Hi forensic files listeners, I'm Catherine Townsend.

I'm a private investigator in the host of the True Crime podcast, Helen Gone.

In season two of the show, we investigate the mysterious death of Janie Ward in Marshall, Arkansas.

Janie was 16 years old when she died at a party in a cabin in the woods

and no one has ever been able to figure out what happened to her.

Stay tuned for a sneak peek of season two now

and don't forget to find and listen to Helen Gone.

That's H-E-L-L and Gone on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

I get a lot of emails about cold cases all the time and this one,

first I was kind of struck by the fact 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 really strange.

My sister was like the big group and the other girls were the A-group and that's kind of like

how they treated her. Janie 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, they were in the mord and when I had a little

of a neck in her head kind of rolled a little bit like that her ear was horrible,

up the ear was horrible, all the things were hurt like this and this stuff got coming out.

It was like sand and down I was told she got off his 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 numb to manner and determine cause and determine and that's

homicide. What they done is they washed her and they cleaned her up or when I saw her I was not

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