Claire St. Amant
125 episodes listed below
Cold cases, careful timelines, unanswered questions.
This true-crime series follows murders, disappearances, and case updates where the public record still feels unsettled. Claire and Susan work through timelines, witness accounts, press conferences, tips, and ordinary explanations before letting a theory harden.
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This true-crime series is built for cases that keep returning to the same hard question: what can actually be known? Claire and Susan move through disappearances, murders, cold-case arrests, and live case discussions with a conversational style that still cares about the record. The episodes do not rush. They start with a concrete point, then widen the frame. A last text from Sara Ebersole matters. So does a mystery car that was described like an Uber but was not confirmed through the app. A bloodstain on Nancy Guthrie's porch changes the feeling of a possible kidnapping from strange to frighteningly real. In the Missy Beavers discussion, a bloody shirt at a dry cleaner becomes a useful example of how promising tips can take on a life of their own before the facts settle. The show is comfortable with uncertainty. It returns often to surveillance, searches, press conferences, family statements, public tips, and what authorities have or have not said. Some episodes carry the shape of a reported narrative, especially cases like Tammy Lynn Leppert or the Colonial Parkway murders, where setting and fear are part of the record. Others feel more like a newsroom debrief, as in the Ashley Okland update after an arrest in a long-unsolved case. The live Texas Justice Tour episodes add a different texture: audience presence, local cases, bookshop venues, and the sense that old evidence is still being argued in public. The show can be grave without becoming theatrical. It notices victims as people, not just names in a file. It also gives space to procedural frustration, including tight-lipped investigators, grand jury limits, tips that go nowhere, and theories that sound plausible until the timeline resists them. Guests are used when a case needs outside expertise, such as Tanita Matthews discussing Judith Roberts. For listeners who like true crime with open questions, careful recaps, and a willingness to leave some things unresolved, it offers a steady, skeptical way through grim material.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer measured case analysis over shock value. It fits people drawn to missing-person timelines, cold-case updates, investigative gaps, and public theories tested against known facts.
What sets it apart: The series combines casual co-host discussion with a habit of checking each theory against timelines, evidence, and official statements. Live Texas Justice Tour episodes give some cases a public-room immediacy that sets them apart from studio-only recaps.
Greg Williams was a successful tech entrepreneur living a quiet life with his family in a Fort Worth suburb. Until one night in 2011, when his whole world came crashing down. Greg had been shot in cold blood, as he lay sleeping in bed. His wife and business partner, Michele, called 911, alleging an intruder had fired the fatal shot. What really happened to Greg Williams, and who is responsible for his death? Join award-winning journalist Claire St. Amant as she re-examines the complicated murder investigation, where Greg’s case is only the beginning. Texas Justice Tour: https://bit.ly/4pv7gCR
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Claire and Susan Passoni make unresolved cases legible by separating timelines, investigative evidence, and open questions without treating suspicion as proof.
Final Days on Earth now carries the case-by-case conversation of Justice Pending, with Claire and Susan Passoni reconstructing disappearances, unsolved homicides, and developments in older investigations.
Claire and Susan treat the cleanest-looking clue as an invitation to ask one more question.
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A high-profile case told with restraint and a clear eye for what is known.
Justice Pending keeps the Nancy Guthrie case in Tucson tightly on the known facts: the drone search, the search dogs, the blood on the front porch, and the uneasy question of how someone could get there without leaving a clear trail back out.
A careful live look at Missy Beavers that stays with the timeline and the evidence.
Justice Pending takes a patient, procedural pass through the Missy Beavers case. It starts with the timeline, then follows the tips and police attention that kept circling back, including the bloody-shirt lead the hosts treat as promising before sorting it against what can…
A grounded update on the Ashley Oakland arrest that keeps uncertainty in view.
Justice Pending uses the Ashley Oakland case to frame a clear, current update around the arrest and the record already in view. Claire and Susan stay nearest the facts when they point to the grand jury's true bill, the authorities' guarded stance, and the note that no other…
A careful, unsettling case study that keeps its focus on the facts and the unease.
