The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole
Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole, who have personal experiences with true crime, analyze overlooked details in cases. They examine final conversations, last known steps, and red flags to seek justice for victims. The podcast is a Crime House Original powered by PAVE Studios.
Episodes
Brandon Swanson: The 47-Minute Call Pt. 2
The morning after Brandon Swanson disappeared, a bloodhound pressed its nose to his abandoned car and set off across the Minnesota farmland. The trail wandered for miles, plunged into the rushing Yellow Medicine River, and then, picked back up on the other side before ending at a gravel road. Some investigators believed Brandon had drowned, but his parents' doubted the theory. Eighteen years of se
Brandon Swanson: The 47-Minute Call Pt. 1
In May 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents to say his car had slid off the road and he needed a ride. He swore he knew exactly where he was. But when his parents' flashing headlights never found him, Brandon started walking toward town, his father still on the line, until he yelled two words and went silent. What began as a routine favor became one of Minnesota's most confounding
Michaela Garecht: Taken Pt. 2
For more than three decades, the disappearance of Michaela "Kayla" Garecht drew false confessions, dead-end digs, and a parade of suspects. A lying jailhouse tipster, a convicted child killer, the notorious "Speed Freak Killers" and a well full of bones. Before finally, a partial palm print was pulled from Kayla's scooter. Each lead raised her family's hopes; each one broke their hearts. Decades a
Michaela Garecht: Taken Pt. 1
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving in 1988, nine-year-old Michaela "Kayla" Garecht and her best friend rode their scooters two blocks to a Hayward, California corner store for candy and soda. Minutes later, in a busy parking lot in broad daylight, a stranger grabbed Kayla, forced her into a car, and drove off. What began as an ordinary morning became one of California's most haunting disappearanc
Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!
Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you The Final Hours.Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbe
Misty Copsey: The Missed Bus Pt. 2
In the fall of 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey vanished after a night at the Puyallup Fair. For months the police wrote her off as a runaway until her clothes surfaced along Highway 410. Only then did the real investigation begin. Persons of interest drifted in and out of focus over the years, alongside polygraphs, false leads, and an amateur investigator whose obsession with the case may have done
Misty Copsey: The Missed Bus Pt. 1
On September 17, 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey went to the Puyallup Fair in Washington with her best friend and never came home. The two girls missed the 8:40 PM bus back to Spanaway and split up to find their own way. The last anyone saw of Misty, she was standing alone near a bus stop after dark, told there were no more buses on her route that night. Then she walked off, and vanished. Leading t
Joan Risch: Blood on the Kitchen Floor Pt. 2
In October 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch vanished from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, leaving behind a blood-smeared kitchen and a telephone ripped from the wall. There was no body and no sign of forced entry, but there were fingerprints on the wall that seemingly weren't hers. Some witnesses reported a dazed, bleeding woman wandering a nearby highway that afternoon. Others pointed to the stac
Joan Risch: Blood on the Kitchen Floor Pt. 1
On October 24, 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch spent an ordinary morning at home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She took her daughter to the dentist, booked a follow-up appointment, and later walked her to a neighbor's house, promising she'd be right back. She never returned. When someone finally stepped inside her home, they found the kitchen smeared with blood, the telephone torn from the wall, and Joa
Su Taraskiewicz: The Last Shift at Logan Pt. 2
In September 1992, 27-year-old Su Taraskiewicz was found murdered in the trunk of her own car. Her journal pointed suspicion back toward the men she worked alongside, but the truth was tangled in something bigger: a federal probe into a stolen credit-card ring run out of Logan. Over the years, the FBI, a federal grand jury, and a $250,000 reward all circled the same small group of names. But witho
Su Taraskiewicz: The Last Shift at Logan Pt. 1
