Candy Rogers, Part 1: Spokane’s Missing Persons Cold Case
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In 1959, nine-year-old Candy Rogers went missing while selling mints in Spokane, Washington. The city mounted one of the largest missing persons searches in state history, yet the case remained unsolved for more than 60 years. This episode traces the start of a mystery investigators called the “Mount Everest” of cold cases, one that DNA would eventually help crack.
America’s Crime Lab is a true crime podcast about how science solves cold cases, missing persons, and other unsolved cases. Hosted by journalist and clinical psychologist Elin Lantz Lesser, and powered by Othram’s forensic DNA lab, the show connects the science to the story, revealing what really happens in the lab and why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
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| 0:35.0 | This is a case that we had supervisors. We had people here who said, |
| 0:39.1 | quit wasting time on that case. This is not going to be solved. I got nervous about being the one |
| 0:47.5 | carrying the ball right there on the one yard line because of God, I got to go through something |
| 0:53.8 | that really good detectives have already failed at |
| 0:56.4 | and hope that you can somehow find that needle in a haystack. |
| 1:03.4 | In March of 1959, police in Spokane, Washington began searching for 9-year-old Candy Rogers. |
| 1:11.3 | The investigation would turn into one of the largest in Spokane's history. |
| 1:16.1 | For 62 years, no one knew who had taken her and dumped her body in the woods. |
| 1:22.8 | Local law enforcement call it the Mount Everest of cold cases. |
| 1:27.1 | It was the crime that every officer was |
| 1:29.1 | desperate to investigate, but no one could solve. This is America's Crime Lab. I'm Alyn Lance Lesser. |
| 1:43.3 | Producer Catherine Fenalosa is here. |
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