Cleo was never seen again, and the rest of her family has since come to believe that she was murdered as she tried to hitchhike home.
Missing.”The arrival of “Serial” in the fall of 2014 set off an explosion of podcasts based on cold cases, many of them of questionable quality.
But in September of 2016, days ahead of the podcast’s premiere, his killer was finally arrested — a twist that didn’t change the content much.
Despite an exhaustive search and nationwide media attention, the plane was never found; two months later the men were declared dead.
Despite the lack of concrete answers in this decades-old case, the story’s wild twists and its general atmosphere of Watergate-era political unease are compelling.
Persons:
Cleo Nicotine, Cleo, Connie Walker, “, Cleo ”, ”, Jacob Wetterling, Madeleine Baran, Marion, Sally’s, John List, suburbanite, Hale Boggs, Nick Begich
Organizations:
Peabody, Representatives, World Trade
Locations:
Saskatchewan, United States, Minnesota, London, Australia, Europe, New Jersey, Colorado, Louisiana, Alaska, Manhattan