NonStop Local
57 episodes listed below
PRESS PLAY
When she isn't anchoring weekend newscasts, NonStop Local's Hayley Guenthner produces investigative pieces and covers crime all over the Inland Northwest. Help Me Hayley: Cold Case Files podcast reveals some of Spokane's most notorious, if not forgotten, crime cases.
One Jane Doe sketch looks painfully familiar to a daughter; you'll want to hear what she found.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Suzanne Timms connects a childhood memory of Patty Otto's disappearance to a Jane Doe rendering.
This single-episode review centers on Suzanne Timms, who has long carried a childhood memory of her mother, Patty Otto, disappearing after a violent fight at home in Lewiston, Idaho.
A long-stalled Palouse case advances through forensic genetic genealogy.
Haley Gunther follows the Palouse home invasions and sexual assaults that unsettled the community from November 2003 to March 2004, then tracks the long stretch of stalled leads that followed.
A decades-old Spokane murder is resolved through DNA, exhumation, and persistent detective work.
A 62-year-old homicide case finally arrives at an answer as investigators identify John Ray Hoff as the killer of nine-year-old Candy Rogers, who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered in March 1959.
Moved tools, a troubling text, and a family still waiting for answers shape Guy Geyer's case.
Guy Geyer's disappearance is framed through the small details that made his family's concern hard to shake: an unfinished remodel, valuable tools gathered neatly in a back bedroom, and a truck that turned up days later.
A careful missing-person episode centered on a father's grief, a friend's enduring hope, and a case still waiting for a solid tip.
Angel Dawn Wilson vanished from Spokane in August 2007 at age 17, and this single episode stays close to the personal weight of a case without a confirmed ending.
Kristen's 1981 murder remains defined by a missing bicycle, one witness account, and unanswered questions.
The Blue 10-Speed Part 2 stays with Kristen, a 22-year-old University of Idaho senior last seen riding her blue 10-speed on U.S. Highway 95 from Moscow to Lewiston in June 1981.
A careful account of a stalled missing-person case, shaped by grief and a direct call for answers.
This piece keeps its focus on Melinda Lopez's disappearance in Newport, Washington, and that focus helps. The family grief comes through plainly, and the stalled state of the case gives the story real weight without leaning on decoration or overstatement.
A patient cold-case hour that gives equal weight to remembrance and investigation.
This episode treats the 1978 killing of 16-year-old Chrisanne Baxter as both a case and a life worth remembering. It gives Chrisanne Baxter room to feel real through family and friend memories before moving into the detective work that, after 45 years, led investigators to…
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.
This episode investigates the 1973 cold case murder of 25-year-old Archie Gonia, who was beaten and strangled in the Davenport Hotel in Spokane.
This episode of Help Me Hayley investigates the 1978 cold case murder of 16-year-old Chrisanne Baxter.
This episode investigates the 1996 cold case murder of 25-year-old Danielle Schenever, who was brutally beaten to death in her Spokane apartment.
This episode investigates the 1980 disappearance of 16-year-old Chris Jennings from the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Idaho.
This episode investigates the 1981 disappearance of 24-year-old nurse Kathy Rae Gregory in Spokane, Washington.
This episode investigates the 1997 murder of Margaret Ansemmo in Spokane, Washington, a case initially overshadowed by a serial killer investigation.
This episode investigates the disappearance of Melinda Lopez from Newport, Washington, who vanished in November 2020 after sending distressed messages.
This episode details the 39-year investigation into the murder of Ruth Bell Wehmeyer, a Jane Doe found dismembered in the Spokane River in 1984.
Help Me Hayley: Cold Case Files examines Patty Otto’s 1976 disappearance from Lewiston, Idaho, through the memories of her three-year-old daughter, Suzanne Timms.
Haley Gunther reports on Pullman home invasions and sexual assaults that occurred near Pioneer Hill between November 2003 and March 2004.
Help Me Hayley: Cold Case Files examines Deanna Criswell’s case after her murdered body was found in Tucson in 1987.
Haley Gunthner revisits the 1959 kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of nine-year-old Candace Rogers, a case Spokane investigators worked for 62 years.
Amanda Geyer describes Guy's unlocked work site, abandoned truck, missing keys, and every tool moved into another room.
Angel Dawn Wilson disappeared from Spokane, Washington, in August 2007 at age 17, and no confirmed contact followed.
Help Me Hayley: Cold Case Files returns to Kristen Davids, a 22-year-old University of Idaho senior last seen biking from Moscow to Lewiston on June 26, 1981.