Vanishings, killings and cold trails, laid out case by case.
Every Town tells its crime stories through hard specifics: a note on a campus bulletin board, glasses left on a dorm desk, DNA that matched nothing. Its cases run from a Minnesota college disappearance and the Arizona Canal cases to the end of the Salem witch trials.
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Every Town tells true-crime stories through the small facts that investigators and families were left holding. In the Josh Guimond episode, that means a dorm room at St. John's: his car keys still there, his car in its usual spot, the glasses he needed on the desk, no packed bag. Within the first 24 hours, investigators ruled out the idea that he had left on his own. The Michigan episode turns on a different kind of detail. Jane Mixer, a 23-year-old University of Michigan law student, pinned a handwritten note to a campus bulletin board asking for a ride home to Muskegon, and someone answered it. She was found the next morning in Denton Cemetery, with a copy of Catch-22 left beside her. The narration describes a whole state gripped by panic. It is blunt about the cost of a case that went cold: the murders continued, and six more women never came home. Another episode, titled 'He Posed With Cops At Crime Scenes. He Was The One Who Put The BODIES There', follows the Arizona Canal cases of 1992 and 1993. Investigators recovered male DNA and the persons-of-interest list grew past 600 names, but nothing matched. The story ends on the point that, because of those cases, a tool now exists that did not before. Every Town also goes well beyond modern case files. Its Salem episode covers Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience, his challenge to spectral evidence, Governor Phipps dissolving the court and the acquittals that followed. Then it counts the cost: more than 200 accused, 30 found guilty, 25 dead. One episode follows a pattern instead of a single crime. 'The Scientists Are DISAPPEARING. Here's What They All Had In Common' works from a simple rule: once is chance, and three times is a deliberate pattern. One of the people it turns to is Melissa Cassius, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory who vanished in June 2025. Along the way the narration explains the laboratory itself: classified research, access controlled down to the room, and staff compartmentalized so that most know only what their role requires. The voice is conversational, with plenty of asides and the occasional 'well' before a turn. The titles are louder and lean on capitals such as KILLER, BODIES and DARK. Several episodes end on the same line, that maybe your town will be next, which echoes the 'every town has a dark side' line heard near the top of the Los Alamos episode. A listener gets each case walked through in order, dates and dead ends included, with frank detail about how victims were found.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants a case laid out in order, with names, dates and the leads that went nowhere, and who can handle frank descriptions of how victims were found. It also fits someone curious about older history, since the Salem witch trials sit alongside modern disappearances.
What sets it apart: Every Town moves between eras and scales: a colonial witch-trial panic, a Minnesota college disappearance and a string of disappearances framed as a pattern all appear in the same run. Several episodes come back to one refrain, that maybe your town will be next.
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Six people, sensitive facilities, and a pattern the episode treats as too pointed to ignore.
Every Town builds its single-episode case around six people who vanished or died under mysterious circumstances within nine months, each tied through work to facilities guarding highly sensitive American information.
A grim Michigan case study in impersonation, escalation, public fear, and investigative failure.
Every Town looks at Michigan in the summer of 1969 as fear hardened into public panic, with young women disappearing, bodies being found, and no clear suspect in view.
A measured cold-case episode where linked DNA, stalled leads, and a later forensic method shape the search for answers.
Every Town follows two Arizona Canal murders, beginning with Angela's killing and then the discovery of 17-year-old Melanie Bernis, found in the canal after a red puddle and drag marks led attention to a tunnel beneath the interstate.
Thomas's account of a deadly mountain separation collides with prosecutors' very different version.
A night on a mountain ridge turns on competing versions of one desperate decision. Thomas says Kirsten told him to leave and save himself, that the separation was mutual, and that she was clear and coherent when he descended to raise the alarm.
A careful missing-person review built from dorm-room clues, a bloodhound trail, and uncertainty that still holds.
Josh Guimond's disappearance is framed through the ordinary things left behind: car keys, glasses, his car, and no packed bag. Everytown keeps close to that stillness, then traces the first-night search from a poker game across campus, into nearby woods, and toward the…
Celebrity gossip meets survival-crime chaos.
Farmhouse murders, zombie powders and Breton omens.
Murder cases, lake monsters and two hosts with opinions.
One friend tells the case. The other asks why.
Everytown examines Herbert Bowmeister, an Indianapolis businessman and family man linked by the episode to disappearances of young gay men and the I-70 Strangler investigation.
Every Town examines the nearly ten-year harassment of Bill and Dorothy Wacker, beginning with unexplained home break-ins in 1984.
Every Town host Andrew examines why ghost stories persist across cultures, from Gilgamesh encountering Enkidu to Ghost Hunters drawing millions of views since 2004.
