In 2018, 23-year-old April Carpenter of Wabaseemoong Nation went missing after failing to arrive at her sister's home as planned. Despite the sense of urgency her family felt, authorities did not suspect foul play. The public was not alerted of her disappearance until three weeks later, when it was officially treated as a missing persons case. Soon after, her body was discovered in the Red River in Winnipeg. Seven years later, her loved ones and community still await answers, convinced that the truth about what happened to April remains untold.

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It's been over four years since 26-year-old Kirsten Brueggeman was last seen on surveillance video, walking in an Eastside area of Indianapolis, Indiana. After a night with friends ended in arguments, Kirstin was alone with no indication as to where she was heading. When she didn't show up for work the next day, her parents reported her missing to the police. There has been no sign of her since, with many believing that the answer to her disappearance could be found in a video glitch containing more than an hour of lost time.

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It was just after midnight on May 19th, 1991 when Wendy McKee stood beside the Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas to hitch a ride. When Bill Robert Cathey pulled up, he seemed harmless enough, and willing to take her anywhere she wanted. No stranger to a troubled past, when Bill revealed that he was a police officer, Wendy was hoping that she would be in and out of the county jail by the next day. All this supposed cop had on her was the assumption that she had bought drugs inside the apartment building where he had taken her. Sitting in the passenger seat, Wendy was unaware that her entire life was about to change in a way she could have never seen coming. Because this isn't an arrest. It's a capture.

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Mary Kreiser has been missing since October 1987, when she failed to show up to her daughter's house for Thanksgiving dinner. After being reported to the RCMP, further investigation would discover that the 49-year-old mother of five was last seen at a Petro Canada gas station over an hour away from her home the previous month. A proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation, it was completely unlike her to be out of touch and even though the RCMP has never officially named a suspect in the case, her family has a strong feeling that they know exactly who was involved in Mary's disappearance.

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When 19-year-old Phyllis Jepleting of Nakuru, Kenya failed to get in touch with family during Christmas break while away at university, they immediately knew something was wrong. As authorities worked out a timeline for her last known whereabouts, suspicion would fall upon her boyfriend, Ezra, who had been the last person to see Phyllis alive.

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48-year-old Trina Hunt would seemingly vanish from her Port Moody home on January 18th, 2021. When her husband Iian returned home from work that day, he reported the suspicious disappearance. For weeks, police rescue crews and hundreds of volunteers would search the area for the missing woman, with no sight or sign of her. Finally, the investigation would switch to a homicide case when her body was discovered in Hope, two months later. Trina's murderer still has not been brought to justice, but the details of her last known whereabouts and the strange story that Iian Hunt told authorities would have the court of public opinion already sure of who was guilty.

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When 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd failed to show up for work, it immediately set off alarm bells for everyone who knew how responsible and reliable she was. Upon further inspection, two sets of footprints in the snow would show Jessica's shoes walking away from her home towards the property line, vanishing once met with tire tracks. Someone had taken her. And this was yet another event on a growing list of break-ins, burglaries and even assault in small Ontario towns once untouched by major crime. What was first disregarded as some deranged creep on the loose had escalated to kidnapping and possibly even murder. But the last thing the authorities expected was for their investigation to lead them right to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and specifically, Colonel David Russell Williams. Could this really be their guy? How was it possible that a decorated pilot and respected commander was one of the most dangerous and deadly men Canada has ever seen?

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All music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod via incompetech.com There Are Many Different Kinds of Love and Cylinder Four by Chris Zabriskie via chriszabriskie.com

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*A special thanks to Camouflaged Killer by David A. Gibb, Maclean's Magazine, Explorations in Forensic Psychology by Margo C. Watt, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Way of Ninja, The Peterborough Examiner & The Toronto Star for information that allowed this episode to be possible.

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Philip Markoff appeared to have it all: a shiny academic record, a beautiful fiancé and a successful medical career in the making. But beneath the exterior of his perfect life was a hidden thirst for power, a greedy sense of entitlement and a financial debt that left him feeling desperate. Using Craigslist to meet women and steal his way back to freedom, Philip would eventually end up with blood on his hands. And while the Boston Homicide Unit was solving the murder of Julissa Brisman as fast as technology could go, Philip was already looking for his next victim with no plans to stop. Would they figure out who this young man on the security footage was in time, before he killed again?

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All music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution. Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod via incompetech.com There Are Many Different Kinds of Love, Cylinder Four & Two by Chris Zabriskie via chriszabriskie.com

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*A special thanks to The Patriot Ledger, Boston Herald, 48 Hours: Classified for Murder, Vanity Fair: Killer@Craigslist, Murder Made Me Famous S3E1 & Associated Press for information that allowed this episode to be possible.

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