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A woman training for a marathon leaves her house early on a Saturday morning to jog a country road on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. An hour into her run, she is brutally attacked and left for dead. She managed to get to the roadside and eventually a car stopped to help. Her last words were describing her attacker: white guy, blue car. Her case went to the backburner for decades after police concluded that the man who murdered her was in jail for a sexual assault committed the year after her murder. But when a huge scandal shines a spotlight on misconduct in Oklahoma City, it makes investigators question everything they knew about the case.

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https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1986/03/11/police-may-have-suspect-in-1984-joggers-death/62733255007/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38212483/judy-ellen-weichert

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3535

https://convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/jeffrey-todd-pierce/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2001/05/08/exonerated-inmate-freed-after-15-years-in-prison-man-wants-to-see-his-sons/62147648007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Gilchrist_Links.pdf

https://piedmontnewsonline.com/index.php/2023/07/28/1984-surrey-hills-murder-remains-unsolved/

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveals-majority-women-abuse.html#google_vignette

https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/I6aeae35789fd11d9ac45f46c5ea084a3/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)

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Darwin Vest was a bit of a local celebrity in Idaho Falls. He was known locally as Spider Man because of his passion for studying spiders (and snakes, and other creatures that many of us run away from). His biggest claim to fame was identifying and naming the Hobo Spider that had made its way into homes all over the Pacific Northwest. He was an expert at studying venom in snakes, spiders, and plants and had been used as an expert on these topics all over the country, from college lecture halls to court rooms. In June of 1999, he had secured a deal to sell his Hobo Spider Trap invention and was celebrating at his weekly trivia night at his favorite local bar with friends. But after he left the bar that night, he stepped into the darkness never to be seen again. Did Darwin accidentally fall into the Snake River or did he meet with foul play?

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https://charleyproject.org/case/darwin-kenneth-vest

https://thedeckpodcast.com/darwin-vest/

https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP2091

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/sep/14/regions-nasty-hobo-spiders-hit-their-toxic-peak/

https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-how-recognize-hobo

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367886020084189&id=264247777114681&set=a.279291435610315

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5c9s2r/a_prominent_toxicologist_disappears_under/

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A teen is babysitting a young boy on a stormy March night in 1950. All is going according to plan until a frantic call comes in to police with a woman screaming, only able to yell "come quick!"
Unable to trace the call, police have to hope she just calls back. But she wouldn't.
The next call would be from the parents of the little boy who return to find their son unharmed but the babysitter brutally murdered in the living room.
A recent series of sexual assaults in the neighborhood seemed to be resolved when a young man was put behind bars. But now this new attack questioned everything the community thought about not only the recent assaults, but a murder that a man had been executed for in 1946.
This case serves as the inspiration for the popular "Babysitter" or "Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" urban legend, but the actual story is so much more sad and tragic than a story trope.
For this 30th episode of the podcast, I discuss the misguided nostalgia our society has for the 1950's and the botched police work that led to racial profiling and the likelihood of a white man getting away with a murder.

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https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/26/the-execution-floyd-cochran/18722772007/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/887jmc/on_march_18_1950_a_13yearold_babysat_a_familys/

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