Megan Storm
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I’m Megan, your host, and each week I revisit unsolved cases from decades past—stories that have too often been forgotten or overlooked. Together, we examine the facts, question the myths of “the good old days,” and ask whether a simpler time was ever really a safer one. This podcast honors the people at the heart of each case—focusing not on sensationalism, but on the lives affected and the justice still waiting to be served. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-simpler-time-true-crime--6665681/support.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Megan pairs careful cold-case timelines with clear distinctions between established evidence, investigative theory, and questions that remain unanswered.
Megan rebuilds older unsolved cases through careful timelines, keeping confirmed events distinct from suspicions that never produced charges. A Simpler Time True Crime stays attentive to investigative uncertainty, including sealed proceedings in the Molly Bish case and the…
Molly Bish's childhood note to another missing girl's family makes your suspect board feel very small.
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A Dayton officer's unsolved murder becomes a story of family fracture, public mourning, and a long search for answers.
A quiet evening of baths, bedtime, and a new video game turns into a homicide case when Dayton police officer Kevin Brame is shot in the neck outside the home.
A torn swimsuit fragment leads into a sealed grand jury, conflicting stories, and a case still without an indictment.
Part two of A Simpler Time True Crime follows the Molly Bish case from a torn piece of blue bathing suit to the discovery of her remains, then into the unresolved homicide investigation that followed.
A missing lifeguard case carries extra weight through its connection to another unsolved disappearance.
A teenage lifeguard vanishes in the small gap between her mother's drop-off and the start of swim lessons at a local pond. The episode stays close to that narrow window, moving through the urgent search, the absence of clear evidence in the water or surrounding area, and the…
A measured review of Tess Hilt's murder, the investigation around it, and the answers that never fully arrived.
A Simpler Time True Crime revisits Tess Hilt's 1973 murder with a steady focus on the brief walk near her off-campus apartment that became the case's lasting point of rupture.
A young soldier's Bronx murder remains unresolved, shaped by a stalled lead, a witness account, and lasting silence.
Solomon Robinson's unsolved murder lands with the weight of a life abruptly cut short: a young soldier home on leave, walking through the Bronx park he knew well, attacked near the basketball courts where he had grown up playing and had been earlier that day.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
A former cop's DNA, a dropped case, unreliable memories.
Dayton police officer Kevin Brame was shot in the neck in his Cherry Drive driveway on November 1, 1999, minutes after returning Antonio and Dominique to Carla.
["A Simpler Time True Crime returns to the Molly Bish case with the May 16, 2003 discovery of blue bathing-suit fabric in the Palmer Wildlife Management Area near Commons Pond.", "Dr.
On June 28, 2000, 16-year-old Molly Bish disappears from Commons Pond in Warren, Massachusetts during her eighth day as a lifeguard.
["A Simpler Time True Crime follows Megan as she reconstructs the August 4, 1973 murder of Tess Hilt, a 22-year-old Northwest Missouri State graduate student found dead in her College Garden Apartments basement unit in Maryville, Missouri.", "The episode uses the Justice for Tess work of Michael Holmes and Alice DeSterler, plus Megan's own warning about graphic details, to track the case from a 60-foot walk home to the evidence that later went missing.", "It covers the bruising, strangulation, stabbing, and scene-staging questions, including Sergeant Bill Wright's view that the killer may have been a woman and that the apartment had been cleaned after the attack.", "The investigation widens to Karen Jones, Helen Hansen, and convicted killer Mickey Sperano, while the episode stays focused on what can still be supported from the record."]
["A Simpler Time True Crime's 100th episode tracks the unsolved murder of Solomon Robinson, a 19-year-old Bronx soldier killed beside the St.
The host discusses a special episode featuring a 1996 cold case solved by DNA and detective work, and announces a future interview with the lead detective.
Host Megan introduces an unsolved murder case from the past, focusing on the lack of accountability and the victims' stories.
This episode covers the unsolved disappearance of 9-year-old Scott Clayshulty in 1990s Missouri.
The episode recounts the unsolved murder of Dale Wheeler in Duluth, Minnesota, during a peaceful bike ride.
This episode examines the unsolved disappearance of Walter Gregg Fowler in 1999, a case with strong circumstantial evidence of homicide but no body or charges.