Welcome to Case Closed. This is Charlie Spicer and today we have a feed drop for a podcast called Helen Gone.

Helen Gone is a podcast that follows writer and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she examines unsolved deaths in small town Arkansas.

This season, Catherine and the investigative team dive into the mysterious death of Janey Ward, a 16-year-old student who died during a party at a cabin in the woods in 1989.

It's been 30 years since her death and no one has been able to determine how Janey died despite multiple investigations into the circumstances surrounding her death.

Janey's case is about more than solving a mystery. It becomes the story of what happens when a grieving family doesn't get answers in justice.

Every Wednesday the team will explore every angle of Janey's death and trace the decades-long saga of her family looking for answers.

Listen to Helen Gone that's H-E-L-L and Gone on Apple Podcast, the iHeartRadio app or wherever you find your podcasts.

Take a listen now and hope you enjoy.

I get a lot of emails about cold cases all the time and this one, first I was kind of struck by the fact that it's another girl, it's another situation where there are a lot of suspects.

Usually when I look at a story I can tell in the first five minutes what probably happened, but this one is just really strange.

My sister was like the big group and the other girls were the i-group and that's kind of like how they treated her.

Janey Ward was 16 years old when she died under mysterious circumstances. She was at a party at a cabin in the woods in the small town of Marshall, Arkansas.

When I went to saw my daughter put there in the ward and when I had a little over neck in her head kind of rolled a little bit like that.

Her ear was purple, up to here was purple, and all the time I stood her up like this and this stuff kept coming out.

It was like sand and down I was told to go up this porch.

There's a cause of death and then there's a manner and it went from manner fall off the porch and cause a known to manner undetermined cause undetermined and that's homicide.

What they done is they washed her and they cleaned her up.

When I saw her I was not by the story if she fell off this porch. It's only about the eight colors.

My daughter was beaten to death.

I'm Catherine Townsend and I'm heading back to Arkansas on a new place to find out what happened to Janey Ward

on September 9th, 1989.

It's not just a victim in the victim's family. It's the worst for them but there's also the people who are accused and it's never cleared one way or the other really.

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