S5 Ep26: Who Could it Be? The Unsolved Murders of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Double abductions are extremely rare, yet somehow Iowa, which accounts for about 1% of the country's population, has seen 15% of its double abductions. Three double abductions, with two for sure committed by the same man. So, how is the double abduction and murders of Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins still unsolved?

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