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Hi listeners, it's Vanessa Richardson. Real quick, before today's episode, I want to tell you about another show from Crime House that I know you'll love. America's Most Infamous Crimes. Hosted by Katie Ring. Each week Katie takes on one of the most notorious criminal cases in American history. Serial killers who terrorized cities, unsolved mysteries that keep detectives up at night, and investigations that change the way we think about justice. Listen to and follow America's Most Infamous crimes Tuesday through Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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This is Crime House.
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Good morning everyone. We have multiple breaking true crime cases this morning that you need to know about and we're starting with the biggest one. An award winning chef at the University of Amherst has been charged with beating his wife to death inside a hotel room on campus and after the murder, he allegedly attacked the officers who responded to the scene. This is crime house 24 7, your non stop source for the biggest crime cases developing right now. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Podcasts I'm Vanessa Richardson and we have quite a lineup for you today. Here's what you need to know. Lately I've been trying to take the stress out of getting dressed. Just focusing on pieces that feel easy, comfortable and still put together without a lot of effort. That's really what's been pulling me toward quints. Their stuff just fits that effortless everyday vibe. I love their fabrics, linens, cottons, cashmere. They're all the highest quality and they feel so good. 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Quint.com crime house 247 the evening of April 22 started as a normal night on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst by the time it was over, a woman was dead inside a campus hotel room, her husband was in custody and the university's celebrated dining program had lost one of its most recognized chefs. That woman was 31 year old Emma McDonald and on Thursday morning her husband, 36 year old Jeffrey C. McDonald, stood before a judge and pleaded not guilty to her murder. At 7:42pm on Wednesday, UMass Amherst campus police received a 911 call reporting an emergency taking place inside room 413 at Hotel UMass, the campus's own hotel located on the university grounds. When officers made their way to room 413, they found 31 year old Emma McDonald dead with significant injuries and her husband, 36 year old Jeffrey McDonald of Wilbraham, was at the scene. According to police. When officers arrived, Jeffrey McDonald attacked them. According to a statement of facts compiled by UMass Amherst Police Lt. James Sullivan, a violent struggle broke out. McDonald allegedly threw objects at the officers and struck one UMass police officer in the face multiple times, which led to the second charge he would face the following morning, assault and battery on a police officer. Sullivan noted in his report that given the significant nature of the female's injuries, it seemed apparent to investigators that her injuries had resulted from a violent assault. The police report filed in Eastern Hampshire District Court lays out what happened after McDonald was taken into custody after being read Miranda rights. He admitted that he had intentionally beaten his wife to death using his hands, feet and what police described as a variety of other objects, and that it was his intent to kill her. On Thursday morning, Jeffrey McDonald was arraigned in Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown, Massachusetts and pleaded not guilty to both charges, first degree murder and assault and battery on a police officer. Judge Rebecca Michaels ordered him held without bail. The judge also granted a request from McDonald's court appointed Attorney Jonah Goldsmith to order an evaluation of McDonald's competency to stand trial. This was not the first time concerns about Jeffrey McDonald had surfaced. Nineteen months before Wednesday night's killing, a woman who shares two children with him, now 9 and 11, filed a request in Hamden Probate and Family Court to suspend his shared custody, alleging that the children had been reporting verbal and physical abuse abuse by their father. A judge denied that request. Jeffrey McDonald had been named Chef of the Year by the American culinary federation just nine months ago. Both Jeffrey and Emma McDonald were employees of UMass Amherst. According to the Northwestern District Attorney's office, Jeffrey McDonald worked for UMass Dining, the university's nationally recognized dining program. And he was not just any chef As I mentioned, last year the American Culinary Federation named him Chef of the Year. The university marked the occasion with a public announcement calling it, quote, a testament to McDonald's talent, leadership and commitment to advancing the culinary profession, end quote. The award placed him among the most recognized figures in collegiate dining in the country. The university has not publicly specified Emma McDonald's role at the school. UMass Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes sent a message to the campus community Thursday morning. Before the names of the victim and suspect had been publicly released. Reyes wrote, quote, it is with deep sadness that I share that last night the University of Massachusetts Police Department and the Northwestern District Attorney's Office responded to a suspected homicide of a UMass Amherst staff member. I want to acknowledge that this is heartbreaking and deeply unsettling news for our campus. Our thoughts are with those affected, including the families, friends and colleagues