Searching for Justice for the Missing and Murdered of Chautauqua County New York
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3.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, advocate Merry Williams-Diers will share with us the stories of five people from Chautauqua County, New York: Kevin Hornburg, Matthew Vetromile, Patricia Fairbanks, Melinda Jewell and Nayla Hodnett.
What links these people is that all of them have either gone missing or been murdered. And none of them have gotten justice.
We first heard about Merry via this article in the Niagara Gazette:
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/woman-determined-to-highlight-local-missing-person-cases/article_fd91c948-ca7c-11ed-bdd4-8f3fd6547468.html
You can find Merry via Facebook. Here is her profile page:
https://www.facebook.com/merry.williams.94
And here is the page for her group, WNY Missing and Unidentified People:
https://www.facebook.com/wnymissingandunidentifiedpersons/
If you have information about a case and wish to remain anonymous, you can also reach out via email at:
Merry's cell phone is 716 4012080.
And you can find her podcast on Facebook at Merry's podcast, Meddling in Mysteries, Murders & Missing on Mondays with Merry, on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088510784652&mibextid=ZbWKwL
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning, this episode contains discussion of domestic abuse, including the violent abuse of an infant and murder. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we want to share with you five stories about people from Chateauqua County, New York. |
| 0:15.0 | Two men, Kevin Hornberg, and Matthew Vettermiel, |
| 0:20.0 | One woman, Melinda Jewel, One teenage girl, Patricia Fairbanks, and one sixteen-month-old child, |
| 0:28.0 | Nala Hadnett. |
| 0:29.0 | What links these people is that all of them have either gone missing or been murdered, |
| 0:34.0 | and none of them have gotten justice. |
| 0:37.0 | Their stories will be told today by Mary Williams-Deers. |
| 0:41.0 | She's an advocate for the missing and murdered of Western New York, |
| 0:44.0 | and the founder of the Facebook page, WNY, |
| 0:47.0 | Missing an Unidentified Persons Network, |
| 0:50.0 | and the podcast, Meddling in Mysteries, Murder, and Missing on Mondays with Mary. |
| 0:56.0 | She's doing commendable work to help raise awareness of some of these cases. |
| 1:03.0 | My name is Anya Cain. I'm a journalist. |
| 1:07.0 | And I'm Kevin Greenley. I'm an attorney. |
| 1:11.0 | We first connected while looking into the Bergerchef murders, an Indiana cold case. |
| 1:16.0 | Together, we built a spreadsheet documenting hundreds of cases of restaurant-related homicides. |
| 1:24.0 | That original spreadsheet gave way to our podcast, The Murder Sheet. |
| 1:29.0 | Now we maintain that same research-centric investigative approach, |
| 1:34.0 | as we look into all sorts of homicides, including unsolved cases, historical crimes, |
| 1:41.0 | and, of course, restaurant murders. |
| 1:44.0 | We don't just chat about the headlines. |
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