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Going West: True Crime

Riley Crossman: Someone in Her Room // 609

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In May of 2019, a 15-year-old girl vanished from her West Virginia home one night after sending a string of chilling text messages to her boyfriend. With the name of a potential culprit in one of the texts, investigators knew exactly where to begin looking. But what they would find would be more disturbing than her shocked family could have imagined. This is the murder of Riley Crossman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans?

0:16.4

I'm your host Heath.

0:17.3

And I'm your host, Daphne.

0:18.7

And you're listening to Going West.

0:21.1

Hello, everybody. Thank you for tuning in. Big shout out to David for recommending this case.

0:27.2

This one is actually very close to home for him because as a fire chief, he almost joined in on the search for Riley.

0:33.5

So thank you for all that you do, David, and for sending this one in. We have some very disturbing text messages associated with this case that play a huge role in the evidence against the perpetrator.

0:45.3

Yes, and we have a huge piece of shit to talk about today.

0:48.5

But before we get into today's story, I just want to remind everybody that we're going to be in Vegas for CrimeCon at the end of

0:54.6

May. That's going to be the 28th through the 31st. Get your tickets right now at crimecon.com.

1:00.6

Use our code Going West 10 at checkout for a discount. And we would love to see you guys there.

1:05.6

Yeah, we're going to be joined by a bunch of other amazing true crime creators. So yeah, come hang out with us. We're going to have a bunch of really fun merch that's free. Like, we made some fun at Keefobs and, like, cards. It's going to be really cool. Yeah, it's going to be a great time. There's going to be a lot of guest speakers, investigators. I mean, basically everybody who's relevant in the true crime world,

1:28.2

so come on down and hang out with us in Vegas.

1:31.6

All right, guys, this is episode 609 of Going West,

1:36.9

so let's get into it.

1:38.7

So, let's get into it.

1:46.0

I'm going to I'm going to you

1:48.0

know In May of 2019, a 15-year-old girl vanished from her West Virginia home one night after sending a string of chilling text messages to her boyfriend.

2:21.4

With the name of a potential culprit in one of the texts, investigators knew exactly where to begin looking.

2:30.7

But what they found would be more disturbing than her shocked family could have ever imagined. This is the murder of Riley Crossman was born on December 22, 2003 to parent Shantelle Oakley and Lance Crossman,

3:07.3

who later had her two younger brothers,

3:09.7

Ryder and Riker.

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