of the individuals involved, end quote. He confirmed there was no ongoing threat to the campus or community. The investigation remains active. The UMass Amherst Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Northwestern District Attorney's Office and the Massachusetts Crime Scene Services Section are all involved. The official cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Chief medical examiner. Jeffrey McDonald remains in custody without bail and his next court date, a probable cause hearing is scheduled for later in May from a campus community in mourning in Massachusetts. We go to Baltimore County, Maryland, where a cold case that has haunted a family for nearly a quarter century finally has an arrest. July 20, 2002 was supposed to be a happy day for the Rust family. The day before a little boy's third birthday, his mother, 24 year old Michelle Rust, left her home in the 1800 block of Clark Boulevard in Arbutus, Maryland, just outside Baltimore. Around 9:30 in the morning, her husband, Dwight Rust, told police she had gone to the store to pick up supplies for the party and that she never came back. And for 24 years that was essentially where the case stalled. Then on Tuesday, April 21, the waiting ended. And nearly 24 years to the month after Michelle disappeared, her husband, Dwight David Rust was arrested. He is 48 years old now. According to a news release from the Baltimore County Police Department, a grand jury had indicted indicted him the day before on a charge of first degree murder in connection to her disappearance. But the indictment is currently sealed. A judge has ordered him to be held without bail. From the very beginning, the story Dwight Russ told police had problems. While he said Michelle had left the house in the family's green 1998 Dodge Caravan to go to the store, investigators interviewed Witnesses who said they never saw her leave the house or drive her vehicle that morning. Later that same day, Michelle's father in law discovered her van abandoned on the 2400 block of Zion Road in Lansdown, about four miles from the family home. The key was broken off in the driver's side door lock. Michelle was nowhere to be found. Her body, her clothing and her jewelry were never recovered. Investigators quickly identified red flags. There was no activity on Michelle's bank accounts after she disappeared. No checks written, no credit card use. Her family was unequivocal. She was a dedicated mother who would not have walked away from her son, especially the day before his birthday. She was also diabetic and needed insulin. Police said that she was last seen in a black V neck shirt, a princess cut sapphire ring, a diamond engagement ring, and a white gold cross necklace with diamonds. Corporal Dona Carter of the Baltimore County Criminal Investigations Bureau said she was a, quote, dedicated mother and daughter. She wouldn't have just disappeared on her own. She, she continued that it was, quote, pretty evident that she was the victim of foul play, end quote. The case went cold. For years it Sat. Then, in 2023, Baltimore County Police returned to the home and used ground penetrating radar to search for new evidence, including possible disturbances in the backyard. They searched neighboring homes and other locations in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. The renewed investigation was painstaking, but it eventually led somewhere. At this week's bail review hearing, prosecutors revealed what they believe was the motive. An affair. Assistant Attorney General J.C. shekels told the court that Dwight Rust had been having an affair with another woman in 2002, and that at the time of Michelle's disappearance, he was actively taking steps to start a new life with her. According to prosecutors, Rust had planned to tell Michelle on their son's birthday that he wanted a divorce. Michelle's parents were the last people to see her alive the night before she disappeared. Prosecutors also alleged that Rust disposed of Michelle's body in a way that it would not be found and argued that if given bail, he would intimidate witnesses in his own neighborhood. Baltimore County District court judge Kristen Richardson agreed and denied bail. Dwight Russ. Defense attorney Jeremy Eldridge pushed back. He argued outside the courthouse that his client should have been released on home detention, Calling the outcome a, quote, unquote travesty. Eldridge noted there's no prior history of domestic violence, no allegations that Dwight Rust ever threatened his wife or caused her physical harm, and that his client and his family had been cooperative with authorities throughout the investigation. Eldridge said, quote, if the motive Is Dwight Rust Jr. Having an affair? You need more than that. End quote. Michelle Rust has never been found. As that case moves through the courts in Maryland, we stay in the world of cold cases and head to the Bronx, New York where a suspect has just been arrested for a double murder that happened 33 years ago in front of a 3 year old child. For a lot of people, the hardest part about weight loss isn't getting started. It's finding something that works and lasts. 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think about some of the cases that defined true crime in America. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, the Karen retrial. Some crime cases are so shocking they don't just make headlines, they forever change a country. I'm Katie Ring, host of America's Most Infamous Crimes. Each week I take on one of the most notorious criminal cases. Whether it's unfolding now or etched into American history, revealing not just what happened, but how it forever changed our society. Serial killers who terrorized cities. Unsolved mysteries that kept detectives up at night.
