Episode 352

Beloved father and prominent attorney, Gary Farris, should have been safe on his own land. But in July 2018, he vanished from his family’s rural dream property, and a smoldering burn pile would unravel everything they thought they knew about their home, their marriage, and each other.

Julie Jensen was found dead in her bed on Lakeshore Drive in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Next to her was a glass of water, two pill bottles, and no signs of a struggle. She’d been sick, and tormented for months by obscene letters and calls that started after a brief affair with her former boss. Police once warned him to stay away. Now, years later, she was dead, raising the question of whether her past had finally caught up with her or if something even closer to home was involved.

Anita May Knutson was a first-year college student with a close family, a wide circle of friends, and a calendar full of plans. But on a June morning in 2007, she was found murdered in her off-campus bedroom. It was a quiet scene hiding urgent clues: a slashed window screen, an unanswered phone call, and a weekend no one could quite explain. Plenty of girls wanted to be her. Plenty of guys wanted to be with her. But someone wanted her dead. And the truth about what happened would stay buried for years.