When a Louisiana woman's worst fears come true,

investigators are left to sift through the ashes of the home she shared with her fire chief husband.

Arson and betrayal complicate the search for truth in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime storyteller by night.

As always, I'm your co-host, Scott.

This is the revised and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes, which features the Unsolved Homicide of Nanette Crentel.

The original edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on her case in 2025.

As I'm sure, those of you who've been listening since the early days of last seen alive have noticed,

our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time. However,

our best wasn't the best and we've learned a lot since then. We want to honor those victims by

telling their stories with the production quality they deserve. So we've been completely

remaking all of our early episodes, including this one. A quick heads up. This episode contains discussion of the topic of suicide.

Also, in addition to the death of a human victim, this episode includes the death of pets.

We won't go into any graphic detail, but still, please listen with care.

Nenette Crentel was last seen alive on July 14, 2017.

She was 49 years old at the time and lived in Lacombe, Louisiana.

Lacombe is a census-designated place in St. Tammany Parish, which sits across from New Orleans on the opposite shore of Lank Pontchartrain, an area known as the North Shore.

The North Shore is a beautiful place

that boasts all the things you probably envision when you think of southern Louisiana. Towering trees

draped with Spanish moss, humid heat, and ample access to waterfronts that bleed into wandering

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