The Generation Why Podcast
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October 17th, 2021. Los Angeles, California. 39-year-old Heidi Planck abruptly left her son’s football game on a Sunday afternoon. A few hours later she was spotted by security cameras in Dow...
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Holly Maddux disappeared in Philadelphia in 1979 after seeing a movie with her ex-boyfriend, Ira Einhorn. 18 months later, her mummified body was found in a steamer trunk at the bottom of Ein...
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When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless crime. But online, a different story emerged—one of rage, reckoning, and a suspected killer t...
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May 9th, 1980. Norco, California. Four armed robbers entered the Security Pacific Bank and stole $20,000. A bank employee tripped a silent alarm, and the police arrived at the scene within mi...
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June 2, 2018, Portland, OR. Dan Brophy was found dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute from two gunshots. His wife and amateur romance novelist, Nancy Brophy, wrote a blog post titled “How to...
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September 1st, 1996. Jamesville, New York. A fisherman driving near the Jamesville Reservoir found a woman lying on the ground with massive injuries to her pelvic region. She was still alive,...
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One fan’s seemingly harmless obsession with the Kansas City Chiefs begins to spiral out of control, transforming into dangerous and risky behavior. Soon, the fan realizes that his ...
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October 17th, 2009. Miamisburg, Ohio. Pandora Zan called 911 to report that she had been attacked by an intruder and found her husband Charles stabbed to death after she regained consciousnes...
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June 27, 1996. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anne Marie Fahey was last seen alive at dinner with Tom Capano, a wealthy attorney with political connections in the state of Delaware.Bonus episode...
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November 16th, 1998. Singer Island, Florida. Neighbors of Christopher Benedetto and Janette Piro called the police to report the couple missing after they hadn’t been seen for several days. L...
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June 5th, 2004. Columbia, Missouri. 23-year-old college student Jesse Valencia was murdered a block away from his apartment. Within days, the Columbia Police Department received tips that Jes...
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April 7th, 1972. Denver, Colorado. An armed man hijacked a passenger plane and escaped with $500,000. After receiving a tip from a Utah Highway Patrolman, Richard McCoy Jr. was arrested and c...
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When inmate Casey Cole White confessed to the 2015 unsolved murder of a woman in Rogersville, Alabama, and was transferred to Lauderdale detention center to await trial for capital murder, no...
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March 3, 2020. Tacoma, Washington. On March 3, 2020, three months before George Floyd was killed, Manuel Ellis found himself in a similar situation at an intersection in Tacoma, WA. He was ta...
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Chuck Morgan disappeared for 3 days in March 1977 and claimed he was abducted and tortured. Two months later he disappeared for a second time and was found 11 days later dead with a shot to t...
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April 7th, 2008. Kansas City, Kansas. In the early morning hours of April 7th, 2008 Kathleen Schroll called her mother and told her that Pete Coones, whom she was in a legal battle with, had ...
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1989. New York City, New York. Two toddlers, Christopher Dansby and Shane Walker, vanished from the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers playground in Harlem, just three months apart, leaving a comm...
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April 29th, 2016. San Mateo County, California. Keith Green, a young father of two, was reported missing. He was last seen with his former partner Tiffany Li. Tiffany told the police that she...
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October 20th, 2012. Clayton, New Jersey. Autumn Pasquale left home to meet an acquaintance who was going to repair her BMX bike. She never came home. Two days later, her body was found near a...
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Aaron spoke with David Ridgen, the host of Someone Knows Something, about the murder of Christine Harron in 1993. The case was mishandled and the suspect got away initially. Ridgen spent 15 y...
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When a newlywed first-class Military officer, Karlyn Ramirez, is found shot dead in her home, with her 4-month-old daughter in her arms, police are baffled. With no known enemies, and no clue...
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A little brick house on 2nd street in Atchison, Kansas may not look haunted, but stories have been told over the years that the house is inhabited by the ghost of a young girl who died a viol...
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March, 2nd, 2015. Norfolk, Virginia. As a young girl, AJ Hadsell found herself in the rare situation where two different men vied for the opportunity to officially be considered her father. B...
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July 12th, 2009. Rye Brook, New York. 53-year-old Ben Novack Jr., the son of a famous Florida hotelier, was beaten to death in his hotel room at a convention in upstate New York. His wife Nar...
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In the late hours of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin executed an elaborate escape plan and vanished from Alcatraz Island. 60 years later, the case remains open,...
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Dr. Daniel Picus arrived home from work on August 11, 1998 to find his wife, Lisha Gayle Picus, murdered. Police had no leads until a $10,000 reward brought forward a man who claimed a fellow...
