Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

Crime After Crime

John Lordan

True Crime, News, News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end. Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came a troubling new question: Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? Was the man who couldn’t stop obsessing over Jonelle’s disappearance also the person who took her? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder. Hey Prime Members, you can binge all 6 episodes of SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today: Wondery.fm/CAC_Sus2

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0:00.0	Hey Crime After Crime Family, John Lordon here with a special feed drop.
0:05.0	You know, we're always very selective about what advertisements we like to share with you.
0:10.0	This is one that I just couldn't pass on.
0:13.0	Fans of my YouTube channel may recall that a few years ago,
0:16.0	the true crime community got a really good shock
0:19.0	when several of us, myself included,
0:22.0	found out that one of our fans and even a Patreon supporter for some of us,
0:26.3	a man named Steve Panky, may be involved in a murder.
0:30.5	Now there's a podcast all about that case.
0:34.0	On a winter night in a small community near Denver, Colorado,
0:38.0	Jim Matthews arrived home late.
0:40.0	He expected to find his 12-year-old daughter,
0:42.0	who'd been dropped off after a Christmas concert,
0:45.1	but when he called out, hey Janelle, the house was eerily quiet. His daughter's shoes were on the floor,
0:51.5	but she was gone, and it would be 35 years before she would be found,
0:55.9	dead.
0:57.5	After the discovery of Janelle Matthews' body in 2019, the police turned their attention to a man who had told law enforcement years ago that he knew something.
1:07.0	But they dismissed him.
1:09.0	The man did seem obsessed with the case, but is that all he was? A true crime fanatic or a killer?
1:17.8	Wundry and Campside Media's shocking true crime podcast, Suspect, is back for a second season with a story that attempts to
1:25.5	separate fact from fiction compulsion from guilt and one man's true crime
1:30.9	obsession from a motive for murder.
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