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And investigations that change the way we think about justice. Each case unfolds across multiple episodes, released every Tuesday through Thursday, from the first sign that something was wrong to the moment the truth came out or didn't. These are the stories behind the headlines. Listen to and follow America's Most Infamous Crimes available now wherever you get your
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on June 21, 1993, inside an apartment on Nelson Avenue in the Bronx, two people were bound, shot in the head and and Left dead. Their 3 year old child was in the room for more than three decades. The case went unsolved until last Wednesday when federal agents made an arrest in Tampa, Florida. The victims were Luis Guerrero and his wife Dennis Seam. According to prosecutors, the couple was targeted in what was a planned robbery. Guerrero was bound first. Then according to charging documents, the killers tricked Seam into coming into the apartment and bound her as well. Both were shot in the head in what officials and contemporaneous reporting described as an execution style killing. Their three year old child witnessed it all. On Wednesday, April 22nd, Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested 62 year old William Antonio Solis in Tampa, Florida. Solis, also known by the street name Begano and La Vega, had allegedly spent more than three decades hiding in plain sight more than a thousand miles from the Bronx. According to the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Solis was not identified as a suspect last year. Investigators connected him to fingerprints recovered from duct tape at the scene back in 1993. He's charged with murder while engaged in a narcotics conspiracy involving 5kg or more of cocaine. At the time, police were investigating a possible drug connection to the killings and narcotics were recovered from locations tied to the victims. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch did not mince words. Words she said, quote the defendant in this case allegedly executed two New Yorkers in cold blood over 30 years ago right in front of their three year old child. Today's indictment sends a clear message. The NYPD will always work to make sure criminals are held accountable, no matter how long it takes or how far they may run. End quote. Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Alfonso added. Quote, as alleged, William Solis spent decades hiding in plain sight more than a thousand miles from where he viciously murdered the GOs in front of their young child. End quote Neighbors who spoke to reporters at the time of the killings described the couple as quiet, nice people who never bothered anyone. Solis is in federal custody and will face charges in the Southern District of New York. From New York, we go west to Chula Vista, California where another cold case fugitive was found and arrested this week wanted for the death of a a three year old boy who was shot while sleeping next to his baby sister. And on Wednesday, April 22, the San Diego Fugitive Task Force working with the U.S. marshal Service announced the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 2022 shooting death of a toddler in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The victim was Devin Page Jr. Just 3 years old, who was asleep in his home on the night of 4-12-20 beside his one year old sister. A shootout erupted in the street outside. More than 30 bullet holes were found in the exterior of the home and a stray bullet struck Devin in the head. He did not survive. According to the U. S. Marshal Service, the family had been trying to relocate because of ongoing violence in the area. They never got the chance. Jaden Jamar Davis, wanted by the Baton Rouge Police Department on suspicion of a first degree murder charge, had been a fugitive since the 2022 shooting. On Saturday, April 18, the Middle Louisiana Fugitive Task Force received an active arrest warrant and began working to locate him. Through investigative efforts, task force members determined Davis was staying at an apartment in the 1900 block of Stylus street in Chula Vista. On Monday, April 20, the San Diego Fugitive Task Force located and apprehended him without incident. He's now in custody pending extradition to Louisiana. Davis age was not immediately made available. Notably, reporting from Baton Rouge television station WAFB indicates that authorities linked a Glock used in the shootout that killed Devin to two other shootings, one of them fatal. The District attorney has said he plans to charge Davis as an adult, suggesting Davis may have been a juvenile at the time of the shooting in 2022. Baton Rouge Police Chief Thomas Morse said he personally visited the family the evening after the arrest, four years after Devin was killed. To share the news. He said he went to bring them, in his words, a start of closure and a small sense of relief.