Lauren Spear's disappearance is handled with restraint, beginning on a summer night in Bloomington and moving through the people investigators looked at first.
A missing-person case shaped by surveillance, uncertainty, and the limits of what can be proved.
Justice Pending stays with Brian Schaefer's disappearance from a Columbus bar and does not look away from the hardest fact: he was seen going in, and there is still no sign of how he got out.
A memoir passage that pulls back the curtain on true-crime TV.
Justice Pending uses a memoir passage to look past the true-crime gloss and into the machinery around it. Claire Sanamaw describes a tense moment in a Harris County Jail courtroom in Houston, and the result feels immediate without losing its restraint.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates whether the CIA secretly wrote a Scorpions hit.
Jake Halpern and the Snowball team track a con artist who defrauded a family.
A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
A murder rumor in rural Alabama unravels into a clockmaker's suicide and estate feud.
Final Days on Earth presents Jonathan Walton’s Hardcore Con episode about New York financial journalist Charlotte Coles being targeted through a staged Amazon identity-theft call.
Nancy Guthrie's disappearance gets scary quickly.
April 18th, 2016, still sits heavy in Midlothian.
This episode covers the 2023 disappearance of Sarah Gail Ebersole, a 26-year-old mother from Marion County, Florida, last seen on March 2, 2023.
This episode explores the unsolved 1983 disappearance of 18-year-old aspiring actress Tammy Leppert, who vanished from Florida after expressing fears for her life.
Justice Pending returns with a breaking-news update on the 2011 cold case murder of Ashley Okland in Des Moines, Iowa.
This episode explores the Colonial Parkway murders, a series of unsolved attacks on couples in Virginia between 1986 and 1989, examining the cases' connections and recent developments.
This live episode from Abilene discusses the unsolved case of Brandon Woodruff, an ACU student accused of murdering his parents in 2005, based on the host's extensive research from her time at CBS News.
This episode features journalist Tanita Matthews discussing the unsolved murder of 14-year-old Judith Roberts in the UK, based on her research and book.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing other cases like Lindsay Buziak and Darlie Routier.
The episode discusses the unsolved murder of realtor Ashley Oakland in Iowa, analyzing evidence and theories.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.
Award-winning journalist Claire St.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.
This episode of Justice Pending investigates the unsolved 1996 murder of Karina Holmer, a Swedish au pair whose dismembered body was found in Boston, exploring the case's disturbing details and enduring mystery.
This episode investigates the unsolved 2013 murder of 21-year-old college student Amanda Clairmont in Corinth, Texas, exploring the case details and its media coverage.
This episode explores the 1991 murder of Cynthia Gonzalez, a young mother in Arlington, Texas, whose cold case was reopened after 34 years when college students uncovered new evidence.
This episode examines the mysterious 2004 disappearance of 21-year-old Maura Murray in rural New Hampshire, exploring the unanswered questions and enduring investigation.
This episode covers the 2011 disappearance of Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University student who vanished after a night out in Bloomington, Indiana.
Brian walks in, then he is gone.
A jailhouse courtroom closes in on the narrator.
A true crime podcast that re-examines a murder case and discusses a museum heist.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the disappearance of Michelle Vanik.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams, with a live event promotion and discussion of other cases.
The hosts discuss the unsolved 1988 murder of two teenagers in a small Texas town, exploring theories and seeking justice.
The episode discusses the mysterious death of Ellen Greenberg, a case where a woman with 20 stab wounds was ruled a suicide, and the ongoing fight for justice.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the case of Darlie Routier.
The episode discusses the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Barraza and promotes a live podcast event about Darlie Routier.
The episode promotes a live podcast event about Darlie Routier and discusses the mysterious disappearance of Suzanne Simpson.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing other unsolved Texas cases.
A true crime podcast re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and questioning who is responsible.
A true crime podcast episode promoting a live event and introducing the host's background, focusing on re-examining murder cases.
A true crime podcast episode re-examining the murder of Greg Williams and discussing the Darlie Routier case.