Hell and Gone
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 7K ratingsHell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths.
Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly.
Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities.
In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show called Hell and Gone Murder Line. Every Thursday, Catherine features a new case, adds updates to old ones, and helps as much as she can to get the word out about unsolved murders.
If you have a case you’d like Catherine and her team to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145.
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Hell and Gone Murder Line: Heidi Planck
April 25, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBOn Sunday October 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, a 39-year-old mother of one named Heidi Planck went to watch her 11-year-old son Bond play football. When Heidi left the game, she said that she would call her son later, but even though she ALWAYS talked to him every day she never called him. In fact Bond never talked to his mother again. Because that day, Heidi Planck vanished. If you have a case you’d like the Hell and Gone team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Interview with Crime Scene Expert
April 18, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBOver the past few weeks, we’ve been covering two cases in Arkansas: the murder of Gail Vaught, whose body was found on March 17, 1980, and Dennis Flowers. Police believe that Dennis was responsible for the execution style murders of Lee Dickson, a pharmacist who had become addicted to cocaine and started dealing it with Dennis, and Lee’s wife Karen Dickson who was eight months pregnant. A few days after the brutal double homicide, Dennis’ body was found under extremely mysterious circumstan...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Lee, Dickson, Karen Dickson, and Dennis Flowers
April 11, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBOn the morning of March 22, 1984, at around 6:30 am, police came to the one-story nondescript home in Fayetteville, Arkansas that belonged to a quiet unassuming 33-year-old pharmacist named Lee Dickson and his wife Karen. When police came to the Dickson home, they knocked, but Lee and Karen didn’t answer. Finally, their young son came to the door. He told the police that his mother was sleeping and that daddy went out. Police entered the home looking for his parents, and it didn’t take l...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Lee Dickson, Karen Dickson, and Dennis Flowers
April 11, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBOn the morning of March 22, 1984, at around 6:30 am, police came to the one-story nondescript home in Fayetteville, Arkansas that belonged to a quiet unassuming 33-year-old pharmacist named Lee Dickson and his wife Karen. When police came to the Dickson home, they knocked, but Lee and Karen didn’t answer. Finally, their young son came to the door. He told the police that his mother was sleeping and that daddy went out. Police entered the home looking for his parents, and it didn’t take l...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught Part 2
April 04, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBCatherine Townsend continues her investigation into the death of Gail Vaught. On the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving his truck down Highway 16 that runs between Siloam Springs, Arkansas near the Oklahoma border through the Ozark National Forest near Searcy when he saw something out of the corner of his eye down a small dirt road. It looked like a person lying in the road. The driver doubled back and saw to his horror that it was the body of a you...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught Part 1
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBOn the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving his truck down Highway 16 that runs between Siloam Springs, Arkansas near the Oklahoma border through the Ozark National Forest near Searcy when he saw something out of the corner of his eye down a small dirt road. It looked like a person lying in the road. The driver doubled back and saw to his horror that it was the body of a young woman, lying rolled over on her right side with her head and shoulders face d...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBOn the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving his truck down Highway 16 that runs between Siloam Springs, Arkansas near the Oklahoma border through the Ozark National Forest near Searcy when he saw something out of the corner of his eye down a small dirt road. It looked like a person lying in the road. The driver doubled back and saw to his horror that it was the body of a young woman, lying rolled over on her right side with her head and shoulders face d...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: John Forsyth
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBOn May 21, 2023, Dr. John Forsyth, a 49-year-old ER doctor, was due to work the evening shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Missouri. He had already worked the overnight shift the day before and finished up at 7 am. After that he went to crash for a few hours before starting his next shift that night. This was a normal day for John. He had a habit of pulling long shifts and working between 80 and 100 hours per week. But John never showed up for work that night, and it wasn’t long before ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Justin Gaines