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In the suburbs of D.C. a woman fails to show up for work and is found brutally murdered.
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911 which emergency.
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We just walked in the door and there's blood in the foil here.
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For the next two decades, the case
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remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible.
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A new series from ABC Audio in 2020, blood and water. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, before I let you go, you know we can't end without giving you a little something extra. Over on the final Hours Today, Sarah and Courtney are diving into the case of Leah Roberts. In March 2000, 23 year old Leah Roberts left her North Carolina apartment in the middle of the night, drove nearly 3,000 miles alone and stopped at an Oregon gas station where security cameras caught her glancing back at the parking lot. Five days later, her white Jeep Cherokee was found wrecked at the bottom of a ravine. In Washington state. Investigators discovered the engine had been deliberately tampered with. 25 years later, no one knows what happened after she walked out of a Bellingham restaurant. Trust me, you're going to want to hear this one. We grabbed a clip from today's episode. Take a listen and if you like the episode, don't forget to follow the final hours
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It's March of 2000. 23 year old Leah Roberts has spent her entire life in what North Carolina locals called the Research Triangle, an area that includes the cities of Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. Currently she's living in Raleigh in an apartment off campus at North Carolina State University where she's been studying. Leah's known for being a good friend, creative thinker and a free spirit. She moves through the world with an artist's eye as a photographer, a poet and an amateur guitar player. She also loves listening to live music, smoking cigarettes, cuddling her cat Bee and reading Jack Kerouac. Leah's sweet, easygoing personality puts people at ease the moment they meet her. That's how she landed a close knit group of friends at NC State where she enrolled to study anthropology and Spanish. Leah can often be found in a local coffee shop called Cuppa Joe. The baristas call her Double Cap Girl since she orders a double cappuccino every morning. She used to spend her days studying there, but lately she's only journaling and re reading Kerouac novels because for reasons unclear to her family and friends, Leah dropped out of college just a few weeks ago. It's an odd choice considering she was about to graduate in May, but maybe it's because the last few years haven't been kind to Leah. She survived things that would be difficult for most people to navigate. Her childhood, fortunately, was stable and happy. She grew up in Durham, about 15 miles from NC State. She always got along well with her older siblings, Heath and Kara, and they were all still close with their parents, Nancy and stansel. But in 1994, that stability started to crack. When Leah was 17 years old, Stancil was diagnosed with a life threatening respiratory disease. As he fought through his illness, the family rallied around him. They were so focused on watching over Stancil that none of them saw their mother Nancy's health deteriorating as well. Then in February of 1997, just as Leah was finding her footing at NC State, her mother died from heart disease. Leah was 20 years old. She had just watched her father's health begin to fail and now her mother was gone. Her life had been changed forever.
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Leah took some time off from school after losing her mother, but True to form, she picked herself back up and returned to NC State in the fall of 1998. Then, almost immediately afterwards, the universe dealt her another blow. While Leah was driving, a truck pulled out right in front of her, and she couldn't stop until time. The accident left Leah with a punctured lung and a shattered femur. Surgeons implanted a metal rod in her leg to help it heal. She later told her sister Cara that in the moments just before the crash, she felt like she was going to die. But she didn't. And when she came out the other side, she felt the need to live life to its fullest.
