Amazon Music Presents SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 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 the 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.

Hey Prime Members, listen to the Amazon Music exclusive podcast, SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow, in the Amazon Music App. Download the app today. http://www.amazon.com/SUS_us_pfd_AA_110122.

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0:00.0	On a wintery night in a small community near Denver, Colorado, Jim Matthews arrived home late.
0:06.0	He expected to find his 12-year-old daughter who'd been dropped off after a Christmas concert,
0:11.0	but when he called out, hey Janelle, the house was eerily quiet.
0:16.6	His daughter's shoes were on the floor, but she was gone, and it would be 35 years before
0:22.4	she would be found, dead.
0:25.2	After the discovery of Janelle Matthews' body in 2019,
0:29.2	the police turned their attention to a man who had told law enforcement years ago that he knew something, but they
0:36.4	dismissed him. The man did seem obsessed with the case, but is that all he was? A true crime fanatic or a killer? Now a jury will
0:47.2	decide if Janelle's murderer was hiding in plain sight the entire time.
0:52.1	Wondering Campside Media's shocking true crime podcast Suspect is back for a second season
0:57.6	with a story that attempts to separate fact from fiction, compulsion from guilt, and one man's true crime of session from a motive for
1:06.2	murder.
1:07.2	I'm about to play you a clip from the show.
1:09.6	While you're listening, make sure to follow the Amazon Music exclusive podcast
1:13.6	Suspect vanished in the snow in the Amazon Music
1:17.8	app. Download the app today. Well County is a desert.
1:25.0	It feels relatively warm outside for Colorado and December and the sky is just this Caribbean blue.
1:37.0	It's winter, but it's hot out, dry and dusty.
1:41.0	The snow-capped rocky mountains are all behind us. Ahead, it's flat. The horizon
1:48.6	goes on forever. I feel like we're in the Wikipedia of tumbleweeds.
1:53.0	Don't you feel rich in tumbleweeds?
1:55.0	Oh shit, people tear ass down this road.
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