She Goes By Jane

Jan 28 2025 74 ep. 48 mins 10
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She Goes by Jane tells the stories of America's missing and unidentified women through episodes that honor women and their lives without focusing on gratuitous violence or perpetrators. Each episode features an original poem by Aimée Baker read by a special guest.

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Episode 73: Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 1) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley

Jan 28 2025 57 mins  
By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home to travel to Barbados, Tahiti, and Samoa chasing new story ideas and escaping the turmoil of her parents’s divorce. And by age 15, she’d

Episode 72: Etta Riel with guest reader Marsha Mason

Jan 24 2025 56 mins  
In November 1934, new mother Etta Riel mysteriously disappears just hours before she’s set to attend a crucial paternity hearing. Her family believes she was preparing to reconcile with the man she claimed was the father of her baby, and that they were planning to elope to New York for a fresh start. But the man in question insists they were never intimate and that he was ready t

Episode 71: Olga Schultz Mauger with guest reader Susan Ruttan

Jan 14 2025 53 mins  
September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then, she simply vanished. Now, 90 years later, Olga is considered Wyoming’s oldest known missing persons case. This week we’re joined by Susan

Episode 70: Stepha Henry

Jan 07 2025 48 mins  
Memorial Day weekend in 2007 was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Henry sisters. They traveled from New York City to Miami to see friends, family and celebrate the younger sister’s birthday. But by the weekend’s end, only one of them would return home. The other, 22-year-old Stepha Henry, an aspiring lawyer, would be missing. Join us on Patreon! Your support hel

Episode 69: Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13

Jan 01 2025 16 mins  
Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13. Aimee and Vanessa talk about the inspiration and process of writing the poem Battle Lines, about the unidentified person known as Bitter Creek Betty.

Episode 68: God of the woods, Book Talk

Dec 24 2024 37 mins  
Special episode, Vanessa and Aimée discuss God of the woods, by Liz Moore.

Episode 67: Judy Martins with guest reader Stephanie Sy-Quia

Dec 17 2024 65 mins  
How quickly can someone just…disappear? One minute there, the next gone. How could someone leave a dorm party at a busy college campus and not make it to their own residence, just 300 yards away? In 1978, a 22 year old college sophomore, Judy Martins, stepped out of a dorm building at Kent State University and into darkness. This week we’re joined by Stephanie Sy-Quia, a writ

Episode 66: Ventura County Jane Doe

Dec 11 2024 55 mins  
In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing was a pregnant woman. She’d b

Episode 65: Texas Killing Fields: Michelle Doherty

Dec 03 2024 43 mins  
Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked. This week we’re joined by Award-winning actress C

Episode 64: Iris Brown with guest readers Marilyn Oliva and Tom Gilroy

Nov 26 2024 57 mins  
In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can welcome Iris’s boyfriend as he