Every Town examines the 1987 murders of Keith and Elaine Dardeen, their two-year-old son Peter, and Elaine’s unborn daughter in Ena, Illinois.
Everytown examines Lake Lanier in Georgia, a man-made reservoir that Andrew says has claimed close to a thousand lives in nearly 70 years.
Every Town examines Carl Eugene Watts, a Michigan-based killer linked in the episode to attacks across Michigan, Canada, and Texas.
Every Town examines the 1965 Icebox Murders at 1815 Driscoll Street in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, where officers found Fred and Edwina Rogers dismembered inside their refrigerator.
Everytown examines the January 2025 Grossglockner climb involving 33-year-old Kirsten Gertner and 36-year-old Thomas Plamburger, during which Kirsten was found dead near Austria's summit.
Every Town host Andrew examines Clarence Roberts, a Brown County, Indiana sheriff and hardware-store owner whose financial collapse preceded a 1970 barn fire containing an unidentified burned body.
Every Town examines the March 12, 2011 killing of Jaina Murray inside a Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Maryland.
In Every Town, Andrew recounts the Ammons family’s reported experiences after Latoya Ammons, Rosa Campbell, and three children moved to Gary, Indiana, in November 2011.
A true crime podcast that presents lesser-known, disturbing crime stories from various towns.
This episode recounts the 1992 disappearance of an 11-year-old girl in Oil City, Pennsylvania, which led to the cancellation of Halloween for 16 years.
Every Town examines black-eyed children, an urban legend built around nighttime encounters with children whose eyes are described as completely black.
Every Town introduces Slaycation, a vacation-crime podcast hosted by Adam Tex-Davis, Kim, and Jerry.
Every Town examines Robert Hansen, an Anchorage baker and family man accused of hunting women in Alaska's wilderness during the 1970s and 1980s.
Every Town host Andrew recounts the 1996 disappearance of Egbert Rimkes, Cornelia Meyer, and their sons George Weber and Max during a western United States road trip.
Every Town examines more than 16 deaths connected to Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, including 20 reported deaths since 2008 and 12 since 2022.
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["Every Town's The All American KILLER: Michigan's Most Terrifying Man follows the 1968-69 murders around Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, beginning with 19-year-old Mary Fletcher and a blue-gray Chevrolet circling her block.", "Andrew hosts the narration, and the episode is bookended by promo reads for Damon Fairless's Hunting Warhead and Benjamin Boster's I Can't Sleep Podcast.", "The story asks how seven young women vanished or were killed near Eastern Michigan University while police missed the pattern for months.", "Mary Fletcher, Joan Schell, Jane Mixer, Marilyn Skelton, Dawn Bassam, and Karen Benman each appear in a timeline built around rides, dump sites, and the eventual hair-evidence breakthrough."]
Every Town traces Brian Miller, the Phoenix man known as 'The Zombie Hunter,' from a public costume identity to the Arizona canal murders.
Every Town's Murder On The Mountain?
Josh Gamon's disappearance centers on a five-minute walk from a poker game at 75 Melrose Court back to his St.
Everytown's episode on the Salem witch trials argues that fear, factional disputes, and unsupported accusations turned illness into a legal crisis in Salem Village in 1692.
Everytown examines the 1987 murders of Keith and Elaine Dardeen, their two-year-old son Peter, and Elaine's newborn daughter in Ena, Illinois.
Every Town examines Carl Eugene Watts, a Michigan-born killer whom Andrew describes as potentially more prolific than Ted Bundy, John Gacy, or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Every Town examines Paige Renkoski's May 24, 1990 disappearance after her silver Oldsmobile was found running on Interstate 96 in Livingston County.
Every Town host Andrew recounts the 1996 Death Valley disappearance of German travelers Egbert Rimkes, Cornelia Meyer, George Weber, and Max during a three-week western United States vacation.
Everytown host Andrew argues that ordinary routines involving office work, smartphones, and social media resemble a quiet dystopia rather than a dramatic science-fiction regime.
Every Town examines Don Kemp’s 1982 disappearance after he left New York for Jackson Hole, Wyoming, intending to write about Mary Surratt and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Every Town host Andrew recounts how Swedish identical twins Ursula and Sabina Erickson appeared on England's M6 motorway on May 17, 2008, then separately ran into traffic while being filmed for the BBC series Motorway Cops.
Every Town examines cryptid sightings through perception, memory, wildlife behavior, and unresolved witness reports, including the Dover Demon and Mothman.
Every Town examines Ryan Stuka's disappearance from Sun Peaks, British Columbia, after he left a February 17, 2018 house party near his home.
Every Town’s “BEST of 2025” compilation examines alleged mysteries at the Grand Canyon, including more than 1,100 reported disappearances since 2018 and the disputed G.E.
