Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

In September 2012, 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment outside Chapel Hill, NC, hours after a night out with her roommate. Beside her body was a fast-food bag with a message scrawled across it: "I'm not stupid b****, jealous." Over the next nine years, police DNA-tested hundreds of people and cleared every one. Now, Morgan and Kaelyn follow the clues in one of North Carolina's longest-running investigations.
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Their stories don’t end when the episode does.

This bonus episode brings together every Missing Person of the Week featured on CLUES in September 2026, giving these cases another moment of focus and another chance to be seen.

Inside this compilation:
Roxanne Paltauf (Episode: She Found Her Own Way Out: The Abduction of Jayme Closs)
Wesley Dale Morgan (Episode: Brandon Swanson: The Call That Ended in Silence)
Rajah Adriana McQueen (Episode: The $12 Million Motive: Who Shot Steven Beard?)

Sharing these stories matters. Posters and resources are available on our social channels. Please amplify if you can. Someone listening could hold the missing piece.
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In October 1999, retired Austin TV executive Steven Beard woke in his home to a shotgun wound in his stomach. When police traced the bullet, it led somewhere nobody expected: a local bookstore manager with no connection to Steven at all, but a very close one to his wife, Celeste. Morgan and Kaelyn follow the clues in one of Texas's most jaw-dropping murder cases: a bond forged in a psychiatric treatment facility, a $12 million fortune bled dry by compulsive spending, and twin daughters who took the stand against their own mother. By the end, one woman would confess to pulling the trigger, and the other would be convicted of putting the gun in her hand.
Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod
If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios.
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Just before 2 a.m. on May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents from a gravel road in southwestern Minnesota. His car was stuck in a ditch and he needed a ride. His parents drove out to find him but they were actually 25 miles apart. Forty-seven minutes into the call with his father, Brandon said two words and the line went silent. Brandon was never found. This week, Kaelyn is joined by Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter, hosts of Crimes Of Reddit, to unpack the night Brandon Swanson walked into the dark.

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TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding

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Around 1 a.m. on October 15, 2018, a 911 call came from a house on a rural stretch outside Barron, Wisconsin. Deputies arrived four minutes later to a kicked-in front door and found James and Denise Closs shot dead inside. But their 13-year-old daughter Jayme was gone. Thousands of tips and volunteer searchers turned up nothing. Until, 88 days later and 70 miles north, a woman walking her dog found a girl who told her to call the police. This week, Morgan and Kaelyn unpack the crime, the 88 days Jayme spent in a stranger's home, and what happened after she escaped.
Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod
If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free and released a day early, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios.
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Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of Reddit, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts!
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YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios
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Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore
Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore
TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding
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