March 14, 2024 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIt was Thursday night, November 1, 2007, and 18-year-old Justin Gaines was getting ready for a night out with his friends at Wild Bill’s, a club in Duluth, Georgia. Justin was a freshman in college. He had just started at Gainesville State college, which was about an hour away from where his family was. Justin was 5 '11, 210 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair in a buzz cut. He was a handsome, clean cut, preppy guy. Justin didn’t take a wallet out with him that night, so he had no cre...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton
March 07, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBOn 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. Hunter’s mother has said that this was not out of the ordinary. In fact, Cassie spent a lot of time at her...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Audrii Cunningham
February 29, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBOn February 15, 2024, 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, a fifth grade student at Creekside Elementary in Livingstone, Texas, never made it to the bus stop. And when she didn’t come home after school, her family knew that something was very wrong. Audrii lived with her dad, and on that property, there was someone else living there: a 42-year-old friend of the family’s who lived in a camper. And even though he had a very disturbing criminal record, this man was allowed to babysit for Audrii. ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 2
February 22, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis episode continues the investigation into the disappearance of Ieshia Jackson. It was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia was getting ready to go to a party. She lived in El Dorado, Arkansas just a short distance away from her mother, her younger brother, and the rest of her family, but because she had had a couple of break-ins at her new home, she was staying at her uncle’s. Ieshia and her mother were very close and normally spoke a few times per day. So by November 2, 2020 ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 1
February 15, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBIt was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia Jackson was getting ready to go to a party. She lived in El Dorado, Arkansas just a short distance away from her mother, her younger brother, and the rest of her family, but because she had had a couple of break-ins at her new home, she was staying at her uncle’s. Ieshia and her mother were very close and normally spoke a few times per day. So by November 2, 2020 when Laquita had not heard from her daughter, she was getting worried. Laquit...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 2
February 08, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBCatherine continues her investigation into the disappearance of Jason Lierl. In January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas when he disappeared off the face of the earth. Jason was last seen in Madison County, Arkansas. His abandoned car was found in the parking lot of a mall in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His car keys, motorcycle and other belongings were found in different places, spread across Arkansas and Missouri - but to this day, no trace of Jason ha...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 1
February 01, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBIn January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas when he disappeared off the face of the earth. Jason was last seen in Madison County, Arkansas. His abandoned car was found in the parking lot of a mall in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His car keys, motorcycle and other belongings were found in different places, spread across Arkansas and Missouri - but to this day, no trace of Jason has ever been found. What happened to Jason Lierl? If you have a case you’d lik...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Billie Jean Phillips Part 2
January 25, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBSometime between the evening of September 2 in the early morning hours of September 3, 1994, 35-year-old Billie Jean Phillips was brutally beaten to death at her home in Alabam, Arkansas. The case soon became the biggest story in Madison County, and there was a long list of potential suspects. But in 2002, there was an arrest in the Billie Jean Phillips murder case. One that would shock the community. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Billie Jean Phillips Part 1
January 18, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBOn Saturday September 3, 1994, a federal poultry inspector named Chic Philips was taking his seven-year-old son MacKenzie back to the home of his mother and Chic’s ex-wife, 35-year-old Billie Jean Philips. When they arrived, Billie Jean’s son ran inside the house and walked back to the bedroom he saw his mom lying on the floor a few feet from the bed with her head kind of propped up against a wall. She wasn’t moving. So the little boy ran outside to the car and told his dad, “Mommy fell pa...
