Introducing Suspect Season 2: Vanished in the Snow
Suspect
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4.2 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
For nearly three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. The President of the United States appealed to journalists to help. Jonelle’s smiling face was printed on milk cartons nationwide. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end. Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came troubling new questions: a man obsessed with the case also be her abductor and murderer? Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder.
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| 0:00.0 | A few days before Christmas of 1984, a 12-year-old girl named Janelle Matthews disappeared from |
| 0:10.6 | her home. |
| 0:12.7 | There were no signs of a struggle, no eyewitnesses, no DNA recovered. |
| 0:20.8 | Around the tight-knit town of Greeley, Colorado, everyone was asking the same question, what |
| 0:27.6 | happened to Janelle? |
| 0:29.5 | I was thinking, well, maybe she just stayed home and ditched for the day. |
| 0:34.5 | They didn't think she ran away because she hadn't talked about running away at all, so they |
| 0:40.2 | really thought she'd been abducted. |
| 0:42.1 | I think the biggest fear was if it happened to one, it could happen to others. |
| 0:47.9 | Soon, the search for Janelle had become a nationwide phenomenon, part of a missing kid panic |
| 0:54.4 | then gripping America. |
| 0:56.4 | I learned about Janelle Matthews of Greeley, Colorado, who would have celebrated a happy |
| 1:01.7 | 13th birthday with her family just last month. |
| 1:10.1 | Years passed, as they did, authorities kept looking back, wondering whether some overlooked |
| 1:16.4 | clue would help them solve the case. |
| 1:19.0 | It had to be someone who had some connection to Janelle or the house, and he's providing |
| 1:27.2 | information that hadn't even been released to the news yet. |
| 1:30.7 | One of the first questions they asked was, does Mr. Matthews hunt? |
| 1:34.8 | And I thought, Jesus, he had never been bird hunting with my husband, and then they asked |
| 1:39.2 | if he owned any guns. |
| 1:41.5 | And I, to this day, couldn't answer that question. |
| 1:44.7 | But what if the answer had always been there? What if a true crime fanatic who had been |
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