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Case Closed

The Wife

Case Closed

Macmillan

News, True Crime

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On the last day of her life, Erin Corwin awoke around dawn. She was going to Joshua Tree National Park, where she said she was scouting trails for an upcoming visit with her mother. She took her cell phone, kissed her husband goodbye, and headed off for the day. But Erin would not come back from her trip alive. Who was Erin Corwin? How did she go from being a sheltered teen from a small town to a Marine wife with so many secrets? And how did she meet such an untimely end? You can preorder Shanna Hogan's Secrets of a Marine's Wife now. You can listen to the second season of Case Closed early on Stitcher Premium with the code CLOSED.

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0:00.0

On the last day of her life, Erin Corwin woke around dawn.

0:15.3

She got ready quietly, careful not to disturb her sleeping husband, John.

0:20.3

The young couple lived in an apartment at the Marine Base in 29 Palms, California.

0:26.1

Erin got ready to head off to the nearby Joshua Tree National Park, where she said she was

0:31.2

scouting trails for an upcoming visit with her mother.

0:34.9

She took her cell phone, kissed her husband goodbye, got behind the wheel of her blue

0:39.7

Corolla, and headed off for the day.

0:43.4

But Erin would not come back from her trip alive.

0:53.8

Welcome to Case Closed.

0:56.0

There's a lot of true crime out there, but it seems like the most interesting cases go

1:00.5

unsolved.

1:02.0

You invest your time in someone's story, only to walk away frustrated when you hit a dead

1:06.8

end and the killers still out there.

1:09.9

This is not your average true crime podcast.

1:13.4

Case closed is a show about the times the bad guy didn't get away with it.

1:18.1

The times the good guys discover exactly who the killer is, and how sometimes that's

1:23.0

just the beginning of the story.

1:25.2

I should know.

1:26.6

My name is Charlie Spicer.

1:28.2

I'm an executive editor at St. Martin's Press, and I've been working on these kinds of

1:32.7

stories for 33 years.

1:35.2

Charlie really has a great instinct for finding these true crime stories that really capture

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