A Simpler Time True Crime

By: Megan Rose
  • Summary

  • Join me each week as I discuss an unsolved case from the early 2000' and before. I discuss the illusion of safety in the days of lighter technology and explore the ways modern advancements could solve some of these cases.
    Each episode will have you asking "It may have been a simpler time, but was it a safer one?"

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Episodes
  • The Babysitter Murder: The Unsolved Case of Janett Christman
    Dec 2 2024

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    A teen is babysitting a young boy on a stormy March night in 1950. All is going according to plan until a frantic call comes in to police with a woman screaming, only able to yell "come quick!"
    Unable to trace the call, police have to hope she just calls back. But she wouldn't.
    The next call would be from the parents of the little boy who return to find their son unharmed but the babysitter brutally murdered in the living room.
    A recent a series of sexual assaults in the neighborhood seemed to be resolved when a young man was put behind bars. But now this new attack questioned everything the community thought about not only the recent assaults, but a murder that a man had been executed for in 1946.
    This case serves the the inspiration for the popular "Babysitter" or "Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" urban legend, but the actual story is so much more sad and tragic than a story trope.
    For this 30th episode of the podcast, I discuss the misguided nostalgia our society has for the 1950's and the botched police work that led to racial profiling and the likelihood of a white man getting away with a murder.

    Case Suggestions: simplertimecrimepod@gmail.com


    Most sources come from newspapers.com username: Simplertimecrimepod
    Other Sources:
    https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/26/the-execution-floyd-cochran/18722772007/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/887jmc/on_march_18_1950_a_13yearold_babysat_a_familys/

    https://www.instagram.com/simplertimecrimepod/?hl=en

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    46 mins
  • The Abduction of Leanne Green
    Nov 25 2024

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    A Tennessee teen is picked up by her twin brother from work, but they run out of gas just a half mile up the road. A kind family pulls over and offers to take them to get gas. Her brother goes with them, but she decides to stay in the locked car and wait for him to return. In the nine minutes he was gone, she would vanish. A sexual predator who often posed as law enforcement confesses to her abduction and murder, but did he really do it, or was he just looking for attention?

    Case suggestions and contact: simplertimecrimepod@gmail.com

    Sources:
    https://www.tn.gov/tbi/divisions/criminal-investigation-division/cold-cases.html

    https://www.newschannel5.com/news/36-years-after-dickson-co-teen-disappeared-investigators-keep-digging-for-answers

    https://www.wkrn.com/unsolved-tennessee/unsolved-tn-what-happened-to-teen-who-vanished-off-dickson-highway-in-1987/

    https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/601576/1

    https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/sheriff-holds-out-hope-in-1987-case-of-missing-dickson-teen/?ipid=inline-link

    https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/446/dickson-county-martha-leanne-green

    All Newspapers.com articles: username simplertimecrimepod

    https://www.instagram.com/simplertimecrimepod/?hl=en

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    46 mins
  • The Disappearance of Jerry Lee Armstrong
    Nov 20 2024

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    A teen borrows his brother's sports car to take his date to the school dance in 1977. After dropping her off, both he and his brother's sports car disappear forever. Did Jerry suffer a tragic accident and drive his car into a body of water, or was he the victim of a racially motivated hate crime on those back roads of rural Mississippi?
    Even all of these years later, people are still terrified to talk about the case and clues point to cover ups and corruption.

    Case suggestions: simplertimecrimepod@gmail.com
    IG: @simplertimecrimepod
    Youtube: https://youtube.com/@simplertimecrimepod?si=OlCWQ2Ky8qFaof02



    Sources:
    https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/hernando-mississippi

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/n9juaf/the_disappearance_of_jerry_lee_armstrong_was/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_River_%28Mississippi%29

    https://charleyproject.org/case/jerry-lee-armstrong

    https://wreg.com/news/manhunt-monday/family-wants-answers-in-teens-1977-desoto-county-disappearance/

    https://www.desototimes.com/news/man-missing-30-years-ago-believed-to-be-klan-victim/article_9650ca65-5850-5a2c-8bda-824776949866.html

    https://www.actionnews5.com/story/11474047/possible-break-in-hernando-teens-1977-disappearance/

    https://www.missingsippi.org/jerry-armstrong

    https://www.instagram.com/simplertimecrimepod/?hl=en

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    23 mins

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