467: Naming the Dead: The Hitchhiker (S1E1)

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Give it up for forensic genealogists, Fam!!! We're getting into the science today, but also getting into all the feels as the DNA Doe Project brings answers to a cold case from the 1980s. When these investigators start looking into a pair of unidentified remains from coroner Scott McCord's office, they not only connect them to a serial killer but also find and bring peace to relatives who lost track of their loved ones decades ago.

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0:00.0	All right, National Geographic getting in on the true crime content.
0:03.1	Are you kidding? Kathleen Zellner is back? The series is so good. It's really good. It's so good. Yeah, yeah. Hi, Julian, Bethlehli. Hi, Patrick Hines. All right, we don't have to tell them anything at the top. Give them your review of showgirl. They're going to want to hear it. I like it. I don't know what everyone's goddamn problem is.
0:24.0	I couldn't agree. We don't have to tell them anything at the top. Give them your review of showgirl. They're going to want to hear it.
0:37.8	I like it. I don't know what everyone's goddamn problem is. I couldn't agree more. I've been humming Elizabeth Taylor all day. I have life of a showgirl in my head on a constant. I'm doing the fate of Aphelia Choreo everywhere I go. I ruined the friendship. We were talking about that the other day. It's so good.
0:38.6	Especially romantic.
0:39.2	Would.
0:40.0	Give me a break.
0:38.3	What is a total bob? everywhere I go. I ruined the friendship. We were talking about that the other day. It's so good. Actually romantic. Would.
0:39.3	Give me a break. What is the total bob? Everyone's got to light up a little bit. I agree. My official stance is everyone's got to lighten up. 100%. Well, what are we talking? Speaking of not lightning up, what are we talking about today? Right. here because they're doing amazing work. So this is our 18th bonus episode. It's a brand new series
0:55.8	that everyone is loving 18th bonus episode.
0:55.1	It's a brand new series that everyone is loving because it's excellent.
0:57.8	It's called Naming the Dead.
0:59.0	This is Season 1, Episode 1.
1:00.4	It's called The Hitchhiker.
1:04.1	The four victims found on this farm were murdered by Larry Eiler, the highway killer, sometime between March and July of 83.
1:13.6	Police say Larry Eiler was a serial killer with at least two dozen victims, maybe as many as 50.
1:21.6	So he would bring him and kill him in the barn and then bring him out here.
1:25.6	One, two, three, and... Is this number four?
1:29.5	This would be victim four.
1:33.7	Two of these young men couldn't be identified at the time.
1:37.2	And when I started his coroner,
1:39.1	I found two boxes labeled victim three and victim four.
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