Janice Christensen

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, Janice Christensen, a 31-year-old Ohio woman, went on a routine morning run that ended in one of Hudson, Ohio's most haunting cold cases. Her husband reported her missing after she failed to come home, and then went searching for her. He was the one who ultimately found her body.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss Janice Christensen. Advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogy ultimately identified her killer as Thomas Collier Jordan. Investigators connected him to other violent crimes while ruling him out in several infamous Northeast Ohio murders.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 415 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:42.8	And this is Mike Morford.
0:44.3	Mr. Morford, how are you doing this week, buddy?
0:46.5	Doing pretty good. Enjoy my summer, going back and forth to sports, hanging out with the kids at home on summer break, and just relaxing a little bit. How are you doing?
0:54.8	I'm doing great. I told Gibby we recorded last night and I said, I think I'm still riding the
1:00.8	high of the vacation. You know, the vacation high lasts for some period of time, right? And it differs
1:08.3	with every vacation. Eventually I'll come down from it, but I'm still feeling super refreshed, right? And it differs with every vacation. Eventually, I'll come down from it, but I'm still
1:13.1	feeling super refreshed from that vacation, man. I'm glad that you're back into the recording part
1:18.9	of it, because I know sometimes when you're on vacation, you don't want to jump back into
1:22.1	work. It's kind of hard to get back into it, but it sounds like you're ready to go. Yeah. Yeah,
1:27.3	it can be sometimes. But let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had new support from Suzanne and Rose Pearl. So great new support. We really appreciate it. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much for anyone else that would like to help support the show. Head over to patreon.com slash criminology. All right, buddy, it's time to jump into this
1:45.7	week's case. And we're covering one that happened in the town of Hudson, Ohio, my home state.
1:52.5	This is a town about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland with a population of about 20,000 people.
1:59.5	So pretty far away from me.
2:02.0	You know, obviously Cleveland is in the northern part of Ohio. I am in the southern part of
2:08.1	Ohio. So it's a good probably three and a half hours from where I'm at. But back in
2:13.9	1987, when the case that we're talking about happened, that population of Hudson was around 5,000 people.
2:22.3	So it really was a small town.
2:24.3	And you can imagine the fear.
2:26.2	When the shocking murder of a woman named Janice Christensen occurred there, it was a murder that would stop investigators and loom over the town for over
2:35.7	three decades until it was finally solved. In fact, it was the only unsolved murder that town had
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