Episodes

  • In 2021, we brought you a then little-known story: the unsolved case of Leon Laureles, a beloved brother and uncle who was murdered on the side of a rural Texas highway. Since then, his case has become a focus for cold-case advocates—especially his own niece, Arlene. At every turn, Arlene has been frustrated in her search for answers, but that hasn’t stopped her. And in the past year, surprising new information has come to light.

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    JUSTICE FOR LEON: https://justiceforleon.com/

    You can also find Leon’s petition at the website!

    BOX IN THE BASEMENT PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/box-in-the-basement/id1723375430

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

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  • In our season finale, we speak with advocates from Light the Way about their work on cases of missing persons like Patty Otto, Maura Murray, Theresa Corley, and many more, plus discuss best ways to help with the cases you care about—and the possible pitfalls of advocacy.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

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    Follow Light the Way: https://www.lightthewaymissing.com/

    Follow Patty’s Voice: https://www.facebook.com/p/Pattys-Voice-100077422495262/

    Follow Finley Creek Jane Doe: https://www.facebook.com/finleycreekjanedoe/

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

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  • Our final episode exploring Patricia Otto’s 1976 disappearance, local law enforcement’s suspicions regarding her husband, and the possible intersection with another case: a Jane Doe homicide victim discovered just two hours away.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

    Go to DailyHarvest.com/FALL to get up to $30 off your first box + free shipping, for a limited time only.

    Follow Light the Way: https://www.lightthewaymissing.com/

    Follow Patty’s Voice: https://www.facebook.com/p/Pattys-Voice-100077422495262/

    Follow Finley Creek Jane Doe: https://www.facebook.com/finleycreekjanedoe/

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

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  • We continue our coverage of Patricia Otto’s 1976 disappearance, local law enforcement’s suspicions regarding her husband, and the possible intersection with another case: a Jane Doe homicide victim discovered just two hours away.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

    Go to DailyHarvest.com/FALL to get up to $30 off your first box + free shipping, for a limited time only.

    Head to factormeals.com/fall50 and use code fall50 to get 50% off!

    Follow Light the Way: https://www.lightthewaymissing.com/

    Follow Patty’s Voice: https://www.facebook.com/p/Pattys-Voice-100077422495262/

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

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  • After her mother’s mysterious, late-night disappearance one August night in 1976, an Idaho-born woman must unpack her early childhood memories, local law enforcement’s suspicions regarding her own father, and the possible intersection with another case: a Jane Doe homicide victim discovered just two hours away.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

    Go to DailyHarvest.com/FALL to get up to $30 off your first box + free shipping, for a limited time only.

    Follow Light the Way: https://www.lightthewaymissing.com/

    Follow Patty’s Voice: https://www.facebook.com/p/Pattys-Voice-100077422495262/

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

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  • The second in a two-part series covering one daughter’s search for her mother, how she became an advocate for missing persons in unhoused communities, and the intertwined stories of their childhoods; with all she knows about her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells, Robin believes that she could truly be anywhere. After all—she’s gotten proof once.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

    Head to factormeals.com/fall50 and use code fall50 to get 50% off!

    Follow Robin’s Search: Missing Cloudia Leslie Wells and Support and Follow: :Missing and Homeless

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2024 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • The first in a two-part series covering one daughter’s search for her mother, how she became an advocate for missing persons in unhoused communities, and the intertwined stories of their childhoods; with all she knows about her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells, Robin believes that she could truly be anywhere. After all—she’s gotten proof once.

    Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

    Go to DailyHarvest.com/FALL to get up to $30 off your first box + free shipping, for a limited time only.

    Follow Robin’s Search: Missing Cloudia Leslie Wells and Support and Follow: Missing and Homeless

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2024 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheikh Mohammed’s family keep trying to run away? The New Yorker staff writer Heidi Blake joins In the Dark’s Madeleine Baran to tell the story of the royal women who risked everything to flee the brutality of one of the world’s most powerful men. In four episodes, drawing on thousands of pages of secret correspondence and never-before-heard audio recordings, “The Runaway Princesses” takes listeners behind palace walls, revealing a story of astonishing courage and cruelty.


