I Miss My Mom

I Miss My Mom

She was four years old when Christopher Wilder stole her mother. For forty years, Mindy Walden told no one her story. Now, she's ready to speak.


Terry Walden was 23 — a nursing student, a young mom who loved baking and birthday parties. In March 1984, a stranger approached her on her university campus in Beaumont, Texas, and told her she could be a model. Terry called him a dirty pervert. The next morning, he was waiting beside her car. Terry never came home.


Her four-year-old daughter knew. Dropped at daycare that morning, Mindy screamed and sobbed as she watched her mother walk away. That night, as her father drove frantically through every parking lot in town, Mindy told him: I think she's dead. Two days later, she watched them pull her mother's body from a canal — on a road that bore their family name.


For forty years, Mindy has been haunted by a dream in which her mother appears but cannot speak — because Mindy can no longer remember her voice. But she has recently discovered a cassette tape, unheard for 35 years, on which Terry is talking. The moment it plays changes everything.


And then comes a revelation no one saw coming — when Mindy's partner steps forward with his own shattering confession, exposing an extraordinary bond forged from opposite sides of the same violence.

This is the episode that will stay with you long after it ends.


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Credits:


Hosts

Andy Byrne

Mark Llewellyn


Audio Production

Sam Blacker - The Podcast Butler


Artwork

Susan Armstrong


Resources

The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House


Special thanks to Darcy at Pro Podcast Studios, Sydney


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Episoder(28)

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Mindy was four when her mother was taken. She still can't remember her voice.This is the episode we promised at the beginning: every one of Christopher Wilder's victims, finally heard. A reckoning. Ne...

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Murder & Mystery at the Mall - The Missing Pt III

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Death Row Confession - The Missing Pt II

Death Row Confession - The Missing Pt II

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The Missing

The Missing

A serial killer who confessed to 11 murders. A body that lay nameless in a swamp for 30 years. And a chilling new discovery.A New York cold-case detective contacts the Catching Evil team about three m...

15 Jun 42min

Secrets from the Grave

Secrets from the Grave

Before she died, she scribbled a note. Her killer stripped away everything that could identify her — but missed that scrap of paper in her pocket.She was beautiful, well-dressed, seen at a glamorous M...

8 Jun 45min

The Friday the Thirteenth Reckoning

The Friday the Thirteenth Reckoning

Serial killer Christopher Wilder was ten minutes from the Canadian border. If the passenger door of his stolen car had been unlocked, he would have made it. This is the inside story of Friday the 13th...

1 Jun 37min

The Tragic Senseless Murder of Single Mom Beth Dodge

The Tragic Senseless Murder of Single Mom Beth Dodge

Devoted single Mom Beth Dodge is the final victim of serial killer Christopher Wilder's murder rampage across America — a six-week killing spree that has already claimed the lives of eight women. It i...

25 Mai 39min

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