138 // Todd Matthews Returns

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna chat with Todd Matthews about discovering the identity of the Jane doe formerly known as "Tent Girl" and much more. Todd Matthews is a leading voice in the crime community, a pioneer of the online amateur sleuth community, an architect of US government programs to identify missing and unidentified persons, and a sought-after speaker and media/entertainment consultant.Matthews became one of the first people to solve a cold unidentified remains case using online tools, solving the thirty-year mystery of “Tent Girl.” He helped found The Doe Network and has had roles in Project EDAN and in the development of NamUs.gov, the national online database for missing and unidentified cases. Matthews is a speaker, teacher, and writer based in central Tennessee. Todd now works with the DoeNetwork and DNA Doe Project: https://dnadoeproject.org https://twitter.com/DnaDoeProject Sign up for our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcast. Five bucks a month gets you access to new content every week. Check out the new Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to PI's For the Missing. Check out Private Investigations For the Missing: https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ Follow Missing Maura Murray: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc FB: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/MissingMauraMurray Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing-maura-murray/id1006974447 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/missing-maura-murray Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Last Box Media Podcast. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Welcome. Welcome to Crawl space. I'm Tim here today with Lance in the crawl space studios in Wormtown. Lance how are you today?
0:41.0	I could not be better. How are you today? I could not be better.
0:42.8	How are you today, Tim?
0:44.4	I'm doing well, and this episode, Lance.
0:47.8	It's such a fun conversation with an old friend of ours. His name Todd Matthews and he's been on the show before which we kind of cover in this episode and we recorded this a while ago Lance
1:01.6	Yeah, it became an unexpected controversial episode,
1:06.8	certainly not in the subject matter that he spoke about.
1:09.4	But I also want to get back to when he was originally
1:11.8	on the show. We were connected to Todd through the author
1:16.5	Deborah Halber, she wrote The Skeleton Crew and part of the Skeleton crew was about Todd Matthews and his introduction to the world of
1:25.8	citizen sloothing when he discovered the identity of Tent Girl.
1:28.8	And so we recorded this episode back in November and we talk about the American Crime Fest a little bit that never happened and
1:35.0	Todd currently is working with the DNA Doe Project so check them out on social media the DNA DNA Doe Project, and you can find links to their
1:45.0	social media in our show notes.
1:47.6	And definitely make sure you check out their social media because that is the department in which
1:51.8	Todd is working for the DNA Doe project.
1:54.6	And Todd found fame in the internet sloothing community and was in that book, the skeleton
2:02.0	crew, that wonderful book book because he helped identify a
2:05.9	Jane Doe named Tent Girl who was found in Kentucky by his father-in-law sound? Well, we're going to break it all down with
2:14.7	Todd in the interview. Yep, he identified Barbara Ann Hackman Taylor nearly 30 years
2:20.7	after his father-in-law, who was not his father-in-law at the time found her body in 1968
2:26.9	so 30 years after 1998 just the beginnings of the internet so this this guy was really utilizing every tool possible in order to figure
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