The Toll

["A Greene County Sheriff's Office letter saying there is no fraud case sits at the center of Nancy Simpson's reporting on Gypsy Rose Blanchard in The Toll's \"Main Character: A Gypsy Rose Blanchard Story.\"", "Simpson threads together FOIA requests, old emails, Facebook messages, police reports, and GPS coordinates while revisiting Gypsy's eight-year prison sentence after Nicholas Godejohn killed Dee Dee Blanchard in Springfield, Missouri.", "Neighbor Dominique Gabriela says the Blanchards lived a few houses away on West Volunteer Way, gave Christmas gifts and Fantastic Caverns passes, and seemed \"childlike\" and Disney-obsessed in public.", "The episode also points to records about the rare 1q21.1 microdeletion diagnosis, Gypsy's own statements about walking, and the question of whether the public story about Dee Dee matches the documents."]

A bonus episode for Season 2 of The Toll, where host Nancy Simpson reflects on the 30th anniversary of a father's death and includes intro lines from Jeanette Robbins about family secrets and tragedy.

The Toll bonus episode Trust Issues opens with Lisa Perrin's The League of Lady Poisoners and Nanny Doss, the Giggling Granny, whose death toll is described as likely 11 people.

A bonus episode exploring lingering questions about tainted salt shakers in a poisoning case from Season 2.

A bonus episode exploring the childhood of a woman whose father's chess obsession shaped her, as part of a series on a cold case murder.

The Toll's Episode 11, "Deep into the Jungle," follows Nancy Simpson as she rebuilds Jeanette's account of Jeannie Howard Spriggs and the poison-control case.

The Toll's 'Poison Control' ties Jeanette Robbins's family records, Dennis's journal, and Jeannie's letters to allegations of abuse, poisoning, and control.

The Toll's "Poison Control" follows Jeanette Robbins, a former sleep-disorder specialist, as she revisits the Holt Summit basement she says felt exactly like the childhood room that still lives in her body.

The Toll episode "Poison • Control | It Didn’t Hurt | 06" follows Nancy Simpson's investigation into Jeanette Robbins's family history and her father Dennis Spriggs's 1992 death.

The Toll episode “Poison • Control | Fruity Yummy Mummy” follows Nancy Simpson and Jeanette as they revisit Jeanette’s family history, including her father’s alleged abuse and a seven-hour interview.

The Toll's "The Family Picture" examines Jeannette's accounts of childhood trauma, including a remembered girl in a zipper bag at a Holt Summit house and her later return to its basement stairs.

Nancy Simpson uses FBI records released in March 2022 to examine why Dennis Spriggs’s name appears beside “serial killings” and “victim” in an unredacted document.

The Toll episode “Poison • Control | Vernon’s Pond | 04” examines Roy’s sudden neurological decline in 1998 through Mayo Clinic records, family testimony, and Jeannie’s changing explanations.

The Toll episode “Poison • Control | Friendly Journeys | 09” follows Jeanette's efforts to understand family deaths, including the 2008 exhumation of her father Dennis Spriggs in Missouri.

The Toll episode “Poison • Control | The Candy Man | 08” follows Nancy Simpson’s reporting on Jeanette’s memories of abuse and her investigation into Bruce Fulford’s illness and death.

The Toll’s “Poison • Control” follows journalist Nancy Simpson as she reconstructs Jeanette’s suspicions about illnesses and deaths surrounding her mother Jeannie.

Jeanette Robbins remembers a girl in a zipper bag in her childhood basement and later connects that memory to a decades-long search for missing girls in Missouri.

Nancy Simpson investigates how her mother married Terry Greenhaw, who was convicted of killing his 16-year-old pregnant first wife, Leanne Ayers Greenhall, in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, in 1974.

Nancy Simpson examines Gloria Barnes's 1997 disappearance from Joyner, Arkansas, after her body was found at a Springfield, Missouri, truck stop.

Nancy Simpson’s The Toll episode “Spotlight Series: Hearts for Gloria | 01” examines Gloria Jean Barnes’s 1997 murder after her body was found behind Springfield, Missouri’s Seven Gables truck stop on July 13, the day before her 36th birthday.

The Toll's "Spotlight Series: Unsettled | 02" examines the unresolved disappearance of Renee Williams and Sheriff Chris DeGays's case against Chris Revack.

The Toll episode "Spotlight Series: Unsettled | 01" examines Renee Williams's 2007 disappearance from the Eagle's Lodge in Ava, Missouri.

The Toll hosts Nancy Simpson and Jay Lashley question retired Seattle homicide detective Cloyd Steiger about Shirley Jane Rose's body position, likely abduction, and investigative gaps.

The Toll’s “The Path Back Home” examines theories surrounding the 1985 disappearance and killing of nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose in Springfield.

Nancy Simpson revisits the 1975 Springfield, Missouri, disappearance and murder of nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose, focusing on why Steve and Chris Fletcher remained subjects of community suspicion without charges.

The Toll’s “The Path Back Home | The Judge’s Letter | 03” examines the 1975 disappearance and murder of nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose in Springfield, Missouri.

The Toll follows Nancy Simpson and Cassie Mills as a road-trip conversation leads them to Shirley Jane Rose, a child whose reported haunting is connected to a former workplace on Scenic.

The Toll episode “The Path Back Home | Mrs.

Nancy Simpson investigates the unsolved 1975 murder of nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose near Springfield, Missouri, whose remains were found by Roy Shelton and Lawrence Thompson near McDaniel Lake.

The Toll examines the 1975 disappearance and death of nine-year-old Shirley Jane Rose in Springfield, Missouri, whose body was found in a shallow grave near McDaniel Lake on December 13.

The Toll episode “The Path Back Home | Déjà Vu | 07” connects the 2014 abduction and murder of ten-year-old Haley Owens in Springfield, Missouri, with the older disappearance of Shirley Jane Rose.