Episode 477: The Murder of Jaclyn Dowaliby
Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast
Inhuman Podcast
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up you guys? I'm Haley. And I'm Andrea. And this is are having, I hope you are having a wonderful day whenever |
| 0:32.2 | you're listening to this. Today, I have unfortunately another unsolved case for you guys, but it's an interesting |
| 0:40.3 | one because it was solved at one point and there was a conviction and then an acquittal. |
| 0:45.7 | And so technically it's unsolved. But yeah. So we're just going to get into it. In the early |
| 0:53.6 | 1970s, James Jimmy Guess was working at an ice skating rink in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1:00.0 | And he was in his early 20s. |
| 1:02.0 | And while working there, he met a woman named Cynthia. |
| 1:04.8 | And they quickly fell for each other. |
| 1:06.8 | They started dating and they were together for seven years before they became pregnant. |
| 1:12.5 | But unfortunately, even before their baby was born, they decided to separate. |
| 1:17.6 | It was a mutual decision. |
| 1:19.1 | They were kind of like, we don't work together anymore. |
| 1:22.9 | Like, this isn't going to work long term. |
| 1:25.0 | So they mutually decided to separate. |
| 1:28.8 | But when their daughter, |
| 1:36.4 | Jacqueline Marie, was born on May 17th, 1981, both Jimmy and Cynthia wanted full custody. |
| 1:42.4 | Oh. And unfortunately, that led to a very bitter custody battle. And they were not married, |
| 1:46.2 | right? They were just partners. As far as I could find, they were not married. But they were both on the birth certificate. And so they both have equal custody. |
| 1:52.9 | And it was this very bitter custody battle. And it actually ultimately ended with Cynthia getting full custody. |
| 2:00.7 | Okay. |
| 2:02.0 | I mean, that makes sense. |
| 2:02.8 | They typically, unless there's a reason not to, they typically, you know, |
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