Introducing: Blindspot Season 3
January 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 minute - 993 KBIn this season of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before Covid-19, a virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. We go to a pediatric ward in Harlem, a women’s prison in upstate New York, a drug market in the South Bronx, and the inner sanctum of the National Institutes of Health. And we meet people who demanded that they, and their illness, be ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Mina and David Swan
January 11, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBElderly 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. The police have admitted that they are stumped, and over three years later the case is still unsolved. ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 4
January 04, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBIn Arkansas, some people think that a slew of child deaths in the early 1990s are related. Those children are Christina Pipkin, who went missing in May of 1991, Steve Branch, Michael Moore, Christopher Byers, the three eight-year-old boys who were murdered in West Memphis in 1993, and also includes 16-year-old Gardenia Cross Jones and 13-year-old Geneva Smith, whose bodies were both found near Wynne, Arkansas just a few miles from Hickory Ridge shortly after they went missing. After Catheri...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Natalie Bollinger
December 21, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBOn December 28 2017, 19-year-old Natalie Bollinger was at home in her apartment in Broomfield, Colorado. But when her boyfriend Joey got home from work that afternoon, Natalie was gone. So was his 9mm Glock. Joey tried to call Natalie but noticed that her cellphone was still at home. So he called the police and reported Natalie missing. The next day, December 29, police got a tip that a body had been found on land belonging to the McIntosh Dairy farm in a wooded area north of Denver, Co...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 3
December 14, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBIn May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? Catherine Townsend tracks down other witnesses who saw Christina the night she disappeared and identifies inconsistencies in the case file. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnys...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 2
December 07, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIn May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell jewelry for her school fundraiser. But she never made it back home. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? Catherine Townsend continues her investigation in Arkansas. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Christina Pipkin Part 1
November 30, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBIn May 1991, nine-year-old Christina Pipkin headed out to sell costume jewelry for her school fundraiser. Her father gave her strict instructions: Stay on your side of the railroad tracks, and be home by dark. But Christina didn’t make it back home before dark. And she never made it home alive. Her body was found in a ditch several days later. Who, or what, killed Christina Pipkin? And could her death be connected to other dead children found in East Arkansas? If you have a case you’d lik...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Thanksgiving Break
November 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.54 MBHello, Hell and Gone listeners! Catherine is headed back to Arkansas this week to investigate a slew of child deaths that have never been solved. We'll be back next week with a full episode of Hell and Gone Murder Line. If you have a case you’d like Catherine to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shirley Reine
November 16, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBIt was May 10, 2005 when police in the tiny town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, a sleepy picturesque little town on Cape Cod, got a horrifying phone call. Fifty-one-year-old Shirley Reine had been found, slumped on the garage floor, hanging out of her Nissan Maxima in a pool of blood. Police rushed to the scene and later said that she had been shot twice, once in the chest, and then when she fell out of the car, police believed that the killer shot her a second time in the head. There was no ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Robert Wayne Cox
November 09, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn winter of 2011, something was very wrong with 57-year-old Robert Wayne Cox. Robert had always been healthy and athletic, and according to his sister Lydia Cox, he was basically a happy homebody on his property in Havana, Arkansas. He had a son, lived near his father and sister, and had been happily married for over 20 years. But then suddenly, he started to decline physically. By November, he could not really walk, he just shuffled with his chin dropped down to his chest. He was nonve...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cass County Three
November 02, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBIt was July 29, 2022, just another quiet summer night in Atlanta, Texas. The sun had just gone down when 28-year-old Shommaonique Oliver got a panicked phone call. That’s when her nightmare began. Three of her children- her middle daughters, nine-year-old Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, eight-year-old A’Miyah Hughes, and little five-year-old Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver were missing. Law enforcement found them a few hours later. Divers dragged their lifeless little bodies out of a neighboring pond. ...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Brooke Allensworth
October 26, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBOn July 12, 2017, somewhere in the tiny town of Oil Trough, Arkansas, a 37-year-old mother of three named Brooke Allensworth vanished. Two weeks later, the police found Brooke’s car. The car was near a boat ramp and looked like it had been abandoned there for days or possibly weeks. The tire was flat, the doors were locked, and the keys were missing. And so was Brooke. Her family, including her three children and a father and half sister, never saw her alive again and are still searchin...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Shannon Hercutt
October 19, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBOn August 3, 2009, police found Shannon Hercutt dead inside her car, which had plunged off a cliff just off of Walker Trail in Sevier County, Tennessee. At first, the Tennessee highway patrol said Shannon had died in a car accident. But a few days later, Shannon Hercutt’s manner of death was changed to homicide. Who killed Shanoon Hercutt? If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can reach out to the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. See omnystudio.com/l...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jarrod Green Part 2
October 12, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBJust weeks after Jarrod Green was missing, police find out that the people he allegedly owed money to, Brandon Wheeler and Robert Webb, had left town and that their rental house had caught on fire. The woman who cleaned that house presents some revealing information. And a lawsuit is filed against Brandon Wheeler with disastrous consequences. Wheeler v. City of Searcy lawsuit: https://casetext.com/case/wheeler-v-city-of-searcy If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into,...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jarrod Green Part 1
October 05, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBShannon Green remembers her baby brother Jarrod as the kid who was always laughing and smiling with a mischievous sense of humor. She said Jarrod was a little bit naive, someone who always trusted others and would do anything for a friend. In 1993, Jarrod graduated from Searcy High School in Arkansas. Eventually, he moved out of his parents house, started junior college and got a job at the Walmart distribution center. But then, in 1994, the problems started. Jarrod started getting involve...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Clea Hall
September 28, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBClea 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 that house alive? If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can reach...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Rebekah Gould Update
September 21, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Hell and Gone team has launched a new series, Hell and Gone Murder Line…but investigator Catherine Townsend can’t start something new without returning to the case that started it all, the case that changed her life forever. The murder of Rebekah Gould. The case file was finally released in full a few months back, and Catherine spent countless hours reviewing it. In this episode, she goes through the parts of the file that stood out to her and raised more questions. If you have a cas...
