SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In July 1966, three women out for a day at the beach waded into the water of Lake Michigan, got onto a boat and were never heard from again. To this day, not a trace of them has ever turned up and theories of what became of them abound.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.2	The Indiana Dune's disappearance is one of the lesser-known cases in American True Crime.
0:10.7	One day in July 1966, three women went for a day at the beach along Lake Michigan and northwest Indiana,
0:17.2	not too far from Chicago. They vanished that day, and no trace of them has turned up since.
0:23.1	It's one of our sadder true crime episodes because not only are the women presumed dead, their
0:27.7	families never got even a hint of resolution. Listen to this one and see what you think happened.
0:36.4	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio's How Stuff Works.
0:46.1	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. There's Josh T.
0:51.8	guest producing away over there.
0:56.8	And that makes this stuff you should know.
1:01.7	Super duper mysterious mystery edition.
1:02.5	That's right.
1:05.9	This is a super mysterious one.
1:07.4	Super duper, you could say.
1:08.4	This is a good one.
1:09.5	I never heard of it.
1:10.2	I hadn't either. Maybe we should have a spin-off show, just about mysteries and missing persons. I've long thought that. Yeah? Oh, yeah. But then everyone's like, no, just put them on stuff you should know. Yeah, every once in a while. Pepper it. Why you got to spin it out? Right. Spin it off. What is this? The Cleveland Show? Oh, man.
1:30.1	I never watched that.
1:30.8	Was it good? You're going to spin it out. Right. Spin it off. What is it? The Cleveland Show?
1:29.3	Oh, man. I never watched that. Was it good? I never watched it either. You weren't a family guy fan, though, were you? I mean, it's fine, but no, I wasn't a fan. Yeah. All right, what about Laverne and Shirley? What is this? Laverne and Shirley? A spinoff from Happy Days, right?
1:44.4	That's right, Chuck.
1:45.3	Ooh, let's do this.
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