On September 13, 1992, 27-year-old Su Taraskiewicz left her overnight shift at Boston's Logan Airport to grab sandwiches for her crew and never made it home. The next day, her body was found in the trunk of her own car. As a ramp supervisor and one of the few women on a mostly male crew at Northwest Airlines, Su had spent months enduring a workplace that turned against her. There were taunts, sabo
Crystal Rogers: The Flat Tire on the Bluegrass Parkway
On July 3, 2015, 35-year-old Crystal Rogers was supposed to have a date night with her boyfriend. The following morning, she was missing. Two days later, her car turned up abandoned on Kentucky's Bluegrass Parkway. There was a flat tire, keys in the ignition and her purse was still inside. But there was no Crystal. What followed was a decade of investigation, an FBI takeover, grand jury battles, a
Brianna Maitland: The Car at the Farmhouse
On March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland finished her shift at the Black Lantern Inn in Vermont and drove into the night. An hour later, her car was seen backed into an abandoned farmhouse on a rural stretch of Route 118. When police got there, they found her belongings still inside. But there was no crash, no struggle, and no Brianna. Two decades later, investigators have never publicly na
Kevin Collins: The Last Walk Home
On February 10, 1984, 10-year-old Kevin Collins left basketball practice in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and began the short walk to the public bus stop. Witnesses recalled seeing him speaking with a tall man with a large dog, and then he was gone. Despite a massive search in the San Francisco area, with his face plastered on milk cartons and the cover of Newsweek, no physical trace
Andrew Gosden: The One-Way Ticket
On September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden left his Doncaster home in his school uniform, then waited in a nearby park until his family was gone. He slipped back inside, changed into a Slipknot t-shirt and jeans and withdrew £200 from his bank account. then he walked to the train station, where he bought a one-way ticket to London. CCTV caught him leaving King's Cross at 11:25 that morning.
August BOLO: Bring Them Home
This month we want you to Be On The Look Out for three missing people. First, 12-year-old Steven Kraft, Jr., who walked his two dogs around his Benton Township, Michigan neighborhood in 2001 and never came home. We're also searching for 28-year-old Sarah Burton, a young mother who was dropped off near a Joplin, Missouri intersection just after midnight in 2018 and vanished on the short walk home.
Madeleine McCann: The World's Most Watched Case with Andrea Dunlop
In this episode, we're joined by Andrea Dunlop, host of Nobody Should Believe Me, to examine the haunting case of Madeleine McCann. On the evening of May 3, 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant. What followed became the most publicized missing child investigation in modern histor
Theresa Ann Bier: Vanished in Yosemite
On the morning of June 1, 1987, 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier left her uncle's home in Fresno, California, dressed for school. Instead, she went on a camping trip with a 43-year-old friend of her uncle's in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to search for Bigfoot. When the man resurfaced in Fresno days later without Theresa, he said she had wandered off into the woods. He then offered an account stranger
Asha Kreimer: The Restroom at Rollerville
On the morning of September 21, 2015, 26-year-old Asha Kreimer sat down for breakfast at the Rollerville Café near Point Arena, California, with her boyfriend and a friend. She had been awake for five days, was in the grip of a mental health crisis, and had just been released following a psychiatric evaluation. But sometime around 11:00 that morning, she got up to use the restroom and never came b
July BOLO: Bring Them Home
This episode, we're launching our BOLO series, a monthly look at active missing persons cases that are on our radar. This month, we want you to Be On The Look Out for 4-year-old Rosa "Rosita" Camacho, who walked to a Hartford corner store with her mother in 1997 and vanished. We're also searching for 29-year-old Isiah Jenifer, who got into a car outside a Folcroft, Pennsylvania Wawa in 2025 and di
Tiffany Daniels: Last Light at Fort Pickens
On the afternoon of August 12th, 2013, 25-year-old Tiffany Daniels clocked out of work seventeen minutes early, crossed the bridge from Pensacola to Santa Rosa Island, and was never seen again. Her car was found eight days later on the west end of the island, unlocked, with her ID and phone still inside. No note. No witnesses. No trace of where she went after she parked. The last electronic record
Amy Lynn Bradley: Lost at Sea
