EP289: The Disappearance That Never Left the Backyard

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On a quiet stretch of Midwestern road, just outside the small town where everyone knew everyone else, DiAnne Kiedel disappeared into the kind of mystery that only seems possible in places that feel safe. She was a mother. A neighbor. The woman who waved when she drove past. And then, suddenly, she was the center of whispered conversations, late-night searches, and a question that refused to fade: what really happened that night? In this episode, we peel back the layers of a story that starts with an ordinary evening—and spirals into something far darker than anyone in town was prepared to face.

SOURCES:
1) Old Time Crime: 1966 missing person case solved 27 years later
2) The Eternal Flame
3) The Eternal Flame Part 2
4) Memory of Slaying Kept Secret for 29 Years

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Shannon.
0:09.1	Hey, Chica.
0:09.9	How are you?
0:10.8	I'm doing great.
0:12.3	How are you?
0:14.0	I am doing great.
0:15.3	I had a couple of things coming this week from the great Amazon.
0:21.1	I mean, I wouldn't say great, but it does have me under its grip.
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:25.3	Yeah.
0:26.3	It's often for me.
0:27.7	I got this new salt and pepper grinders, right?
0:32.1	I've been using the one pepper shaker I have has humongous holes.
0:38.2	And if I'm not thinking, it's like a chunk.
0:40.7	I'm pissed.
0:42.1	And then the salt is just, I needed something new.
0:45.5	So I had gotten some Mediterranean sea salt chunks and rainbow peppercorn.
0:52.9	Ooh, fancy.
0:53.8	Like a fucking chef, girl.
0:55.6	I am all grind, grind, grind, grind, grind with my rainbow peppercorns.
1:02.0	I love it.
1:03.8	Oh, Bobby Flay, move over.
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