She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast

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73: Episode 73: Barbara Newhall Follett (Ep 1) with guest reader Kerry O'Malley Jan 28, 2025

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By age 9, Barbara Newhall Follett had written her first novel draft. By age 12, she’d published it with a major publishing house, selling out of the initial print run before it even made it to stores. By age 14 she left her Connecticut home to travel to Barbados, Tahiti, and Samoa chasing new story ideas and escaping the turmoil of her parents’s divorce. And by age 15, she’d disappear. Barbara Newhall Follett never did anything by half measure.

Join Aimee and Vanessa for this week’s episode of She Goes By Jane as they dig into the first episode about the disappearance of child prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett.

This week they’re joined by Kerry O’Malley whose recent film credits include her scene-stealing role as Dolores in David Fincher's The Killer, Mother's Mother in Marielle Heller's Nightbitch, Azalia in Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa, and Mildred in Tyler Perry's Six Triple Eight. Recent television credits include her recurring roles as Megan in A Man on the Inside on Netflix, Samantha Miles on SEAL Team, first class passenger Lilah Folger on TNT's Snowpiercer, and Mavis in the second season of Marc Cherry's Why Women Kill for Paramount Plus.  

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72: Episode 72: Etta Riel with guest reader Marsha Mason Jan 25, 2025

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In November 1934, new mother Etta Riel mysteriously disappears just hours before she’s set to attend a crucial paternity hearing. Her family believes she was preparing to reconcile with the man she claimed was the father of her baby, and that they were planning to elope to New York for a fresh start. But the man in question insists they were never intimate and that he was ready to expose her supposed lies. Join hosts Aimee and Vanessa as they dive deep into this chilling true crime case of betrayal, mystery, and disappearance and hear a special performance by four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Masonis.

Was Etta’s disappearance a planned escape, or did something darker unfold? Tune in to She Goes By Jane for a gripping true crime investigation into one of the most baffling unsolved cases of the 1930s.

This week we’re joined by Marsha Masonis, a four-time Academy Award nominee for her starring roles in The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh and Cinderella Liberty. Mason has received Golden Globe Awards for her film roles and an Emmy Award nomination for “Frasier”. TV credits include “Grace and Frankie”, “The Middle”, “The Good Wife” and “Madam Secretary”. Broadway roles: Impressionism with Jeremy Irons, Steel Magnolias, The Night of the Iguana, King Richard III, and Cactus Flower.

She has directed productions of Steel Magnolias, An Act of God, Chapter Two as well co-directing and starring in Lost In Yonkers at Hartford Stage. On Broadway, she was Associate Director with Jack O’Brien for All My Sons starring Annette Benning and The Roommate starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. Marsha recently starred in All My Sons at Hartford Stage and as Madame Armfeldt in the Lincoln Center production of Steven Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in Concert, and she briefly stepped in for Mia Farrow in The Roommate on Broadway while Farrow was sidelined with Covid-19.

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15: Episode 71: Olga Schultz Mauger with guest reader Susan Ruttan Jan 14, 2025

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September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then, she simply vanished. Now, 90 years later, Olga is considered Wyoming’s oldest known missing persons case.

This week we’re joined by Susan Ruttan. Known for her role for her role of ‘Roxanne’ on the acclaimed “L.A. Law”, for which she was nominated for Emmys on four consecutive seasons, she has seamlessly moved between television, stage and film through her career. She has many memorable television appearances on shows like “Bosom Buddies”, “Newhart”, “Grey’s Anatomy” “Mom” and most recently a recurring role on the Netflix hit series, “A Man on the Inside” starring Ted Danson”.

She teamed with Brian Dennehy and Treat Williams in several NBC ‘Jack Reed’ movies for television. Other television movie roles included “Helter Skelter”, “Terror in the Towers”, a recounting of the 1993 terrorist bombing under the World Trade Towers in Manhattan and was ‘Mrs. Claus’ in “The Ultimate Christmas Present” for the Disney Channel.

Susan has appeared in the feature films: “The Sure Hand of God”, “Love Kills”, “Honky Tonk Freeway”, “Independence Day”, and portrayed Gene Wilder’s stepmother in Paramount’s “Funny About Love”.

Born in Oregon, she started her career as a costume designer in the theatre in Santa Cruz, then moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant casting director At Universal and Paramount before landing her first professional acting job. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her son Jackson.

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70: Episode 70: Stepha Henry Jan 07, 2025

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Memorial Day weekend in 2007 was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Henry sisters. They traveled from New York City to Miami to see friends, family and celebrate the younger sister’s birthday. But by the weekend’s end, only one of them would return home. The other, 22-year-old Stepha Henry, an aspiring lawyer, would be missing.

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Episode 69: Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13 Jan 01, 2025

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Special Episode, Behind the poem - Battle Lines from episode 13. Aimee and Vanessa talk about the inspiration and process of writing the poem Battle Lines, about the unidentified person known as Bitter Creek Betty.

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68: Episode 68: God of the woods, Book Talk Dec 25, 2024

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Special episode, Vanessa and Aimée discuss God of the woods, by Liz Moore.

