The Fall Line®
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The Fall Line® is an investigative true crime podcast focused on cold cases, unsolved murders, and missing persons. We shine a light on what's been under-investigated, under-covered, or both — diving deep into unsolved homicides, disappearances, and unidentified John and Jane Does. Through interviews with law enforcement, forensic experts, victim advocates, and families, we investigate what happened and why these cases remain unsolved. We dig into current issues in forensic science, DNA evidence, and criminal justice — and confront the disparities that leave underrepresented victims, including those lost to serial killers, without headlines or justice. Every episode is victim-centered, not d…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Fall Line connects unresolved cases to the forensic practices, incomplete records, and investigative decisions that shape their prospects.
The Fall Line moves between case reporting and interview-led examinations of the systems around unresolved crimes. Lauren Orton asks how evidence is recorded, searched, and interpreted, giving forensic practice as much attention as investigative chronology.
A misspelled name can matter in a cold case; your inner copy editor may finally feel useful.
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A family search becomes a clear, careful account of the back-and-forth over Armani Dante Morgan's missing-person report.
The Fall Line's fourth episode of the season, and the second centered on Armani Dante Morgan, begins with the contours of his family life: a 27-year-old Dallas native from Oak Cliff, raised among relatives connected through school, sports, leadership clubs, and student…
A family-led search traces rumors, flyers, and uncertain park sightings in Pepita Redhair's disappearance.
Family members carry much of the search for Pepita Redhair in Part 2, moving through Albuquerque locations connected to her life as formal resources appear stretched.
A measured challenge to the genius-killer myth, grounded in apprehension data, shifting typologies, and one unsettling case.
Serial murder becomes less a showcase for criminal brilliance than a knot of evidence, definitions, and public myth in The Fall Line's second interview with Enzo Jaksic.
A careful family-centered account follows the uncertainty around Christian Boyle's death and its apparent tie to another murder.
The episode frames Christian Boyle's murder through the family life around him, then follows the unsettled account of what may have happened after he was picked up from work.
A data-minded interview that tests familiar serial-killer myths against marginalization, typologies, and changing violence.
Enzo Jaksic's single-episode interview approaches serial murder as a problem of data, assumptions, and shifting patterns of violence. As author of Killer Data, Modern Perspectives on Serial Murder and founder and director of the Atypical Homicide Research Group, he pushes past…
A careful New Mexico case study that gives family memory and unresolved questions room to breathe.
The episode returns to New Mexico and stays with Shauna Toya's death, drawing on Geraldine Toya's memories to give her shape as a daughter and traditional potter at the center of her family.
A grief-forward case file that traces a murder through family memory, fraud records, and courtroom fallout.
The episode starts with Eric Nellems and lets his life carry the weight before the case hardens around fraud and killing. It lingers on the parts that made him specific and known in Columbus, Georgia: a close family, a sister who saw him as a best friend, Army service, a son in…
A careful cold-case portrait that keeps the victim at the center.
This opening chapter in The Fall Line's latest season of U.S. cold cases favors the person over the case file, tracing Christian through family memory, home life, ambition, and the routines that made him feel present before everything changed.
Direct fuel for intentional living.
Cold cases, carried back into the light.
True crime built from the stubborn detail.
Cold cases worked on tape, one season at a time.
This two-part investigation returns to the unsolved killing of Catherine Katrina Mowry.
The Fall Line: True Crime centers on Armani Dante Morgan, a 27-year-old Dallas native whose remains were found near Bushman Park after he disappeared in June 2017.
This episode investigates the 2017 murder of 18-year-old Christian Boyle in Blount County, Alabama, exploring his disappearance, the discovery of his body, and his connection to another homicide he witnessed.
This episode investigates the 2021 disappearance of 22-year-old Bryan Vlad in Orlando, focusing on a trespass warning at Foxtail Coffee that may be linked to his vanishing.
