Hell and Gone

Hell And Gone is a true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and School of Humans that follows journalist and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths.  Now in its fifth season, Hell and Gone is going weekly.  Over the past five years of making true crime podcast Hell and Gone, host Catherine Townsend has received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that’s affected them, their families and their communities.  In past seasons of the show, she’s only been able to focus on one case. But now, she’s hosting a new weekly show called Hell and Gone Murder Line. Every Thursday, Catherine features a new case, adds updates to old ones, and helps as much as she can to get the word out about unsolved murders.  If you have a case you’d like Catherine and her team to look into, you can call the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. 

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 34m. Bisher sind 84 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 15 hours 37 minutes

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episode 28: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Gail Vaught

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On the morning of Friday, October 17, 1980, a man was on his way to work, driving his truck down Highway 16 that runs between Siloam Springs, Arkansas near the Oklahoma border through the Ozark National Forest near Searcy when he saw something out of the corner of his eye down a small dirt road.

It looked like a person lying in the road...


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episode 27: Hell and Gone Murder Line: John Forsyth

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On May 21, 2023, Dr. John Forsyth, a 49-year-old ER doctor, was due to work the evening shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Missouri. He had already worked the overnight shift the day before and finished up at 7 am. After that he went to crash for a few hours before starting his next shift that night. 

This was a normal day for John. He had a habit of pulling long shifts and working between 80 and 100 hours per week...


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episode 26: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Justin Gaines

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It was Thursday night, November 1, 2007, and 18-year-old Justin Gaines was getting ready for a night out with his friends at Wild Bill’s, a club in Duluth, Georgia.  

Justin was a freshman in college. He had just started at Gainesville State college, which was about an hour away from where his family was. Justin was 5 '11, 210 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair in a buzz cut. He was a handsome, clean cut, preppy guy...


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episode 25: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Cassie Compton

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On the evening of Sunday, September 14, 2014, 15-year-old Cassie Kay Compton went out for a pack of cigarettes down the road from her small white house in Stuttgart, Arkansas...and never came back. At least that’s the official story. 

We know a few things for sure: Cassie had been spending the weekend with a friend of hers named Hunter, and Cassie slept over there on Saturday night.  

Hunter’s mother has said that this was not out of the ordinary...


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episode 24: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Audrii Cunningham

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On February 15, 2024, 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, a fifth grade student at Creekside Elementary in Livingstone, Texas, never made it to the bus stop.  And when she didn’t come home after school, her family knew that something was very wrong.

Audrii lived with her dad, and on that property, there was someone else living there: a 42-year-old friend of the family’s who lived in a camper...


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episode 23: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 2

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This episode continues the investigation into the disappearance of Ieshia Jackson. 

It was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia was getting ready to go to a party. She lived in El Dorado, Arkansas just a short distance away from her mother, her younger brother, and the rest of her family, but because she had had a couple of break-ins at her new home, she was staying at her uncle’s.

Ieshia and her mother were very close and normally spoke a few times per day...


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 February 22, 2024  39m
 
 

episode 22: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Ieshia Jackson Part 1

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It was Halloween night 2020, and 22-year-old Ieshia Jackson was getting ready to go to a party. She lived in El Dorado, Arkansas just a short distance away from her mother, her younger brother, and the rest of her family, but because she had had a couple of break-ins at her new home, she was staying at her uncle’s.

Ieshia and her mother were very close and normally spoke a few times per day. So by November 2, 2020 when Laquita had not heard from her daughter, she was getting worried...


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 February 15, 2024  37m
 
 

episode 21: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 2

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Catherine continues her investigation into the disappearance of Jason Lierl.

In January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas when he disappeared off the face of the earth. 

Jason was last seen in Madison County, Arkansas. His abandoned car was found in the parking lot of a mall in Fayetteville, Arkansas...


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 February 8, 2024  43m
 
 

episode 20: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Jason Lierl Part 1

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In January of 2022, Jason Lierl was visiting friends in Madison County Arkansas when he disappeared off the face of the earth. 

Jason was last seen in Madison County, Arkansas. His abandoned car was found in the parking lot of a mall in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 

His car keys, motorcycle and other belongings were found in different places, spread across Arkansas and Missouri  - but to this day, no trace of Jason has ever been found...


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 February 1, 2024  40m
 
 

episode 19: Hell and Gone Murder Line: Billie Jean Phillips Part 2

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Sometime between the evening of September 2 in the early morning hours of September 3, 1994, 35-year-old Billie Jean Phillips was brutally beaten to death at her home in Alabam, Arkansas.

The case soon became the biggest story in Madison County, and there was a long list of potential suspects. 

But in 2002, there was an arrest in the Billie Jean Phillips murder case. One that would shock the community. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


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 January 25, 2024  32m