On the morning of March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship as it was approaching Curaçao. She had been dancing with her brother the night before and was last seen relaxin on her cabin balcony at dawn. Then she was simply gone. Two passengers claimed to see her in a glass elevator with a crew member, shortly after she left her cabin. But that man was
Tammy Lynn Leppert: The Starlet Who Knew Too Much
On a sunny afternoon in July 1983, eighteen-year-old model and aspiring actress Tammy Lynn Leppert called goodbye to her mother, got into a car with a friend, and was never seen again. In the months before she vanished, she'd been telling people that she'd seen something she shouldn't have and that someone was going to kill her for it. She never said what. The friend who drove her said they argued
Lauren Agee: Who Let Her Fall
On the morning of July 26th, 2015, twenty-one-year-old Lauren Agee vanished from a cliffside campsite on Center Hill Lake in Tennessee, leaving behind her shoes, her phone, and her purse. By that afternoon, she was floating face-down in a cove hundreds of feet away. The friends who'd been with her didn't call anyone, and somehow knew exactly where her body was before any announcement was made. The
Tom Brown: A Teenage Secret
On the night before Thanksgiving 2016, eighteen-year-old Tom Brown left his home in Canadian, Texas to go cruising with friends. But he never came home. When his red Dodge Durango turned up the next morning at a sewage treatment plant on the edge of town, there was a bullet casing on the floor and a drop of his blood on the door handle, but no sign of Tom. What followed was two years of strange di
Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon: What the Camera Saw
In April 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, two Dutch women in their early twenties, went for a daytime hike on a trail near Boquete, Panama. They never came back. Weeks later, their backpack was found on a jungle riverbank with their phones, camera, and cash still inside. What was on that camera changed everything: photographs taken in total darkness, including what appears to be an SOS signal
Ben McDaniel: Into the Deep
In August 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel suited up for a dive into Vortex Spring, a celebrated cave diving site in Florida, and descended into a narrow underwater passage. He never returned. One of the employees claimed to have watched Ben enter a restricted section of the cave, a passage that required advanced certification that Ben didn't have. Despite exhaustive underwater searches, his body wa
Dale Kerstetter: Heist or Homicide
On September 12, 1987, 50-year-old security guard Dale Kerstetter clocked in at Corning Glass Works in Bradford, Pennsylvania and was never seen again. Surveillance footage captured him calmly walking off-camera beside a masked intruder, pausing only to look directly into the lens. When the masked man reappeared hours later, he dragged a large bag from the building and left with $220,000 worth of
Jelani Day: The River Never Gave Him Back
In August 2021, 25-year-old Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day was last seen leaving a dispensary in Bloomington-Normal, far from his apartment and with no clear reason to be there. His car was found abandoned miles away. Weeks later, his unclothed body was recovered from the Illinois River. The coroner ruled accidental drowning, but his mother refused to accept that answer. She
Kristal Reisinger: The Commune on the Mountain
In the summer of 2016, 29-year-old Kristal Anne Reisinger vanished from a remote Colorado gathering in the wilderness, leaving behind her young daughter. Those who knew her described a young mother navigating addiction and drawn to alternative spiritual communities. When her remains were eventually recovered years later in a remote canyon, they raised more questions than answers. Her case sits at
Kurt Sova: The Last Halloween Party
In October 1981, 17-year-old Kurt Sova stepped outside a Halloween party in Cleveland to get some fresh air while his friend ran back in for their jackets. By the time that friend returned two minutes later, Kurt was gone. Five days later, his body was found in a nearby ravine, posed with his arms outstretched and both shoes missing, with no clear cause of death. Decades later, the police departme
Bryce Laspisa: The 30-Hour Drive to Nowhere
In August 2013, 19-year-old college sophomore Bryce Laspisa gave away his most prized possessions, broke up with his girlfriend, and spent 30 hours driving aimlessly through California. He sat motionless in parking lots, for hours, before his SUV was found crashed and empty at the bottom of a 15-foot embankment near Castaic Lake. He had shattered the rear window from the inside, leaving behind his
Leah Roberts: 3,000 Miles Alone
