Hi, crime junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And back by popular demand, we have Chuck in the studio today for our YouTube audience who apparently he's their favorite. Like, it's a good thing he can't talk or we'd be out of a job. But the story I have for you today is one that honestly has me twisted up in knots. Because like one minute, it's like

fetch me a pitchfork and like rally the troops. This guy needs to be buried under the courthouse.

But then like the very next minute, I'm like, oh my God, maybe he's a victim too. And then I feel

bad for ever thinking such a thing. So pitchforks or no pitchforks, that will be for crime junkies to decide.

This is the story of the Feeney family.

Music You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to I'm going to So when John Feeney gets back to his room at Tantara Resort, around 9 a.m. on the morning of Monday, February 27th, 1995, he sees that he missed a call from the high school where he teaches science in Springfield, Missouri.

Now, he's been up here at this Lake of the Ozarks Resort for a teacher's conference since

Saturday.

Wait, can we, as millennials, just real quick acknowledge that this is a teacher named Mr. Feene?

Oh, my like, boynie's world heart.

Yeah.

Honestly, I didn't think about that the whole time I was working on this story.

It's all I can think about. I had to say something.

Mr. Feene. Not that Mr. Feeney. Got it.

Anyways, the school knows where he's at and why. So it's strange that they're calling.

So immediate bad vibes that just get worse when he calls them back and finds out that they called because they had gotten a call

that morning from a medical center where his wife Cheryl works as an RN. She's the team lead for

the gynecological surgical division, which is like an important role, but she just hadn't shown up

for work that day. So by the time John's on the phone, people had already called over to the kids' babysitter,

but they apparently never got dropped off there. And no matter how many times, or who called

the Feeney House, no one has picked up there either. John is rattled by this because he hadn't

talked to Cheryl since Saturday night. Like he had called a few times on

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