Susan Poupart

September 12, 2025·44 min·4 clips

Deer hunters found Susan Poupart's partial remains wrapped in plastic in a Wisconsin forest, pointing to homicide.

Susie Poupart was twenty-nine. The excerpt begins after hunters found her remains, about 12 miles from the party where she had last been seen. By then, the scene was in rough shape. Time, weather, and animal activity had already taken a lot from investigators before they could preserve what remained. Still, one fact held: this was homicide. Suspicion narrowed from there. Two of the three suspects were tied to the area where Susie's remains were found. Robert Elm and Joseph Cobb were known to hunt deer there. The narration stays careful and grave, but it moves quickly. It lingers on the distance from the party, the damaged scene, and the certainty investigators reached even after so much evidence was gone. The story rests on what could still be known after nature and time had done their damage. The ad blocks are heavy. The strongest parts are likely outside the sponsorship reads, when the episode returns to Susie's last known location and the homicide investigation. A closing beat shifts toward hope. The host points to the DNA Doe Project as proof of what resources, time, and energy can do for older cases. That note gives the episode a wider moral weight: unresolved deaths deserve patience, attention, and work that keeps names from fading.

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