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And that renewed energy took her places. In the spring of 1999, she did a semester abroad in Spain, a perfect location to further her education in Spanish and anthropology. Then, bitten by the travel bug, Leah signed up for a field study program in Costa Rica over the summer. But then, In March of 1999, her father's condition worsened. When Stancil was hospitalized, Leah took another break from college to spend time with him. Less than a month later, Stansil Roberts passed away. At just 22 years old, Leah was now an orphan.
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What happened next says a lot about who Leah was. Three weeks after her dad's passing, Leah was scheduled to leave for that field study program in Costa Rica. Most people would have canceled, but Leah decided to continue with her plan. Friends who visited her over the summer were a bit confused by her decision to still go on her trip. She didn't seem to be grieving the loss of her father in the way they imagined she would. But rather than shutting down, as one might expect, Leah was opening up. She seemed to be searching for a new way to live her life, one that was unique from the way everyone else lived theirs.
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I feel like everybody grieves differently, and sometimes these major losses, especially when you have two so close together, they can kind of have this delayed effect sometimes. I mean, long story short, everybody's different. And as long as you're not hurting yourself or others, I think that there's really no wrong way to grieve.
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Yeah, I 100 agree. There really is no right or wrong way. And honestly, I feel like Leah's choice of, like, wanting to, like, reinvent herself, I feel like that's something to admire, you know, instead of, like, shutting down. There's nothing wrong with that either. I just feel like it's a.
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It's a good way, you know, like you said, as long as you're not hurting anybody, it's a kind of a good way to, like, look forward to something in the midst of losing both of your parents and going through just such a horrific car accident as well?
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Yeah, absolutely. And, I mean, sometimes when you lose someone, I feel like it compels you to, like, live life even harder, right. To travel more, to do the thing you've always been putting off. I think sometimes it just teaches you, like, how precious life really is and makes you want to live it to the fullest. Right. And again, I think both of us are saying, like, you know, as long as there's no harm done, there's no wrong way to grieve.
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Leah returned to North Carolina in the fall of 1999 and kept working toward her degree in anthropology in Spanish. Her studies abroad were part of her program, but they didn't offer the same amount of credits that staying on campus would. That meant that Leah had to hustle if she wanted to graduate on time the next year, but she seemed ready to work hard and make up for lost time.
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However, In February of 2000, Leah mysteriously dropped out of school again. Her siblings tried to reason with her. Keith remembers telling her just to tough it out for six more months. But Leah didn't want to hear it. She didn't see why a degree had to stand between her and the rest of her life. She was still searching for a way to live differently, one that would feed her soul more than her mind. That's when Leah also started to pull away from her core group of friends. She spent all her time at Cuppa Joe making new connections. One of them was a woman named Janine Quiller, who bonded with Leah over Jack Kerouac's novel the Dharma Bums.
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In the book, the main character, loosely based on Kerouac himself, heads out to Washington state to spend time on Desolation Peak in the Cascade Mountains. Leah talked with Janine about her desire to head west to follow in Kerouac's footsteps and spend time alone in the mountains. Learning about herself, she started talking about taking a road trip, not just to Janine, but to her roommate Nicole as well. She even asked Nicole if she wanted to come along, but Nicole was busy working. She didn't have the money to just pick up and go.
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But Leah could. She had no job, no classes, and she had inherited some money from her parents. So she decided to go alone.
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I feel like traveling alone, especially cross country as a woman, is a really, really scary and big thing to do, and I feel like it shouldn't be, which is also infuriating.
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No, I totally agree. I recently just started Doing solo trips with my dogs, not completely solo. And it was terrifying at first. Especially my first one. I like, over prepared. I brought all the things I had, the door locks, like I was ready to go. And it's still scary.
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It's scary because I feel like there are definitely predators out there that could target women who are traveling alone. And I feel like it's easy to do that because you're in an unfamiliar place. You don't have anybody with you that could help if something goes wrong. And then especially in this case, where it took place in 2000, like, this is before smartphones. So Leah didn't really have that ability to, like, share her location in real time.
