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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.
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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…
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.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
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.
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's dogs appeared at a public kennel, while her cats and ferrets disappeared after her 2007 vanishing.
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.