Solved Cold Case: The Murder of Danni Houchins

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In September of 1996, 15-year-old Danielle "Danni" Houchins was found lifeless and face down in a marshy area in Belgrade, Montana. The local sheriff's department ruled her cause of death as drowning and her manner of death as undetermined. The sheriff told the press that there were no indications of foul play, despite autopsy findings showing the exact opposite. For 24 years, Danni's case continued to grow cold, despite her family's insistence that her death wasn't an accident until a retired LAPD detective entered the chat and refused to quit.

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0:00.0	Did you ever hear a story and think, we're not getting the full picture?
0:09.0	That's where we start.
0:10.3	On this feels criminal, we unpack crime, corruption, and conspiracy with curiosity, context,
0:16.2	and just a touch of chaos.
0:18.0	We step outside the timelines and ask better questions and explore the systems
0:21.9	behind the story, all in a voice that feels more like a friend than a reporter. Because when you
0:26.4	identify the patterns, you can't unsee how often they show up. Welcome back to this feels criminal.
0:35.3	We are going to try and tell you this case with a lighter take.
0:41.6	We're going to try.
0:42.9	Ish.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:43.9	It's definitely going to feel like a conversation.
0:46.6	But we do have the trigger warning of child murder and brief mentions of sexual assault.
1:11.5	So it can only get so light. Buckle up. Yeah. And if this is one you need to skip, we 100% understand that. Yeah, absolutely. There's some heavy stuff that we're going to talk about. So, yeah. Yeah. Let's just do it. What do you say? Let's do it. And we do want to give a hey, girl, thanks to Madison for writing this one up for us. Thank you. Thanks, girl.
1:16.6	All right. So we are going back to this case takes place in September of 1996.
1:24.0	Man. What a time to be alive. What a time.
1:27.9	And there's like, if you watch, like there's a 48 hours on this case, there's a lot of
1:31.5	like home videos and just like, what a time capsule.
1:35.8	Yes.
1:36.3	It is.
1:36.7	Like, oh my gosh.
1:37.6	But we are talking about Danielle Adeline Houchens.
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