Murder Mystery: Terror in Tulsa, Part 1 Geraldine Cornwell Martin was a fun-loving, vivacious student at Tulsa Junior College in February 1975. Employed at a Tulsa attorney’s office, she was originally from Conway, Arkansas. The 28-year-old coed had attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she met Joyce Faulkner in 1966. Faulkner described…
Raising Hell: Arkansas-Born Podcaster Tackles Little Rock Cold Case Had things played out differently than they did, there’s no telling what Ebby Steppach would be doing right now. At 25, perhaps she’d finished cosmetology school, as was her long-held ambition. Perhaps she’d have found the love of her life and settled down. Maybe…
Murder Mystery: Finding Justice for Dana Stidham Notorious Bella Vista Homicide Continues to Haunt Investigators Dana Stidham would have been 50 years old last March. That birthday never came to pass, just like the dreams and goals she’d laid out for herself as a young woman. Instead, Stidham experienced only a snippet of…
Murder Mystery: The Moab Murders, Pt. 2 A surveillance camera at Woody’s Tavern in Moab, Utah, filmed Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner in the hours leading up to their murders in August 2021. The camera followed them as they walked away. Five days later, a friend found Turner and Schulte at their campsite near…
Catherine Townsend, a writer and licensed private investigator, has announced the fourth season of Hell and Gone — an iHeartRadio and School of Humans podcast. Townsend hosts the podcast, delving into mysterious deaths and cold cases. In the past three seasons, Townsend has walked listeners through her investigations of the cases of Rebekah Gould…
Murder Mystery: The Moab Murders, Part 1 Crystal Turner and Kylen Schulte were kindred spirits who were happiest when indulging in their mutual favorite pastimes of hiking, fishing, hunting and camping. They also enjoyed riding Turner’s treasured Harley Davidson. Their love of the great outdoors had brought them together, and it would be in…
Murder Mystery: The Assassination of John Middleton Clayton The light from the oil lamp through the window shone brightly against the dark of the moon outside. It illuminated the two men in the Plumerville house so well that the shooter waited patiently in the cold night air for the most opportune time to strike.…
Within a three-day period in late December 1955, three people were found murdered along U.S. 67, one of the main highways through Arkansas. Various newspapers quoted Clark County Sheriff Buren Hardin as saying, “It looks to me like all three jobs may have been done by some kill-crazy nut traveling down the road.” Newspapers sensationalized…
Murder Mystery: The Pursuit to Solve the Missy Witt Murder By Lauren McLemore On Dec. 1, 1994, 19-year-old Melissa Witt drove to Bowling World in Fort Smith but never made it inside. After some time, Witt’s mother filed a missing persons report, and police found her car still parked at the bowling alley…
Murder Mystery: Murder at Horseshoe Lake, Conclusion By Janie Jones The New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12 was so strong it made church bells ring in Boston and caused the Mississippi River to run backward. By the time it was all over, the course of the river had changed, and parts of it meandered off…