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October 26, 2015. Calgary, Canada. When a phone call Lee Antoni had with his wife, Amanda, was cut short while he was over 400 miles away visiting family, he didn’t expect the worst. When she...
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On July 27th, 1996, a bomb exploded in the Olympic village in Atlanta, Georgia. The FBI finally had a suspect linked to all three attacks, Eric Robert Rudolph. However, he fled authorities an...
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On July 27th, 1996, a bomb exploded in the Olympic village in Atlanta, Georgia. Officers initially suspected Richard Jewell, the security guard who found the bomb, but he was cleared a few mo...
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July 27th, 1996. Atlanta, Georgia. During a free concert at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, security guard Richard Jewell spotted an abandoned knapsack and reported it to a GBI agent. Auth...
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Jeremy Foy is a former Marine and a former Federal Law Enforcement officer. He has been releasing videos on tiktok stating that he knows that his grandfather, Richard Hoffman, a former police...
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July 9. 1993. Sedona, Arizona. In the early morning hours of July 9, 1993, 10-year-old Nikki Wasilishin was awoken by police shining flashlights into her bedroom. She learned shortly after th...
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November 30th, 1984. Winnipeg, Manitoba Province. 13-year-old Candace Derksen disappeared while walking home from school. Weeks later, her body was found in a shed. She had been tied up and l...
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On November 6, 2001, at Keystone State Park in Pennsylvania, Dr. Andrew Bagby was found dead with five gunshot wounds. Dr. Shirley Turner, a recent girlfriend, became the number one suspect. ...
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May 8th, 1996. El Reno, Oklahoma. Deputies found the body of Terrance Yeakey, an Oklahoma City police officer, in a field off a rural road. Terrance died of a gunshot wound to the head, but h...
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August 22nd, 2004. Coral Gables, Florida. John Sutton called 911 after an armed intruder broke into his home and shot him and his wife Susan. John was the sole survivor. John’s son Christophe...
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May 12, 2004. Noord, Aruba. Since 2004, Yvonne DeVries has tried to get justice for her 14-year-old son, Max. That day he and an older man took jet skis out into the ocean from their resort i...
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June 16th, 1991. Denver, Colorado. On Father’s Day 1991 an armed robber gained access to secured areas of Denver’s United Bank Tower and fatally shot four guards before stealing $200,000 in c...
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November 19, 1996. Carthage Texas. There is no debate that Bernie Tiede shot 80-year-old Marjorie Nugent in the back four times and hid her body in a deep freezer for nine months. He admitted...
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On December 11, 2017, a 21-year-old mother, Libby Caswell, was found dead in the bathroom of a motel in Independence, Missouri. Her boyfriend’s belt was fastened around her neck, and he had f...
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A young woman’s body was found on the side of the road in Choctaw, OK in 1990. Four years after her death, her son, Michael Hughes, was abducted from his elementary school by a man who claime...
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February 16, 1974. Fort Worth, Texas. Carla Walker and her boyfriend Rodney McCoy were kissing in a bowling alley parking lot after a school dance when they were attacked by an unknown man. R...
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Holden, MO. February 18, 1984. Bill Prewitt was shot and killed while he slept. His wife, Patty Prewitt, gathered the four kids and went to a neighbor’s house for help. Officers suspected Pat...
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January 12th, 2022. Harris County, Texas. After 41 years, two murder victims known as the Harris County Does were finally identified as Dean and Tina Clouse, a young married couple with a chi...
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January 29th, 2022. Canton, Massachusetts. Boston police officer John O’Keefe was found dead in a fellow officer’s front yard after his girlfriend Karen Read dropped him off in the early morn...
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May 27, 2011. Hayward, CA. 26-year-old Michelle Le went to her car to retrieve something during a break in her nursing class. She never returned and was reported missing that night. Blood was...
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February 23, 2022. Green Bay, Wisconsin. Tara Pakanich was woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of a slamming door. She went downstairs to look for her son and discovered his deca...
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On October 27, 2016 in Henry County Georgia, four people were killed during a bonfire party. Two men were indicted and charged with murder. One confessed to the murders and told officers that...
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On November 10, 2018 in Earlville, Iowa, Amy Mullis was found by her son with a 4-pronged corn rake protruding from her back. How did this happen and who could have done this to Amy? Or was i...
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August 10th, 1996. Preston, Washington. Sergeant Mathias Bachmeier responded to a call at the home of James Wren, who was in a dispute with his landlord. Officer Bachmeier put Wren into his p...
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The Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries and conspiracies.Need more Generation Why? With Wondery+, enjoy exclusive episodes and always listen ad-free. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/generation-why/ now.
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