Cold Case MHS: Monsters and Demons · Randy Hubbard

Season 4: Episode 10 - Dangerous Liaison - The Murder of Rebecca Lynn Carroll

January 23, 2025·28 min·2 clips

Cold Case MHS, Monsters and Demons opens with Randy Hubbard and Lydia Lisko framing the show around victimology and the realities that can sit behind a case. The students introduce themselves and explain why Rebecca stood out. There was almost nothing on her online, just repeated scraps about her disappearance and where her body was found, so they dug deeper, reached out to coroner's offices, and pieced together more of her life. The group describes Rebecca as family-oriented but also living a high-risk lifestyle. That shapes their framing, but they keep circling back to Rebecca as a person instead of a file. They say they were drawn to the case because it was so thinly documented, and that search through old cold cases became the core of the episode. Later, they talk about what changed after Detective Thompson reviewed their presentation. He said they had only gotten one thing wrong: the timeline. They also learned Rebecca had not been missing as long as they first thought, and they revisited how long her body had been in the creek after speaking with him. The episode then turns to the physical evidence and the killing itself. The students discuss two bullet casings found near a bridge, though neither matched. Rebecca was shot twice in the chest, and one bullet nicked her heart, which killed her. Her body was then dumped off a bridge into Big Derby Creek near Prairie Oaks Metro Park in Hilliard, where she was found caught on the side of the stream. Randy pushes them to think through how the shooting may have happened. They talk through the possibility of a .25 caliber gun, a small firearm that can fit in a hand or back pocket, which points to a close-range attack. No bullets were recovered, so the mechanics stay partly unresolved. The conversation keeps to what is known and what remains theory. By the end, the case feels less like a solved mystery than a sparse record made fuller through persistence. The students do not claim to have solved it. They show how the detective review sharpened their timeline, corrected their first pass, and clarified the limits of the evidence. The episode keeps returning to uncertainty, revision, and the work of building a timeline from fragments, while still treating Rebecca as a person, not just injuries and locations. By the close, the show asks listeners to share the podcast so the victim gets more attention and the case stays visible. The credits name the students, Mr. Hubbard, Alexa Doll, and the MHS Design Studio Internship. The final note is hopeful without pretending the case is resolved. The point is simple: keep looking, keep listening, and do not let a thin record have the last word on a life.

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A careful student investigation that values verification over polish.

The episode follows Rebecca as a family-oriented woman living a high-risk life, and the students do the hard work of moving from thin public records to coroner files and family contact to sharpen what can actually be said about her death.

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You want a student-led cold case that follows the paper trail, not the hype.

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