She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast

The 1983 disappearance of Ann Gotlib, a 12-year-old girl who vanished from outside a Louisville, Kentucky mall, has long been considered one of the city’s most troubling cold cases. In Part 2, the focus shifts from the search for Ann to the investigative failures that may have prevented her case from ever being solved.

Years after Ann disappeared, a new confession surfaces in a Kentucky prison yard. It’s specific. It’s detailed. And...

In June 1983, 12-year-old Ann Gotlib vanished from outside Bashford Manor Mall in Louisville, Kentucky. Ann was a gifted pianist, writer, and recent immigrant whose family had fled the Soviet Union seeking a better life for her. What should have been an ordinary afternoon ended in one of Kentucky’s most haunting unsolved missing child cases.

As Ann’s disappearance gripped the city, her case became part of a national reckoning about ...

Fourteen-year-old Coral Hall made one last desperate call to a friend from a pay phone in Flint, Michigan on September 22, 1998—the day after her birthday. Just hours earlier, she had gone to the state Department of Human Services to report the abuse happening at home.

But by the time help arrived, Coral was gone.

For years, police believed she was a runaway. But beneath the surface was a history of family violence, neglect, and a sy...

In this case update, we cover the latest developments in the disappearance of the Martin Family. The 1958 Christmas holiday was quickly approaching, and the Martin family of five set out on a quiet Sunday drive to collect greenery for their holiday decorations. They waved goodbye to their neighbors, never to return. Months later, the bodies of two of the children, Susan and her older sister Virginia, were found in Oregon’s Columbia...

Once known as Peaches and Baby Doe, Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes have their names back. In this recap of their identification earlier this year, Aimee provides a new update. Long suspected to have been victims of the Long Island Serial Killer/Gilgo Beach Killer, an arrest has been made in connection with Tanya’s death. 

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In this special 2 part GIRLHUNT x She Goes By Jane crossover, Aimee and Vanessa dive into a story that filled Australia’s newspaper headlines for months in 1920. A handsome war hero doctor is  found murdered inside a suburban home. The only suspect: a middle aged mother of two who had been his patient. What happened behind closed doors that day was only part of the story. 

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In this special GIRLHUNT x She Goes By Jane crossover, Aimee and Vanessa dive into a story that filled Australia’s newspaper headlines for months in 1920. A handsome war hero doctor is  found murdered inside a suburban home. The only suspect: a middle aged mother of two who had been his patient. What happened behind closed doors that day was only part of the story. 

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📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, no...

In 2006, 78-year-old Mary Wilcox disappeared from her Westford, Vermont home. Living with Alzheimer’s, she often struggled with confusion, but on that November day, she was upset and vanished without a trace. Initially believed to have wandered off due to her illness, investigators later uncovered troubling evidence within her own household.

Mary’s case highlights the vulnerabilities of elderly individuals living with Alzheimer’s an...

In 1974, a teenager riding his bike stumbled upon a body behind the newly built mall in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The woman—later known as Seminole County Jane Doe—was stabbed, possibly sexually assaulted, and left unidentified for decades.

In 1982, Gerald Stano, a man who would confess to dozens of murders, claimed responsibility for her death. But even his confession did little to answer the most important question: who was she?

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In this special holiday-week episode, we step away from our usual format to bring you a true-crime-meets-Hollywood story pulled from GIRLHUNT: the life of Greta Granstedt, a young woman who stepped onto a ship in 1927 as a nude art model and stepped off as a future film star with a new name—and a long-buried shooting scandal trailing behind her.

Long before Greta appeared on screen with icons like Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, ...

On June 15, 1988, 12-year-old Doreen Vincent disappeared from her father’s home on Whirlwind Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Her father claimed they argued and she left through the front door with some clothes and money. But Doreen never made it to her mother’s home, and she’s never been seen again.

From the beginning, the story didn’t add up.

A locked deadbolt. Conflicting timelines. Delayed reporting. A violent fath...

In May 1990, substitute teacher Paige Renkoski disappeared under unusual circumstances in DeWitt Township, Michigan. After dropping her mother off at Detroit Metro Airport, Paige was last seen on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, speaking with two unidentified men near a maroon minivan. Hours later, her silver Oldsmobile was found abandoned with the keys in the ignition, doors unlocked, and her personal belongings unt...

Yolanda Panek was a rising star—a record-breaking athlete, Rose Festival Court representative, and mentor to dozens of middle school girls in Portland’s science and math programs. But in July 1995, the 21-year-old mother vanished without a trace. The next morning, her car was found abandoned with her two-year-old son inside, unharmed, and evidence pointed to a shocking case of intimate partner violence.

In this episode, we examine t...

When Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story introduced Evelyn Hartley as a victim, it blurred fact and fiction—recreating her kidnapping and murder in a visually stylized narrative. But Evelyn Hartley was no fictional character. A straight-A teen, beloved by friends and family, she vanished from La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1953 while babysitting, sparking one of the largest searches in the state’s history. In this episode, we uncover her...