Casefile Archives 3: Tina Herrmann, Kody Maynard & Stephanie Sprang
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
4.7 • 42.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
*** Content Warnings: Sexual assault, child sexual assault, arson, animal cruelty ***
When 32-year-old Tina Herrmann didn’t show up for work on Wednesday, November 10 2010, her manager immediately alerted the authorities. Soon they found that not only had Tina vanished, but so had her two children - 13-year-old Sarah Maynard and 11-year-old Kody Maynard - and her best friend, 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang. To make matters worse, there were bloodstains discovered throughout Tina’s home. Soon, clues would lead detectives to a disconcerting scene - a rundown house filled from top to bottom with leaves…
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| 1:47.4 | Valerie Hathorn managed a Dairy Queen fast food restaurant in the small city of Mount Vernon, |
| 1:53.0 | Ohio. |
| 1:54.8 | One of her employees was 32-year-old Tina Herman, a good friend and one of the most reliable people Valerie knew. |
| 2:03.6 | Tina loved her job and her colleagues, and she had never missed a shift or abandoned her responsibilities. |
| 2:10.6 | So when she failed to show up for work on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 10, |
| 2:15.6 | 2010, Valerie noticed immediately. She tried calling Tina, |
| 2:20.9 | but there was no answer. Growing uneasy, Valerie drove to the house that Tina shared with |
| 2:27.4 | her boyfriend Greg Borders and her two children from a previous relationship, 13-year-old Sarah, |
| 2:34.1 | and 11-year-old Cody Maynard. |
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