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Going West: True Crime

Kayla Berg // 229

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In August of 2009, a 15-year-old girl left home to hang out with friends in a neighboring Wisconsin town, and never returned. Her brother's 24-year-old friend had actually been the last person to see her, claiming to have dropped her off at the home of her ex-boyfriend. But her ex-boyfriend claims they didn’t even have plans to see each other. So which of these men is lying? Or was it someone else entirely? This is the story of Kayla Berg. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/wisconsin-mother-still-searching-10th-anniversary-daughter-kayla-berg-s-n1041041 2. Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-reacts-to-video-police-say-may-have-links-to-kayla-berg-2016-10 3. Crime Watch Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0q30OrSbO8 4. Missing Kids: https://www.missingkids.org/poster/ncmc/1129610/1.html/mainposter 5. Disappeared: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.10ae371f-4482-8b21-3ace-051697b08331?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvc_truecrime-20 6. WSAW: https://www.wsaw.com/2021/08/11/antigo-police-hope-new-information-12-year-mark-hits-kayla-berg-disappearance/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on to crime fans? I'm your host Teev. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West.

0:20.5

Thank you so much everybody for tuning in to yet another episode of Going West. We got a very devastating announcement last night or update last night regarding Kylie Rodney's

0:29.9

case. I'm sorry to talk about this in the beginning of Kayla Berg's case, but this just happened. They believe that they found her car and her body in

0:39.0

Prasser Lake, which is right next to the campground where she went missing and it seems like she may have driven into the lake and passed that way.

0:46.4

But they're still waiting on confirmation if it is her body. They'll police believe it is. And her cause of death, of course.

0:52.9

So we just wanted to give you guys a little bit of an update. We may do a bit of an update episode if that's something that you

0:58.4

guys want to hear about. But other than that, we don't have a whole lot of announcements. Yeah, it's kind of tough with cases like

1:04.4

Kylie's that are happening now. Like we would never want to exploit a case or hurt the family by talking about it

1:09.5

further after a body has already been found, especially in her case if it's not connected to file play. So our hearts are really just

1:16.0

with her family. And thank you guys for doing everything you have to spread her story as well. Yes, thank you guys so much

1:22.2

for sharing that case, but also please share today's case because it's another crazy story that really needs

1:28.3

answers. Alright guys, this is episode 229 of Going West. So let's get into it.

1:58.4

In August of 2009, a 15 year old girl went to hang out with friends in a neighboring Wisconsin town and she never returned home.

2:12.8

Her brother's 24 year old friend had actually been the last person to see her, claiming to have dropped her off at the

2:21.2

home of her ex-boyfriend. But her ex-boyfriend claims they didn't even have plans to see each other. So which of these men is

2:30.6

lying? Or was it someone else entirely? This is the story of Kayla Berg.

2:58.6

Kayla Mayberg was born on August 29, 1993 in Anago, Wisconsin to hope Springer and James or Jim Spanbauer.

3:08.8

And she grew up with an older brother named Jimmy whom she adored and who was very protective of her.

3:15.0

Anago is described as a quintessential Midwestern American farming town with a population of about 8,000 people

3:22.5

and it sits about an hour and a half inland from Green Bay. Kayla, Jimmy and their parents were a very

3:28.4

outdoorsy family and loved spending time camping together. Their parents split up when Kayla was a toddler but

3:35.1

according to her mother hope, they definitely had an open door policy and the kids were allowed to see either

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