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Right. But, you know, I think as a solo female traveler, right, you can prepare for, like, your car breaking down, you know, for any incident like that and pretty much like, get away with it. But what you, you can't prepare for is somebody watching you, somebody deciding that you're their next target. I think that's the scary part of travel. I'm not afraid of my car breaking down. I'm afraid of somebody seeing that I'm alone and taking advantage of that and trying to hurt me. And unfortunately, I don't think that that danger has gotten better or changed much over time, especially since, you know, Leah went missing.
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You could even be, like, surrounded by a bunch of, like, strangers on your trip that appear really, really nice, like Good Samaritans. But I personally have never taken, like, a solo road trip before. I don't know if I ever would. I feel like part of me, like, really wants to. It's, like, liberating. But another huge part of me is, like, so scared to do that.
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That's what happened to me. I was like, no. Like, I don't know if it's worth the risk. And then this other part of me was like, no, that's exactly why I'm going to do it, because I shouldn't be afraid. Well, let me say I should have a healthy amount of fear without it stopping me from doing what I want to do, like taking a road trip like anybody else.
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So adding to the frustration, Leah doesn't tell anybody that she's planning to travel. So when Thursday, March 9, 2000, rolls around, her friends and family don't suspect that anything is awry. Leah and Cara chat on the phone as they often do, not about anything in particular. The sisters just catch up. Leah casually mentions that she's available to hang out that weekend if Kara is too. Then Leah makes plans with her roommate Nicole, to babysit together for a neighbor the following day. Day When Nicole gets home from work that night, Leah isn't there. Nor is her 1993 white Jeep Cherokee or her cat Bea. But that's not unusual with their busy, ever changing schedules. The roommates often go days without seeing each other, and Bea is often somewhere in hiding. But the next day, March 10, Nicole shows up for their babysitting gig while Leah does not. Nicole isn't worried, she's just disappointed. She figures that Leah forgot about their plans or found something more interesting to do on Friday Night Night without cell phones, Nicole can't exactly shoot Leah a text to check in. She figures she'll see Leah later that night and hear her excuse then.
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But two days later, on Sunday, March 12, there's still no sign of Leah, her car, or her cat. At this point, Nicole is concerned she's getting calls from Leah's other friends, too, wondering why Leah bailed on their plans. That's when Nicole calls Kara. Turns out she hasn't heard from her either. Nicole and Kara start reaching out to anyone in Leah's circle, but nobody knows anything. So they make a plan to meet again the next morning and strategize. By Monday, March 13, no one's heard from Leah in four days. Cara goes to Nicole and Leah's house and heads directly for Leah's room. It's immediately clear to Kara that Leah left voluntarily. She took some clothes, toiletries and cat litter. She'd clearly packed up for some sort of trip and took Bea with her. Nicole and Cara aren't sure what to do next. Solo trips aren't unlike Leah, but disappearing without a word is. They turn it over in their minds. She's dropped out of school against everyone's wishes. She's spending all day at coffee shops talking to strangers. Frankly, she seemed lost for quite a while. Maybe she's not thinking clearly, but neither woman says what they're both thinking. There is a big difference between lost and not okay. And right now, Kara and Nicole aren't sure which one they're dealing with.
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That's Sarah Turney and Courtney Nicole on the final hours. And that's just a taste. Their full episode on Leah Roberts is out right now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Just search the final hours and make sure you follow if you like it so you don't miss any episodes. You've been listening to crime house 247 bringing you breaking crime news. I'm Vanessa Richardson will be back tomorrow morning with more developing stories. Stay safe and thanks for listening.
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I'm Katie Ring, host of America's Most Infamous Crimes. Each week I take on one of the most notorious criminal cases in American history. Listen to and follow America's most infamous crimes. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
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Thanks for listening to today's episode. Not sure what to listen to next? Check out America's Most Infamous Crimes, hosted by Katie Ring. From serial killers to unsolved mysteries and game changing investigations, each week Katie takes on a notorious criminal case in American history. Listen to and follow America's most infamous crimes now wherever you listen to podcasts.