Introducing: Suspect Season 2

True Crime Cases with Lanie

TCFC Media

True Crime

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

For more than 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 the prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide.

Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. 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 a troubling new question: Had the truth been
hiding in plain sight the entire time? Was the man who couldn’t stop obsessing
over Jonelle’s disappearance also the person who took her? 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	On a winter night in a small community near Denver, Colorado, Jim Matthews arrived home late.
0:05.9	He expected to find his 12-year-old daughter who'd been dropped off after a Christmas concert.
0:11.0	But when he called out, hey, John L, the house was eerily quiet. His daughter's shoes were on
0:17.1	the floor, but she was gone. And it would be 35 years before she would be found. Dead.
0:24.7	After the discovery of John L. Matthews' body in 2019, the police turned their attention to a man
0:30.3	who had told law enforcement years ago that he knew something, but they dismissed him.
0:37.0	The man did seem obsessed with the case, but is that all he was? A true crime fanatic? Or a killer?
0:45.6	Wondery and campsite media's shocking true crime podcast Suspect is back for a second season,
0:51.2	with a story that attempts to separate fact from fiction, compulsion from guilt, and one man's true
0:57.3	crime obsession from a motive for murder. I'm about to play a clip of Suspect, vanished in the snow.
1:04.0	While you're listening, follow Suspect wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're a
1:08.0	prime member, you can binge all six episodes at free on Amazon Music like I do. Download the
1:13.6	Amazon Music app today. Well County is a desert. It feels relatively warm outside for Colorado in
1:24.5	December, and the sky is just this Caribbean blue. It's winter, but it's hot out dry and dusty.
1:34.8	The snow-capped Rocky Mountains are all behind us. Ahead, it's flat. The horizon goes on forever.
1:43.6	I feel like we're on the Wikipedia tumbleweeds. Don't you feel rich in tumbleweeds? Yeah. Oh,
1:49.4	shit. People tear ass down this road. A few of the trucks passing us are souped up, brand new,
1:56.5	tires jacked high, oil and gas workers apparently unbothered by speed limits. If there is a speed
2:03.8	limit out here, we're relieved to turn into a dirt driveway of a lone rambling house.
2:10.4	Hi guys. Hello again. Oh no, nice to meet you. I'm Jody.
2:19.8	Vance and Jody Gilliland lives so far from most of their neighbors that it's easier to drive to see
2:25.6	them. Across from their house is a field that stretches about a thousand acres. It's full of brush
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