by Ashley Flowers | May 6, 2026 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
This week, we’re resurfacing an important old episode for you because we just learned more information about a person of interest who’s never been ruled out. His name is Mark Douglas Burns, and he’s a terrifying individual. He came up in a Crime Junkie episode...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 14, 2023 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Late one night in September 2001, Amber Hoopes walked out to her grandparents’ auto body shop in Idaho Falls, Idaho to use the computer. After sending an email and logging off the computer around 1am, Amber vanished. Police have evidence that shows she was abducted...
by Ashley Flowers | May 17, 2023 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Tonya Teske was a free-spirited 18-year-old who chose to live her life on the open road by hitchhiking around the mountain west. On August 13, 1997, she was last seen in Montana at a truck stop before her body was discovered two days later on the side of a highway in...
by Ashley Flowers | Jul 20, 2022 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
On a quiet summer night in 1999, a 48-year-old man disappeared after what appeared to be a normal night out with friends in the sleepy town of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Darwin Vest, known to many as “spiderman” thanks to his unparalleled knowledge of spiders, left a local...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 15, 2022 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
On August 21, 2004, 54-year-old Dorothy Kajpust was staying at a friend’s mobile home in eastern Idaho as a temporary living arrangement when, suddenly, in the early morning hours of that Saturday, an unknown individual entered the home and brutally assaulted Dorothy,...
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 27, 2022 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
In 1980, when Randy Leach was 20 years old, he decided to take a break from college to hitchhike through the American west. It was supposed to be a journey of self-discovery and a way for the Wisconsin man to learn about different religions and ways of life, and it...