    “The Runaway Princesses” is a four-part narrative series from In the Dark and The New Yorker. To keep listening, follow In the Dark wherever you get your podcasts.

  • Listeners: We're excited to share news about a new show that we think you'll love.

    Media Pressure Season One: The Untold Story of Maura Murray premieres on Monday, February 5th, 2024. Follow now in your favorite podcast player to be the first to hear new episodes: https://link.chtbl.com/RtW5rK0P

    For more information about the show and the case of Maura Murray, visit MediaPressure.com or MauraMurrayMissing.org.

  • In our midseason episode, we update you on the case of Leona LeClair Kinsey, and feature new information from her daughter, Carolyn DeFord—who believes it is vital that these facts reach the widest audience possible. You’ll also meet several key players in our upcoming season, Missing Mothers, which begins February 7th.

    Go to DailyHarvest.com/FALL to get up to $65 off your first box + free shipping, for a limited time only.

    Our previous, three-part series with Carolyn:

    Part 1: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/27329394

    Part 2: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/27329391

    Part 3: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/27329388

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2024 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • Laurah is sick; apologies for hoarseness.

    The last five episodes have presented more than 20 cold cases in desperate need of resolution. For many, the only chance will come through FIGG—DNA testing and forensic investigative genetic genealogy.

    This episode, we move beyond our Nashville Does coverage to speak with Redgrave Research about how some of the most difficult cases are solved, and about their successful work resolving a case with Laurah—one tied to both Tennessee and Illinois.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

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    Redgrave Research: https://redgraveresearch.com/

    TDTF: https://transdoetaskforce.org/

    Our episode on the LAMMP database: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/episodes/2021/5/26/mapping-lgbtq-missing-and-murdered-lammp

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • Laurah is sick; apologies for hoarseness.

    Episode 5 presents the most difficult cases in MNPD’s files: cases limited to a single element, or bone, dead-ended by clues that led nowhere, or, in the case of the River Road John Doe, where the decedent’s remains are no longer available—that’s why we need your help to try and match him with a missing person, based on the clues we have, and the ones we have uncovered.

    Season 16 of The Fall Line takes on our most in-depth John and Jane Doe coverage yet: 22 files from MNPD’s cold-case unit, all covering the metro area’s unidentified decedents. More than ever, your help is needed to spread the word about each of the cases featured this season, and if you have any information—please, contact MNPD at 615-862-7803.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

    TRY PELOTON NOW: for Peloton’s best offer of the season, head to onepeloton.com/deals

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • From Wondery, and hosted by Laura Beil - The new season of Dr. Death, BAD MAGIC is a story of miraculous cures, magic and murder.

    When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of researchers makes a startling discovery, they begin to suspect the brilliant doctor is hiding a secret.

    You can listen to Dr. Death: Bad Magic exclusively and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.

    https://wondery.app.link/DRDS2_FL

  • Laurah is sick; apologies for any hoarseness this episode.

    Episode Four covers the cases of four John and Jane Doe victims who, despite being discovered minutes or hours after death—and while still recognizable—have remained unidentified. In two of those cases, we reached out to forensic artist Carl Koppelman to try and help improve the chances of reconnecting the victims with their identities.

    Season 16 of The Fall Line takes on our most in-depth John and Jane Doe coverage yet: 22 files from MNPD’s cold-case unit, all covering the metro area’s unidentified decedents. More than ever, your help is needed to spread the word about each of the cases featured this season, and if you have any information—please, contact MNPD at 615-862-7803.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

    TRY PELOTON NOW: for Peloton’s best offer of the season, head to onepeloton.com/deals

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • In Episode Three, we cover three of the rarest kinds of Doe cases: killers are known, but their victims remain unidentified. In episode three, two Jane Does are the victims of one killer—and another confession comes from the unlikeliest place-- a nursing home.

