Are you looking for a new podcast to add to your favorites list?

Once Upon a Crime is a weekly scripted true crime podcast that tells the story behind the story of real-life crime.

Every Monday, you'll hear a new case, meticulously researched to bring you details you won't hear anywhere else.

There are over 300 episodes written and narrated in a storytelling style by me,

Esther, host of Once Upon a Crime. Look for Once Upon a Crime and subscribe on your favorite podcast

platform. I think that if anyone were to list their greatest fears, that list would have to

include being buried alive.

To be stuck under a cover of dirt, preferably in a container of some sort with a breathing tube,

the idea of that predicament is a bad one.

I mean, the thought of being buried at all is enough to grapple with an eventual reality for many. But at least at that point,

you're usually dead. Welcome to Marooned. Stories of the Catastrophically Lost. I'm Jack Luna. This is

Aaron Hable. It is late December of 1968 and 20-year-old undergraduate student Barbara McElell is feeling under the weather.

A flu has been running rampant across her campus at Emory University, located just outside of Atlanta,

Georgia. Her family back in Florida are worried for her, but it's exam season, and there's only a week

left until Christmas break, so Barbara's mother's mother Jane drives out to be with her,

booking a room at a cozy motel, the roadway in, where she'll care for the pretty brunette until

exams are over. I mentioned Barbara Mackles looks now, as that's how the man hunting her has managed

to keep his sights on the girl to this point, stalking her from her family's Florida estate

all the way to this point, the parking lot of her family's Florida estate all the way to this point,

the parking lot of a Georgia motel. Before that, the bustling university campus. Barbara, because

of her good looks, smart dress, and air of grace is easy to spot. She stands out in a crowd.

Yeah, and I'll ease any sick tension here by sharing that this man currently dressed

...