Dark West Productions
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Daphne Woolsoncroft and Heath Merryman discuss haunting details of different disappearance and murder cases week by week. New episodes released every Tuesday and Friday.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Heath and Daphne pair chronological case narration with candid scrutiny of evidence, suspect accounts, and the uncertainties investigations leave behind.
Heath and Daphne tell murder and disappearance cases through chronological narration, then pause over the evidence, investigative turns, and unresolved questions.
Heath and Daphne make you care whether an oily palm print actually proves anything.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A 600th-episode detour that mixes five rounds of crime talk with a listener-fueled Q&A.
Going West uses its 600th episode as a looser milestone stop, trading the usual shape for a five-round hall of crime and a listener-led Q&A. Teeth and Daphne move through true crime drafts, cases they still want solved, and a story treated as one of the biggest twists they have…
A confession-driven case runs into questions of coercion, criminal records, and missing DNA evidence.
Holly's case is framed around a confession that keeps pulling the investigation in two directions. Dylan named himself, his brother Zach, Shane, and Jason, while his mother Cindy argued that Dennis pushed him toward confessing despite his intellectual disability.
A missing mother, an open door, and too many possible suspects keep Nancy Moyer's disappearance unresolved.
Going West: True Crime frames Nancy Moyer's disappearance through a chilling uncertainty: several men were believed to have been in contact with her during the weekend she vanished, including some connected to dates.
Randy Leach's missing Dodge keeps the case's hardest question open.
Randy Leach's disappearance opens on a simple, unsettling premise: a 17-year-old leaves a graduation party in rural Kansas, is thought to have driven off in his mother's car, and is never seen again.
A post-verdict revisit where toxicology sharpens an already fraught family tragedy.
Corey's attempt to avoid Eric's family at the funeral gives Going West a blunt opening, and the episode builds from there around the family's push to involve law enforcement after Eric's fentanyl overdose.
A brisk, unsettling look at a Riverside killing that was never officially tied to Zodiac.
Going West frames the Riverside killing as one possible Zodiac-related case that was never officially tied to Zodiac, and it keeps its attention on the 1966 campus-night timeline, the body found in a nearby alley the next morning, the suspect questioning, and the letter sent 30…
A brisk Halloween disappearance case that keeps suspicion close to home.
Karen Swift's disappearance unfolds as a Halloween-night vanishing after she came home from a party in Tennessee, and the focus stays on the people closest to her: David Swift, who is questioned by detectives, and John Hogshooter, the neighbor tied to the poisoned-yard incident.
A clear, fast-moving Halloween-season true-crime retelling with real weight.
Going West frames Dominique Dunne's murder as a sharp, Halloween-season true-crime case: a rising young actress, a West Hollywood home, an ex-boyfriend, and a public attack that lands with immediate force. The wider horror-film fallout gives the story an extra, uneasy shadow.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Hosts Heath and Daphne of Going West revisit and substantially update a 2021 episode on the murders of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Aboutchuk in Anchorage, Alaska, following a 2024 trial and revelation of additional victims.
Going West hosts Heath and Daphne cover the murder of Holly Maddux, a brilliant, graceful young woman from Tyler, Texas who vanished after breaking up with her eccentric partner Ira Einhorn, a countercultural figure who presented himself as an environmental activist and peace advocate, before her mummified remains were found over a year later stuffed in a trunk in their shared apartment.
Going West hosts Heath and Daphne cover the murder of Dominique Dunn, a young actress from a prominent Hollywood family who had just appeared in the 1982 blockbuster Poltergeist when she was strangled by her ex-boyfriend John Sweeney outside her West Hollywood home in October 1982.
Going West True Crime covers the 1996 Teen Vampire Murders, in which a group of Kentucky teenagers who identified as a vampire cult traveled to Eustis, Florida and killed the parents of one of their members.
Hosts Heath and Daphne investigate the 2011 disappearance and murder of Karen Swift, a Tennessee mother who vanished after a Halloween party.
Going West hosts Heath and Daphne cover the 1966 murder of Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year-old college student in Riverside, California who was brutally stabbed and beaten the night before Halloween after a library visit, in an episode they describe as exploring a potential Zodiac connection that Riverside Police have never officially confirmed.
The hosts celebrate their 600th episode with a special 'hall of crime' draft and Q&A session.
The hosts introduce a heavily requested case about a woman named Holly, discussing recent trial developments and previewing the 600th episode.
The hosts introduce a case about a 36-year-old mother who vanished from her Washington home in 2009.
Hosts discuss a suspicious disappearance case from 1988, exploring strange theories and twists.
Hosts revisit a previously covered murder case to discuss the recent trial verdict and provide updates.
Hosts discuss a disturbing new murder case, sharing personal reactions and promoting an upcoming crime convention.
This episode continues the deep dive into the Unabomber case, covering his bombing campaign and the role of his manifesto in his capture.
The hosts introduce a new episode about the Unabomber case, a departure from their usual coverage of murder and disappearance cases.
Hosts discuss a twisted true crime case involving manipulation and concrete evidence from texts and videos.
The hosts introduce a disturbing true crime case involving a house of horrors and a serial killer, promising a shocking story.