Amazon Music Presents SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end.

Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came a troubling new question: Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? Was the man who couldn’t stop obsessing over Jonelle’s disappearance also the person who took her? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder.

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0:00.0	On a winter night, in a small community near Denver, Colorado, Jim Matthews arrived home lit.
0:07.6	He expected to find his 12-year-old daughter who had been dropped off after a Christmas concert.
0:14.2	But when he called on, hey, Janelle, the house was eerily quiet.
0:19.9	His daughter's shoes were on the floor, but she was gone.
0:24.5	And it would be 35 years before she would finally be fond.
0:28.9	Dead. After the discovery of Janelle Matthews' body, in 2019, the police turned
0:35.5	their attention to a man who had told law enforcement years ago that he knew something,
0:41.2	but they dismissed him. The man did seem obsessed with the kiss, but is that all he was?
0:47.9	A true crime fanatic? Or a killer? No jury will decide if Janelle's murderer was hiding
0:54.1	in plain sight the entire time. Wondering on Campside Media's shocking true crime podcast,
1:02.0	suspect, is back for a second season. But the story that attempts to separate fact from fiction,
1:09.3	compulsion from guilt, and one man's true crime obsession, from a motive for murder.
1:16.0	I'm about to play your clip from the show. While you're listening, make sure to follow the
1:20.9	Amazon Music exclusive podcast, suspect, finished in the snow, in the Amazon Music app.
1:29.2	You can download the app today.
1:35.6	Well County is a desert. It feels relatively warm outside for Colorado in December,
1:43.1	and the sky is just this Caribbean blue.
1:46.9	It's winter, but it's hot out, dry, and dusty. The snow-capped Rocky Mountains are all behind us.
1:55.6	Ahead, it's flat. The horizon goes on forever.
2:09.6	A few of the trucks passing us are souped up, brand new, tires jacked high,
2:14.9	oil and gas workers apparently unbothered by speed limits. If there is a speed limit out here,
2:22.4	we're relieved to turn into a dirt driveway of a lone rambling house.
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