Karen Swift // 549

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In October of 2011, a 44-year-old mother of four vanished after returning home from a Halloween party in Tennessee. Her abandoned vehicle was discovered near her house with a flat tire, but Karen herself was nowhere to be found. But only weeks later, her body was recovered near a cemetery, hidden beneath invasive vines, confirming the darkest fears of her family and community… This is the murder of Karen Swift.

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0:00.0	What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.7	And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody,
0:22.4	happy almost Halloween. We have a Halloween case for you guys today, actually, all thanks to
0:28.2	Sydney for recommending this one. So appreciate that, Sydney. We also just came out with a new bonus episode.
0:34.0	That also takes place on Halloween night. That is the case of Lillian Armstrong.
0:41.1	That's a very spooky, spooky case that happened in England in the 60s. So if you want to
0:46.5	listen to that, also the episode that we're coming out with this week, it's listener tales and
0:51.6	like near miss terrifying stories that I know you guys have heard us talk about before.
0:55.3	We love those kinds of episodes.
0:57.2	That one is also coming out as a bonus episode this week on Apple or Patreon.
1:02.4	Check the show notes for more information.
1:04.9	Go subscribe.
1:05.6	We have over 130 episodes over there.
1:08.7	Yeah, we've got a ton of episodes for you guys to binge over there.
1:11.4	So go subscribe.
1:12.9	And also, I want to talk about today's story because this one takes kind of a strange turn.
1:19.3	There's a bit of a twist here.
1:20.5	Yeah, one that you're not going to be expecting.
1:23.1	Well, without further ado, my friends, this is episode 549 of going west, so let's get into it.
1:47.0	So, The I'm going to
1:48.0	I'm
1:50.0	I'm
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