S3E1: Wyteria Is Missing

Season 3 of Somebody Knows Something — the Elgin Police Department's Cold Case Podcast — opens a brand new case: the 1982 disappearance of Wyteria Jones.
Detectives Andrew Houghton and Chris Hall introduce listeners to Wyteria, a Black woman from rural Tennessee whose family roots stretch back to the Civil War Era. After moving north to Illinois, Wyteria found herself in Elgin in the spring of 1982, staying at the Douglas Hotel while receiving mental health treatment. When the hotel closed that October, she walked out with her luggage — and was never seen or heard from again.
What makes this case especially challenging? Her disappearance wasn't reported to police until January 1983, nearly four months later. The case file is thin. And the detectives are left with more questions than answers: Where was she going? Did she make it there? And why did she stop cashing her government checks and contacting her children — forever?
In this season opener, the detectives share what little is known, lay out five working theories, and make a direct appeal to the public for help. If you knew Wyteria, lived at the Douglas Hotel, or have any information about her whereabouts in the fall of 1982 — somebody knows something.
Tips can be submitted at www.ElginColdCases.com or by calling the Cold Case tipline at 847-289-COLD.

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Episoder(32)

S3E10: Still Waiting

The Detectives look back on this season, and the new information updating a decades long investigation. They are still looking for Wyteria, but now have an updated case to help bring her home. Thank y...

28 Jul 22min

S3E9: Tennessee

The Detectives finally located some extended family for Wyteria who agreed to assist them with this case and who agreed to provide the DNA that they need for Wyteria’s investigation. For this episode,...

20 Jul 18min

S3E8: Family Trees

In this episode, the Detectives discuss their work on Wyteria’s case as they continue their search for her. Wyteria would have turned 89 just last month on May 1st, if she is still alive. And while t...

29 Jun 25min

S3E7: Unidentified Remains

Over the past several episodes, the detectives have travelled to Elgin, Joliet, Aurora, and Chicago as they seek more information in Wyteria’s case. Now, they want to look at the forensic options the...

17 Jun 23min

S3E6: Chicago

In this episode, we are travelling outside of Elgin once again to the City of Chicago to see the neighborhood where the Jones family lived in the late 1960’s before moving to Aurora…the same neighborh...

1 Jun 31min

S3E5: Aurora

This episode takes them to Aurora, a city with deep ties to Wyteria's past and a direct bus line that could have brought her right to her old doorstep. But Aurora also means revisiting the man who rep...

18 Mai 22min

S3E4: Joliet

Detectives leave Elgin and head southwest to Joliet, Illinois — chasing one of their strongest theories in the search for missing woman Wyteria Jones. Could she have quietly slipped away to another ci...

4 Mai 30min

S3E3: Longer Than We Knew

In this episode, newly uncovered records turn the entire investigation upside down — revealing a timeline no one expected and connections to Elgin that run far deeper than anyone knew. Detective Beth ...

20 Apr 22min