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Hell and Gone

Hell and Gone

iHeartPodcasts 182 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast hosted by journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend. She investigates unsolved deaths, and in its fifth season, the show has gone weekly with a new format called Hell and Gone Murder Line. Each Thursday, Catherine features a new case, provides updates on old ones, and seeks help from listeners to solve unsolved murders. Listeners can submit their cases by calling the Hell and Gone Murder Line.

Episodes

Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jenna Neilsen
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jenna Neilsen Aug 20, 2026 2000 At around 4:30 in the morning on Thursday, June 14, 2007, police found the body of 22 year old Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen behind an AmeriKing Food Mart in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jenna was covered in blood, and had been stabbed multiple times. She was also eight and a half months pregnant with her third child.  Her father later remembered answering the phone that night, thinking that he would
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove [From the Archives] Aug 13, 2026 1675 On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, was taking a walk through the woods behind the complex. The man liked taking nature walks, and he was also following up on a report that he had made to the apartment management about a missing manhole cover. He later told
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Anna Laura Costa Porsborg
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Anna Laura Costa Porsborg Aug 6, 2026 1845 It was December 28, 2022, a few days after Christmas, and Erbena Costa was beginning to get seriously worried about her daughter, 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa Porsborg.  Before Christmas she had gone on leave and headed out on a vacation in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, 36-year-old Luis Gomes Akay.  What started out in sunny Hollywood would end with a body in a suitcase.  If you h
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Harris
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jennifer Harris Jul 30, 2026 2135 On Sunday May 12, 2002, Mother’s Day evening, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris had spent the day with her family and at 6:30 pm that night, she arrived at her friend Kristy Farr’s house in their hometown of Bonham Texas. Suddenly, Jennifer told Kristy that she had to go.  But Jennifer never came home. Six days later, a fisherman found Jennifer’s naked body floating in the Red Riv
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Caroline Herrling
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Caroline Herrling Jul 23, 2026 2210 In December 2020, the police received a call from a neighbor of 69 year old Charles Wilding, a reclusive man who lived by himself on Kingswood Road in Sherman Oaks, California. It seemed Charles disappeared from the neighborhood. But neighbors soon noticed someone new. A woman had moved into Charles’s house. Investigators would eventually uncover a conspiracy involving forged wills, false id
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [Update]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck [Update] Jul 16, 2026 2032 On Sunday October 17, 2021 39-year-old Heidi Planck left her home in West Los Angeles near Culver City, to head out to her 11 year old son’s football game and was never seen again.  And it didn’t take long for the rumors to start flying - about her past struggles with drugs, her, boss, his links to big money and powerful people in Los Angeles – and there are a LOT of new upd
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Dorothy and Buddy Little
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Dorothy and Buddy Little Jul 9, 2026 2101 On June 7, 1980, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office arrived at a green one story ranch-style home in southwest Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside, they would discover one of the most brutal double homicides in Arkansas history. If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.  IG:@hellandgonepo
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton [From the Archives]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton [From the Archives] Jul 2, 2026 2233 On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in Stuttgart, Arkansas...and never came back. At least that’s the official story.  We know a few things for sure: Cassie had been spending the weekend with a friend of hers named Hunter, and Cassie slept over there on Saturday night
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Krystal Rivera
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Krystal Rivera Jun 25, 2026 1880 On June 5, 2025, 36-year-old Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were working patrol in the East Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. They saw an armed man outside of an apartment building and began to chase him. Moments later, Baker fired his weapon. But instead of striking the suspect, he hit Rivera — the officer beside him, his patrol partne
Hell and Gone Murder Line_ Clea Hall [From the Archives]
Hell and Gone Murder Line_ Clea Hall [From the Archives] Jun 18, 2026 2603 Clea Hall disappeared in 1994 when she was just 18 years old. The night she disappeared, she was only a few blocks away from home at her after-school job. What happened to Clea in those few short blocks between work and home? Did she get into a car with a stranger? Did someone unknown to her family pick her up? Or could something have happened at her job - something that meant that she never left
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Beallis Family [UPDATE]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Beallis Family [UPDATE] Jun 11, 2026 1924 On December 3, 2025, deputies were called to the home of 57-year-old Dr. Randall Beallis, his 40 year old wife, Charity Beallis and their six year old twins on South 1st Avenue in Bonanza, Arkansas.  The bodies of Charity, and her two children, a boy and a girl were in the home - all of them had been fatally shot. On March 4, 2026, there was a shocking twist in the case.  According to th
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Alexander Murders
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Alexander Murders Jun 4, 2026 2258 On the morning of April 8, 1981, 47-year-old Weldon Alexander finished his overnight shift at Cooper Tire in Texarkana, Arkansas.  When he got home that morning, the first thing that he noticed was the door, which was left open. When he walked inside he found his two children, Karen and Gordon, aged 14 and 13, brutally stabbed to death.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team

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