Cross-Country: The Murders of Josh Niles & Amber Washburn
True Crime Campfire
True Crime Campfire
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. |
| 0:04.8 | We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true story |
| 0:09.9 | that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're unlucky, you might have at least one person in your life who just drives you crazy, |
| 0:24.6 | someone with whom every interaction has an edge of mutual antipathy that makes you feel like |
| 0:30.2 | you're always on the brink of a screaming argument. |
| 0:33.8 | Sometimes two particular human beings just do not fit together. |
| 0:39.3 | And because human beings are strange, sometimes a couple like that hook up and stay together for years before finally spinning apart. |
| 0:46.3 | But that undercurrent of anger can remain, a little toxic flame that doesn't need much fuel to |
| 0:52.0 | erupt into an inferno that destroys lives. |
| 0:55.8 | This is cross-country, the murders of Josh Niles and Amber Washburn. |
| 1:09.0 | So, campers, for this one, were in SOTUS, New York, a little town of less than 2,000 people, close to the shores of Lake Ontario. |
| 1:16.6 | It was October 22, 2018, a beautiful fall day in this peaceful little corner of the Empire State. |
| 1:24.6 | Tiffany Thayer's two-year-old was being most insistent about what gummy bears, |
| 1:29.5 | so she took the kid into the kitchen to grab some before they headed out to the grocery store. |
| 1:34.3 | Through her kitchen window, she could see her neighbor, Josh Niles, talking to some guy |
| 1:38.4 | Tiffany didn't recognize. The conversation seemed intense, not friendly, but not argumentative, at least not yet. |
| 1:46.8 | Then Tiffany saw Josh's girlfriend, Amber, start to pull into the driveway with her window down. |
| 1:52.8 | She turned away to grab the gummy bears for her little one. A second later, she heard the sharp |
| 1:57.6 | crack of a gunshot and looked up in shock. She saw Josh grabbing at his own chest. |
| 2:03.7 | The man he'd been talking to had a gun in his hand. Amber had gotten the car in reverse and started |
| 2:09.4 | frantically pulling out of the driveway, but as she passed the man, he shot once through the open |
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