead in her home on Ogden Street in Cherry Hills Village. She’d been attacked late the night before or early that morning, authorities said. The coroner found she had been stabbed several times, shot in the head and sexually assaulted.

Following a serial killers false confession, the case went unsolved for decades until DNA pulled off a soda can linked Anderson to genetic evidence from the murder scene.

What started as a night of celebration in 1998 quickly spiraled into a tragic mystery involving jealousy, blood evidence, and a suspect who fled to Mexico. Decades later, DNA testing confirmed Bonny’s fate, and after years on the run, Crespin Nene-Perez was finally caught.