In March 2000, 23-year-old Leah Roberts left her North Carolina apartment in the middle of the night, drove nearly 3,000 miles alone, and stopped at an Oregon gas station where security cameras caught her glancing back at the parking lot. Five days later, her white Jeep Cherokee was found wrecked at the bottom of a ravine in Washington State. Investigators discovered the engine had been deliberate
Ray Gricar: The DA Who Drove Away
On April 16, 2005, 59-year-old Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar called in to work, took a scenic drive, and parked his Mini Cooper outside an antique mall in Lewisburg. Then, he vanished. No note, no signs of a struggle. Months later, his laptop turned up in the Susquehanna River, its hard drive missing, raising urgent questions about what secrets it may have held. Why would a respected,
Asha Degree: The Stormy Morning Disappearance
Nine year old Asha Degree left her North Carolina home in the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day 2000 and began walking alone along Highway 18. Multiple drivers reported seeing her before she disappeared into the darkness. Months later, her backpack was discovered buried miles away, containing items that raised more questions than answers. Why would a child leave home in the middle of the nigh
Dana Bradley: The Girl on Topsail Road
On a cold December evening in 1981, fourteen year old Dana Bradley was last seen hitchhiking along Topsail Road in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Witnesses watched her enter a light colored sedan. Days later, her body was discovered in a wooded area outside the city. Despite descriptions of the driver and years of investigation, no one has been convicted. Dana’s case remains one of Canada’s most heartb
Nyleen Marshall: The Picnic Disappearance
Four year old Nyleen Marshall vanished during a family picnic in Montana’s Helena National Forest in 1983. At first, authorities believed she had wandered into the wilderness. Later, children reported seeing a strange man speaking with her moments before she disappeared. Years afterward, a cryptic letter surfaced from someone claiming personal knowledge of Nyleen’s life. Was she lost to the forest
Brian Shaffer: The Ugly Tuna Mystery
Brian Shaffer entered a crowded Columbus bar in April 2006 after a night out with friends. Surveillance cameras captured him going inside, but there is no confirmed footage of him leaving. Within minutes, he was gone. Despite security cameras, witnesses, and a packed nightlife scene, no trace of Brian has ever been found. His disappearance remains one of the most baffling modern missing person cas
Tara Leigh Calico: The Polaroid Mystery
Tara Leigh Calico disappeared on the morning of September 20, 1988, after leaving her New Mexico home for a routine bike ride. She never returned. What followed was a search filled with unsettling possibilities, small town rumors, and one of the strangest clues in missing person history: a Polaroid photo discovered months later that some believed showed Tara alive. Decades on, her case remains unr
Chuck Morgan: The Two Dollar Bill
Chuck Morgan was a Tucson escrow agent who claimed he had become entangled with organized crime and powerful financial schemes. After returning home from a bizarre kidnapping filled with paranoia and cryptic warnings, he disappeared again. His body was later found under suspicious circumstances, along with a marked two dollar bill that seemed to hint at hidden messages. Was Chuck silenced for what
Sneha Anne Philip: Disappeared in the Shadow of 9/11
Sneha Anne Philip was last seen shopping in Lower Manhattan on September 10, 2001. The next morning, the attacks on the World Trade Center reshaped the world and Sneha disappeared into the chaos. Some believe she rushed out to help and died in the collapse. Others think she vanished before the towers fell. Her case remains one of the most haunting missing person mysteries connected to 9/11, filled
Jennifer Kesse: The Blurred Suspect
Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her Orlando condo complex in January 2006, leaving behind a locked apartment and no sign of struggle. Surveillance footage later showed an unknown person abandoning her car, but the suspect’s face was obscured at every frame. Jennifer was cautious, responsible, and building a promising future. Her sudden disappearance in broad daylight remains one of Florida’s most
Introducing The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole
Before Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole reported on crime, they both experienced it and know how it can shatter a family. Now, they’re bringing those meaningful perspectives to The Final Hours, a true crime series that puts the magnifying glass on the final hours before someone goes missing.From final conversations, to the last known steps, to red flags and red herrings, Sarah and Kourt understan
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