UNSOLVED - A True Crime Podcast · Kristy Kramer

Episode 20 The Disappearance of Jessica Heeringa

·1 hr 22 min·5 clips

Jessica's journals describe one car, one phone, and Dakota controlling her movements.

Christy Kramer begins with a personal check-in and thanks the audience. She says the support and kind messages have meant a great deal to her. The conversation then turns to the case. Kramer frames the show as Michigan Unsolved, centered on unsolved cases in Michigan. She says her goal is to give victims of unsolved crimes the voice they deserve. She walks listeners through the night the woman disappeared. The woman was working at a gas station and following a familiar routine with a regular customer. A man in a van was seen behind the station and later driving away. The episode makes clear how hard that sighting was to read from a distance in the dark. Kramer gently pushes back on how much certainty can be placed on a far-off eyewitness view. Security footage from nearby businesses helps confirm part of the van’s movement. The gas station itself had no security cameras at all. That absence becomes one of the most important details in the case. A regular customer arrives after work and expects the pump to be turned on for him. When the pump is not on, he goes inside. He finds the cash register open. He also sees her purse beside the register. He checks the station, calls her name, and looks through the aisles and cooler area. Nothing feels right. He calls 911 because the situation seems immediately wrong. Kramer treats that reaction as important and earned. She keeps coming back to the practical details that shape the mystery. The episode is less about sensational turns than about showing how fast an ordinary routine became alarm. It also carries a clear sense of frustration about what was not in place to document what happened. Kramer closes by keeping the emphasis on the woman, on her family, and on the need for the case to stay visible.

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A case-driven Michigan missing-persons episode with a grounded, human perspective.

Christy Kramer treats Jessica Heeringa's disappearance with clear human stakes, and the episode is strongest when it sticks to the practical facts: the gas-station timeline, the missing security cameras, and the customer who noticed something was wrong and called 911.

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Follow Jessica's disappearance through a gas-station gap, a van on security footage, and a 911 call that flagged something wrong.

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