Hell and Gone Murder Line: Melissa Witt
September 21, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThursday December 1, 1994 started out as just a normal day for Melissa Witt. She was a 19-year-old college student, who lived at home with her mom, Mary Ann, on a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in Fort Smith, Arkansas. That night, Melissa went to meet her mom at a bowling alley...but she never made it inside. Instead, Melissa disappeared. And Mary Ann never saw her daughter alive again. If you have a case you’d like Catherine Townsend to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Mur...
Hell and Gone Murder Line Trailer
September 14, 2023 16:36 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBOver the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend knows that there is no such thing as a small town where murder never happens. She's received hundreds of messages from people, all around the country, asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities. In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show on the Hell and Gone feed called Hell...
S1 UPDATE: Waiting for the Case File
December 21, 2022 19:19 - 9 minutes - 8.61 MBLarry Gould was supposed to meet with the prosecutor, but that meeting got postponed...indefinitely. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 UPDATE: Contaminated
December 14, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBCatherine learns new information about the Arkansas State Police's investigation and explores the concept of contamination in confessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 UPDATE: Victim Statement
December 07, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBCatherine talks with Rebekah’s father Larry Gould about his victim statement and meeting Rebekah’s killer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 UPDATE: Confession, But Questions Remain
November 30, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBA man has finally been convicted for the murder of Rebekah Gould. But his confession leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Catherine Townsend attends a pre-trial hearing, seeing photos of the crime scene and Rebekah’s autopsy for the first time, and talks to investigator Jennifer Bucholtz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: Blood Money with Catherine Townsend
June 09, 2022 19:16 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBHi, Hell and Gone fans! We know you love Catherine's storytelling, so we're excited to share with you her new podcast, Blood Money. In this weekly series, Catherine takes a deep dive into cases of murderous con artists, who range from high-ranking executives to psychopaths hiding as normal lovers and family members. We think you'll enjoy Blood Money, but don't just take our word for it. Check out this exclusive trailer and decide for yourself! About Blood Money: Introducing Blood Money, a po...
Coming Forward
May 11, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBIn the last episode of season 4, Catherine learns a theory about how Ebby's body was discovered and confirms details about Ebby's call with Trevor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Phones
May 04, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBCatherine looks into an incident involving Guy Hooper and talks to Ebby's friend who switched phones with her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Burns Park
April 27, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBCatherine talks to a toxicology expert and identifies another person Ebby was in contact with in the days, and maybe even hours, leading up to her disappearance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Incident Report
April 20, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBCatherine tries to figure out why there are inconsistencies in the security guard's stories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pattern of Life
April 13, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBCatherine talks to one of Ebby's close friends and gets some shocking information from the LRPD. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Down the Drain
April 06, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBCatherine and Mike go down the drain where Ebby was found and track down one of the guys from the party. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chalamont Park
March 30, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBEbby's family searches for her everywhere. Catherine talks with private investigator Monty Vickers and former LRPD detective Tommy Hudson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Little Rock Girl
March 23, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBCatherine Townsend heads to Little Rock, Arkansas to investigate the death of 18-year-old Ebby Steppach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hell and Gone Season 4 Trailer
March 16, 2022 08:00 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBOn October 30, 2015, the Little Rock Police Department searched an abandoned car in a small residential park. The keys were in the ignition and the car was out of gas as if it had been left running. The car belonged to 18-year-old Ebby Steppach, and Ebby had vanished without a trace. What really happened to Ebby Steppach? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.