• A Simpler Time True Crime

  • Written by: Megan Rose
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A Simpler Time True Crime

Written by: Megan Rose
  • Summary

  • My name is Megan and each week on A Simpler Time True Crime, I cover older, unsolved cases and challenge the idea that a simpler time means a safer time.

    © 2025 A Simpler Time True Crime
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Episodes
  • The Disappearance of Mary, Fannie, and Jessie Stuart
    Jan 6 2025

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    A young family living off the grid in a rugged part of Northern California in late 1977. The mother and her two toddlers set out to do a host of errands never to return. Nobody in the city of Eureka saw the family complete their errands, but when the vehicle is later found, there's evidence that they did. The mystery of this finding causes rumors to swirl in the tiny community. Did the family get lost and succumb to the elements? Was the mother and her two children fleeing from troubles at home and looking to start a new life? Or were they the victims of foul play.

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    Source Material:

    https://kymkemp.com/2022/11/14/if-the-trees-could-talk-the-cold-case-of-missing-honeydew-woman-mary-stuart-and-her-two-daughters/

    https://humboldtgov.org/2772/Unsolved-Cases

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeydew,_California

    https://humboldtgov.org/DocumentCenter/View/95414/Stuart-Case-Press-Release?bidId=

    https://deaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com/2014/05/missing-37-years-mary-jessie-and-fannie.html?m=1

    https://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/still-missing-7854764

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/more-than-womens-work/202409/the-tradwife-trend-is-a-risky-throwback

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-tradwives-divorced-share-why_n_66d1cdace4b0099ccb74ea25

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

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    30 mins
  • A Deadly Secret Admirer? The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Jarosz
    Dec 29 2024

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    Just three days after Christmas of 1964, in the quiet town of Garfield Heights, Ohio a sixteen-year-old girl was getting ready to meet up with friends. When her friend shows up at their agreed upon time, she does not answer the door. Later that afternoon, the teen's father would come home to a horrific discovery – his oldest daughter dead on her bedroom floor, the victim of a vicious homicide. As detectives dig into her life, they find out from those closest to her that she had recently become a stalking victim – something that they didn’t even really have a word for back then. This stalker has never been identified, nor has her killer, leaving the possibility that they weren’t one in the same. Beverly and the women in her family had prophetic moments around the time of her death about her death, adding a haunting element to the tragic mystery. But believe it or not, even though the release of this episode is the week of the 60th anniversary of her disappearance, cold case detectives are still working with carefully preserved evidence, and their case is expanding. May this be the year that Beverly’s case is finally solved.

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    Sources:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfqoTacSKuM

    https://fox8.com/news/garfield-heights-pd-seeks-tips-in-1964-killing/

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8949797/beverly-jarosz

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AyzAdPyuB/

    https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/10/beverly_jarosz_a_voice_preserv.html https://www.amazon.com/Unfulfilled-Book-Poetry-Beverly-Jarosz/dp/1714439860

    https://www.clermontsun.com/2021/06/17/marc-hoover-the-unsolved-murder-of-ohio-teenager-beverly-jarosz

    https://markstrecker.com/garfield-heights-hm.html

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOz0cpPnBY

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1hoer5o/60_years_ago_today_beverly_jarosz_was_murdered_in/

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    48 mins
  • The Abduction of Vinyette Teague
    Dec 23 2024

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    On a hot summer night, a toddler is spending time with her grandmother and other neighbors on the breezeway of her high-rise apartment complex in Chicago. She is left alone in the busy hallway for just minutes, but in that time she disappears. Nearly fifty people were present at the time she was abducted, but nobody claims to have seen anything. Her mother has gone on to be a champion for not only her daughter, but other missing kids. Her hope is that her toddler was raised by another family who wanted a little girl, and that all of these years later they will find their way back to each other.

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    Sources:
    https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/two-missing-person-cases-baffling-police/

    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/36-years-later-missing-baby-chicago-area/145674/

    https://charleyproject.org/case/vinyette-trudy-teague

    http://www.spcoalition.org/teague.html
    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-vinyette-teague-2006-hop/161356864/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-life-behind-the-pho/161357724/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-news-democrat-july-1989-h/161360805/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1989-age-progression/161360870/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/martinez-news-gazette-photo/161360913/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-description-of-what-she/161361021/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/wausau-daily-herald-more-info-1985/161361100/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-1991-golfer/161363263/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-story-of-tim-sim/161363376/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-a-golf-bag-hope-an/161363467/

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-photo-of-golf-bag/161363627/

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    27 mins

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