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67: Judy Martins: The Kent State University Disappearance Dec 17, 2024

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In 1978, 22-year-old Kent State University student Judy Martins left a dorm party and began the short walk back to her residence hall--a distance of less than 300 yards. She never arrived.

More than four decades later, Judy’s disappearance remains unsolved.

In this episode, we examine the final known movements of Judy Martins, the atmosphere surrounding Kent State University in the years after the 1970 shootings, and the unsettling reality of how quickly someone can vanish from a busy college campus without explanation.

This case raises difficult questions about vulnerability, visibility, and what happens when a missing woman’s story slowly fades from public memory.

📍 Kent State University | Kent, Ohio
📅 May 24, 1978

📖 Featuring an original poem written in Judy’s honor, read by Stephanie Sy-Quia.

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More about Stephanie Sy-Quia:
Stephanie Sy-Quia is a writer and broadcaster based in London. She is the presenter of Eccentric Circles, a podcast about cities and the influential oddballs who lived in them.

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66: Episode 66: Ventura County Jane Doe Dec 11, 2024

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In 1980, a worker at Westfield High School in Thousand Oaks, California, is annoyed when he sees a mannequin on a slope near one of the school’s parking lots. The school had been experiencing vandalism in the recent months and this was yet another example of things being left at the school. But as he drew closer, he realized that what he was seeing was a pregnant woman. She’d been brutally stabbed, her body left in the dirt. Without identification on her, investigators set to work to find out who she was and who murdered her, but the answers wouldn’t come readily or easily.

Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told Youby Celeste Ng.

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65: Episode 65: Texas Killing Fields: Michelle Doherty Dec 03, 2024

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Michelle Doherty should have had a lifetime to come into herself. Instead, the 17-year-old mother was pressured into becoming a narcotics informant to help police bust a drug ring. That one decision likely got her killed. Michelle Doherty is one of the missing women of the Texas Killing Fields, but her story is often overlooked.

This week we’re joined by Award-winning actress Christine Solomon whose work has been exhibited, showcased, and displayed to millions of viewers in Egypt, Canada, and around the world on major television networks and movie studios such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, Rotana Group (the Arab World's largest entertainment company owned by the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talat), Ubisoft, as well as in print, online, and other advertising media.

Solomon has received a nationally-recognized Madbakh Awards for her work as an actress; she is also an important contributor for the award-winning productions in which she played a leading or critical role (HELIOPOLIS, BASRA, and BAFTA nominated RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE).

The theatre trained actor appreciates the opportunity to work for positive causes. She has joined as the lead host for GMC and renowned actor Josh Duhamelʼs campaign BUILDING FOR AMERICAʼS BRAVEST and has raised over 17 million dollars. The campaign reached an impressive 110 million viewers. She is also the spokesperson for the ACNE AND ROSACEA SOCIETY OF CANADA’s Rosacea Awareness Campaign.

Solomon and her work have been the subject of numerous articles in major international publications and media throughout the world, including The National Post (monthly readership 6.95 million), The Globe and Mail (17 million readership), MSN Saudi Arabia (monthly readership 982 million), Variety (monthly readership 31.6 million), and Screen India (monthly readership 53.76 million), among others.

On the other side of the camera, Christine has served on the 25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS (SAG AWARDS) TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE and has been an official juror at various prestigious film festivals across the country.

Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our December 2024 selection is Everything I Never Told Youby Celeste Ng.

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To buy Aimee’s book, Doe, it’s available now with University of Akron Press, at Bookshop.org, and Amazon.

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64: Episode 64: Iris Brown with guest readers Marilyn Oliva and Tom Gilroy Nov 26, 2024

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In 1976, Iris Brown returns to her apartment and learns that her boyfriend is about to be released from Federal Prison the next day. The man who tells her this had been in prison with her boyfriend and he’s received a telegram informing him of this news. He suggests the two of them leave immediately and drive the nearly 300 miles there so they can welcome Iris’s boyfriend as he’s released. But the man is hiding a secret, he wants something else from Iris.

This week we’re joined by two special guest readers. Marilyn Oliva is a medieval historian whose research focuses on medieval English religious women—anchoresses, nuns, and vowesses—and the ties these women created with their local communities. She has published on several aspects of religious life for women, including their literacy, the organization and administration of their convents, and the sacred spaces they created within their monastic and parochial enclosures. She is also the co-creator of “The Seventh Circle,” a DIY story published on Instagram about a secret society of women whose mission is to release from oblivion all the lost, forgotten, and ignored women of all the sciences and humanities across all time periods and from every geographical region.

Tom Gilroy is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work spans feature filmmaking, music, theatre, and haiku. His work has appeared at Sundance, Cannes, The Toronto Film Festival, and the Berlinale, and he has taught at Columbia and Davidson College. His work can be experienced and explained at www.tomgilroy.net.

Join us on Patreon! Your support helps us continue to shine light on America’s missing and unidentified women. Flashlight level members also get access to additional content like Behind the Poem, a weekly conversation about the episode’s featured poem, and our monthly true crime/mystery book club. Our November 2024 selection is Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteriesby Greg Melville.

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