Partners in Crime

A Killer’s Trail Reopened After Decades

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Joyce Black stepped out her door just as her church disintegrated in an explosion, saved by being 'just plain lazy.'
This episode presents three distinct unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of Cindy Anderson after disturbing dreams, the miraculous survival of an entire church choir minutes before an explosion, and the 1970 bank robbery involving radical college students that left a police officer dead. Each story explores unexplained events, missing persons, and historical crimes that remain baffling.

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Serious true crime that gives equal weight to coincidence, testimony, and loss.

The program frames unsolved mysteries as a stack of family memories, police involvement, and details that never quite settle. It moves from the Nebraska church explosion and the choir members spared by a chain of events to Cindy Anderson's troubling dreams and disappearance,…

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Press play for a case-file tour of unsolved mysteries, from a church explosion in Beatrice, Nebraska, to a Tennessee roadside killing and Cindy Anderson's disappearance.

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