What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host, Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West. Hello, everybody.

I hope you're doing well today. Thank you so much for tuning in. Big thank you to Hannah for

recommending today's case. This is a little bit of an older one. It takes place in the late 1950s,

but there are so many elements of this case that just, like, you're going to get goosebumps.

It's just, it's, there's so many creepy elements to this story.

Yeah, there's a lot of different circumstances that really just make no sense in this case.

And it's terrifying.

Yeah, it is, it's like spooky.

So without further ado, let's dive right into this one.

All right, guys.

This is episode 475 of going west, so let's get into it. Thank you. So, In January of 1958, a 41-year-old Indiana mother went missing from her home, only to be found dead in her bathtub.

Still mostly clothed and submerged under the water, she had drowned, but had also sustained

blunt force trauma before her death with clear signs of homicide.

When her friends reported seeing someone flee in her vehicle shortly before her body was discovered,

police questioned over 250 people looking for answers into the incredibly suspicious murder scene at her house.

This is the story of Malvina Cruts.

This is the story of Malvina Sanders was born on August 4th, 1916 in Brooks, Kentucky, which is a small town just south of Louisville, to parents Ada and Robert Sanders.

In 1939, Malvina, who was around 23 years old at the time, married her love Charles Crutz in Jeffersonville, Indiana, which is right

across the Ohio River from Louisville, so very, very close to where she grew up. And Charles was a

second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, so due to this, he and Malvina headed down to Miami Beach,

Florida to live for a little bit while he worked at the Air Force

Officer Training School. They then settled back in the Midwest where Charles obtained a job as

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