A Simpler Time True Crime

Send us a Text Message.A devastated father faces tragedy one day when he loses his nine year old daughter to an accidental drowning. He returns home to be with his girlfriend and her two daughters, to try to catch some sleep and regroup on how to put the pieces of his life back together. But just hours after losing his daughter, he walks in the door to a horrifying scene. A scene t

Send us a Text Message.A little boy begs his family to stay home alone for the first time ever. His tiny midwestern town was nearly free of crime, with the last reported homicide being in 1928. But in the fall of 1990 that would change. After a day of playing with friends and riding his bike around town, Nelson would be murdered in his own home just before his family arrived home.

Send us a Text Message.The Queen of True Crime, The late Ann Rule, cited Bob Milton Hansen as one of the meanest men she has ever written about. That is the person that Joan Hansen was trying to leave in the summer of 1962. While on the phone with her best friend, Joan suddenly realizes her estranged husband is in the house with her and coming to kill her. The phone went dead and J

Send us a Text Message.Three young women go sunbathing at the popular Indiana Dunes on 4th of July Weekend 1966. They are last seen getting on a boat with a man and never seen again. Theories run the gamut, from botched abortions to the dark underbelly of the horse industry to a mob hit. Nearly sixty years later the fate of these women remains as unknown as the day they vanished. F

Send us a Text Message.An elementary school teacher who stayed late in her classroom to clean up after her classrooms Halloween party. One minute, a school custodian saw her sweeping up popcorn and packing up her things, and the next she was just gone. A school and community would be left heartbroken when she was found dead on Halloween night. After more than thirty years, investig

Send us a Text Message.A mother is making a little extra money by cleaning her sister's house in an upscale neighborhood. She is feeding her eleven-month old daughter cereal in her high chair while cleaning each room. Somewhere in a small forty-five minute window, someone would gain access to the house and brazenly abduct Cindy in front of her child. Cindy would be found murdered t

Send us a Text Message.Jumping on for just a few minutes for a mini update on the breaking news of the suspect identified in the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans. This case was discussed in episode 5: The Murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds and the mystery of the Route 29 stalker. https://www.instagram.com/simplertimecrimepod/?hl=en

Send us a Text Message.A middle school latchkey kid gets home from school in her upscale neighborhood and goes about her routine of talking on the phone, watching TV, and playing her piano. But what she didn't know was that the whole time she was home, someone was there with her, watching and listening to her every move from the second floor. When she went upstairs she would be amb

Send us a Text Message.A kindergartner is playing hide and seek with neighborhood friends on an unseasonably warm fall day. She runs off barefoot to find a hiding spot, but her friends can't find her. In fact, nobody could. The neighborhood had plenty of people outside to witness something happening, but nobody saw anything. The case has haunted locals and led through a maze of ter

Send us a Text Message.An honors student is two weeks out from graduation and working her after school job as an clerical assistant at the home office of a local businessman. What seems like an ordinary evening quickly takes a turn when she doesn't make the phone call home to her mother to come pick her up when her shifts end. Even worse, when her mother calls her daughter's boss,