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Hell and Gone

Hell and Gone

iHeartPodcasts 182 Episodes Oct 8, 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:  Mina and David Swan [From the Archives]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan [From the Archives] Oct 8, 2026 2466 Elderly couple David and Mina Swan lived in a quiet neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. But on Saturday September 29, 2018, a neighbor of theirs was concerned when their newspapers started piling up outside. The neighbor called Mina’s daughter, and the pair of them went inside the house. What they found was horrific. David and Mina were at the kitchen table slumped over in pools of blood. T
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Dermonds
Hell and Gone Murder Line: The Dermonds Oct 1, 2026 2215 In May 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found decapitated in the garage of his lakefront home in an exclusive Georgia community. His wife, Shirley, was missing. Ten days later, her body surfaced in Lake Oconee. More than twelve years later, no one knows who killed the Dermonds – or why. This week, Catherine Townsend digs into the theories, new DNA evidence, and the questions that still
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rex Terrell [From the Archives]
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rex Terrell [From the Archives] Sep 24, 2026 2257 In the early morning hours of on July 30 1977 in Wesley, Arkansas a 20-year-old University of Arkansas Student Rex Terrell, who worked the overnight shift was found lying in a pool of blood and gasping for breath. It looked like he had been shot multiple times.   The whole community wanted to know, who would want to shoot a likable, kind and hard-working young man with seemingly no enemi
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly Sep 17, 2026 2002 It was a really hot night in the middle of summer - July 4, 1988, in San Angelo, Texas.  Seventeen-year-old Shane Stewart was gearing up for the Fourth of July holiday celebrations by picking up his girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly, and they were going to watch the fireworks.  After that, Shane and Sally disappeared. They never made it home.  That was almost forty ye
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Stephen and Carole Baxter
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Stephen and Carole Baxter Sep 10, 2026 2341 On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, 21-year-old Ellie Baxter went to check on her parents at their home on Mersea Island, off the Essex coast, 64-year-old Carole Baxter and 61-year-old Stephen Baxter.  She knocked on the door, but no one answered. Ellie looked through the living room window and saw her parents sitting in their usual reclining chairs. But they weren’t moving – they we
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maria Rodriguez
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maria Rodriguez Sep 3, 2026 1946 In the summer of 1980, sixteen-year-old Maria Rodriguez was living with her boyfriend Milton Colbert Jr. in Long Branch, New Jersey.  When came home from his work shift - he looked around for Maria for a few minutes, and when he opened the closet door, he saw Maria’s body. She had been strangled to death with a belt.  If you have a case you’d like me and my team to look into,
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Eugene and Raymond Horsch
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Eugene and Raymond Horsch Aug 27, 2026 2172 At around eight o’clock on the morning of June 19, 2026, Federal Park Ranger Paul Scholtz was parking his patrol vehicle near the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia when he noticed a black BMW parked behind him. Little did the Ranger know this routine encounter was about to open the door to an investigation involving multiple missing women, a deteriorating house in North Phil
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

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