Everytown examines the 2015 death of 18-year-old Tiffany Valiente after she disappeared from a graduation party in Mays Landing, New Jersey.
Everytown examines the 1981 death of 17-year-old Kurt Sova, who disappeared after a Halloween party in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, and was found five days later in a ravine.
Every Town examines John Joseph Joubert the 4th, a former Boy Scout and Air Force radar technician linked to attacks in Portland, Maine, and Nebraska.
Every Town follows New York City police officer Ralph Sarchie from his 1980 posting in the South Bronx to reported exorcism work in New York.
Every Town examines the Portsmouth Beauty School Murders, beginning with Laura Kempton's death in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on September 28, 1981.
Every Town examines whether six bodies recovered from Houston bayous in a two-week September period indicate a serial killer or a cluster of drownings and other deaths.
Every Town examines how the Pentagon used UFO stories to conceal classified programs including the F-117 Nighthawk and U-2 spy plane.
Every Town examines reported time slips through the 1901 Versailles account of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who described outdated clothing, a vanished pavilion, and a woman identified as Marie Antoinette.
Every Town's "The Night Halloween Died: The Shauna Howe Case" examines the 1992 disappearance of 11-year-old Shawna Howe in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
Andrew presents four unsolved Halloween cases involving Joseph Smith and Roland Deloach in Sanford, James Adamski in Depew, Jake Just in Midland, and Cham Weiss in Long Beach.
Everytown examines Airbnb and VRBO through cases involving hidden cameras, fake listings, unsafe properties, unauthorized entry, theft, and violence.
Everytown examines the 1985 White House Farm murders in Essex, where Neville and June Bamber, Sheila Caffell, and Sheila's six-year-old twins Daniel and Nicholas were killed.
Everytown’s episode on the 2011 Lululemon murder in Bethesda follows store supervisor Jaina Murray’s discovery of unpaid leggings in Brittany Norwood’s bag.
Every Town examines how Justin Moen's student-loan grievances, failed jobs, conspiracy beliefs, and online extremism preceded the January 30, 2024 killing of his father, Michael Moen, in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Every Town examines Tony Costa, a Provincetown resident whose relationships with local police and fellow counterculture figures helped conceal allegations involving missing women in 1968 and 1969.
Every Town examines the November 13, 1984 disappearance of eight-year-old Tammy Belanger during her one-mile walk to Lincoln Street School in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Every Town examines Antarctica's research infrastructure, including McMurdo Station's 8 million gallons of annual fuel use and more than 70 stations across the continent.
Every Town examines the 2010 death of 24-year-old Phoebe Handjuk, whose body was found in a Melbourne apartment-building garbage chute after she had fallen 12 stories.
Everytown's episode on Roche the Ralt follows his rise from a religiously intense childhood in Quebec to leadership of the Ant Hill Kids commune.
Every Town examines the August 2, 1989 disappearance of Ronald Jack, Doreen, nine-year-old Russell, and four-year-old Ryan after a stranger offered the family logging work near Culquitz Lake.
Every Town examines Jerry Brudos, an Oregon electrician who targeted women while maintaining a family life and hiding a crime workshop in his garage.
Every Town examines the 1982 Corpsewood Manor Murders, involving Loyola pharmacology professor Charles Scudder and his companion Joseph Odom in rural North Georgia.
Every Town examines the August 9, 2013 disappearance of Brandon Lawson, a 26-year-old father of four from San Angelo, Texas, after his Ford F-150 stopped on Highway 277.
Everytown examines the Zizians, a Bay Area network linked in the episode to AI safety, veganism, rationalism, and alleged violence.
Everytown examines the unsolved 1971–1973 murders of Carmen Collin, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michelle Menza near Rochester, New York.
Everytown examines Larry DeWayne Hall, whose Civil War reenactment travel coincided with disappearances across more than 13 states between 1982 and 1994.
Everytown examines Robert Hansen, the Anchorage baker known as the Butcher Baker, whose alleged victim count is presented as ranging from 17 to 37.
Every Town examines Nathan Carman, whose grandfather John Chakalos was shot in Connecticut in 2013 and whose mother Linda disappeared during a 2016 fishing trip.
Every Town examines fears that 10 people found dead across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in less than two months could be connected.
Every Town examines the 2018 death of Tamla Horsford at a birthday gathering in Forsyth County, Georgia, where officials concluded she accidentally fell from a 15-foot balcony.
Everytown examines Cindy James, a Canadian nurse who reported roughly 90 stalking incidents over seven years, including threatening calls, dead cats, break-ins, and attacks involving nylon stockings.
Everytown examines the Red Head Murders, a group of killings involving women with reddish hair whose bodies were found near highways in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and other states.
Every Town examines the 1984 disappearance and murder of 23-year-old Houston postal carrier Deborah Schatz, known to her family as May.