A detailed investigation into the November 2021 disappearance of 22-year-old Brian Vladek-Hasel from Orlando, Florida.
This second episode of the season returns to New Mexico and opens a two part case about Shauna Toya's death in 2021.
The episode focuses on the disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little.
Rose Goodman’s death opens the case.
The episode focuses on recent terms-of-service changes at Ancestry.com and what they could mean for investigative genetic genealogy.
The episode returns to the killing of Rose Goodman, an 80-year-old Southwest Philadelphia mother and grandmother who was shot and killed in her home in September 2023.
The episode opens the latest season with Pepita Redhair's disappearance.
The Fall Line: True Crime revisits Christian Boyle, the 18-year-old from Cleveland, Alabama, whose disappearance on December 12, 2017 ended with his body found on Christmas Day in a wooded area off Cold Branch Road.
The episode follows Eric Nellems from family memory into the shooting investigation that ended his life.
The Fall Line's two-part update on the murders of Jackie Nguyen and Nut Phan centers on Top Perfect Nails in Birmingham, where Linda learned the pair had been found dead on December 26 or 27, 2010.
The Fall Line returns to Edgefield, South Carolina.
The Fall Line: True Crime episode "Killer Data: Serial Killers in the Modern Age, Part 2" centers on Enzo Jaksic’s argument that serial murder is rarer now and shaped by luck, policing, and reporting systems.
The Fall Line: True Crime focuses on the disappearance of 27-year-old Pepita Redhair, who was last seen in Albuquerque after living with Nicholas Kay on Clemente Court.
The Fall Line: True Crime episode "He Was Love: The Murder of Armani Dante Morgan" follows Armani Morgan, a 27-year-old Dallas native from Oak Cliff, through family support, bullying, and escalating violence tied to a secret relationship and a SNAP-for-cash scheme.
The Fall Line: True Crime traces the September 26, 2003 shooting death of 32-year-old Eric Nelams in Phoenix City, Alabama, a commuter town across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus, Georgia.
The Fall Line: True Crime covers the 1985 Dallas, Texas, death of 24-year-old Catherine “Katrina” Mowrey, whose body was found in the trunk of a blue Ford LTD in Oak Cliff.
Safe to Drink opens with Ben Pierce in Londonderry, New Hampshire, finding a pallet of about 2,700 gallons of water in his driveway after his family moved there in summer 2019.
A listener warning opens the episode.
The Fall Line: True Crime centers on Shawna Toya’s death in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a July 31, 2021 family birthday gathering at Main Event Entertainment Center and a late-night errand for a money order and milk.
It opens on missing persons, unsolved homicides, and unresolved deaths across the United States.
The Fall Line: True Crime centers this episode on Enzo Jaksic's book Killer Data, Modern Perspectives on Serial Murder, a Rutledge academic release tied to his work with the Murder Accountability Project.
A birthday party in suburban San Jose goes badly wrong.
This episode investigates the unsolved murder of Darren Gray in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 8, 2010.
A preview episode promoting another true crime podcast, discussing the 2006 disappearance of Jennifer Kessie.
The episode discusses the prevalence of scams in pop culture and previews a story about a woman who faked cancer and scammed friends and family.
The episode promotes a related show about conspiracy theories and crimes, using the JFK assassination as an example.
This episode re-releases a cold case about a double murder at a nail salon in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 27, 2010.
The episode re-releases a cold case investigation in Warner Robins, Georgia, discussing the city's background and the need for public leads.
This episode investigates the 1976 disappearance of Patricia Otto and connects it to a Jane Doe homicide case from 1978.
This episode introduces the 1976 disappearance of Patricia Otto, a young mother in Lewiston, Idaho, and the strained relationship with her estranged husband.
This episode continues the story of Robin Burton, an advocate for missing persons among unhoused communities, exploring her work and the challenges of these cases.
This episode investigates the work of Robin Burton, who searches for missing unhoused individuals and her own mother.