    Season 16 of The Fall Line takes on our most in-depth John and Jane Doe coverage yet: 22 files from MNPD’s cold-case unit, all covering the metro area’s unidentified decedents. More than ever, your help is needed to spread the word about each of the cases featured this season, and if you have any information—please, contact MNPD at 615-862-7803.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

    TRY PELOTON NOW: for Peloton’s best offer of the season, head to onepeloton.com/deals

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • Season 16 of The Fall Line takes on our most in-depth John and Jane Doe coverage yet: 22 files from MNPD’s cold-case unit, all covering the metro area’s unidentified decedents. More than ever, your help is needed to spread the word about each of the cases featured this season, and if you have any information—please, contact MNPD at 615-862-7803.

    Episode Two covers the cases of eight John Does, many of whom are believed to have been unhoused at the times of their deaths; at least two of these unidentified decedents may be homicide victims, and that number could be higher. But all of the people whose cases are covered in this episode are lost, in that they have been disconnected from their identities, and thus their loved ones—whether they were missing in the months before their deaths, or for much longer.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

    Orchard Jane Doe NamUs: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/UP99760

    TRY PELOTON NOW: for Peloton’s best offer of the season, head to onepeloton.com/offers

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • Season 16 of The Fall Line takes on our most in-depth John and Jane Doe coverage yet: 22 files from MNPD’s cold-case unit, all covering the metro area’s unidentified decedents. More than ever, your help is needed to spread the word about each of the cases featured this season, and if you have any information—please, contact MNPD at 615-862-7803.

    Episode one covers the cases of two young Jane Does found at opposite ends of town, just a few years apart; what ties them together is that in each case, someone—someone who knew what happened to them—hid their bodies after death.

    Flyers for the season will be posted under “news” on our website and on our social media.

    Orchard Jane Doe NamUs: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/UP99760

    TRY PELOTON NOW: for Peloton’s best offer of the season, head to onepeloton.com/offers

    Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

  • Unsafe Spaces is a serialized podcast that explores crimes that corrupt and exploit the places we’re meant to feel the safest; be it our churches, the gay community, or even our own homes. The first season, Tampa’s Missing Men, focuses on a series of disappearances and murders within Tampa’s gay community, and possibly beyond—and the two gay men who were committing some of Florida’s most heinous crimes with shocking impunity.

    From creator Josh Hallmark comes season one of Unsafe Spaces: Tampa’s Missing Men. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

  • Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife’s great grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered – killed by two gunshots to the face. Could there be a connection? Tristan decides to investigate and soon finds himself where no son-in-law should ever be: delving deep into his wife’s family history asking questions no-one wants answered.

    Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios present Ghost Story — a seven-part podcast series about family secrets, overwhelming coincidence, and the things that come back to haunt us.

    Follow Ghost Story on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes of Ghost Story ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus. Listen now: Wondery.fm/GS_TFL

  • In November of 2020, Derrick “Tank” Evans, Jr. disappeared, in the middle of the day, from his Valdosta, GA apartment—in the middle of what his family describes as vital treatment for cancer.

    Our midseason episode highlights Derrick’s disappearance and his mother, Tamara’s difficulty in attracting attention and support —and she needs the support of our listeners to get his story out to a larger audience. Please, follow her FB page and share his missing-persons poster, and request that the Valdosta media feature Derrick’s story.

    Listen to the Amazon Exclusive, MR. BALLEN PODCAST: STRANGE, DARK & MYSTERIOUS STORIES, in the Amazon Music App. Download the app today.

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    Tamara’s page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064164754011

    Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST & use code LAYTHEMTOREST for 20% off; scroll to the bottom to enter your receipt for pre-order purchases at any retailer to receive your pre-order bonuses of an exclusive podcast episode and access to a Zoom hangout:

    https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

    Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources

    Join us on Patreon to fund therapy initiatives: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast

    We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine

    2023 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC