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This Doesn’t Happen HereSamantha Clarke, Vanished from a Small Town: Part 2- Route 29 SeriesIn this second part of the Route 29 series, we will share the heartbreaking and mysterious case of Samantha Clarke, who vanished without a trace from her home in Orange, VA, in 2010.
Samantha, a bright and loving 19-year-old, was last seen after a tangled few days involving new acquaintances. Questions remain to this day. Was Samantha lured by Randy Taylor? Was she one of his first victims? Has he been targeting women like this for years? Or could her disappearance have involved a young guy she had just started hanging out with and his girlfriend?
Or is...2025-07-2215 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereAlexis Murphy, A Light Gone Too Early: Part 1-Route 29 SeriesOn August 3, 2013, 17-year-old Alexis Murphy vanished after stopping at a gas station in Nelson County, VA. Known for her bright personality, ambition, and social media presence, Alexis' sudden disappearance left her family and community reeling.
In this first episode of our Route 29 Series, we walk through the early hours of Alexis' case-- from frantic search efforts to the shocking surveillance footage that led investigators to a man named Randy Taylor. Despite his shifting stories and attempts to manipulate the investigation, mounting physical evidence would ultimately expose the horrifying truth.
But even after Taylor's conviction, one ch...2025-07-0616 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereTragedy in Tyrone: The Rampage of Joseph Jesse AldridgeTyrone, Missouri, is a small, no-stoplight town 90 miles east of Springfield. With a population of about 50, there are no restaurants, stores, or even a school. The remote area, consisting mainly of mobile homes and small houses, was rocked to its core in February 2015.
At 10:15 p.m. on February 27, 2015, a 15-year-old Tyrone resident called 911 from a neighbor's house. The neighbor (who wished not to be named) said she was barefoot, in a nightgown with no sleeves, and her legs were all scratched up from briars. The teen told the neighbor she saw a man in her dad’s bed...2025-06-2612 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereKelly Bergh Dove Gone Without a Trace2:27 am on June 18, 1982, Martha Yankee a 911 dispatcher received a call from the Imperial Gas Station on south main street in Harrisonburg, Va.
The young lady calling was 20 year old Kelly Bergh Dove who was working the night shift alone at the gas station.
When Officer Sam Yankee arrived she was gone without a trace. Her cigarette was in the ashtray burned down to the butt, the magazine she was reading was still open on the counter as well as her pack of marlboro lights with a $5 bill inside. It was like she just walked away! L...2025-03-2720 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereTerror In McCarthy AlaskaMarch 1, 1983, in McCarthy, Alaska an old mining town at the base of the Wrangell Mountains.
It was a Tuesday, which in this town of about 20 people was mail day. Because this town was so remote, residents received mail and necessities such as groceries only once a week from what they called the mail plane.
Yall This town was so remote and small that one resident said “Around here there are so few of us we know each other by boot tracks.” Not only that they had no electricity, no running water and no telephone service. Im ta...2025-02-0232 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereMurder in my Hometown: The Tragic Story of Dawn SnyderOn February 5th, 1997, around 8:35 pm employees at a Stuarts Draft pizza place heard the back door close that was shared with the next-door floral shop. At first, they thought it was the co-owner Dawn Snyder leaving. It wasn’t until they noticed she had left the lights on that they felt something wasn’t right.
Once they realized her van was still outside with her keys and purse inside they KNEW something wasn’t right.
The next couple weeks left the small town of Stuarts Draft, Virginia reeling to discover the truth about where Dawn was and...2025-01-0318 minThis Doesn’t Happen HereMy Grandfather was a DevilOver the years while listening to and watching these stories I noticed a running theme. When cases in small towns were covered people would say “things like this don’t happen around here” or “this doesn’t happen here” as if being in a small town kept the evil at bay. I knew the false sense of security we feel in small towns is just that, false.
I know this because my grandfather was that evil…….
I have only met my grandfather in person one time and I do not even remember it. I was v...2024-12-2413 min
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