Hell and Gone Murder Line: Hannah Truelove
Hell and Gone
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On August 24, 2012, a Vietnam veteran who had been staying at the Lake Lanier Club Apartments off Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville, Georgia with his daughter and grandchildren, was taking a walk through the woods behind the complex. The man liked taking nature walks, and he was also following up on a report that he had made to the apartment management about a missing manhole cover. He later told police that he wanted to see if it had been replaced yet.
It was around 7:30 pm in the evening, and still almost full daylight, and when the man paused near a stream bed, he saw something disturbing...something that he at first thought was a mannequin. Upon closer inspection, he realized that he was looking at a dead body. He called 911 and told them that a young lady, about 18 or 19 years old, was dead and looked like she had been dead for two or three days.
The young woman was 16-year-old Hannah Truelove, a student at Gainesville High School. She had been missing since the night before. And even though her exact cause of death has not been revealed, police said she died a “violent death." She had been stabbed multiple times and left in the stream bed a quarter mile away from home; her flip flop was found a few yards away, tangled in some branches.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? |
| 0:22.1 | It's a story. |
| 0:23.2 | It's about the scariest night of my life. |
| 0:25.3 | This is Wisecrack, available now. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:37.2 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:43.9 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:51.0 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:52.6 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 1:02.6 | Listen to Graves County on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:08.1 | podcast. |
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| 1:19.1 | School of Humans. |
| 1:22.1 | Helen God Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders. |
| 1:25.7 | In an effort to raise public awareness, invite witnesses |
| 1:28.7 | to come forward, and present evidence that could potentially be further investigated by law |
| 1:33.5 | enforcement. While we value insights from family and community members, their statements should not |
| 1:39.0 | be considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases. |
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