Hey everyone, it's Anne Roderick Jones. If you're hearing this, you've probably noticed that there's a new podcast that's not the Springfield 3 in our feed.

We wanted to take the opportunity to share an interview that I did with one of our favorite podcast, The Reckon Interview, with John Hammondree.

Every week, John examines American culture through a southern lens by speaking with authors, entertainers,

artists, leaders, and thinkers to better understand the South. You can find the show wherever you

get your podcast. Enjoy. In early June in 1992, Stacey McCall, Susie Strader, and Cheryl

Levitt went to bed in a small town in the Ozarks.

By the next morning, they had banished without a trace.

And 30 years later, the mystery remains unsolved.

You're already interested, are you?

I get it. It's got all the makings of a good story.

Especially if I tell you that there are allegations about devil

worshipping and serial killers involved in the story. So what is it about true crime

podcast and unsolved mysteries that we crave, especially when they occur in small southern

towns? I mean, by now, true crime is a genre entirely unto itself. People can sit for hours

binging what are often called

murder shows, drawn to the prospect of solving a mystery, or maybe just reckoning with the

discomfort of an unsolved one. Welcome back to the Reckin interview. I'm your host, John Hammondry,

and today I am speaking with Anne Roderick Jones, creator and host of the Springfield

3, a popular podcast examining the case of the

disappearance of those three women and how it affected the community as a whole.

Anne grew up in Springfield, Missouri, and she was just 12 years old when these disappearances

rocked her small town. We talk about why she decided to revisit this story, whether she felt

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