Episode 436: The Bakersfield 3

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Bakersfield 3 case is about 3 people from Bakersfield, California—Micah Holsonbake, Baylee Despot, and James Kulstad—whose lives were tragically intertwined through a series of violent events in the spring of 2018. Within just 34 days, one was murdered, one went missing, and one was killed in a shooting. Their cases, though initially treated separately, became linked through a series of discoveries. Their mothers banned together to not only link their cases but also stand up for justice in their children’s cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
0:30.2	Today I'm going to be sharing a highly requested case that some of you may have heard of.
0:36.3	Haley, you may have because it's kind of in
0:38.5	not really close proximity to you. It's California. It's in California. Yeah, it's California.
0:44.0	This is the Bakersfield three case, which is one of the most haunting and tangled true crime
0:52.8	cases to have emerged from California in recent years.
0:57.1	Yeah, that's recent, right?
0:58.3	It's like...
0:58.9	Yeah, like 2018.
1:00.3	Okay, yeah.
1:01.2	I feel like I know some of the details because when I was like first really getting into
1:06.1	true crime was kind of when this was like happening.
1:09.9	Yeah.
1:10.6	But I definitely don't know all the details and
1:12.6	haven't followed it. So I'm very glad you're covering this. Yeah, it took, so like the, the,
1:20.4	like, what am I trying to say? The meat and potatoes of the case kind of happened in 2018, but then
1:27.2	it developments continued
1:30.2	happening and happening until like 2022 so it was kind of spread out over several years um so you
1:36.6	probably heard about you know little yeah like you said little morsels about the case over the
1:41.5	years but right it it involves three friends slash acquaintances,
1:47.4	Micah Holsombeak, Bailey Despot, and James Colstad,
1:52.0	who either went missing or were murdered within a span of just 34 days in the spring of
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