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Hunting the Killer

Hunting the Killer

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Every criminal leaves a trail. Hunting the Killer relentlessly pursues the most elusive fugitives, dissecting every clue, every misstep, and every desperate attempt to evade justice. This is where the hunt begins, taking you deep into real-life manhunts and the minds of those determined to escape. We go beyond the headlines, revealing the intricate strategies of law enforcement and the chilling psychology of the hunted.

New episodes of Hunting the Killer drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a constant supply of gripping true crime narratives and detailed fugitive investigations. Each installment unpacks a new case, from cold cases heating up to breaking developments in ongoing searches for dangerous criminals. You'll hear about notorious escapees, calculated murders, and the relentless efforts to bring perpetrators to justice.

This podcast is for true crime enthusiasts, armchair detectives, and anyone fascinated by the pursuit of justice and the intricate dance between hunter and hunted. If you're captivated by real crimes, missing persons cases, and the forensic details that crack investigations, your search ends here.

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Episodes
  • The Bowl, The Cat, and the Girl Who Vanished for Ten Years

    The Bowl, The Cat, and the Girl Who Vanished for Ten Years
    11 Oct 2026
    The Bowl, The Cat, and the Girl Who Vanished for Ten Years

    Fear curls around routine: a one-eyed tabby eating from an orange ceramic fish bowl at 6:15 every morning became the trace that kept a vanished girl from disappearing completely - but why did it take a decade for that bowl to matter, and who was watching the habit that named her? Find out how a cheap pet bowl and a church pen-pal letter threaded through federal material-witness files to pull a ghost back into daylight.

    In this episode, we follow the case file from a driveway killing on Birch Mill Lane through a decade-long missing-persons limbo to the moment a federal marshal recognizes a deliberate routine; the episode covers the death, the mother’s conviction, the girl’s flight with her cat Biscuit, and the curious delivery that reopened the trail - what did that bowl finally reveal?

    Person: Emily Edwards
    Event: Death of Gene Pollard on Birch Mill Lane
    Date: October 2004
    Status: Material witness warrant active for ten years
    Location: Harwick, Nebraska

    - Gene Pollard was beaten to death with a tire iron on the driveway in October 2004.
    - Sandra Edwards was arrested within 48 hours and convicted of second-degree murder with an 18-year sentence.
    - Emily Edwards was 14 on the night of the killing and left Harwick at age 16 with $430 and her cat Biscuit.
    - A material witness warrant for Emily remained active from 2004 through 2014.
    - In 2012 Sandra arranged delivery of an orange ceramic fish bowl to Emily, later noted in a 2014 review as a key habitual clue.

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    24 mins
  • The Boot at Dawn: How a Single Shoe Cracked a Silent Fugitive

    The Boot at Dawn: How a Single Shoe Cracked a Silent Fugitive
    10 Oct 2026
    The Boot at Dawn: How a Single Shoe Cracked a Silent Fugitive

    A single left work boot, upright and dry, sat on a concrete outfall with the morning Kelso Courier folded inside its shaft - eleven days without rain and no footprints nearby. That one shoe became the first visible thread in a sixteen-day manhunt for a handyman charged in a deadly fire: what did it mean, and who was leaving it there?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a Kelso pond to the charges against a fugitive, tracing the investigative steps that tied a missing work order to two deaths and a disappearance; how did one boot pull an entire manhunt into view?

    Person: George Cox
    Date: June 11, 2019
    Location: Kelso Pond, Kelso, Indiana
    Case: Two counts of criminally negligent homicide
    Investigator: U.S. Marshal Patricia O'Brien

    - The boot was a single left work boot, upright and unlatched, found at 6:43 AM on Tuesday, June 11, 2019.
    - The Kelso Courier folded inside the boot was the morning edition dated June 11, 2019.
    - George Cox, age 48, had worked at Pinegrove Terrace in Kelso in January 2019, five months before his disappearance.
    - Sandra Petit, age 44, and her son Marcus, age 17, died in the Building C fire investigated in March 2019.
    - Cox failed to appear at a rescheduled hearing on May 22, 2019, and his empty Terre Haute apartment was noticed on May 23, 2019.

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    21 mins
  • The Book That Betrayed Her: How a Library Copy Ended a 60-Mile Run

    The Book That Betrayed Her: How a Library Copy Ended a 60-Mile Run
    9 Oct 2026
    The Book That Betrayed Her: How a Library Copy Ended a 60-Mile Run

    A damp library book left spine-up on the access road to Kettering Correctional Center for Women set off a four-day, sixty-mile manhunt across three counties - and its pages were perfectly dry. How did a woman who planned an escape down to toll plazas, power relays, camera angles and tracking dogs lose a run because of a dropped large-print novel?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the morning the book was found to the end of the search, describing Brenda Thorpe’s background, the prison garden that became her observation post, the storm-night escape, and how a delivery-route teen found the book - and then pose the question that drove the investigation: what single mistake unmade a meticulously planned four-day escape?

    Person: Brenda Thorpe
    Age: 31
    Location: Kettering Correctional Center for Women, eight miles northeast of Marvell
    Event: Escape during power disruption on May 8, 2011
    Finder: Nancy Tucker, age 14

    - The library book was discovered at 6:15 a.m. on the access road leading to the prison after an overnight storm.
    - Brenda had carried $60 in small bills sewn into her jacket lining when she escaped.
    - The perimeter lighting relay died at 2:17 a.m.; the generator restored power in 40 seconds but motion sensors required a manual reset that took 11 minutes.
    - Brenda had observed a northeast camera drift three degrees over six weeks before her escape.
    - A Belgian Malinois named Bonnie found Brenda breathing under a neighbor’s rear deck eight minutes after she ran.

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    25 mins
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